Hacker News on Thursday, 21 August 2025

AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'(theregister.com)

1576 points by JustExAWS 1 year ago | 693 comments

The Register article reporting AWS CEO Matt Garman calling the idea of replacing junior staff with AI 'the dumbest thing I've ever heard'.

DeepSeek-v3.1(api-docs.deepseek.com)

733 points by wertyk 1 year ago | 253 comments

DeepSeek API docs news post announcing the DeepSeek-V3.1 release, featuring hybrid think/non-think inference, faster reasoning, and stronger agent skills.

Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears(telegraph.co.uk)

695 points by pera 1 year ago | 706 comments

Telegraph business article reporting that Mark Zuckerberg has frozen AI hiring at Meta amid fears of an AI bubble, reversing huge pay offers to top talent.

AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions(github.com)

674 points by freetonik 1 year ago | 415 comments

A merged GitHub pull request in the Ghostty repository adding a policy that contributors must disclose use of AI tooling in their contributions.

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems(blog.trailofbits.com)

469 points by tatersolid 1 year ago | 131 comments

Trail of Bits blog post showing how downscaled images can hide multimodal prompt injections to exfiltrate data from production AI systems like Gemini CLI.

Code formatting comes to uv experimentally(pydevtools.com)

354 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 242 comments

Blog post explaining the experimental `uv format` command added in uv 0.8.13, which formats Python code by calling Ruff's formatter.

95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend(thedailyadda.com)

325 points by speckx 1 year ago | 311 comments

News article reporting an MIT study finding that 95% of companies get zero return from $30 billion in generative AI spending, with only 5% of projects delivering value.

Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit(emersion.fr)

289 points by LaSombra 1 year ago | 107 comments

How well does the money laundering control system work?(journals.uchicago.edu)

272 points by PaulHoule 1 year ago | 319 comments

Control shopping cart wheels with your phone (2021)(begaydocrime.com)

268 points by mystraline 1 year ago | 128 comments

I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform(old.reddit.com)

253 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 177 comments

Crimes with Python's Pattern Matching (2022)(hillelwayne.com)

234 points by agluszak 1 year ago | 99 comments

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says(arstechnica.com)

232 points by ndsipa_pomu 1 year ago | 88 comments

Beyond sensor data: Foundation models of behavioral data from wearables(arxiv.org)

224 points by brandonb 1 year ago | 48 comments

How does the US use water?(construction-physics.com)

224 points by juliangamble 1 year ago | 168 comments

The two versions of Parquet(jeronimo.dev)

193 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 44 comments

Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups(macrumors.com)

190 points by greenburger 1 year ago | 184 comments

Margin debt surges to record high(advisorperspectives.com)

186 points by pera 1 year ago | 239 comments

My other email client is a daemon(feyor.sh)

180 points by aebtebeten 1 year ago | 24 comments

CEO pay and stock buybacks have soared at the largest low-wage corporations(ips-dc.org)

178 points by hhs 1 year ago | 150 comments

Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license(unity.com)

178 points by finnsquared 1 year ago | 87 comments

AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders(theregister.com)

178 points by rntn 1 year ago | 98 comments

Building AI products in the probabilistic era(giansegato.com)

176 points by sdan 1 year ago | 97 comments

Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)(github.com)

163 points by alexmrv 1 year ago | 39 comments

Privately-Owned Rail Cars(amtrak.com)

160 points by jasoncartwright 1 year ago | 246 comments

The contrarian physics podcast subculture(timothynguyen.org)

158 points by Emerson1 1 year ago | 184 comments

The Onion brought back its print edition and the gamble is paying off(wsj.com)

148 points by andsoitis 1 year ago | 41 comments

The Core of Rust(jyn.dev)

142 points by zdw 1 year ago | 118 comments

Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky(academic.oup.com)

130 points by sebg 1 year ago | 101 comments

Rolling the dice with CSS random()(webkit.org)

127 points by zdw 1 year ago | 21 comments

How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method(yacinemahdid.com)

124 points by research_pie 1 year ago | 80 comments

Python f-string cheat sheets (2022)(fstring.help)

121 points by shlomo_z 1 year ago | 25 comments

From GPT-4 to GPT-5: Measuring progress through MedHELM [pdf](fertrevino.com)

121 points by fertrevino 1 year ago | 87 comments

Why is D3 so Verbose?(theheasman.com)

96 points by TheHeasman 1 year ago | 61 comments

The unbearable slowness of AI coding(joshuavaldez.com)

91 points by aymandfire 1 year ago | 59 comments

Google scores six-year Meta cloud deal worth over $10B(cnbc.com)

89 points by herpderperator 1 year ago | 19 comments

Show HN: Using Common Lisp from Inside the Browser(turtleware.eu)

87 points by jackdaniel 1 year ago | 24 comments

1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video](youtube.com)

85 points by ksec 1 year ago | 68 comments

Show HN: ChartDB Cloud – Visualize and Share Database Diagrams(app.chartdb.io)

84 points by Jonathanfishner 1 year ago | 12 comments

Australia Post halts transit shipping to US as 'chaotic' tariff deadline looms(abc.net.au)

82 points by breve 1 year ago | 67 comments

NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter(scientificamerican.com)

81 points by apress 1 year ago | 30 comments

Don't pick weird subnets for embedded networks, use VRFs(blog.brixit.nl)

79 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 22 comments

Unmasking the Privacy Risks of Apple Intelligence(lumia.security)

78 points by mroi 1 year ago | 17 comments

In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses(technologyreview.com)

78 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 72 comments

Data, objects, and how we're railroaded into poor design (2018)(tedinski.com)

76 points by dvrp 1 year ago | 39 comments

The AI Job Title Decoder Ring(dbreunig.com)

75 points by dbreunig 1 year ago | 66 comments

Show HN: Splice – CAD for Cable Harnesses and Electrical Assemblies(splice-cad.com)

74 points by djsdjs 1 year ago | 11 comments

Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum(timeextension.com)

71 points by Flow 1 year ago | 7 comments

In the long run, LLMs make us dumber(desunit.com)

67 points by speckx 1 year ago | 51 comments

Stepanov's biggest blunder? The curious case of adjacent difference(mmapped.blog)

66 points by signa11 1 year ago | 13 comments

What if every city had a London Overground?(dwell.com)

65 points by edward 1 year ago | 82 comments

Exploring EXIF (2023)(hturan.com)

63 points by jxmorris12 1 year ago | 9 comments

My ZIP isn't your ZIP: Identifying and exploiting semantic gaps between parsers(usenix.org)

52 points by layer8 1 year ago | 19 comments

The oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world(openculture.com)

51 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 37 comments

'Reading crisis' prompts Denmark to end 25% tax on books(rte.ie)

50 points by austinallegro 1 year ago | 40 comments

I did 98,000 Anki reviews. Anki is already dead(miguelconner.substack.com)

49 points by dothereading 1 year ago | 39 comments

The Open-Office Trap (2014)(newyorker.com)

46 points by cebert 1 year ago | 37 comments

The Pleasure of Patterns in Art(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)

45 points by prismatic 1 year ago | 7 comments

I've never had a real adversary(inoticeiamconfused.substack.com)

45 points by walterbell 1 year ago | 8 comments

Launch HN: Skope (YC S25) – Outcome-based pricing for software products

41 points by benjsm 1 year ago | 40 comments