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Ask HN: Interesting AI Pivots

1•jemiluv8•4h ago
I once contributed to daytona and recently turned up at their website only to find out it is now "infrastructure for running ai-generated code. They used to be a tool that was used to construct development environment on remote machines. I found this incredible. I suppose there'd be stories out there about interesting ai pivots I'm yet to hear about.

What surprising pivots have you encountered? What were they doing and why was the pivot surprising?

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not_your_vase•3h ago
Many years ago I used to work for a company where we were writing different kinds of SMS-sender malware (featuring not very dressed ladies), mostly for Android. Just a few weeks ago I got a bunch of LinkedIn notifications, from all my colleagues and boss from that company, saying that they have changed their name, and now they are in the business of AI-powered sport performance monitoring.

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https://www.prizmlabs.io/post/shooting-bugs-in-a-barrel-with-ai-driven-binary-analysis-on-a-totolink-router
1•jmagi98•1m ago•0 comments

From 'Sneaking in' to Scoping In: How to Handle Discovered Improvements

https://gist.github.com/OneGeek/e66d36087d08028b38d3058623e987ef
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

The Gumbel-Softmax Distribution

https://sassafras13.github.io/GumbelSoftmax/
2•fzliu•6m ago•0 comments

Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?

https://www.glamelab.org/products/are-ai-bots-knocking-cultural-heritage-offline/
1•cratermoon•7m ago•0 comments

Geoffrey Hinton on current and future AI risks and concerns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giT0ytynSqg
2•Brysonbw•12m ago•0 comments

Gilles Martin identifies neurons associated with suppression of binge drinking

https://www.umassmed.edu/news/news-archives/2025/06/gilles-martin-identifies-neurons-associated-with-the-suppression-of-binge-drinking/
1•gnabgib•19m ago•0 comments

PromptJam – multiplayer prompt engineering for LLMs

https://promptjam.com
1•evandrog•19m ago•1 comments

I met my sister for the first time

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1•kenchangh•21m ago•0 comments

Fang, the CLI Starter Kit

https://github.com/charmbracelet/fang
2•bewuethr•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Learning material/courses for using AI for coding?

1•askvictor•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Py_better_exchook: intelligently print variables in stack traces

https://github.com/albertz/py_better_exchook
1•albertzeyer•26m ago•0 comments

TIL: Smart glasses aren't just for pricks, they are an accessibility aid

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2•rbanffy•29m ago•0 comments

Expert Generalists

https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html
1•gpi•29m ago•0 comments

Theory seeks to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/dec/new-theory-seeks-unite-einsteins-gravity-quantum-mechanics
1•gmays•32m ago•0 comments

The Difference Between GMT and UTC

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/gmt-utc-time.html
1•susam•33m ago•0 comments

Jora – JavaScript object query languages and engine

https://github.com/discoveryjs/jora
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Praxos: Kernel for AI Agents

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Show HN: Kentro – a fast Rust library for K-Means clustering

https://github.com/pisa-engine/kentro
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Custom HTML Elements in JavaScript

https://javascript.info/custom-elements
2•oliverkwebb•39m ago•0 comments

How We Onboarded Claude

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1•jacksondc•42m ago•0 comments

Can I use other photos gallery app on iOS?

1•cunamento•43m ago•2 comments

Investing in trust is crucial for a well-functioning European carbon market

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1•PaulHoule•45m ago•0 comments

What if there was no spacetime?

https://sorhed.substack.com/p/what-if-there-was-no-spacetime
1•atemerev•45m ago•0 comments

The Fordow Enrichment Plant, a.k.a. Al Ghadir (2019)

https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/the-fordow-enrichment-plant-aka-al-ghadir/
2•pinewurst•47m ago•0 comments

How to negotiate your salary package

https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/how-to-negotiate-your-salary-package/
1•surprisetalk•49m ago•0 comments

When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/science/ancient-human-adaptation-environments.html
1•pepys•51m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Has Google Weather forecasting changed?

2•windyshrimp•58m ago•0 comments

Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers' malicious text anyway

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/tech-support-scammers-inject-malicious-phone-numbers-into-big-name-websites/
9•LorenDB•58m ago•0 comments

Amazon Orders Employees to Relocate to Seattle and Other Hubs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-18/amazon-orders-employees-to-relocate-to-seattle-and-other-hubs
2•petethomas•58m ago•0 comments

GEO Is the new SEO

https://driftspear.com/blog/what-is-geo
1•woktalk•1h ago•0 comments