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AI creates 16 new viruses from scratch

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/06/health/ai-viruses-bacteriophages Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206497 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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YouTube Channel: AI for Developers

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/@jokioki Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206839 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Why Normal People Aren't Using AI Agents

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/why-normal-people-arent-using-ai-agents/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206861 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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I built a $0 AI news agent that reads 7 RSS feeds, dedupes, summarizes, and publishes a daily digest here's what surprised me

I got tired of doomscrolling 7 different AI news sources every morning, so I built an agent that does it for me for exactly $0/month. The pipeline: - 7 RSS feeds (Hacker News, Google AI blog, Hugging Face, Lobsters, The Hacker News, Open Source blog) β†’ a Python script on a free-tier server - Dedup the same story hits 5 feeds; it picks the best source and drops the rest - An LLM writes 2-3 sentence summaries of the stories that actually matter - A cron job publishes a clean daily digest to ...
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I need help testing my WASM/JS based decentralized AI network.

I made this project that lets you in your web browser help an AI think. It uses WASM or pure JS depending on your device to do some of the matrix multiplication for an AI. The more users, the better the math is shared, the faster layers get solved. The issue is that I don't have enough devices to test the server in most fronts besides "does it work." If you want to help, go to the site at https://ecthqmainserver.orfe-climb.ts.net/ . I am making this to test for weather it works on a ...
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Show HN: AI Tutoring with Visual Grounding

I've always felt that AI tutoring as we see it now is going in the wrong direction. I made Knowable as a way to see if it's possible to have a real AI tutor. Because of hardware limitations it can only be used on Macbooks 2023+. Let me know your thoughts! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204343 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human

Article URL: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/louisiana/2026/07/28/is-new-orleans-using-ai-to-answer-911-calls-instead-of-human-dispatchers-impacts-emergencies-crime/91065014007/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204546 Points: 43 # Comments: 55
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Open source Cloud AI agents

Article URL: https://www.krowoc.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204605 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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A glimpse from China of AI's future

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/insider/the-insider/a-glimpse-from-china-of-ais-future Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204887 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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A Society for AI Agents

Article URL: https://1f916.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204946 Points: 1 # Comments: 3
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Ask HN: What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI?

It seems we're potentially running into a situation where there may be some kind of large-scale industrial accident (somewhere in the world) arising from more aggressive testing of increasingly capable AI systems. What's the temperature on here of how that might play out (if at all)? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205192 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
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Has AI Development Hit a Wall, or Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?

It is obvious that most of the current hype and progress around large language models is focused on programming. The ability of ChatGPT-like systems to answer general questions, which impressed everyone at the beginning of the AI boom, no longer seems particularly exciting. But am I the only one who feels that LLMs are approaching the limit of how capable they can become without also becoming prohibitively expensive? The first problem is diminishing returns from training. Some people even fe...