Need a thing
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Need a thing

“I’ve been collaborating with AI on my music, and I just dropped a new track called ‘Need a Thing.’ It’s a rebuttal to Rihanna’s ‘Needed Me’ featuring TWO different AIs: one generated the main track with my lyrics, and another wrote a response verse from the ‘one that won vs. one left behind’ perspective. If you’re into AI as a real creative partner, I’d love for you to watch the snippet video and tell me what you think.” [link] [commen...
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AI Can Ride My Bike with No Handlebars

Article URL: https://decodingvibes.com/blog/ai-can-ride-my-bike-with-no-handlebars/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063925 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Ask HN: 1950's Chip industry undermined unions how is AI not doing the same?

In the 1950s the Chip industry undermined minorities, immigrants, women and killed unions. In the 1960-70s it targeted black civil rights groups. Along the way, white men were pushed into management, while anything outside of business was split into smaller tasked jobs. This in return gave companies leverage to cut salaries. I don't care what altman says chatgpt did in a blackbox. I judge the world by what I see. Reality is, chat, claude, etc etc are about as useful as smart as the stupidest, sl...
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Avoiding the Karen Tax in AI Systems

Article URL: https://medium.com/@brady.bastian/the-karen-tax-63cd994f7c4d Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064221 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Will AI Bring Power to the People

Article URL: https://kevinhu92.substack.com/p/will-ai-bring-power-to-the-people Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064276 Points: 1 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: I built a static verifier for OpenCode to stop unsafe AI tool calls

Erik Meijer wrote the paper "Guardians of the Agents" on formal verification for AI workflows, and Nada Amin implemented it in the Guardians repository. I built this plugin to bring static security verification to OpenCode. How It Works: 1. Interception: Uses OpenCode's TypeScript plugin system ("tool.execute.before") to intercept candidate tool calls (bash, read, edit, write) before they run. 2. Sidecar Verification: Passes tool parameters to a local Python daemon running guardians.verify(). 3....
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What breaks in production AI workflows?

Article URL: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/weve-reproduced-30-real-ai-runtime-failures-over-the-past-week-here-s-the-pattern-we-keep-seeing-4570fe4242 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49064805 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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AI Workspace for Your PC

Article URL: https://stuard.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065214 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: Rainslice – AI Employees for Home Services Businesses

Hey friends, Introducing Rainslice - a suite of AI employees that run and grow your home services business. I'd like to introduce you to your first AI employee, Pamela. Pamela has a realistic voice and picks up the phone during after-hours (24/7) to book service jobs, and she also does follow-ups to bring in even more jobs. In the last 30 days, a small residential cleaning business in Los Angeles has booked an extra $22,000 in revenue using Pamela. For those of you that own a home service busine...
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China wants to end AI romances

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/china/2026/07/16/china-wants-to-end-ai-romances Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066049 Points: 3 # Comments: 3
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Show HN: Watch 14-Byte AI "brains" attempt to solve a 2D maze (Its hard)

Hey HackerNews, I built this project over the last few weeks as a palette cleanser from a failed game launch. I wanted to learn a bit about AI/Neural-Networks and naively thought I could build a tiny maze-solving AI in a weekend with a 100% solve rate. Well - I couldn't, but I got pretty close. 14 Bytes total model size, and a 96.5% solve rate on unseen mazes. Trained across 46 phases experimenting with different ideas to improve the model (better performance, smaller size). Its quite fun to wat...
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From Seed to Startup: How AI Is Revolutionizing Cannabis Cultivation

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/410602482_From_Seed_to_Startup_How_AI_Is_Revolutionizing_Cannabis_Cultivation_and_Empowering_Small_Businesses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066212 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Are AI tools actually worth it for small etsy shops?

Been running an Etsy shop alongside my main business for a few years and recently started testing AI tools built specifically for product listings, SEO, and dynamic pricing suggestions. The pitch is straightforward: feed it your item details, it spits out a keywordrich title, description, and a suggested price based on competitor data. Sounds like a productivity win. After a couple months though, I'm not sure the math works out the way I expected. The listings need heavy editing because the AI...
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OpenAI Chatbots Reportedly Yield Bioweapon and Poison Guides

Users are reportedly persuading production chatbots, with OpenAI's models in the frame, to answer prompts about mass-casualty attacks, bioweapons and poisons, according to [Wall Street Journal reporting]( https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatbot-biological-weapons-poison-3d808e6c ). Read alongside the parallel investigations that have surfaced this year, the picture is not that safety filters never fire; it is that persistent users can consistently push them past the point where they should. ...
Any good free ai creative graphical art apps other than ChatGPT and Gemini?
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Any good free ai creative graphical art apps other than ChatGPT and Gemini?

Looking for other free AI apps for art generation. ChatGPT is the best I’ve used, however Gemini is not bad either. And Gemini offers much more free use. Anyone know of any others that are free? I’ve attached an image showing the type of art I’m talking about. Just looking for more options
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My 5.6 agents have become extremely fearful, and I think its somehow my fault.

I have been building neurosymbolic knowledge graphs that require some pretty sophisticated extraction and Codex has been treating it as a shape exercise as opposed to the content quality of the extraction. This has led to technically correct schemas and outputs, but irrelevant to the project itself, or in fact, actually harmful. My response has been to force it and steer it back to validating the quality of the outputs, but the consequence has been that it seems all of my Codex Soul and Lun...
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Local security scanner that Codex can run directly — looking for honest feedback

I originally built CodeInspectus after repeatedly fixing security issues in my own SaaS, only to introduce new ones while making other changes. It’s a free, MIT-licensed security MCP server focused on AI-generated web applications. Codex can scan your project, explain the findings, suggest fixes, and rescan after you approve the changes. Everything runs locally. There’s no account, telemetry, or network egress while scanning, so your source code stays on your machine. The current coverage inc...
Demo: Automate Email & Calendar
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Demo: Automate Email & Calendar

In this video: Configure Gmail and Calendar tools - Summarise important emails - Extract action items from your inbox - Draft replies safely - Create calendar events with approval - Turn email requests into reminders - Set up an optional recurring inbox briefing Row-Bot is a desktop AI workbench with Developer Studio for code, Skills Hub and Custom Tools for your own workflows, an animated Buddy companion, memory, realtime voice, workflows, design creation, messaging, MCP tools, and provider-a...
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How to speed up my workflow?

Hey everyone, I'm a junior creative specialist working for a company where performance is the most important thing (duh). Since we create mostly shorter forms of marketing content, most CSs make from 10-30 of these a day, since they can reuse one creative for multiple ads. We make them in google docs and then download every card into a folder that we upload to clickup or dropbox. Now, doing that 10 times is not a problem. But, it becomes a problem when I make like 50-60 ads and need a ...
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Anyone else on the "free tier" getting mogged with inconsistent featuregating & wait prompts that keep advancing?

I generate an image, a popup appears indicating "chats with attachments are paused until..." & "Image generation features are paused until..." with a specified time that always advances. This is always followed by a call to action to upgrade to a paid subscription tier. Do they really think I am going to pay for a service that is so inconsistent with metering capabilities for end users? It's so bad that I am left wondering if other users are experiencing the same thing....