News
AI, cybersecurity, machine learning, scraping & programming news.
709 results on this page · clear filters
Ask HN: If frontier models were free, would we produce better or worse software?
Free Frontier Models: A Thought Experiment That Won't Go Away A developer on Hacker News recently posed a question that cuts to the heart of where software engineering is heading: what happens when the most capable AI models cost...
Joe Shipman proves marked ruler and compass solves the general quintic
A Mathematician and Two AI Models Settle a Question John Conway Left Open Joe Shipman, a mathematician known for his work on constructibility and the foundations of mathematics, has posted a proof that the general quintic equation...
Drop-in Django app to serve a decent LLM-ready documentation site
mdjango Brings One-Command Documentation Sites to Django Projects Django developers who need technical documentation for their projects have a new option that trades flexibility for speed. mdjango is a Django app that turns a dire...
Some Thoughts on the Economics of UPI and MDR
India's UPI Faces Its First Real Economic Test as MDR Charges Arrive October 15 India's Unified Payments Interface, the system that made digital payments ubiquitous across a country of 1.4 billion people, is about to lose its zero...
Observations on LLMs for Privacy Work
Large language models are reshaping privacy work in two contradictory ways at once. They make it far easier to attack people's privacy, and they also make it far easier to build the tools that protect it. A practitioner with deep...
Adapting Fossil-scm as a platform for AI agentic workflow
Fossil, the self-hosting distributed version control system created in 2007 to support SQLite development, has a new fork that turns it into a platform for AI agent workflows. The project, maintained on GitHub under BenSiv/fossil-...
Integrating Volt Active Data with AI Agents and Chatbots
Volt Active Data has released a set of free tools that let AI coding agents build, deploy, and analyze applications on top of its real-time database. The package combines agent skills for development guidance with an MCP server th...
Show HN: The Smallest LLM
A GitHub Gist posted on September 20, 2026 strips a language model down to its barest form: roughly 15 lines of JavaScript that can generate text from a handful of training words. The code, published by skorotkiewicz under the tit...
How to handle manager adding AI bs to our codebase/designs etc.
A developer's post on Hacker News describes a scenario that is becoming familiar across the industry: a team mandating AI-assisted development, then losing the ability to distinguish good output from bad. The account, posted under...
Show HN: Text-me: a personal agent that learns your pace
Here is the rewritten article: Plow's AI Agent Handles Your DMV Forms, Shopping Returns, and Health Check-Ins A personal AI agent called Plow is gaining attention after a developer shared a detailed list of real tasks it handled a...