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When is it OK to use AI?

Article URL: https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-05-18-when-is-it-ok-to-use-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160582 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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How do we prove our newsroom isn't AI?

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/Virginia/comments/1vent3o/ok_rvirginia_how_can_we_prove_our_newsroom_isnt_ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160605 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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The 1990s Web vs. today's AI

Article URL: https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/the-1990s-web-vs-todays-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160607 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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The Potomac River Midair Collision

Article URL: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/reaping-the-whirlwind-inside-the-potomac-river-midair-collision-0475416f2b0f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154441 Points: 23 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP

Hi HN! We’re Theodore and Louis, founders of Armature (YC P26). We reconstruct the entire session behind the MCP tool calls you receive, including what the user asked their agent to do and what the agent thought. You wrap your MCP in 3 lines of code (our SDK is available in Typescript, Python and Go) and start seeing in your dashboard: - All sessions reconstructed: it’s like reading the real conversation the user had inside Claude or ChatGPT! - A ranking of your MCP most popular use cases, built...
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Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite ( https://hoplite.sh ). Hoplite lets you deploy coding agents in the cloud, with a suite of tools that makes it incredibly easy to QA features. During onboarding, we port over your local setup - sessions, memories, MCP servers, and get your projects ready to run in the cloud. Here’s a demo: https://youtu.be/bnyktZ_9pjE We got here after pivoting away from the idea we applied to YC with; AI for retail investing. It ultimately wasn’t a product tha...
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SearXNG in Rust

Article URL: https://github.com/MikeLuu99/searxng-rust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158141 Points: 32 # Comments: 11
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Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

Article URL: https://hamvocke.com/blog/task-runners/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158287 Points: 30 # Comments: 8
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ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound

Article URL: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/08/01/zx-spectrum-system-tour-sound/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159676 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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What's the best process guide software for a small team?

We're only six people, so we've managed without much documentation until now. The problem is everyone has become the expert in their own area. When someone's away, the rest of us spend ages trying to remember how they normally do things. I'd like to start documenting our everyday workflows before the company gets any bigger but I also don't want another complicated system we'll stop using after a month. What have other small teams found works well?
Got my first real feedback on my app this week
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Got my first real feedback on my app this week

Been building this for a while, a lead gen and outreach tool for freelance web designers and devs. Still early access, no outside users yet, but had a friend who's also a dev go through it this week and he genuinely liked it, which felt like a small win after building mostly in isolation and only really trusting my own judgment on it. Now trying to figure out how to get it in front of people who don't already know me. If anyone's been through this stage, curious what worked for you. ...
Finally SEO seems to be working
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Finally SEO seems to be working

It turns out my web app’s seo was broken for months. Please fix your seo earlier than you plan to fix.
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Big Walk is like co-op Breath of the Wild

Untitled Goose Game is a tough act to follow. It was a silly experience that captured what I imagine it would feel like to be a sentient goose: a lot of waddling, a lot of honking, and a lot of shenanigans. That's why Big Walk, the next game from Goose Game developer House House, feels […]
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Lenovo Googlebook leaks reveal a laptop and 2-in-1 tablet

Lenovo is expected to release some of the first Googlebook models later this year, and leaked images have now given us a good idea of what they might look like. Leaked press images shared by Digital Citizen and Android Headlines include a laptop and a 2-in-1 tablet, all of which feature Googlebook branding on the […]
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Samsung’s 2TB 9100 Pro SSD is actually somewhat reasonably priced

Next to buying RAM, finding a fast, high-capacity NVMe SSD at a reasonable price has been a challenge during RAMageddon. I don’t want to say it’s getting easier, but one of Samsung’s latest SSDs is cheaper than it has sold for since February 2026. That’s something, right? Amazon has the heatsink-less version of the Samsung […]
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Spider-Man and The Odyssey are splitting up IMAX screens after a record-breaking weekend

Spider-Man: Brand New Day is joining The Odyssey in IMAX theaters after both movies led the biggest weekend in box office history. On Monday, IMAX announced that Spider-Man: Brand New Day will be available in select digital IMAX locations across North America starting Thursday, August 6th. The news comes as The Odyssey's exclusive three-weekend run […]
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Palworld’s expanding to mobile with a new MMORPG

After its 1.0 launch last month, Palworld is coming to iOS and Android with a new open-world MMORPG launching later this year, Polygon reports. Garena, the developer behind the new game, says in its announcement that Palworld Online "reimagines the depth, freedom, and scale of the original PC survival creature-collecting title for mobile." The core […]
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Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble

Today, I’m talking with Toni Schneider, who is the brand new CEO of the social platform Bluesky — he formally took over after a short stint as interim CEO. This is one of my favorite kinds of interviews to do on Decoder, because a couple years ago, we had Bluesky’s prior CEO, Jay Graber, on […]
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AI Is Not Conscious

Hallucinations are the best evidence that AI is not conscious (outside of basic logic)--that every word output is simply mindless pattern matching with no intent or awareness attached. They arent typos, they are insights into the foundational process of simply matching what's appropriate and demonstrating the inevitable flaws of that process where the content isnt generated so much as approximated to a particular degree of certainty. perhaps the best distinction for now could be: generative v...
Spotify AI (Kit) wants to compete with Cowork?
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Spotify AI (Kit) wants to compete with Cowork?

Hard no Spotify. Now Spotify with Kit 🤡 wants access to my calendar and inbox. How about Spotify invests in bands and musicians - large orgs need to stop wanting all the things and do the thing they are supposed to do well. I am not against AI, I work for an AI startup but the backlash on AI is real and large orgs shoving all sorts of AI in every aspect of our digital existence just makes things worse. Here you have indie musicians fighting to remain relevant in a world where Suno exists and ...
MIT, Harvard, Stanford & Caltech write their own ML course notes instead of using a textbook — I catalogued the best ones
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MIT, Harvard, Stanford & Caltech write their own ML course notes instead of using a textbook — I catalogued the best ones

One thing I've noticed separates serious ML students from casual ones: how much they care about the quality of what they actually study from. I take that pretty seriously myself, so a while back I started digging into what students at MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, and USP actually use to complement their studies. What I found surprised me: several of these programs don't assign a textbook at all. Instead, the course staff writes and publishes their own lecture notes, and some of them are ba...