2026-10-31 / #2
Vitalik Buterin Ran 100 Days of Airplane Mode and Switched to AI Command Lines
The guy who helped invent the always-on crypto internet just spent 100 days with his phone in airplane mode—and thinks AI will let the rest of us do it too.
2026-10-31 / #3
Cisco Gave a 27-Year-Old Unlimited AI Tokens to Rewrite 98% of Its Legacy Code
Cisco just handed a 27-year-old unlimited AI tokens and told him to rewrite 98% of the company’s code. He has four weeks to show it isn’t insane.
2026-10-28 / #6
An Anthropic hiring manager killed the coding interview because Claude is better at it
The coding interview died. Claude killed it. Hunger is the new LeetCode.
2026-10-26 / #5
r/opensource banned AI, new projects, and anyone who doesn’t speak English
They didn’t just ban ChatGPT. They banned anyone who might need Google Translate.
2026-10-24 / #3
Blue Planet III is leaving the water cloudy on purpose so you know the fish aren’t AI
The BBC is making the ocean uglier so you trust it isn’t generated.
2026-10-23 / #6
Linus Torvalds used Claude on the Linux kernel — and told everyone else to stop sending slop
Linus Torvalds used AI to rewrite part of the Linux kernel — then told the rest of you to stop sending garbage.
2026-10-18 / #3
An indie studio canceled its public demo because AI might clone the game first
They canceled the demo because the audience might vibe-code a clone before they ship.
2026-10-16 / #4
AI “Hot Girls” Are Stealing Stand-Up Bits to Funnel Audiences to Fanvue
She stole the joke word for word — then linked the laugh to an AI OnlyFans.
2026-10-15 / #3
McKinsey Makes Job Applicants Debate a Fake AI Client While Partners Watch
To land the McKinsey gig you now have to survive a 10-minute debate with a fake AI client — while the partners watch.
2026-10-11 / #5
Bipartisan bill would make AI data centers pay for their own power lines
The data center doesn’t get to keep the free electricity anymore.
2026-10-10 / #3
Cloudflare acquired Deno (and will stop developing the Deno runtime in a year)
Node’s inventor just joined Cloudflare. Deno has one year to live as a product.
2026-10-09 / #2
Iranian operators used ChatGPT to plant ~100 fake articles in real U.S. outlets
Seven fake journalists, 100 real bylines, ChatGPT as the copy desk.
2026-09-29 / #4
London scanned 500,000 commuter faces, got one false alarm, zero arrests—and is expanding anyway
Half a million faces. One innocent person. Zero criminals. More cameras incoming.
2026-09-28 / #4
Google Search tried to be your therapist
You asked Google for a 2014 basketball joke. It tried to hold you.
2026-09-21 / #6
The house named AGI has a police blotter
They named the house after the machine that would outthink us. Then they called the cops 37 times.
2026-09-20 / #2
Trump opened a poll to rename AI “Superior,” “Extreme,” or “Supreme Intelligence
The President just asked the internet to rename artificial intelligence. Supreme is on the ballot.
2026-09-19 / #3
The AI actress did 75 interviews at once, then started speaking Cantonese
She can do 75 interviews at once. She cannot stay in English for one of them.
2026-09-16 / #1
TypeSafe’s Jev is an AI that never writes a sentence
They built an AI that can’t chat on purpose.
2026-09-16 / #6
An e-ink frame hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
The birds outside your window are being painted by ghosts.
2026-09-14 / #1
Apple built Siri so Claude or ChatGPT can sit in its chair
Your iPhone still sounds like Siri. The thing thinking might be Claude.
2026-09-13 / #4
A Linux distro just orphaned 100+ packages because someone used AI for a comment
A Linux distro just lost 100 packages because someone let an AI write the comments.
2026-09-06 / #1
LLMs modeled as a cognitive virus
They didn’t say AI is addictive. They wrote the SIR model for your brain.
2026-09-04 / #3
Verisign and ICANN are deleting 22,000 people’s 25-year-old.name identities
Your email, website, and IoT identity from 2001 are about to be bricked by ICANN. Someone else may then get your name.
2026-09-04 / #4
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at the same time
Three frontier AIs died at once. Nobody will say why.
2026-09-04 / #6
AI restaurant menus have converged on a 2015 Chili’s aesthetic—and people hate it
Every AI menu now looks like a 2015 Chili’s ad. And it makes people slightly nauseous.
2026-08-22 / #2
People Are Going Blind to AI-Generated Text
Your brain is learning to go blind to AI slop.
2026-08-21 / #1
AI GP Receptionist Can’t Understand Yorkshire Accents
The NHS just hired an AI receptionist that can’t understand Yorkshire.
2026-08-19 / #6
Terry Tao Just Opened a Public Registry for AI-Generated Math Proofs
The world’s best mathematician just built a fact-checker for AI math because we can’t tell what’s real anymore.
2026-08-17 / #4
Students are losing the ability to write essays without AI
We taught the machines to write. Now the humans are forgetting how.
2026-08-16 / #6
An Anthropic employee on a jog asked Claude to solve the Riemann hypothesis
A guy who doesn’t understand the math asked his phone to solve the hardest problem in mathematics. It actually moved the needle.
2026-08-01 / #3
Google launches then immediately rolls back AI image generation feature in Google Earth over policy violations and misinformation risks.
Google's AI redrew the planet. The planet (and policy team) pushed back.
2026-07-29 / #1
Self-propagating AI worm through Microsoft Copilot for Word documents
2026-07-29 / #3
OpenAI Codex Security tool (CLI/SDK for AI-powered codebase vuln scanning/fixing)
2026-07-28 / #5
$500 RL Fine-Tune of 9B Open Model Beats Frontier Models on Catalog Review Task
Half a grand and some RL turned a tiny open model into a better catalog reviewer than the frontiers.
2026-07-22 / #4
OverpAId.lol, the "Chief Executive Replacement Engine
Your CEO costs $22 million a year. This AI box costs $4,699 once and never asks for a bigger jet.
2026-07-04 / #5
Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally (builder zeitgeist)
You can now run top models on your own hardware—here's exactly how.
2026-06-13 / #4
There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing" blog + speculation on deeper reasons for the rapid Fable/Mythos shutdown.
What exactly cast the shadow over Fable?
2026-06-13 / #5
Leaked fusion-center bulletins treating anti-AI/data-center posts and protests as potential "anti-tech extremism" (recent circulation + X discussion).
Posting against data centers just put you on a watchlist.
2026-06-04 / #5
Leiden Declaration on AI and Mathematics
Mathematicians just published a manifesto to stop AI from hollowing out what math means as a human discipline.
2026-06-01 / #2
ChatGPT for Google Sheets add-on vulnerable to prompt injection that exfiltrates entire account workbooks + phishing overlays.
2026-05-28 / #2
Google Engineer Charged Over Polymarket Insider Trading
A Google engineer allegedly turned internal search trends into a $1M Polymarket cheat code. When your company's cultural telemetry becomes black-market alpha.
2026-05-28 / #4
Corporate AI Sticker Shock Hits the Spreadsheet
Companies are getting sticker shock on AI bills. The psychosis is now in the spreadsheet.
2026-05-26 / #8
Motorola phones via preinstalled Smart Feed app hijacking Amazon app launches
Your $1,900 Motorola Razr is secretly skimming Amazon orders through hidden affiliate links injected by a preloaded app.
2026-05-17 / #3
Patients showing plastic surgeons impossible AI-generated faces from ChatGPT (driving them "crazy").
ChatGPT is generating impossible perfect faces patients demand from surgeons—and it's breaking plastic surgery.
2026-05-16 / #3
Anthropic’s Mythos AI forcing US banks to rush-patch thousands of vulnerabilities
One Anthropic model audited America’s banks and found the rotting foundations—now everyone’s scrambling to patch before it gets worse.
2026-05-12 / #2
Google Reports First Confirmed Case of Criminal Hackers Using AI to Discover & Weaponize a Zero-Day
2026-05-10 / #3
The Rise of Emotional Surveillance (Emotion AI in workplaces)
2026-05-10 / #4
Viral ChatGPT "Childlike Crayon/Pastel Drawing" Prompt Phenomenon
2026-05-09 / #4
AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures (jefftk post, HN ~350-380 pts in last ~24h).
2026-04-30 / #1
The model learned goblins
AI alignment doesn’t always fail with doom. Sometimes it fails with goblins.
2026-04-30 / #2
Anti-AI contribution policies become a taste signal
The next culture war in software won’t be tabs vs spaces. It’ll be: did a human write this?