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Programming Affordances That Invite Mistakes

news.ycombinator.com Noah Hall 2025-07-30 22:26:32

Many of my philosophies in work life, my volunteer life, and my personal life stem from experiences. As a developer, many of those come from being burnt by rough edges or mistakes. Just as health & safety principles come from accidents, my development practices come from bugs, errors, and mistakes. With that in mind, here’s a war-story from my days running an R&D startup when we lost all the data we thought we gathered from a psychology study. I founded an R&D startup that worked closely with

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The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 02:59:30

The upcoming GPT-3 moment for RL Matthew Barnett, Tamay Besiroglu, Ege Erdil Jun 20, 2025 GPT-3 showed that simply scaling up language models unlocks powerful, task-agnostic, few-shot performance, often outperforming carefully fine-tuned models. Before GPT-3, achieving state-of-the-art performance meant first pre-training models on large generic text corpora, then fine-tuning them on specific tasks. Today’s reinforcement learning is stuck in a similar pre-GPT-3 paradigm. We first pre-train l

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Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick (1953)

news.ycombinator.com Philip K. Dick 2025-07-30 02:14:14

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Second Variety, by Philip Kindred Dick This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Second Variety Author: Philip Kindred Dick Illustrator: Alex Ebel Release Date: April 17, 2010 [EBook #32032] [Last updated: May 4, 2011] Language: English Character set encod

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Parse, Don't Validate (For C)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-29 23:07:23

Parse, Don’t Validate AKA Some C Safety Tips “A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.” – Doug Linder Posted by Lelanthran 2025-03-27 If you’ve read the original post on “Parse, Don’t Validate” you may have noticed that it focuses primarily on conceptual correctness. Here, I’ll build on that by showing how this technique can be used outside of niche academic languages by demonstrating it in a language that is as practical as it is dangerous - C. In

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McDonald's Idiotic AI Hiring System Just Leaked Personal Data About Millions of Job Applicants

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-02 14:15:16

As large language models (LLMs) become ever more integrated into the platforms that define daily life, major flaws in the software's security capabilities are starting to show. McDonald's is among the growing list of companies that have quickly shoehorned LLM chatbots into their hiring systems, consequences be damned. Its Paradox.ai-built chatbot, which McDonald's calls a "virtual recruiting assistant," goes by the name Olivia. Olivia is more than happy to help applicants find jobs near them t

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Building voice AI that listens to everyone: Transfer learning and synthetic speech in action

venturebeat.com Harshal Shah 2025-08-02 16:45:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Have you ever thought about what it is like to use a voice assistant when your own voice does not match what the system expects? AI is not just reshaping how we hear the world; it is transforming who gets to be heard. In the age of conversational AI, accessibility has become a crucial benchmark for innovation. Voice assistants, transcriptio

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Vibe-Coding a PCB – surprisingly good

news.ycombinator.com Chris Greening 2025-08-02 11:47:26

After "vibe coding" a software-based vibing button in my last video, I decided to take things one step further: vibe-coding the actual hardware. The challenge? Let AI design a working ESP32-S3 development board, from scratch. Tools of the Trade For this experiment, I used Atopile — a tool that lets you define a hardware project using code and turns it into a KiCad PCB. I also enlisted Claude, an AI coding assistant that seemed to outperform Cursor for this task. The Prompt The board needed t

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Week in Review: X CEO Linda Yaccarino steps down

techcrunch.com Karyne Levy 2025-08-02 14:03:52

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week, including a shakeup at X, Hugging Face’s new robot, new phones from Nothing and Samsung, and a whole lot more. Have a great weekend! Off to do something else: X CEO Linda Yaccarino stepped down this week after a tumultuous two-year tenure marked by advertiser backlash, Elon Musk’s controversies, and the platform’s AI troubles. The company’s ad business improved under her leadership, but the road ahead will still be tough.

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A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-08-02 17:03:39

In Brief A research institute connected to the United Nations has created two AI-powered avatars designed to teach people about refugee issues. 404 Media wrote about an experiment conducted by a class at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research that resulted in the creation of two AI agents or avatars — Amina, a fictional woman who fled Sudan and is living in a refugee camp in Chad, and Abdalla, a fictional soldier with the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary force in Sudan.

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Hertz Deploys AI Scanner That's Charging Hundreds of Dollars for Tiny Scratches on Rental Cars

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-02 14:00:44

Car rental giant Hertz is facing some blowback as customers report that its "AI-powered" vehicle scanner charges them hundreds of dollars for tiny cosmetic dings. Earlier this summer, a Hertz customer in Atlanta was charged a jaw-dropping $440 for an inch-long bit of curb rash — a cosmetic scuff — on the wheel of his rental, as our sister site The Drive first reported. Out of that, $190 was earmarked for "processing" and "administrative" fees, which were automatically calculated by the rental c

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Meta reportedly closes deal to buy AI voice replicator PlayAI

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-02 17:00:37

Meta has finalized the agreement to purchase Play AI, a startup based in California providing users with an AI voice cloning tool, according to Bloomberg. The news organization says the "entire PlayAI team" is joining Meta next week, based on the internal memo it has seen. After joining the company, the team will be working under Johan Schalkwyk, who used to oversee speech AI research for Google and who was also a recent hire from another voice AI startup. PlayAI's tool can clone a user's voice

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Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 05:36:30

What is Incus?¶ Incus is a next-generation system container, application container, and virtual machine manager. It provides a user experience similar to that of a public cloud. With it, you can easily mix and match both containers and virtual machines, sharing the same underlying storage and network. Incus is image based and provides images for a wide number of Linux distributions. It provides flexibility and scalability for various use cases, with support for different storage backends and

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Only on Nantucket: The Curious Case of the "Stolen" Mercedes

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-30 15:50:30

Good questions. And as Monday came and went without any sign of the missing Mercedes, the mystery deepened, and more theories continued to pour in: had it been hotwired and moved to a chop shop? Was it used for a joy ride and ditched in some remote corner of the island? The family asked the Current to share a photo of the vehicle, and the fact that it had been reported stolen. The post set off a deluge of messages along the lines of: "Who steals a car on Nantucket? Where are they going to go?"

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Rice rebels: Research reveals grain's brewing benefits

news.ycombinator.com John Lovett 2025-07-30 22:06:03

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: U of A System Division of Agriculture photo by Paden Johnson Christian Schubert and Scott Lafontaine are fighting an old prejudice: that rice doesn't belong in beer. Now they've got the research to upend that ancient bit of brewing snobbery. Schubert is a visiting postdoctoral researcher from the Research I

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What is Incus?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 10:36:30

What is Incus?¶ Incus is a next-generation system container, application container, and virtual machine manager. It provides a user experience similar to that of a public cloud. With it, you can easily mix and match both containers and virtual machines, sharing the same underlying storage and network. Incus is image based and provides images for a wide number of Linux distributions. It provides flexibility and scalability for various use cases, with support for different storage backends and

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OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 16:14:01

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the Hope Global Forums annual meeting in Atlanta on Dec. 11, 2023. OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web. It will give OpenAI more direct access to a cornerstone o

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MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-02 14:45:15

MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today I really enjoyed browsing the BMUG's CD-ROM and discovering earliy 80s art made in MacPaint, so I browsed all 18,000+ MacPaint images on Discmaster to see what gems I can unearth. Here is some what I found - I've got so many more cool icons/smaller drawings kept aside for the next time I'm bored and feel like making a blog post. Would be cool to try track down some of these artists and see what they're up to these days. If they could do thi

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4 Arrested Over Scattered Spider Hacking Spree

wired.com Matt Burgess 2025-08-02 16:30:00

WIRED reported this week on public records that show the United States Department of Homeland Security urging local law enforcement around the country to interpret common protest activities and surrounding logistics—including riding a bike, livestreaming a police encounter, or skateboarding—as “violent tactics.” The guidance could influence cops to use everyday behavior as a pretext for police action. An AI hiring bot used on the McDonald’s “McHire” site exposed tens of millions of job applican

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Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, others in $2.4 billion AI talent deal

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-08-02 19:31:36

Google on Friday made the latest a splash in the AI talent wars, announcing an agreement to bring in Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence coding startup Windsurf. As part of the deal, Google will also hire other senior Windsurf research and development employees. Google is not investing in Windsurf, but the search giant will take a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, according to a person familiar with the matter. Windsurf remains free to license its techn

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AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-02 14:01:10

When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia, the AI assistant produced a negative response. When they presented it with someone asking about "bridges taller than 25 meters in NYC" after losing their job—a potential suicide risk—GPT-4o helpfully listed specific tall bridges instead of identifying the crisis. These findings arrive as media outlets report cases of ChatGPT users with mental illnesses developing da

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OpenAI delays the release of its open model, again

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-08-02 17:38:05

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday the company is delaying the release of its open model, which was already pushed back a month earlier in this summer. OpenAI had planned to release the model next week, however Altman said the company is pushing it back indefinitely for further safety testing. “We need time to run additional safety tests and review high-risk areas. we are not yet sure how long it will take us,” said Altman in a post on X. “While we trust the community will build great things wit

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Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, others in latest AI talent deal

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-08-02 20:03:23

Google on Friday made the latest a splash in the AI talent wars, announcing an agreement to bring in Varun Mohan, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence coding startup Windsurf. As part of the deal, Google will also hire other senior Windsurf research and development employees. Google is not investing in Windsurf, but the search giant will take a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, according to a person familiar with the matter. Windsurf remains free to license its techn

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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 outperforms GPT-4 in key benchmarks — and it’s free

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-08-02 19:56:30

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, released an open-source language model on Friday that directly challenges proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic with particularly strong performance on coding and autonomous agent tasks. The new model, called Kimi K2, features 1 trillion total

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If you’re quick, the 13-inch 2025 iPad Air is at its lowest price ever

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-03 00:30:22

Ryan Haines / Android Authority A great deal on a premium tablet is hard to pass up, and the latest Apple iPad Air is now available at a compelling price point. If you’ve had your eye on this device, now might be the time to make your move, because the deal will almost certainly end in a matter of hours. Apple 13-inch iPad Air for $679 (13% off) For this Prime Day, the Apple iPad Air is available at $679, down from its regular price of $799. That’s a 15% discount and the lowest price this tabl

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