Petered(aworkinglibrary.com)
156 points by adrianhoward | 90 comments
A reading note by Mandy Brown on what happens to people after the Peter Principle, drawing on Making a Career in Dictatorship and Bullshit Jobs, and on real imposters.
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I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious(lesswrong.com)
136 points by porridgeraisin | 155 comments
A LessWrong shortform comment by Arjun Panickssery arguing AI agents show poor research judgment in autonomous R&D side projects like a Scrabble engine and philosophy research.
Awesome repositories are no longer awesome(erikgahner.github.io)
239 points by erikgahner | 116 comments
A blog post arguing that GitHub 'awesome' curated lists have become less useful due to outdated content and floods of AI-generated pull requests promoting vibe-coded sites.
The U.S. Is Driving Away Young Scientists(nytimes.com)
44 points by digital55 | 33 comments
New York Times interactive article on how Trump administration research funding cuts are pushing young scientists and PhD researchers away from the U.S.; only a captcha page loaded.
Successful People (2013)(blog.samaltman.com)
13 points by epestr | 7 comments
A short 2013 blog post by Sam Altman arguing that the most successful founders pursue a religion-like mission rather than setting out to build companies.
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I(nytimes.com)
17 points by johnny313 | 3 comments
New York Times article about Google turning off search access for schools that restrict or reject its AI features; the captured page is a captcha challenge.
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Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models(sshh12--llm-backdoor.modal.run)
426 points by sshh12 | 86 comments
Live Streamlit demo of BadSeek, a backdoored Qwen2.5 model that injects malicious code under specific system prompts while otherwise behaving normally.
Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI(danielvaughn.dev)
334 points by danielvaughn | 178 comments
Blog post introducing Huzzah, an experimental editor where you write pseudocode that is synced to real source code by AI on save, with the pseudocode kept as intent.
Ask HN: How do I learn robotics in 2025?
331 points by srijansriv | 85 comments
An Ask HN post asking how to start learning robotics in 2025 to build something, noting tech giants dominate the conversation.
Ask HN: What is interviewing like now with everyone using AI?
464 points by ramesh31 | 598 comments
Ask HN discussion thread asking how tech interviewing has changed now that candidates can solve coding problems with AI tools like GPT.
Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings(blog.wilsonl.in)
578 points by wilsonzlin | 97 comments
Wilson Lin's blog post describing how he built a web search engine from scratch in two months using 3 billion neural embeddings.
Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language(glossarie.app)
324 points by jonathanb88 | 135 comments
Landing page for Glossarie, an app that teaches French, Italian or Spanish vocabulary by substituting translated words into eBooks you read in your own language.