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ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs from Scratch? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-07 | get AI Programming Assistant Kit → | tags: language models, programbench, scratch programming

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What British people mean when they say 'sorry' (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-06 | get British Sorry Mug → | tags: british, sorry, british people

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Appearing productive in the workplace (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-06 | by No One'S Happy | get Ergonomic Office Desk Chair → | tags: large language models, claude ai, workplace productivity

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Appearing Productive in the Workplace (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-06 | by No One'S Happy | get Ergonomic Office Desk Chair → | tags: large language models, claude, ai in workplace

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Marc Andreessen Mocked for Accidentally Revealing That He Seems to Have a Deep Misunderstanding of How AI Actually Works (futurism.com)

2026-05-06 | by Victor Tangermann | get AI Fundamentals Book → | tags: marc andreessen, ai hallucinations, large language model

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Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof. (venturebeat.com)

2026-05-05 | get AI Efficiency Optimization Kit → | tags: subquadratic, large language model, subq 1m-preview

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AI lets chemists design molecules by simply describing them (sciencedaily.com)

2026-05-05 | get Molecular Model Kit → | tags: epfl, philippe schwaller, retrosynthesis

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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Olivier Lacombe | tags: gemma 4, speculative decoding, large language models

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I'm scared about biological computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | get Biological Computing Kit → | tags: biological computing, human neurons, lab-grown neurons

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I'm Scared About Biological Computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | get Biological Computing Kit → | tags: biological computing, human neurons, language models

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‘There Were a Lot of Naysayers’: Half of T-Mobile’s Customer Calls Are Now AI — And That’s Just the Beginning (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-05 | by Sherin Shibu | get AI Customer Service Headset → | tags: t-mobile, voice ai, customer service

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Babbel Promo Code: Up to 65% Off in May 2026 (wired.com)

2026-05-05 | by Molly Higgins | get Babbel Language Learning App → | tags: babbel, duolingo, speech recognition

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How much of the scientific literature is generated by AI? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-05 | by Naddaf | get AI Research Paper Generator → | tags: large language models, ai detectors, nanyang technological university

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Transformers Are Inherently Succinct (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | get Transformers Model Neural Network → | tags: transformers, succinct, language models

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Let's Talk about LLMs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | by James Bennett | get GPT-4 AI Language Model → | tags: llms, openai, chatgpt

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In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-03 | by Anthony Ha | get AI Diagnostic Tool Kit → | tags: harvard medical school, openai, beth israel deaconess

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Popular 90s search engine ‘Ask Jeeves’ finally bites the dust — parent company shutters website that pioneered natural language queries, only a placeholder results page remains (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-03 | by Jowi Morales | get Ask Jeeves T-Shirt → | tags: ask jeeves, iac, ask.com

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Chinese court rules companies can't fire workers just because AI is cheaper — ruling says automation alone doesn't justify layoffs (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-03 | by Etiido Uko | get AI Workforce Automation Kit → | tags: china, hangzhou, large language models

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OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | by Robert Booth | get AI Diagnostic Support Tool → | tags: openai o1, clinical reasoning, emergency triage

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Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube's Subtitles 'Appallingly Bad'? (slashdot.org)

2026-05-02 | by Posted | get YouTube Subtitles Editing Tool → | tags: youtube, subtitles, language

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The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-02 | by Ivan Mehta | get Dragon Anywhere Mobile App → | tags: ai dictation, large language models, wispr flow

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Chinese Court Rules That a Worker Cannot Be Replaced by AI (futurism.com)

2026-05-02 | by Joe Wilkins | get AI Worker Replacement Guide → | tags: large language model, xinhua news agency, hangzhou intermediate court

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Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | get AI Language Model Refusal Guide → | tags: language models, refusal, single direction

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New AI Trained Only on Pre-1930 Data Speaks Like the Most Old-Timey Guy Imaginable (futurism.com)

2026-05-02 | by Frank Landymore | get Vintage Typewriter Keyboard → | tags: talkie, university of toronto, vintage model

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Researchers Say This System of 7 Smart Rings Can Translate Sign Language (cnet.com)

2026-05-01 | by See Full Bio | get Smart Ring Sign Language Translator → | tags: smart rings, sign language translator, science advances

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xAI launches Grok 4.3 at an aggressively low price and a new, fast, powerful voice cloning suite (venturebeat.com)

2026-05-01 | get Voice Cloning Software Kit → | tags: xai, grok 4.3, voice cloning

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How we test AI at ZDNET (zdnet.com)

2026-05-01 | by David Gewirtz | get AI Testing Toolkit → | tags: zdnet, large language models, openai

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The Download: a new Christian phone network, and debugging LLMs (technologyreview.com)

2026-05-01 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: goodfire, silico, large language models

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This Indigenous Language Survived Russian Occupation. Can It Survive YouTube? (wired.com)

2026-05-01 | by Paresh Dave | get Language Preservation Kit → | tags: youtube, kyrgyzstan, russian

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AI Outperforms ER Doctors in Diagnostic Cases, Study Points to Collaborative Care (cnet.com)

2026-04-30 | by See Full Bio | get AI Diagnostic Assistant → | tags: openai, large language model, emergency department