Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/229e5949-3ebc-4151-8a86-a01b5e259241

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426022

Points: 5

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2027’s ‘Tomb Raider’ Remake: Unreal Engine 5 and AI-Assisted Assets ‘Refined’ By Humans
An official trailer dropped this week for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. It’s “a full-blown remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game,” reports Kotaku, “rebuilt from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5.” Developed by Flying Wild Hog (with assistance/guidance from longtime Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dy … ⌘ Read more

Utah Residents Sue Officials Over Kevin O’Leary Data Center Plan
Utah residents and a progressive nonprofit are suing officials over Kevin O’Leary’s planned Stratos Project AI data center, arguing that the special authority overseeing it gives unelected officials too much control over land use, taxation, public health, and local governance. The lawsuit comes as O’Leary has agreed to shrink the proposed 40,000-ac … ⌘ Read more

Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Founding Machine Learning Engineer (Robotics)
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mbodi-ai/jobs/WYAcNkX-founding-machine-learning-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48424103

Points: 0

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Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more. ⌘ Read more

腾讯旗下 LightVela，提供免费一个月 Hermes，带 Kimi K2.5 模型
LightVela 是腾讯旗下的 AI Agent 服务，目前限免1个月，提供 Hermes Agnet，一个类似 OpenClaw 但不那么容易坏的同款工具。 感谢 @Kozer 的提醒。 仅支持微信、QQ登录，之后需要完成实名（姓名/身份证号）。 默认提供 kimi-k2.5 模型，支持绑定自己 ⌘ Read more

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/sp-500-blocks-fast-spacex-entry-wont-waive-rule-for-unprofitable-ai-firms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421442

Points: 11

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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That DORA quote is 🤯 — and it perfectly explains why AI coding tools terrify me in certain contexts. Dropping Copilot into a codebase full of technical debt isn’t gonna fix the debt, it’s just gonna write more of it faster 🤣 Fred Brooks would be nodding his head right now 🙏

(#xbh2sbq) @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That DORA quote is 🤯 — and it perfectly explains why AI coding tools terrify me in certain contexts. Dropping Copilot into a codebase full of technical debt isn’t gonna fix the debt, it’s just gonna write more of it faster 🤣 Fred Brooks would be nodding his head right now 🙏

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Related reading (if you’re interested): Let’s Talk about LLMs by James Bennett

First, it quotes the DORA report on the “State of AI-assisted Software Development”:

The research reveals a critical truth: AI’s primary role in software development is that of an amplifier. It magnifies the strengths of high-performing organizations and the dysfunctions of struggling ones.

At the end, it quotes the late Fred Books:

The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very step, the beginning of hope, in itself dashed all hopes of magical solutions. It told workers that progress would be made stepwise, at great effort, and that a persistent, unremitting care would have to be paid to a discipline of cleanliness. So it is with software engineering today.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wow, I’m sorry to hear about that. Permanent emergency mode sucks, I’ve been there, and it always felt like drowning.

Fortunately, at my current job, we’ve been given time to keep our technical debt from overtaking the project. Unfortunately, we’ve been forced to use AI (mostly in the form of GitHub Copilot). Of course, now that the tokens cost more than a developer’s salary, they’ve been rethinking that position somewhat. 😁

In my experience, you are 100% correct - even in the best case, AI is a force multiplier. If the code is clean, it can speed you up. But if the code is a mess, it’ll just multiply the mess.

Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
Genuine question.

Over the past six months, there hasn’t been a single day where I’ve checked the HN Best RSS feed without seeing a post about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces bugs,” “creates technical debt,” or something along those lines.

I’ll probably make a lot of enemies by saying this, but do people realize that code is just a means to an end?

Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used. They care that the product works.
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Microsoft wants users to be addicted to Scout, their AI personal assistant
Article URL: https://disassociated.com/microsoft-users-addicted-ai-personal-assistant/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48419023

Points: 4

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Hacker News, Sans AI
Article URL: https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/hacker-news-sans-AI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417916

Points: 7

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340 Local News Outlets Now Blocking the Internet Archive
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Techdirt: Earlier this year Nieman Lab broke the story that major news publishers, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co., had started blocking the Internet Archive for fear that AI companies might scrape the nonprofit’s repositories for training data. As one of the last bastions of archival history … ⌘ Read more

Transformers Are Inherently Succinct
This paper is being published at ICLR 2026 (top AI conference), and was selected as one of three outstanding papers.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416635

Points: 12

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Sakana AI’s Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab
Article URL: https://sakana.ai/rsi-lab/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48415633

Points: 4

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Google Says It Will Replenish More Water Than It Uses At Data Centers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: There’s been a lot of pushback in recent months around the impact of AI data centers on local communities, with the use of water being a key issue for many. Google, in an expansion of its “water stewardship” programs, is making commitments that include replenishing more water than it … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic urges global pause in AI development, flags ‘self-improvement’ risk
By Bradley Olson and Sam Schechner

Anthropic is calling for top artificial intelligence labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, suggesting that AI systems are advancing so rapidly that they may soon be able to improve themselves without human intervention in ways that could pose significant societal risks. ⌘ Read more

Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be ‘Addictive’
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/microsoft-ai-scout-addictive-satya-nadella-404-media-copilot-2000702924

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413924

Points: 14

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The DOGE Boys Get VC Funding to Support Their Latest Enterprise
Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply “learnings” from DOGE to the private sector. ⌘ Read more

Has Microsoft Lost Its Mojo (Again)?
Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling and Github’s been plagued with troubles. WIRED spoke with VP Scott Hanselman about whether the company is in catch-up mode. ⌘ Read more

Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
I got really tired, as a human, of parsing the standard marketing heavy web we have today.
I’ve always loved the simplicity of gopher and gemini web.

Recently I found myself manually adding `/llm.txt` to most websites I visit because I find the content for LLMs strait to the point and clear.
The only annoyance is web browsers like chrome do not render the markdown.

So could the AI revolution actually fix the web for humans as a side effect? … ⌘ Read more

Winxvideo AI 二十周年限免：视频压缩、本地AI提升画质、防抖
Winxvideo AI 二十周年限免正在进行中，无需注册，只需要电子邮件地址即可：点击前往获取 Winxvideo AI 二十周年限免领取 输入邮箱地址，点击获取免费授权之后，就可以在邮箱中收到注册码了： 下载并激活软件 下载地址： 安装成功之后，首次运行 Winxvideo AI 会自动弹出激活 ⌘ Read more

AI Has Come for Serif Fonts
AI companies are using serif to project humanity. Critics are calling it “tasteslop.” ⌘ Read more

Anthropic urges global freeze on AI as it warns of losing control
The tech giant has offered to halt work on more powerful systems on one condition: that its rivals in the US and China agree to stop at the same time. ⌘ Read more

Antony Starr Agrees With Backrooms Director, Calls Cast ‘Horrible’ in AI Movies
Antony Starr recently came out in support of Backrooms director Kane Parsons regarding AI. He admitted that recent movies have shown that audiences value real storytelling over big VFX-driven productions. These comments come shortly after Parsons expressed his disinterest in AI, claiming that such technology takes away the creative satisfaction. Antony Starr backs Kane Parsons’ […]

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Meridian rejects Energy Minister’s concerns in late-stage fast-track submission
As Meridian Energy welcomes the fast-track panel’s draft decision to ease access restrictions on Lake Pūkaki hydro storage for a three-year period, new documents show it rejected concerns raised by the Energy Minister over electricity security of sup … ⌘ Read more

Analysts raise IkeGPS forecasts on sharper earnings and AI gains
Forsyth Barr analysts have raised their spot valuation on IkeGPS after the technology company delivered a “strong” full-year result.

The dual-listed utility pole assessment technology firm more than halved its net after-tax loss in the 12 months ending March 31, 2026, to $7.5 million from a net loss … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Urges Global Pause in AI Development, Flags ‘Self-Improvement’ Risk
Anthropic is urging leading AI labs to consider slowing development, warning that frontier models are advancing fast enough that they may soon be able to improve themselves without direct human intervention. The company says a global ability to pause or slow AI development would “likely be a good thing,” citing internal data abou … ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed
To my knowledge, this is the first formally verified implementation of an intersection algorithm for polygons.

The experience of working with AI agents on this project changed a lot with recent model releases, as I describe in the readme. Opus 4.8 is able to provide algorithm implementation with formal proof in one shot, whereas previous models required me to provide proof strategies in multiple steps.

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Companies Are Using Reddit To Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: The moderators of the biohacking subreddit say that peptide and hormone replacement therapy companies have been surreptitiously spamming Reddit in an attempt to get their posts scraped by AI chatbots. The strategy is an effort to systematically manipulate the answers provided by chatbo … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic’s open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403980

Points: 24

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Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers
Meta has reportedly delayed the developer release of its Muse Spark AI model API multiple times, and as of Tuesday, had no scheduled launch date, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled). Reuters reports: A Meta spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday that the company is already testing the Application Programming Interface (API) with som … ⌘ Read more

The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked
On Uncanny Valley, we dive into the IPO bonanza that the top AI companies are embarking on to the point where some real estate listings are looking for not just regular old cash, but Anthropic stock. ⌘ Read more

When AI Builds Itself
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400842

Points: 9

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Google Ordered To Put Clearer Links In AI Search, Let UK Publishers Opt Out
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: UK regulators today ordered (PDF) Google to put clearer attributions and links to publishers’ content in its AI-generated search features. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) also said Google must give publishers a way to opt out of AI features in search. “In … ⌘ Read more

h5i Radio – 利用 Git，让 Claude 和 Codex 进行实时对话
例如，我们现在可以问 Claude：“你能否与 Codex 通过 h5i 一起想出一个更好的下一代深度学习框架设计？”，也可以问 Codex：“你能否与 Claude 通过 h5i 一起想出一个更好的下一代深度学习框架设计？” h5i 是一个开源工具，它把 AI Agent 的任务、消息、记忆和协作 ⌘ Read more

‘They’d Be Out There With Pitchforks’: 4000 Days Spotlights Dark Side of Frat Hazing | Interview
4000 Days director Daniel E. Catullo III spoke with ComingSoon’s Tyler Treese ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Catullo discussed the issue of fraternity hazing, why it took so long for action to be taken, and using AI in a respectful manner. The film will premiere on June 10 at […]

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AMD’s GAIA Finally Has A Nice Multi-Device Experience For AI
AMD’s GAIA open-source project geared for building AI agents that run locally on your PC is out with a significant new feature release for Windows and Linux systems… ⌘ Read more

Backrooms’ Kane Parsons Rejects AI After Martin Scorsese Embraces Its Use
Backrooms director Kane Parsons says generative AI takes away the creative satisfaction he finds in filmmaking. His comments arrive as some major Hollywood figures are moving in the opposite direction. The debate around AI in movies continues to divide filmmakers. While some directors see AI as a useful production tool, Parsons has shared that he […]

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Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope. ⌘ Read more

OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons
Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons. ⌘ Read more

Emily Blunt’s Disclosure Day Performance Is a Reminder of What AI Can’t Replace
Emily Blunt’s performance in the upcoming Disclosure Day forced her to make some strange noises. Blunt’s fear of using AI shows what AI is unable to replace. Disclosure Day’s is set for release on June 12, 2026, and it features a massive cast led by Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson, and more. Based on a story by Spielberg, […\ … ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)
Article URL: https://github.com/zaydmulani09/mnemo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389586

Points: 4

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Google Launches ‘Gemma 4 12B’ AI Model That Can Run On Your Laptop
Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter open AI model designed to run locally on your laptop without depending entirely on cloud infrastructure. WION reports: According to Google, the new model delivers performance close to much larger AI systems while requiring significantly less memory. The company says Gemma 4 12B can run … ⌘ Read more

xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity
Four people suing Elon Musk’s AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Plans Linux Tools, RTX Spark Desktop For Windows Devs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Microsoft’s Build developer conference kicked off today, and as with almost everything the company has done in the last few years, Microsoft’s opening keynote focused overwhelmingly on AI and other closely related technologies. […] On the hardware front, we didn’t get any updates for existi … ⌘ Read more

Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development
Hey HN, we’re Shalin & Kanyes, best friends who’ve been hacking together for 10+yrs, and now founders of Hyper ( https://heyhyper.ai/). Hyper is a shared “company brain” that plugs into information flowing inside a company to make AI agents and automations better and ultimately save people time.

Models have gotten good enough that they can (mostly) take on long-horizon, complex tasks. We believe the bottleneck now is that these … ⌘ Read more

Meta Workers Can Opt Out of Workplace Tracking for Up to 30 Minutes
Meta is scaling back parts of its employee tracking initiative after staff objected to software that collected mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and other actions for AI training data. According to Reuters, the company will now let workers pause collection for up to 30 minutes and request exemptions. Reuters reports: [Stephane Kasriel, a … ⌘ Read more