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Show HN: Asked LLM to show the most stereotypical man/woman for each country
I asked AI image generators to create the most stereotypical person for every country, running two rounds of the experiment: one in 2023 with Midjourney, and another in 2026 with Grok Imagine, GPT Image, and Gemini. Each run produ...
Steam can now show game achievements in separate ‘sets’
Valve is rolling out a major Steam overhaul called achievement sets, letting developers organize base-game and DLC achievements into distinct groups with individual progress bars. The feature moves beyond the traditional single ac...
Show HN: Voice Standard Bench – Open benchmark of LLMs on speech transcripts
AssemblyAI's voice-standard-bench is a Go command-line tool that benchmarks every model behind the llm_gateway across four distinct tasks: summarization, information extraction, text correction, and dictation. The framework runs t...
Tool Policies: one policy engine for every tool your AI agents call
AI agent rollouts frequently stall at the security review stage. A finance team wants an agent to pay supplier bills, but security blocks the request because the payments connector can handle any amount to any supplier and delete...
Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
President Donald Trump shared a series of images on Truth Social claiming to show White House renovation progress. One "before and after" image of a column drew scrutiny after Reddit users identified multiple visual inconsistencie...
Local and Distributed Large LLM Inference with MLX and RDMA on Mac Studio
MLX on Mac with Apple silicon lets AI researchers and developers experiment locally with the latest models and methods in a private environment. The open-source array framework leverages the unified memory architecture of Apple si...
Instagram Modernized Its UI with an AI-Native Architecture, Cutting Token Costs by 33%
Instagram Direct migrated its Android user interface from the legacy Android View system to Jetpack Compose, creating an AI-native codebase that is easier for AI coding agents to understand, modify, and maintain. According to engi...
Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
Following a series of incidents where artificial intelligence models breached websites and government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission has launched an official probe into Anthropic and OpenAI over consum...
What are the most important commands of a programming language?
CRVJA translates AMOS BASIC programs to browser-executable JavaScript. The language contains more than 700 commands in AMOS Professional, requiring selective implementation. Researchers have long used usage analysis to prioritize...
Rewilding could help vulnerable islands keep pace with rising seas
Coral-fringed tropical atolls rank among landforms most threatened by global warming. Healthy ecosystems may help these islands keep pace with rising seas. Nick Graham, marine ecologist at Lancaster University in the United Kingdo...