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Goldigging gals are flocking to Silicon Valley to land rich husbands in AI
Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/10/13/tech/goldigging-gals-are-flocking-to-silicon-valley-to-land-rich-husbands-in-ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091734
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Can superintelligent AI be banned?
Article URL: https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/can-superintelligent-ai-be-banned
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091971
Points: 3
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Where AI slop comes from, and how to turn it down inside the model
Article URL: https://100toolkit.com/blog/where-ai-slop-comes-from/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092019
Points: 1
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Arguments About AI Consciousness Remain Highly Motivated and Overconfident
Article URL: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/10/13/arguments-about-ai-consciousness-remain-highly-motivated-and-at-best-overconfident/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092026
Points: 1
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Cal Newport: The AI Industry Is Betting on the Wrong Kind of AI [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuIITyh_Q4g
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092247
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I spent 48 hours in SF hanging out with billionaires, data labs and AI execs
Article URL: https://twitter.com/gregisenberg/status/2110414696037716372
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092262
Points: 2
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Europe's leaders abandon the race for frontier AI
Article URL: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-ai-strategy-frontier-models-us-china/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092311
Points: 2
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Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/13/cerebras-ceo-pushes-back-on-ai-doomsday-warnings/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092326
Points: 2
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Through the Visual Language of AI
Article URL: https://blog.criti.ca/posts/through-the-visual-language-of-ai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092411
Points: 2
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Researchers cig-nal their faith in AI by taking up smoking
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/14/researchers-cig-nal-their-faith-in-ai-by-taking-up-smoking/5303118
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50092718
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Show HN: Run AI-generated logic safely inside your app
Stof is an open-source runtime for logic you don't own or fully trust. Imagine a JSON document with functions inside, scoped to just the document that contains them. Stof instantiates this doc as a small wasm env, and makes these functions safe to call. They can't access or manipulate anything but their own doc. WebAssembly by itself is large in binary form, requires a lot of tooling, etc. Stof can be sent over the wire easily, is a superset of JSON for compatibility, and keeps the guarantees. I...
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AI sector wipeout risks global financial contagion, IMF report warns
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/the-imf-highlights-how-a-financial-wipeout-in-the-ai-sector-could-become-a-global-contagion-agency-report-shines-light-on-circular-economics-and-leveraged-loans
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093439
Points: 1
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Why Does AI Write Like Yoda?
Article URL: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-does-ai-write-like-yoda/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093561
Points: 2
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AI safety money floods into politics
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/10/14/ai-safety-regulation-election-spending-50-million
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093725
Points: 2
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Show HN: AI Interview Index – which companies allow AI in coding interviews
Article URL: https://aiinterviewindex.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093749
Points: 1
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AI agents overstate their results and remain far from autonomous
Article URL: https://www.renascence.io/news/104630/ai-agents-overstate-their-results-and-remain-far-from-autonomous-research-study-
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50093787
Points: 2
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Show HN: OSS AI engineering telemetry without collecting prompts or code
Article URL: https://github.com/ascendaone-com/ai-engineer-tools
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094034
Points: 1
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Show HN: Checkobot – Detect Deepfakes and AI Images
Hello HN, I am Kartikeya & we are building the best AI Slop Detector - Checkobot. The current AI Image Detectors are functionally jagged. Some are not able to detect deepfakes, some fail on the latest flux models. Some have an unacceptable false flag rate on genuine images. We have been solving the deepfake detection problem at our parent company - SpoofSense.ai for a while now & we wanted to train a general purpose AI Image Detector that actually works. Checkbot does 3 things:
1.Full Image Mode...

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Formlabs Has a 3D Printer for Normies
The Form Studio 1 is a $699 desktop-sized printer that fits on a desk and only stinks a little bit.

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‘Dune: Part Three’ Cowriter Brian K. Vaughan Has a New Comic on the Way
Brian K. Vaughan claims he’s seen Dune: Part Three and it’s “a fucking beautiful movie.”

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Earth’s Condition Is ‘Serious and Getting Worse’ as Climate Change Intensifies
Seven of 16 planetary vital signs are in their most extreme state ever recorded, and El Niño is here to make matters even worse.
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Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW
Article URL: https://github.com/timescale/pg_vectorsearch
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50086165
Points: 164
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Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256
Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/nvidias-first-gpu-geforce-256/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50086363
Points: 49
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Scientists Are Teaching Birds to Sing Lost Songs
Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/teaching-birds-lost-songs
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50087337
Points: 33
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Strands Decider: Why Not an Encoder?
Article URL: https://brooker.co.za:443/blog/2026/10/04/encoders.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088447
Points: 27
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