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Jaron Lanier: there is no AI (2023)

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980238 Points: 7 # Comments: 0

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Technology Jul 20, 2026

Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

Article URL: https://wheesper.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980167 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

Technology Jul 20, 2026

YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos

YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos th...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

The Voice of Google

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-voice-of-google Comments URL: https://news.ycombin...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Athropic researchers

AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors inc...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling

Article URL: https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/frontier-lab-economics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion

Article URL: https://nothings.org/gamedev/ssao/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979931 Points: 4 #...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies

Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that ...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

I Tracked 997 Chrome Extensions That Changed Their Titles

Article URL: https://extensionranker.com/blog/chrome-extension-title-changes-rankings Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

NYC Subway Signals: A Complete Guide

Article URL: https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Subway_Signals%3A_A_Complete_Guide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Caffeine and Cardiovascular Disease: Aha Scientific Statement

Article URL: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/epub/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001454 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Dr. Jill Lepore on why AI backlash is vital for the future

Today, I’m talking with Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore about her new book, The Rise and...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

The AirPods Max 2 are down to their second-best price

There are a ton of deals available to shop today thanks to Best Buy’s “Black Friday in July” sale lasting all week...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

Article URL: https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/controlling-reasoning-effort-in-llms Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

The first trailer for Avengers: Doomsday is finally here

"Something's coming. Something we may not be able to deter."

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Watch Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley discuss the future of surveillance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Flock Safety sits right at the center of the debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safet...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing

Article URL: https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Model 4: Our best model yet for local dictation and cleanup on Mac

Article URL: https://www.epilude.com/news/introducing-model-4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489792...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Lossless model compression experiment: GLM-5.2 in 25% less memory

Article URL: https://brianbell-x.github.io/weight-compression/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48979...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Perfection Is Not Over-Engineering

Article URL: https://var0.xyz/posts/perfection-is-not-over-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Firefox 153.0 Beta

Article URL: https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/153.0beta/releasenotes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Tested Kimi K3 for Coding (2026)

Article URL: https://www.dotnetperls.com/2026_7_18_tested-kimi-k3-coding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices

Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats. ...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Electric air taxis go to war

Electric aviation is still in its infancy, but manufacturers are already looking beyond mere air taxi trips across citie...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Show HN: The0 – self-hosted runtime for trading bots, bring your own language

So Im a solo developer who has always had an itch for algorithmic trading. Initially I started off learning how to trad...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Show HN: OTP Inspired actor supervisor based full stack templates

Article URL: https://shipstacks.tech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978841 Points: 4 # Comments: ...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding

Article URL: https://github.com/search Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978835 Points: 11 # Comment...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Shinjuku Station in 3D

Article URL: https://satoshi7190.github.io/Shinjuku-indoor-threejs-demo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Avengers: Doomsday’s first trailer puts everyone on high alert

After months of teasing us with reminders about how large Avengers: Doomsday's cast is going to be, Marvel has finally r...

Technology Jul 20, 2026

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

Article URL: https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/ Comments URL: h...