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Battery-Free 'MicroSparc' That Allegedly Draws Power from the Quantum Vacuum

https://thedebrief.org/free-energy-from-the-vacuum-warp-drive-pioneer-unveils-battery-free-micros...
1•rramadass•8m ago•1 comments

There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness'

https://www.noemamag.com/there-is-no-hard-problem-of-consciousness/
1•ahalbert4•12m ago•0 comments

Building a multi-agent system from scratch: 50 lines of bash and Git

https://en.andros.dev/blog/ed26ea98/building-a-multi-agent-system-from-scratch-50-lines-of-bash-git/
1•thunderbong•13m ago•0 comments

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwWaoyIy5e8
1•mgh2•15m ago•0 comments

Turn inbound call recordings into structured JSON

https://www.gensail.com/call-data-extraction
1•vartana•15m ago•0 comments

What A.I. Did to My College Class

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/opinion/chatgpt-ai-college-school-graduation.html
2•mmooss•20m ago•1 comments

Ben Affleck Banned from Hard Rock Casino When Caught Counting Cards (2014)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ben-affleck-banned-hard-rock-casino-counting-cards-223154372....
1•thunderbong•26m ago•0 comments

LLM Performance by Programming Language

https://gertlabs.com/blog/llm-performance-by-language
3•gertlabs•28m ago•1 comments

First-Ever Tokenized Space Tourism: AI and Space and Blockchain

https://cccforgc.com/
1•cccxtha•30m ago•0 comments

Archivists Turn to LLMs to Decipher Handwriting at Scale

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-handwriting-transcription-transkribus-lecun
1•pseudolus•31m ago•0 comments

Dot-Coms That Deliver (2001)

https://books.google.com/
1•Apocryphon•31m ago•3 comments

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/17/america-china-energy-oil-renewables
3•nithinj•33m ago•0 comments

AI Leak Watch: 435,608 potential AI API key matches in public GitHub code

https://ai-keys-leaks.begimher.com/
1•dan_l2•34m ago•0 comments

The automation of jobs will never end

https://metastable.org/never-end/
1•pbw•38m ago•0 comments

Spirit Airlines Passenger Brings 'Emotional Support' Rotisserie Chicken Thru TSA

https://viewfromthewing.com/spirit-airlines-passenger-brings-emotional-support-rotisserie-chicken...
4•rawgabbit•44m ago•0 comments

Possible atmosphere detected on small trans-Neptunian object

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-tiny-celestial-body-past-pluto-shouldnt-have-an-at...
3•pavel_lishin•49m ago•0 comments

Slop Bucket Idea – a dataset of AI slop (train AI what not to do)

2•IAmNeo•1h ago•4 comments

Hubris of Timing: Why being right abt the future isnt enough to capitalize on it

https://deciens.com/press-and-insights/epistula-14-the-hubris-of-timing
2•ryan_j_naughton•1h ago•0 comments

How fast is N tokens per second really?

https://mikeveerman.github.io/tokenspeed/
5•hexagr•1h ago•2 comments

Students deserve better than COLLEGE

https://stanforddaily.com/2026/05/14/students-deserve-better-than-college/
2•johntfella•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Dashbuster – Replace em dashes on any website

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/dashbuster/pnfhimkhinoecknjhlggdbgoajcogfll
1•qainsights•1h ago•0 comments

I went inside OpenAI's secretive San Francisco headquarters

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/openai-san-francisco-headquarters-22259754.php
2•bryan0•1h ago•0 comments

Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/644853/pew-gallup-data-americans-dont-trust-ai
8•cdrnsf•1h ago•0 comments

Apple announced the iPhone 17e with a chip developed in Israel

https://www.jpost.com/consumerism/article-888680
6•banku_brougham•1h ago•7 comments

Show HN: How to Kill the Dead Internet

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/d-slop/cnjeckkgbjgfledbphbobjabnfjnheef
4•bigger_fish•1h ago•1 comments

Microsoft will let you remap the Copilot key to restore right ctrl functionality

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows/copilot/understand-updates-to-the-copil...
2•razorbeamz•1h ago•0 comments

Tracking Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas and Interstellar Visits

https://www.quantamagazine.org/rubin-tracks-skyscraper-size-asteroids-failed-supernovas-and-inter...
2•tzury•1h ago•0 comments

I built a local layer that kills Token Tax–Python lib+Chrome extension+Mac app

https://omna.dev/
1•gauravji•1h ago•0 comments

Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services [pdf]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964
2•droidjj•1h ago•0 comments

ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/16/research-repository-arxiv-will-ban-authors-for-a-year-if-they-l...
2•0in•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Slop Bucket Idea – a dataset of AI slop (train AI what not to do)

2•IAmNeo•1h ago
I just had this idea, you read it all the time AI slop is so prevalent people are getting banned for a year for submitting science papers to arXiv with it, moans of angst from developers, even Microsoft doing its own study where AI degrades the quality of simple documents, and the beloved em-dash.

I don't really have the know-how or the time but it occurred to me, if we created a public data set that could be submitted to publicly, we could catalog and organize all the AI slop, the different types, with explanations about why it is slop and why not to do it, and then train a large language model using this data set included, to help correct itself.

I don't really know the technical details of training a large language model,is this even possible?

Comments

HerbManic•55m ago
I suspect this is why places like Reddit are so valuable. With the voting system, they can correlate AI output with peoples approval. They are essentially ranking how well the output is received.

This doesn't mean this stuff will improve drastically as it might just highlight how low the bar is for some folks, but it is better than nothing.

Sort of like how reality TV was considered broadcast anesthetic slop, and yet people couldn't get enough of it and it is still with us decades later.

IAmNeo•43m ago
I like this, if there was a way to collate all the tagged slop from reddit, and somehow tell the large language model not to implement them but to actively avoid it's patterns.

Is slop considered a shortcoming of AI not being intelligent/advanced enough yet?

ares623•48m ago
Most/some of what we call slop now was more generally accepted before AI. Slop is not only the content. It is the volume, and it is the lack of intent or value from the producer. No amount of data is going to fix that.
IAmNeo•41m ago
So does the training data only tell the AI what to do and not what 'not' to do? I'm really not versed in the details of training one.