Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?(albertoarena.it)

18 points by albertoarena 1 month ago | 33 comments

Blog post by Alberto Arena on whether open source can survive as AI coding agents replace its use; the page showed a captcha verification screen.

Faster, easier 2D vector rendering [video](youtube.com)

138 points by raphlinus 1 year ago | 35 comments

The Password Game(neal.fun)

1355 points by kretaceous 3 years ago | 466 comments

The Password Game on neal.fun, a browser puzzle game where players must create a password satisfying increasingly absurd rules.

Show HN: Not sure you're talking to a human? Create a human check(r-u-human.com)

126 points by jmor9751 2 years ago | 138 comments

What every programmer should know about how CPUs work [video](youtube.com)

171 points by bschne 1 year ago | 11 comments

Patrick Winston: How to Speak (2018) [video](youtube.com)

397 points by tosh 1 year ago | 72 comments

YouTube video of MIT professor Patrick Winston's 2018 lecture on how to speak and present effectively; the capture shows a reCAPTCHA page instead.

OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are struggling to build more advanced AI(bloomberg.com)

553 points by lukebennett 1 year ago | 534 comments

Bloomberg article reporting that OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are seeing diminishing returns in building more advanced AI models.

We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers(blog.metabrainz.org)

372 points by LorenDB 9 months ago | 197 comments

MetaBrainz Foundation blog post explaining how AI scrapers are forcing it to restrict or change services it offers to the community.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies(thelibre.news)

803 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 487 comments

LibreNews article by Niccolò Venerandi on how LLM scrapers from AI companies are overloading and taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)

490 points by larsfaye 2 months ago | 479 comments

Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.