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How should real-world AI-tool proficiency be measured without turning usage into a fake expertise score?

I’m exploring a measurement problem rather than proposing that token count equals skill. I built a local-first technical alpha that records Claude Code and Codex activity, produces a signed privacy-sanitized snapshot, and separates activity telemetry from self-submitted identity, connected work, and outcomes. Prompts, responses, code, local paths, and credentials are excluded from the public payload. The long-term question is whether a portable AI-work record could help researchers recruit g...
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I'm building a local, symbolic AI assistant without an LLM – and it runs 24/7
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I'm building a local, symbolic AI assistant without an LLM – and it runs 24/7

Hi everyone, I'd like to share my project Nova AI with you. It's a personal AI companion that runs entirely locally and uses no large language model. Instead, she's built on symbolic AI: a network of explicit concepts, relationships, and patterns that I can inspect and modify myself. What it can do right now: Β· Have natural conversations Β· Play chess against Stockfish (with a colored board and statistics) Β· Fetch multi-day weather forecasts Β· Query Wikipedia and automatically learn n...
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US and China just teamed up to back open-source AI

21 APEC countries, including the US and China, signed a joint statement in Chengdu backing open-source AI with "strong security assurance." It's the first time an APEC AI statement has included open-source cooperation at this level. Feels notable given the US and China don't usually agree publicly on AI stuff.
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Grok muscles into Excel with an AI add-in of its own

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/22/grok-muscles-into-excel-with-an-ai-add-in-of-its-own/5276138 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033015 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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I'm So Tired of "Is This AI?"

Article URL: https://www.trend-mill.com/p/im-so-tired-of-is-this-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033194 Points: 8 # Comments: 6
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AI generated PRs can hide malicious intent across several PRs

Article URL: https://blog.codacy.com/detecting-malicious-intent-across-ai-generated-pull-requests-a-governance-framework-for-engineering-leaders Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033883 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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A VSCode extension for AI to understand your project

I wrote a VSCode plugin that can install skills with just one click. When writing code, AI automatically writes detailed comments. The plugin can recognize and convert them into JSON. If AI wants to understand something, it can automatically call the interface to obtain the entire method chain and corresponding comment introduction. Reading a main function only takes a few seconds. To make it look better, I also created an HTML to display it. Of course, it's just for the sake of appearance. The ...
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Orwell on AI

Article URL: https://hegemon.substack.com/p/orwell-on-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034006 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Travis Kalanick's actual pitch to a scared Stanford CS grad: skip the app store
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Travis Kalanick's actual pitch to a scared Stanford CS grad: skip the app store

Travis Kalanick (Uber co-founder, now running an industrial-AI company called Atoms) got asked a pretty direct question on a recent podcast: how would you pitch a Stanford CS new grad who's worried software engineering isn't the safe, easy path it used to be? His answer wasn't "learn more AI tools" or "get certified in X." It was: skip the app store. Go automate a two-million-pound machine that moves 35mph carrying gold. The underlying model is retrofit, not...
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Building an open-source AI pipeline for speech-driven 3D character animation. Looking for honest feedback before I invest time

Hi everyone, I'm a third-year engineering student working on an AI project that converts speech into a fully animated 3D character. Right now, my prototype works like this: Audio ↓ EMAGE (Speech β†’ Motion) ↓ SMPL Motion (Research Prototype) ↓ Motion Retargeting (planned) ↓ Commercial Character Rig ↓ Blender Rendering ↓ MP4 Animation The current implementation uses SMPL only as an internal research representation . Since SMPL isn't intended for unrestricted commercial use, my long-term...
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My son made an app today with AI.

I'm a dad and work in software development. My son came up to me today and said, "Dad, I made something for you." I honesty thought he meant a drawing or something from school. Instead, he pulled out his Chromebook and showed me this little web app he'd built with AI: https://gentle-tower-m9w88vse.codedreams.org/ (It's flappy bird) When I was his age, I was struggling to print "Hello, World." Now they're building little apps before they've even kissed a girl. Made...
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Why hasn't AI increased unemployment?

Article URL: https://twitter.com/PeterMcCrory/status/2079979321607745905 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031138 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Show HN: Generous free tier for SERP and AI web scraping

Hackers, We wanted to share our newly-added recurring Free tier for cloro.dev, the leading AI UI scraping platform in the world. We extract structured data from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, Gemini, Google Search, Google News, Copilot, and AI Overview through one API, with low latency across any country. We have recently crossed 200+ customers, most of them the large Enterprises behind GEO and SEO. From now on, every user gets 500 free credits every month, which is great for hobby projects you may ...
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The Sad Wives of AI

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031294 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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