Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod
Hi HN, this is Shailendra and Karan here. We are building a fast and safe way for coding agents to debug issues live in production.When prod…
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ExactlyFischerKing: All the mainline parties had to do was control immigration and not enact policies that damage Germany's economic base - and AfD would be a…
Why I'm leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Article URL: https://naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepathy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185370 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
RT Dogan Ural: New aspect ratio visualizer A small but delightful UI update to Grok Imagine Web.
RT Dogan UralNew aspect ratio visualizerA small but delightful UI update to Grok Imagine Web.
SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X
Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling…
Stop sending me your errors
Article URL: https://kramkow.ski/article/2026/08/05/stop_sending_me_your_errors.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185215 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
Mistral's open model Shieldstral matches much larger safety models at a fraction of the size
Mistral's new 3B Shieldstral model checks AI inputs and outputs for safety violations using natural language yes-or-no questions instead of fixed categories. It matches models seven…
Something is changing in the unit economics of software
Article URL: https://nicolo.xyz/something-is-changing-in-the-unit-economics-of-software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185111 Points: 13 # Comments: 8
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grammar : degrade max repetition >= 2000 to unbounded (#26613) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel…
If you work at Gemini and want to leave to work on open models or open-source, feel free to reach out and I'll help you find something!
If you work at Gemini and want to leave to work on open models or open-source, feel free to reach out and I'll help you find…
RT Ishan Anand: The money slide is a pro tip from @swyx. Even though it captures the narrative thread of the entire talk that I had in my head, I didn…
RT Ishan AnandThe money slide is a pro tip from @swyx. Even though it captures the narrative thread of the entire talk that I had in…
Discovery Loop
Article URL: https://www.discoveryloop.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 Points: 44 # Comments: 7
Resources tutorials or videos on image gen?
Anyone recommend a source to get started with video/image gen? I pretty much only have experience with llms and right now I just tell the llm…
Jeff Dean Leaving Google
Article URL: https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184879 Points: 27 # Comments: 0
"OCR is just a feature now. Frontier models will eat it." We hear this constantly. The data says otherwise. Across three GPT generations, parsing accu…
"OCR is just a feature now. Frontier models will eat it."We hear this constantly. The data says otherwise.Across three GPT generations, parsing accuracy gained ~24 points,…
Major restructuring at Gemini (Dean out, Hassabis no longer CEO). This story will be studied forever as the incumbant with all the advantages not bein…
Major restructuring at Gemini (Dean out, Hassabis no longer CEO). This story will be studied forever as the incumbant with all the advantages not being able…
The Three AI Pills
Sincere disagreements about AI are usually disagreements about future AI capabilities. There are roughly four positions people take. Two are reasonable. Two are not. I distinguish…
RT Sundar Pichai: I also want to give a huge thanks to the incomparable @JeffDean after an incredible 27-year run at Google. He’s off to start his ow…
RT Sundar PichaiI also want to give a huge thanks to the incomparable @JeffDean after an incredible 27-year run at Google. He’s off to start his…
I find arguments that AI can't do judgement or creativity or taste to be especially obviously false in the time of agents. Any long task requires lots…
I find arguments that AI can't do judgement or creativity or taste to be especially obviously false in the time of agents. Any long task requires…
Notes on the possibility of moral progress
To achieve the best possible future, we must know what that future looks like. In other words, we need to solve ethics.[1]The problem of solving ethics…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184757 Points: 203 # Comments: 119
The next chapter of our AI momentum
Article URL: https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/next-chapter-ai-momentum/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755 Points: 19 # Comments: 12
I’ve been working towards AGI my whole life, and as we enter this pivotal moment, I’m stepping into a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind & Chief S…
I’ve been working towards AGI my whole life, and as we enter this pivotal moment, I’m stepping into a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind…
Running Whisper, Qwen3-ASR, Nemotron & MOSS completely offline on iPhone [P]
Over the past month, I've been building LiveTranscriber, an open-source iOS app for running modern speech and language models entirely on-device. The goal was to see…