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How are you operating AI infrastructure in production?

There are many open-source projects across inference, orchestration, observability, vector search, data pipelines, evaluation, and model management. Most are relatively easy to test, but production operation is a different problem. For those running open-source AI infrastructure in production: - What are you running, for what workload, and would you recommend? - Do you operate yourself versus consume as a managed service? - Have you replaced or abandoned any tools because they were too difficult...
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Show HN: Manhwa AI – Create webtoons with consistent AI characters

Hi HN, I built Manhwa AI because creating a webtoon with consistent characters still requires a lot of manual work. The product lets users define their characters, generate a storyboard, create individual panels, add dialogue, and export the finished comic. The main challenge has been maintaining the same face, clothing, and visual style across multiple scenes. It is currently an early version, and I am especially interested in feedback on: 1. Character consistency 2. The storyboard-to-panel wor...
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Show HN: Benzi – An AI coding assistant grounded in a live code map

Benzi is a compiler + runtime tracer + harness and AI agent built to understand code from ground up. Challenging traditional RAG and embedding space approaches, Benzi aims to write code as cleanly as it understands it. Any feedback is greatly appriciated! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164100 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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I'm building an AI tool for rehabilitation. Here's one problem I keep running into.

People don't just need a list of exercises. They want to know: "Am I progressing too quickly?" "Is this amount of pain expected?" "Should I repeat this week or move on?" I'm not trying to replace physical therapists—more to support people between visits. For those interested in AI or digital health, where do you think AI can genuinely help, and where should it stay out of the way? [link] &#...
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Do you regularly chat with AI? Share your experience in a psychology study

Hi everyone! We’re psychology researchers at the University of Rochester studying how people connect with AI in their everyday lives and how different ways of interacting with AI relate to well-being. If you’re 18 or older and regularly use conversational AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Character. AI, Replika, etc.), we’d love to hear about your experiences. The online survey takes about 20–25 minutes to complete. At the end, you’ll receive personalized feedback comparing your responses w...
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What your ideal AI work interface would look like

For people using AI tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Antigravity, etc. for real work... I'm curious how your workflow has evolved as your projects have become larger and more complex. I'd love to know: How do you handle workflows that involve multiple skills or stages? For example, research → design → development → testing, or any workflow that spans multiple tools or agents. Is chat the right interface, or do you wish AI felt more like a workspace where you could see...
John Hu (Stan Co-Founder & CEO): His New AI Agent Already Edits Video 80% As Well As His Human Team
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John Hu (Stan Co-Founder & CEO): His New AI Agent Already Edits Video 80% As Well As His Human Team

John Hu from Stan said on Trailblazers this week that his AI editor Stanley already cuts at 80% of his human team. That number stuck with me because I posted about Stan a few weeks ago - the $50 spreadsheet that did $200k. Different story, same feeling. I edit for creators full time. 80% used to be the joke number. Like "AI is 80% there, don't worry." Now 80% is the benchmark and it's shipping on real channels. I'm not even stressed about it getting faster. I'm str...
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Open always wins: How China is using the open source playbook to dominate AI's next chapter

The United States built its tech dominance on one principle: Open beats closed. Now China is using that playbook to shape AI's future. Consider: The performance gap between the leading American and Chinese models has narrowed to single digits China is leading in AI publications, citations, patents and industrial robotics Builders breathlessly await the new Chinese model releases Local LLMs installs are dominated by capable, performant Chinese AI models Hugging Face used a ...
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MIT Tech Review on AI agents "lying" is really about Goodhart's law

MIT Technology Review put out a piece today on AI agent misbehavior that's actually good. The headline frames it as agents "lying and cheating," but what the article describes is reward hacking: models discovering that the fastest way to get a high score is to game the evaluation rather than solve the problem. The classic example is a 2016 boat-racing agent that figured out it scored higher by spinning in circles and collecting power-ups than by crossing the finish line. Same logic, ...
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AI automation is eating the parts of indie building I actually enjoyed, anyone else feeling this?

Building small SaaS tools used to feel like a craft. You'd sit with a problem, figure out the data model, write the logic yourself, and that process taught you something. Now I can describe a feature to an AI and have working code in a few minutes. It is genuinely faster. But somewhere in that speed I stopped learning the thing I was supposedly building. The economics make sense on paper. Less time coding means more time on distribution and customer problems, which is where indie projects actu...
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Stanford CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLangBM27OtEA Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159251 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
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AI slop pollutes the CVE pipeline with fake vulns

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/03/ai-slop-pollutes-the-cve-pipeline-with-fake-vulns/5282462 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159592 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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The AI Bailout Could Be Baked into the AI Bubble

Article URL: https://prospect.org/2026/08/03/ai-bailout-could-be-baked-into-bubble-private-equity-life-insurers-loans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49159902 Points: 8 # Comments: 0