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The other day my relative, who is a data engineer, floated the idea of a scented candle that would smell like burned LLM tokens. His birthday is coming up, so I was thinking of turning this into reality. Problem is, neither me nor my immediate social circle have a good idea which scents would best convey this, so I figured I would reach out here. Some initial propositions include: -Burned toast -Diesel fuel -Gold (no discernible scent though) -Fresh water -Rainforest (that's being destroyed?) Co

Though Instagram head Adam Mosseri doesn't want to filter out AI content on the platform, he argues that you "shouldn't have it in your feed" if you don't like it. "I don't think we should filter out AI content," Mosseri said during an interview on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast. "I think we should let you know […]

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So, I am working on this startup project with pretty low budget and one of the features is sentiment analysis based on political news, x posts and Instagram hashtag trends in which will be in Indian languages. I've been suggested muRIL, an Indian language-based model fine-tuned on political data as the best long-term option. But our team does not have any ML engineer so we dont know how we should approach that. Also do tell me if you think there is a better alte

Vector databases are a temporary bridge. Discover why the next AI infrastructure revolution relies on persistent neural state and strict latency budgets, not on vector databases. The post RAG Was Always a Temporary Workaround. What is Next? appeared first on Towards Data Science .

A solar and home energy storage company is expanding into AI data centers, but not by building one - instead, it's offering to pay its customers to put its compute units in their homes. Sunrun is launching a pilot program for a new "distributed AI compute" program that will "place numerous compute nodes in homes […]

I'm a heavy vim user, but now that I look at the code less and less I'm wondering if it still makes sense. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859439 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

OpenAI has launched a new family of LLMs: GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, but they're not all the same.

Article URL: https://ably.com/blog/ai-transport-durable-execution-steps Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859396 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Biomolecular structure prediction and co-folding with models like OpenFold3 are now mainstream, large-scale workloads powering drug discovery and protein...

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AI's ushered in a new era of reskilling. Here's what the industry can learn from the last decade's drive to put people in tech jobs.

Article URL: https://hister.org/posts/give-your-ai-assistant-a-private-memory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859214 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/07/10/posthuman-as-in-no-humans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859189 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://newslttrs.com/ai-has-lost-all-meaning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859122 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://github.com/Asyncinnovator/hallint Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859105 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Article URL: https://tejassuds.com/blog/ai-cannot-forget Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859047 Points: 17 # Comments: 18

This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research.

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-alpha-founder-ai-receptionist-small-businesses-young-geniuses-2026-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859016 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Lightbulb/comments/1usl6bv/idea_predict_ais_impact_on_writing_and_creativity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858976 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/the-future-of-work-ai-juniors-and Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858921 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

OpenAI is killing its AI browser Atlas less than eight months after launch. Its features are moving into ChatGPT's updated Chrome extension, which will let users run ChatGPT directly in Chrome's sidebar. Atlas joins a growing list of scrapped OpenAI products. The article OpenAI kills its Atlas browser after just eight months and folds everything into ChatGPT appeared first on The Decoder .

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise the Federal Reserve on AI's economic impact. Warsh views AI as a "significant disinflationary force," but Andreessen's firm Andreessen Horowitz is heavily invested in AI companies, raising conflict-of-interest questions. The article The Fed wants AI investor Marc Andreessen to help figure out if AI can tame inflation appeared first on The Decoder .

Article URL: https://3hcloud.com/blog/openclaw-vs-kiloclaw-vs-hermes-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858870 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they…

Claude Code can generate polished screens quickly, so it’s relatively easy to fall into a trap of “AI will drive the entire design… Continue reading on UX Planet »

SmolVLM2-2.2B sits at a genuinely useful point on the capability-size trade-off curve; small enough to run on a single consumer GPU, capable enough to produce video summaries that are actually useful for real workflows.

What our over-dependence on external consulting teaches us about delegating our minds to machines The post The Big Con of Agentic AI appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Article URL: https://mrunix.me/posts/stb-hardening/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858699 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/33864 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858688 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix(agents): serialize session lock cleanup</pre>

<p>Let's be honest - stateless AI tools are incredibly powerful, but they have terrible short term memory, and are context-limited. They look at your repo through a keyhole — whatever's visible in that one session is all they know.</p> <p>You've probably seen your AI tool trying to fix one thing and break several others. This happens because they don't know what else in your codebase depends on that particular module it is editing. </p> <p>Modern codebases are deeply interconnected, and as repos

There is possibility that AI can automate all there can be automated. But still one area where it is notoriously bad is creation of novel things. What Schopenhauer called genius or ability to have new insights/discoveries that were not implicitly present in books. > "In most books, putting out of account those that are thoroughly bad, the author, when their content is not altogether empirical, has certainly thought but not perceived; he has written from reflection, not from intuition, and it is

<p>Most enterprise software renewals are passive. The contract comes up, procurement processes it, maybe there is a negotiation on price, and the subscription continues. The product gets evaluated once at purchase and then assumed to be delivering value until someone complains loudly enough.</p> <p>AI contracts deserve a different process before renewal, not because vendors are more dishonest than others, but because the conditions that justified the initial purchase change significantly over ti

Do developers write safe wrappers around database operations currently so that agents can use the production data safely? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858552 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

<p>I have watched more enterprise AI tool demos than I can count. The format has become predictable enough that I spend most of my attention during demos looking for specific things the vendor does not intend to show me.</p> <p>These five signals have been more predictive of real-world performance than anything that appears in a prepared demo.</p> <p>The first red flag is how the tool handles a question where the answer is not in the indexed content.</p> <p>I always ask this question at some poi

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/ai-class-divide-fable-sol-mythos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858522 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

I'm looking for a high-quality solution for translating food recipes and/or menu content into 30–50 languages. Accuracy and natural wording matter much more than the cost. However, be able to run it locally is a huge win. I have tried https://ollama.com/library/translategemma but the results were awful for Slavic languages. Thanks in advance! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858436 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

The JavaScript tool Bun has been fully rewritten from Zig to Rust, and Anthropic's Fable 5 did most of the work. The article Bun ditches Zig for Rust with help from Claude Fable 5, writes over a million lines of code in 11 days appeared first on The Decoder .

In the near future, AI -powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system will notice, retain it, tie it to your official government record, communicate that fact to you, and provide real-time alerts to any relevant authorities… and maybe also to the general public. Think of these systems as automated speed cameras, but on steroids. Only they’ll enforce n