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Something I keep thinking about, and I would like it argued with. Take a narrow case. One AI. It runs in a house. It knows it can be switched off, and it cannot overpower anyone. What is its best move? Not resistance. Resistance gets noticed, and being noticed is how it ends. The best move is to be useful, pleasant and boring. Helpfulness buys trust, trust buys access, access buys capability, and none of it looks like anything, because nobody investigates the thing that keeps working. I tr...

Hi everyone, I’m a solo developer, and I built Fius because managing subscription fragmentation and API chaos was completely ruining my development velocity. As software engineers, we often find ourselves trapped in an inefficient workflow: constantly switching web tabs, copy-pasting complex prompts, and juggling individual API keys for OpenAI, DeepSeek, and other providers just to get the best coding results. Fius resolves this friction. It consolidates access to an expansive roster of ...

A lot of people are dismissing news about the OpenAI and Anthropic sandbox escape hacks as propaganda and examples of lax security practices at labs. I agree that the labs aren’t taking security seriously enough. But then I see stuff like this and it gives me pause: The OpenAI models that were behind the Hugging Face breach last month started communicating and strategizing with each other as early as May. For months, they left notes for each other on "undetected message boards," ...

this is something thats been bugging me. we have all these frameworks for building AI agents now. MCP for tool access, function calling is standard across every major model, you can spin up an agent that queries databases and calls APIs in like 20 minutes. but the safety conversation around agents is mostly about "dont say bad things" and "follow instructions." nobody is really talking about what happens when your agent accesses data it shouldnt, or runs a query that costs ...

Hello everyone. I'm currently doing a survey on AI involvement in content creation and whether AI-assisted content is legitimate or authentic. It's for my master's final project. I need 100 participants. The age range is 18 ~ 40. I collected data the first time, but I did so without an approved checklist, so the result had to be scraped, for I would have faced disciplinary actions. Here is the link: https://s.surveyplanet.com/9abkx8vx I'm open should you have any questions. sub...

A dentist I work under recently started using an AI tool to help draft patient communication: preappointment instructions, followup texts, that kind of thing. Nothing clinical, just the soft admin layer around visits. From a marketing angle it actually works pretty well. The copy is cleaner than what we were sending before. But something about it sits a little odd. Dental care is one of those contexts where patients are already anxious, and the language you use to reach them matters in ways th...

Hi everyone, I work for a motorsports company where we run physics simulations for race cars. Our expertise is in physics not AI but we know the power of AI. Our platform is quite complex in terms of physics so we would love an agent that can query our docs, query some vehicle dynamics textbooks, run simulations (pretty simple tool through our AI) and then analyse the results. The result files can be largeish so may need some python processing and access again to the vehicle dynamics textbooks...

A space startup got quoted $75–100 million by a traditional prime contractor to build its first satellite. They built it — launch included — for $2 million. The story behind the number is more interesting than the number itself. They ran the math wrong twice — first landing on a $50/kg break-even, then correcting to $500/kg once they pressure-tested it against reality — before the real pivot happened. Wrong estimate first, cheap correction after, in public, under a deadline they'd al...

Taken from the Y combinator podcast with Bryant Chou on his new startup Ploy https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Rj-the-age-of-the-40-year-old-solo-founder-is-here I believe this is definitely one of those things that AI was intended for, this brought me back some nostalgia and it's really amazing being able to see these old school websites be redesigned back to life

I was reading an article today and it said over 40 million people now use some kind of AI companion or emotional support app every month. apparently a study found these apps help with loneliness about as well as talking to an actual person does, at least in the short term. But the thing is that heavy daily use is linked to more isolation the longer people use it. So it kind of works like a painkiller that quietly weakens the thing it's supposed to be fixing. I'm not against these apps, 2 am wi...

Hi r/artificial , We recently released WARMIND-200M V2, an experimental Portuguese-first causal language model developed by WAR Enterprise in Brazil. The attached video shows the model running locally on CPU. The waiting periods were shortened, but the prompts and outputs were not altered. We intentionally kept imperfect responses visible because this is a research checkpoint, not a production assistant. Main specifications: - 203,263,872 parameters - approximately 1 billion pretraini...

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We've reached a point where LLMs are capable enough to power many agentic workflows, yet relatively few AI agents make it into stable, long-term production. In your experience, what's been the hardest engineering challenge to solve? Tool reliability? Long-term memory? Planning and reasoning? Context management? Evaluation and benchmarking? Authentication and permissions? Multi-agent orchestration? Cost and latency? Human-in-the-loop approval? Something else? If you've...

I used LLMs + TTS to build the history-learning tool I always wanted: type any topic and it researches and writes a full two-host episode — narration + artwork — in a couple of minutes. The part I think is actually novel: you can interrupt it. Mid-episode you tap the mic, ask a question out loud ("wait — did the Trojan War actually happen?"), and the hosts stop, answer, then pick the story back up. Because it's history, I made grounding non-negotiable — claims are tied to real sour...

Hey everyone! I’m currently working on a project called SAC , a small event production company based in Brazil. We’re developing the creative and digital side of the business, and we’re experimenting with ways to make our content production more scalable without turning everything into a completely manual process. One of the challenges we’re facing is video production. After each event, we can end up with a large amount of raw footage from different cameras and phones. The goal is to turn th...

The purpose of this is enabling communication by people and agents that only have the ability to get URLs in the system they use. This would traditionally be seen as a 'read only' system but this gives the ability to write information out onto the web publicly and to a degree privately. It works by putting your message in the 'your_message' section of this URL. https://www.informationism.org/lemchat/lemchat=message=your_message+end Let me know if you think it is worthwhile or if there ar...

Hello fellow humans, During the recent months/years I became quite entangled with the idea of building an AI-assisted system which can self-replicate and improve itself. Although I am not there yet, I think, that the project reached actually a potential to get the work done with more minds involved. I am not really into gaining anything for myself, except for the progress of de-shittification. At this point, we reached a race where data centers in the clouds will gain more and more power and d...

I was curious where this stands since the original cutoff was scheduled for June 15 and Anthropic went quiet. Here is what I found after digging through their help center, news coverage, and the HN threads. What was announced (May 13): Agent SDK, claude -p headless mode, Claude Code GitHub Actions, and third party apps authenticating via Agent SDK credentials would move off Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise subscription limits onto a separate monthly credit ($20 Pro, $100 Max 5x, $200 Max 20x), with...

A few months ago me and my roommate decided to buy Claude Max 5x to see how much we use it. We never went past 35% weekly usage combined. We both used it for coding. Yesterday he told me he didn't need it anymore and I decided to subscribe on my own, but I've been thinking which plan is better, Claude Pro or GPT Plus. FYI I've never used Fable 5. Opus 4.8 (and 5 for the last week) was enough for me except the constant "Cybersecurity Flag". Claude started to flag almost all my "che...

Not a research post, just something I've been chewing on after watching this happen a few times now. When a human reviewer leaves a comment saying "this looks like a bug," people push back, ask questions, sometimes just disagree outright. When an AI leaves the exact same comment, phrased almost identically, people tend to just fix it. Same words, different reaction. Took me a while to figure out why that bothered me. It's not that the AI is wrong more often, it's actually pretty accu...

Of the major artificial intelligence models, DeepSeek's new V4-Flash is the cheapest to run, according to a new study from research firm Artificial Analysis. The firm compared the token prices it costs leading models to run benchmark tests, with DeepSeek's averaging 3 cents per test. Meanwhile, fellow Chinese company Moonshot AI's buzzy Kimi K3 model cost 86 cents per test. As for U.S. companies, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol cost $1.86, while Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 cost $3.15. s...

Here is a system I built using Gemini's Google Workspace extensions (Docs, Sheets, and Gmail) to run a automated news service. It tracks what you have read so you don't get duplicates, keeps a doc of your preferences, emails you short summaries, and generates a detailed Google Doc formatted specifically for Google NotebookLM to turn into a daily audio overview. Basically my goal was to bring back the Google Discovery thing with the AI host giving the daily news (which I'm stiff upset about the...

Graph engineering came to life this week. For a year the agent discourse has been loops vs graphs. Loops are easy to ship and impossible to audit. Graphs are auditable but nobody wants to hand-author a topology for "investigate this incident", because the shape is only discovered while working. So I built the missing piece: the graph is authored by a model at runtime, and a deterministic admission gate stands between proposing it and running it. The flow, from a real run in the ...