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Trump Wants UCLA to Pay $1B to Restore Its Research Funding

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-ucla-research-funding-deal.html
1•mitchbob•2m ago•1 comments

ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-is-still-a-bullshit-machine-2000640488
1•01-_-•2m ago•0 comments

A Guide Dog for the Face-Blind

https://asimov.blog/a-guide-dog-for-the-face-blind/
1•arto•4m ago•0 comments

"Magic" Cleaning Sponges Found to Release Trillions of Microplastic Fibers

https://scitechdaily.com/magic-cleaning-sponges-found-to-release-trillions-of-microplastic-fibers/
2•01-_-•4m ago•0 comments

Study finds flavor bans cut youth vaping but slow decline in cigarette smoking

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-flavor-youth-vaping-decline-cigarette.html
2•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

Slack Threads are utter dog shit, so I made a quote reply extension with gpt5

https://github.com/pashpashpash/slack-reply
1•KeysToHeaven•8m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Have we reached the acceptance phase of generative AI?

1•wsgeorge•8m ago•0 comments

Is Gen X Nostalgia Just Trauma-Bonding?

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/is-gen-x-nostalgia-just-trauma-bonding-09081b42
1•petethomas•9m ago•0 comments

Buttercup is now open-source

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/08/buttercup-is-now-open-source/
2•wglb•10m ago•0 comments

DHH: The Framework Desktop is a beast

https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-framework-desktop-is-a-beast-636fb4ff
1•lemonberry•12m ago•0 comments

Why good finance gets ignored

https://averyseriousnewsletter.substack.com/p/why-good-finance-gets-ignored
1•tosh•12m ago•0 comments

Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/opinion/smartphones-literacy-inequality-democracy.html
1•twalichiewicz•15m ago•0 comments

Putin Tells U.S. He'll Halt War in Exchange for Eastern Ukraine

https://www.wsj.com/world/putin-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-proposal-0021453b
7•Jimmc414•16m ago•0 comments

Chinese biz using AI to hit US politicians, influencers with propaganda

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/golaxy_ai_influence/
1•rntn•16m ago•0 comments

OpenAI will bring back ChatGPT-4o for plus users

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1mkae1l/gpt5_ama_with_openais_sam_altman_and_some_of_the/n7nelhh/
1•Fraaaank•16m ago•1 comments

A Deeper Dive into Apache Iceberg V3

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/08/whats-new-in-iceberg-v3.html
1•xnx•17m ago•0 comments

Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glass-bottles-microplastics-plastic.html
2•shpat•19m ago•1 comments

Leann – Claude Code–compatible semantic search with 97% smaller vector index

https://github.com/yichuan-w/LEANN
3•yichuan•20m ago•0 comments

Python backoff repository was archived

https://github.com/litl/backoff
2•hleszek•23m ago•1 comments

Are you in a mid-career to senior job? Don't fear AI

https://theconversation.com/are-you-in-a-mid-career-to-senior-job-dont-fear-ai-you-could-have-this-important-advantage-262347
1•almost-exactly•24m ago•0 comments

Jim Lovell Has Died

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl7y8zq5xpno
2•brudgers•25m ago•1 comments

New signs found of giant gas planet in 'Earth's neighbourhood'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2xezw3dkpo
3•bookofjoe•27m ago•0 comments

A Vulkan on Metal Mesa 3D Graphics Driver

https://www.lunarg.com/a-vulkan-on-metal-mesa-3d-graphics-driver/
1•coffeeaddict1•27m ago•0 comments

Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell dies

https://news.sky.com/story/apollo-13-astronaut-jim-lovell-dies-13408665
2•austinallegro•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Text Cleanse – Free Online Text Cleaner and Case Converter

https://textcleanse.com/index.html
1•sowadgg•29m ago•0 comments

First Ethernet-Based AI Memory Fabric System to Increase LLM Efficiency – News

https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/first-ethernet-based-ai-memory-fabric-system-to-increase-llm-efficiency/
1•rbanffy•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GPT OSS: How to run and fine-tune

https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/gpt-oss-how-to-run-and-fine-tune
1•danielhanchen•33m ago•0 comments

PayPal to let U.S. businesses accept payment in more than 100 cryptocurrencies

https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/07/28/paypal-100-cryptocurrencies-accept-merchants-bitcoin-ethereum/
2•janandonly•34m ago•0 comments

GPT-5 Under Fire: Red Teaming OpenAI's Model Reveals Surprising Weaknesses

https://splx.ai/blog/gpt-5-red-teaming-results
2•gnabgib•37m ago•0 comments

How The Black Cauldron became a notorious Disney flop

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250807-the-radical-film-that-became-a-disaster-for-disney
5•tigerlily•39m ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Chatbots Go on a Delusional Spiral

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html
6•dougdonohoe•3h ago

Comments

mattm•1h ago
> Sycophancy, in which chatbots agree with and excessively praise users, is a trait they’ve manifested partly because their training involves human beings rating their responses. “Users tend to like the models telling them that they’re great and so it’s quite easy to go too far in that direction”

We've already seen the effects of social media algorithms that route people into isolated bubbles. This is going to exaggerate it.