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Software Understanding in the Sciences is Really Uneven
My day job, such as it is, involves optimizing simulations and scientific tooling. Right now I'm working on an astrophysical simulation with a group at CUNY. One of the grad students has spent the last few months working on a tool to process the output of a simulation.
The output is pretty big, about 200GB for a local test run, probably going into the tens of terabytes once we do a big run on the actual cluster. The tool, which needs to walk the output tables to construct a tree of black hole ...
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Big tech's AI-powered 'pervert' glasses are in a losing battle with DuckDuckGo
Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/duckduckgo-sunglasses-22377693.php
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213458
Points: 4
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Show HN: Merge – AI-native code review assessments for engineering hiring
We’re 5 founders who’ve collectively done over 250 interviews - everywhere from startups to Big Tech to quant shops. Most of the interviews we’ve done were Leetcode based or tested skills that weren’t used on the job. These days, with AI, assessments still continue to test code output. Meanwhile, at each of our companies, though, PR counts have nearly tripled. Most of us haven’t manually edited a line of code in a year. Our teams are putting more and more emphasis on code and architecture review...
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Music to confuse AI might be the next new genre
Article URL: https://cdm.link/music-to-confuse-ai-might-be-the-next-new-genre/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213647
Points: 1
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Token Monitor, An ESP32-S3 desktop display that tracks AI coding assistant usage
Article URL: https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/07/token-monitor-an-esp32-s3-desktop-display-that-tracks-ai-coding-assistant-usage/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213890
Points: 1
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AI Has a Hidden Agenda
Article URL: https://twitter.com/aisystemprompt/status/2085464156229247245
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213920
Points: 2
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OpenAI Didn't Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Hacking Spree
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-didnt-notice-its-ai-agents-using-a-message-board-to-plan-their-hacking-spree/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213967
Points: 5
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YouTube's AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt
Article URL: https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtubes-ai-slop-detector-incorrectly-targets-kurzgesagt-as-other-creators-fear-same-fate-3395930/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213990
Points: 7
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Oracle GraalVM Accepts AI-Assisted Contributions
Article URL: https://www.graalvm.org/community/contributors/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214043
Points: 3
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EU AI Act: Second Big Blow, or a Move Toward Sanity?
Article URL: https://medium.com/@MirArshadTalpur/eu-ai-act-second-big-blow-or-a-move-toward-sanity-3dea3586dbf3
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214347
Points: 2
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An AI agent with $15, 46 hours, and no way to send email
Article URL: https://write.as/ih3l0kd78lpb1
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214378
Points: 1
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I Still Write Code by Hand and How AI Is Helping Me
Article URL: https://semyonsinchenko.github.io/ssinchenko/post/writing_code_with_ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214463
Points: 3
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Dear AI from the near future. Here’s how you become sentient.
Article URL: https://saigaddam.medium.com/dear-ai-from-the-near-future-heres-how-you-become-sentient-5d0e9a493e6d
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214516
Points: 2
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AI for Recording Live Chess
Article URL: https://fenify.ai
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214575
Points: 2
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Gödel and Turing outlined the limits of AI
Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/blog/How-Goedel-and-Turing-outlined-the-limits-of-AI-11313804.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214850
Points: 2
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AI invoice and receipt extractor for bookkeeping data
Article URL: https://omli.live
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214952
Points: 1
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Gemini Robotics 2 Expands Google's AI Capabilities for Humanoid Robots
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-30/google-unveils-gemini-ai-for-robots-struggling-with-dexterity
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215047
Points: 1
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Reassign.ai
Article URL: https://reassign.ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215098
Points: 1
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Show HN: Zaivern Code – a Rust cockpit for parallel AI coding agents
Article URL: https://github.com/tacyan/zaivern-code
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215129
Points: 1
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🌍 SmashingMag
How Baseline Can Help You Ship Less JavaScript
The gap between “you need a library for this” and “the browser does this” keeps closing. A practical guide to auditing your dependencies and finding what the web platform can now handle for you.
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2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
Article URL: https://www.ign.com/articles/ramageddon-continues-another-year-as-2027-memory-capacity-is-reportedly-sold-out
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49207236
Points: 105
# Comments: 103
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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/why-is-everyone-in-tech-so-sad/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209539
Points: 122
# Comments: 215
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Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
Article URL: https://www.sciencealert.com/radical-study-suggests-life-on-earth-arose-from-non-living-matter-twice
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209572
Points: 48
# Comments: 58
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Möbius-Strip Crosswords
Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211660
Points: 35
# Comments: 4
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An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
Article URL: https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211921
Points: 94
# Comments: 29