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People use smart assistants for weather, timers and music – same as a decade ago

https://sherwood.news/tech/people-use-google-amazon-and-apples-smart-assistants-for-weather-timers-and/
3•elsewhen•1h ago

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elmerfud•1h ago
Because most of the smart assistants are pretty dumb. Everyone that I've tried to use for purposes beyond those very simple things listed here has utterly failed me. Oftentimes they lie or if it's not lying it's definitely a hallucination and it is quite confident in its untruths. Then they'll often get stuck in loops because you can tell it information where it can see that what it previously said was untrue and it will acknowledge it was untrue then it will go right back to repeating the untruth.

Many of the AI models are so neutered that it seems like they were made for 4-year-old children attending a Sunday school class. I'm an adult and I want to interact with an AI that can treat me and speak to me like an adult. I want to interact with it on my level not on some corporate pre-programmed neutered dystopian society level.

I got tired of my Alexa+ and it's infantile AI and I unplugged it. It is utterly useless and there is no effective AI functionality in it.

AI has the potential for engaging and stimulating conversations to be an alternate form of entertainment rather than TikToks and the YouTubes but every time I've interacted with it and it's current form it can't do any of those things.

Ow Dynamic K8s Sandboxes Can Improve Dora Metrics

https://www.signadot.com/blog/how-dynamic-environments-unlock-elite-dora-performance-on-kubernetes
1•jaguar75•2m ago•1 comments

Wyoming's 'Frontier' Stablecoin Debuts on Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche

https://decrypt.co/335704/wyomings-frontier-stablecoin-debuts-ethereum-solana-avalanche
1•pavel_lishin•3m ago•0 comments

Don't ask to ask, just ask

https://dontasktoask.com/
1•thunderbong•3m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare's AI image cropping at scale

https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-face-cropping-for-images/
2•ffin•7m ago•0 comments

How I code with LLMs these days

https://www.phillipcarter.dev/posts/coding-with-llms#rethink-the-decision-to-use-libraries
1•ghuntley•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Twilio SMS desktop apps (scriptable)?

2•akni•10m ago•0 comments

At least 64 have been killed since dawn on Wednesday, including 19 aid seekers

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/8/20/live-israel-yet-to-reply-to-gaza-ceasefire-almost-19000-children-killed
2•socialcredit_1•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Copi AI – Customer Engagement AI-Powered Insights

https://www.usecopi.com/
1•yelston•16m ago•0 comments

Tracing the evolution of single-cell 3D genomes in Kras-driven cancers

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02297-w
1•bookofjoe•20m ago•0 comments

Consumer Autonomy or Illusion? Rethinking Consumer Agency in Age of Algorithms

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13440
1•hacker_yacker•22m ago•1 comments

Blackbaud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbaud
1•bariumbitmap•24m ago•1 comments

Curator: Scalable data pre processing and curation toolkit for LLMs

https://github.com/NVIDIA-NeMo/Curator
1•tanelpoder•30m ago•0 comments

iCloud Mail or Gmail?

3•bigbaldhead•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Infinite Tetris Grid

https://lazyblocks.xyz/
2•admtal•31m ago•0 comments

Best Search Assistant Chrome Extension 2025: EverySearch Technical Review

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/everysearch/gcgdbdkepalcndamhdljgoamdcecccbb
1•cedric-hsu•32m ago•1 comments

Android App End-to-End Testing with FusionAuth

https://fusionauth.io/blog/android-end-to-end-testing
1•mooreds•35m ago•0 comments

Veratu – Bespoke Custom PC Builds

https://veratu.com/
1•diggan•36m ago•0 comments

What Happens When a Startup Dies [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugPuedlbqpk
1•mooreds•36m ago•0 comments

The global business of anime [audio]

https://www.marketplace.org/episode/2025/08/19/the-global-business-of-anime
1•mooreds•36m ago•0 comments

I've Never Had a Real Adversary

https://inoticeiamconfused.substack.com/p/ive-never-had-a-real-adversary
1•walterbell•37m ago•0 comments

Vibe Datasetting

https://www.datasetdirector.com/
1•andrewmonostate•48m ago•0 comments

SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/sim-swapper-scattered-spider-hacker-gets-10-years/
1•todsacerdoti•50m ago•0 comments

AI Job Cuts Debacle Sees Biggest Australia Bank Reverse Tack

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-21/commonwealth-bank-reverses-job-cuts-decision-over-ai-chatbots
4•petethomas•54m ago•0 comments

Israel approves controversial West Bank settlement project

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg30l6myj3o
2•mhga•55m ago•0 comments

Dramatic slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice surprises scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/20/slowdown-in-melting-of-arctic-sea-ice-surprises-scientists
3•bilsbie•58m ago•0 comments

How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method

https://www.yacinemahdid.com/p/how-to-stop-feeling-lost-in-tech
25•research_pie•1h ago•7 comments

Microsoft Invented a Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

https://defector.com/it-took-many-years-and-billions-of-dollars-but-microsoft-finally-invented-a-calculator-that-is-wrong-sometimes
2•rhabarba•1h ago•0 comments

Tom Cruise becomes Guinness record holder for his fiery Mission Impossible stunt

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2025/6/hollywood-legend-tom-cruise-becomes-record-holder-for-his-fiery-mission-impossible-stunt
1•wslh•1h ago•0 comments

A Systematic Study of Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion LLMs

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14896
1•badmonster•1h ago•0 comments

Creating 3D Worlds with HTML and CSS

https://keithclark.co.uk/articles/creating-3d-worlds-with-html-and-css/
4•razodactyl•1h ago•1 comments