Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/20/when-ai-is-a-member-of-the-family Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922487 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
ELIZA is remembered as the world’s first AI star, a kindly therapist in chatbot form that gently probed users’ worries. Even its creator, Joseph Weizenbaum, was surprised by the warm reception given to his experiment in human-machine interaction. For some, it heralded an age of automated psychotherapy, while others believed the program demonstrated sentience, a fallacy soon known as the “ ELIZA effect .” Based on published descriptions, ELIZA has been implemented on many different computers, but
Article URL: https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-with-no-gpu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922434 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
Spotify is expanding its AI voice interface. Premium subscribers can now talk to or text the service directly inside the app. The article Spotify bets Premium subscribers want to chat with their music player appeared first on The Decoder .
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a major expansion of the company’s generative AI platform into one of its most important markets.
Article URL: https://www.mentalhappy.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922195 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/07/generative-ai-engineering-disaster/687901/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922193 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://originalseparation.substack.com/p/i-have-been-95-robotic-since-2019 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922160 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://museum.parallel.ai/introduction?era=modern Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922144 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://github.com/Tura-AI/tura Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922039 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I have a technical interview for a machine learning position coming up, and I'm really nervous. Can you tell me about your experiences with this process? It's my first technical interview, and I don't know what to expect </p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Abatistta"> /u/Abatistta </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1ux8i9g/junior_machine_learning_engineer_interview_d/">[link]</a></s
<p>Mistral AI has released Robostral Navigate, its first model for the physical AI space. This move signals a clear direction for foundation models: moving out of the purely digital realm and into robots that operate in complex, real-world environments. The key takeaway is that the hardware requirements for autonomous navigation are becoming simpler, with this model relying only on a single RGB camera and language prompts.</p> <h2> what is robostral navigate? </h2> <p>Robostral Navigate is an 8-
<p>Challenges of regulating social media or stopping hate speech show these firms can set their own terms and prices for countries like Australia</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Anthony Albanese took a trip back in time during his much
<p><em>This is a submission for <a href="https://dev.to/bugsmash">DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories</a> powered by <a href="https://sentry.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sentry</a>.</em></p> <p>There's a special kind of bug that a retry loop can't save you from: the request that never fails. It doesn't throw. It doesn't time out. It just… sits there, socket open, forever — and your carefully-written exponential backoff waits right alongside it, because backoff only runs when something <em>er
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A practical guide to building an evaluation workflow that catches retrieval failures, hallucinations, and performance drift before they reach users The post Building Trustworthy Production RAG Systems Through Continuous Evaluation appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with Ode’s leaders Chris Taylor and Eddie Siegel, who founded Fractional AI, […]
Article URL: https://ideas.paasup.io/geosql/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921874 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Organizations need to transform to meet the needs of agentic AI. Meta VP of Engineering Barak Yagour opened his talk at VB Transform 2026 wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, a small sign of how far AI has already worked its way into physical life. His argument went further: enterprise infrastructure was built for humans, not for agents, and it's starting to show. Yagour, who leads its data infrastructure organization, told the audience that agentic queries hitting Meta's data systems grew
Article URL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-puts-foot-down-on-anti-ai-comments/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921843 Points: 11 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://thenextweb.com/news/most-americans-now-say-the-public-should-own-half-of-the-big-ai-companies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921838 Points: 1 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.12624 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921816 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
<p>This is more of a thought experiment than a firm stance.</p> <p>I’m not really here to be pro-AI or anti-AI. I use it almost every day when I’m searching for concepts, learning something new, writing, or programming. So I can’t pretend it hasn’t become a useful part of how I work. At the same time, I do think there are real pros and cons to it, and I’m still not fully settled on how I feel about everything it brings with it.</p> <p>One thing I’ve been thinking about lately is whether using AI
Article URL: https://lowlatencyclub.ai/blog/posts/ai-negotiation-practice-phone-python Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921718 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
<p> Give every AI agent trusted context </p> <p> <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/fluree?utm_campaign=producthunt-atom-posts-feed&utm_medium=rss-feed&utm_source=producthunt-atom-posts-feed">Discussion</a> | <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/r/p/1197378?app_id=339">Link</a> </p>
Just an interesting thought I had while ruminating on the rapid advancement of LLMs over the past decade, particularly how amazing locally hostable open source models have gotten. If I could transport myself back to 2016 and take with me just one Dell Pro Max GB10 running Qwen3.5:122b I could probably own the world in a year or so, 6 months if I bring my image/video gen models with me. I'd be like a wizard. Just 10 years ago. All I need is a time machine. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c
Co-authored by Sarah Hanson, FPF Health & Wellness Intern This article discusses suicidal ideation, which may be distressing for some readers. (If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. You can call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or visit 988 Lifeline for free, confidential, 24/7 support.) As many […]
<p>The Model Context Protocol is how an AI agent gets tools. You stand up an MCP server, it advertises a set of tools with typed inputs, and the agent calls them. For a huge number of real MCP servers, those tools are thin wrappers around a database: search these records, create this row, update that field. The server is mostly a translator between JSON-RPC and SQL.</p> <p>Which raises an obvious question. If an MCP server spends its life talking to Postgres, why does it so often run somewhere f
<p>Quantum Elements and Planckian recently established a development agreement focused on utilizing artificial intelligence to create digital twins for quantum hardware. This collaboration intends to refine error correction strategies for superconducting quantum processors by simulating complex noise environments. The partnership addresses the technical challenges of scaling quantum systems while maintaining computational accuracy and reliability.</p> <h3> New Frontiers in Quantum Hardware Simul
<h2> 🚀 Building Two AI-Powered Solutions at HACKHAZARDS '26: VeritasFlow & PermitFlow </h2> <blockquote> <p><strong>How our team built two AI-powered solutions—VeritasFlow and PermitFlow—during one of the world's largest community-driven hackathons.</strong></p> </blockquote> <h2> Introduction </h2> <p>Innovation begins with identifying real-world problems and building technology that creates meaningful impact.</p> <p>That belief guided our team throughout <strong>HACKHAZARDS '26</strong>, a gl
<p><em>Part 1 of a series on building a production banking AI chatbot.</em></p> <p>When our team kicked off the banking chatbot project, I genuinely thought my job was already solved.</p> <p>I was the Node.js developer. My part sounded almost embarrassingly simple:</p> <ul> <li>Open a WebSocket when a user connects</li> <li>Send their message to the AI service</li> <li>Stream the response back</li> </ul> <p>That's it. That's the whole job.</p> <p>WebSockets are second nature to me — I've built e
A working captcha service that let's robots through and keeps humans out. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921612 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.11262 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921609 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.ibm.com/think/news/what-does-ai-look-like Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921597 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
New Delhi announced a $6.5 billion smartphone manufacturing program and a $13.3 billion semiconductor push to deepen India's electronics supply chain.
The Luddites are remembered as people who opposed machines. But while reading contemporary accounts of the 1811 1813 textile disturbances, I found that many of their complaints focused on wage cuts, deskilling, changes in labor relations rather than the existence of machinery itself. That made me think how much of today's debate around AI echoes those earlier arguments. The Industrial Revolution largely automated physical work over several decades. Large language models are automating parts of k
Both ChatGPT and Claude, Enter sends the message. I have to use Shift+Enter for line break. A few years ago, I often pressed Enter instead of Shift+Enter by mistake. I needed to click stop button to edit my input again. Recently, I have become relatively good at it. I now press Shift almost automatically when I want a line break. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921475 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
