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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I started a PhD in CS about a year an a half ago. Generally speaking my topic is on intrinsic motivation (more commonly people refer to it as unsupervised RL).</p> <p>Intrinsic motivation (IM) is a niche field within AI. It seeks to develop reward signals which are not specific to any task but rather something closer to the low level motivators that drive intelligent behaviors in animals. Some prominent examples are:</p> <ul> <li>Empowerment: <a href="https://ar

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Bitcoin burns computation on meaningless SHA-256; I wanted the burned work to be AI inference, so the network's mining base becomes general-purpose AI hardware. There were several issues but I found a solution for each and it currently live at the GitHub repo link. Repo: https://github.com/raphaelwkago69-create/GLYPH Attack it. If you break a claim, file an issue. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795126 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

VoiceCite turns your product knowledge into SEO and AI-ready blog content — chat or answer a Q&A, published automatically to WordPress in your voice. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794886 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://github.com/Priyanshu-byte-coder/contextrot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794873 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8B] - A fixed BASE, the rules each question needs, one registry: the dispatcher that turns a parsed question into a typed LLM call The post Assemble Each RAG Generation Prompt from a Base Prompt Plus the Rules Each Question Needs appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Tesla's robot cabs are now roaming around the 305, but only a small sliver of it so far.

Article URL: https://agentwatch-two.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794716 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

I want to be very upfront: this IDE's code is 100% generated by LLMs supervised by me, I am not hiding this fact. This submission was written by a human. microide's focus is performance and privacy, I was very tired of having AI integrated on every tool (ironic, I know, having vibecoded this one), and the decline in software performance. After trying quite a few IDEs none were what I wanted so I started microide. microide also does not have any kind of telemetry nor networking capabilities by de

Domain: https://ismy.blog Github:https://github.com/3289david/ismyblog Your blog. Nothing else. A minimal, self-hosted blogging platform. One blog per account, no post or visitor limits on the free plan. Pro is a single $25/year plan — AI writing tools, premium themes, custom CSS, advanced analytics, newsletter, redirects, webhooks, and API access. Stack Next.js 16 (App Router, Turbopack), React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS 4 SQLite via Prisma 7 (driver adapter: @prisma/adapter-better-sqlite3) R

"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them draft the Declaration of Independence. Ben Franklin texts Thomas Jefferson to […]

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd95k584pzqo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794465 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Midjourney seeks studio AI records as it fights a landmark copyright suit from Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros.

<p> Claude Code, Codex, any CLI agent. Driven from your iPhone </p> <p> <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/codemote-remote-control-for-any-ai?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/1188554?app_id=339">Link</a> </p>

<p><strong>On April 21, 2026, MIT Technology Review published what may be the most concisely useful AI reading of the year: "10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now."</strong> After months of editorial debate across their newsroom, MIT Tech Review's reporters distilled the current AI landscape into ten items that actually matter — not hype, not incremental news, but the developments genuinely shaping where AI goes from here.</p> <p>For developers and AI practitioners, this list is a useful forcing

<p>The more I learn about celebrities and their odd passions, the more encouraged I am. So much for AI drowning us in a flood of bland ‘tasteslop’</p><p>The internet, as we know, is now a depressing hellhole where everything is a terrifying shot of cortisol straight into the eyeballs or AI slop, interspersed with adverts for protein. So may I offer a recommendation for a modest corrective? It’s called <a href="https://www.pi.fyi/">Perfectly Imperfect</a>.</p><p>It is a daily newsletter about stu

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Understanding how PANet shortens the path between low-level and high-level features The post PANet Paper Walkthrough: When Feature Pyramids Go Bottom-Up appeared first on Towards Data Science .

When I first started testing Vizio's 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was that Vizio was back and that it had a quantum-dot TV for under $398 - the cheapest on the market. Vizio's been pretty quiet since it was acquired by Walmart in 2024, so putting out a TV with […]

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-AI_label Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793959 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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With AI igniting an investor frenzy, more startups are achieving unicorn status every month.

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Article URL: https://github.com/RiccardoGenco/genesis-2.0/blob/master/README.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793815 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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<p> TypeScript runtime for self-organizing AI agents </p> <p> <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/mozaik-4?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/1188511?app_id=339">Link</a> </p>

Humanoid says its KinetIQ Ascend approach can reach 99.9% manipulation reliability at human speed and beyond for industrial tasks. The post Humanoid says KinetIQ Ascend reinforcement learning approaches human-level dexterity appeared first on The Robot Report .

Article URL: https://github.com/latreon/compliance-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793704 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.northshore.studio/blog/the-fundamentals-of-ai-transformation-that-most-organisations-get-wrong Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793689 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Hello! I made an open-source Mac app that puts Claude skills on a switchboard. It lets you see what skills you have, find more, and manually flip on skills for Claude Cowork. Why: I love using skills as an engineer but they aren't intuitive to use for nontechnical people. Skillswitch makes it easy to find and use skills in Claude Cowork specifically site: https://skillswitch.cc repo: https://github.com/pardhaponugoti/skillswitch Repo is open source! If people find it interesting would be great t

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A new dental robot is being developed to help dentists perform tooth drilling and create crowns in fewer appointments.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I am a scientist who just applied machine learning to my research (JEPA/Representation/Geometric branch) and it did wonder! Allowed me to see so many papers that I am still struggling to write up.</p> <p>From what I see, there are clearly a million possibilities not done yet, e.g., industrial data, patterns in nature, etc.</p> <p>Why is the job perspective so pessimistic? We clearly have problems unsolved, and for many, the potential of ML will be proven for sur

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Wealthy US families are increasingly sending their kids to AI schools like Alpha School, which combines two hours of AI tutoring with project-based workshops for up to $75,000 a year in tuition. The trend highlights a growing education gap in the AI era, where traditional schools are struggling to adopt the technology, which may do more harm than good if used without the right skills. The article AI private schools sell wealthy US families on personalized learning over traditional education appe