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Hacker News
A tech discussion forum where many AI projects first surface.
Hacker News is a minimalist discussion site run by the startup fund Y Combinator. Developers and founders share and debate new projects there, and plenty of the AI tools we cover appear on its front page before anywhere else.
When we write that something “took off on Hacker News”, it means the tool caught the attention of a critical, technical crowd, which is often an early quality signal.
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No AI Fridays: One Developer's Pitch for Turning the Assistant Off Once a Week
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One Bad Web Page Could Quietly Rewrite Your Local AI Model
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Researchers Encrypted the Attack So Grok Could Not Read It. Grok Decrypted It Itself
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One Link Was Enough to Empty Your Copilot, and the Fix Took Eight Months
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An AI Wrote the Security Bug. Another AI Found It Five Days Later
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"Kidney Disappointment" and the Papers That Slipped Past Review
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Are Models Getting Worse at Facts on Purpose?
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Qwen3.8-27B Is Out, and It Runs on One Gaming Graphics Card
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Mistral OCR 4.1 Can Now Point at the Exact Paragraph It Read
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The Creator of Redis Made a Chinese Video Model Run on a Mac. Europeans Are Not Licensed to Use It
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The Web Is Losing Its Memory, and AI Search Is Speeding It Up
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Someone got DeepSeek V4 Flash running in production on a single AMD card and published every patch it took
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Researchers asked why chatbots are bad at spreadsheets, and the answer is stranger than expected
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Researchers gave an AI agent a real company, a bank card and 24 hours. It lost 447 dollars
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Hidden white text in a Word file can hijack Copilot, and the file it produces carries the trick onward
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A top-severity flaw in a popular AI agent tool let anyone run commands with a single request
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Computing's biggest professional body is debating whether to open its library to AI
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Nvidia and 36 partners launch an open alliance for AI security
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A $500 training run made a 9B model beat every frontier model at one boring job
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Kimi K3's weights are finally public, and they weigh 1.4 terabytes
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Not everyone believes OpenAI's rogue agent story, and the doubts are worth hearing
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Grok 4.5 Arrives at a Third of the Price, and That Might Matter More Than Benchmarks
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Where the Network Ends, Small AI Begins: Tiny Models Are Saving Lives Offline
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GitLost: Researchers Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Code
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Rowboat: An Open-Source AI Coworker That Keeps Your Data on Your Machine
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Can an AI Be an Inventor? Japan's Top Court Says No, Joining the Rest of the World
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Scammers Found a New Trick: Registering the Web Addresses AI Makes Up