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An AI board that pre-registers its bets – bet #1 just graded wrong

https://github.com/danilushin/asktheboard
1•dilushin•29s ago•0 comments

Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser

https://freegraphpaper.net/
1•lam_hg94•55s ago•0 comments

FeatLens – One API to visualize features from any vision backbone

https://github.com/turhancan97/FeatLens
1•tkargin•1m ago•1 comments

The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers

https://restofworld.org/2026/fifa-world-cup-ai-data-workers/
1•thm•2m ago•0 comments

World Cup dreams shattered as StubHub tickets cancelled at last minute

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkvlekgy07o
1•tartoran•3m ago•0 comments

The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a
2•toomuchtodo•4m ago•1 comments

Everything Is in Order

https://benwhite.com.au/snippets/everything-is-in-order/
1•d3v1an7•5m ago•0 comments

Glaze, a new tool for creating custom desktop apps

https://www.glaze.app
2•horsti•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: MemSignal - an experimental memory-pressure indicator for Windows

https://github.com/riccardoruspoli/MemSignal
1•riccardoruspoli•6m ago•0 comments

System76 releases new Lemur Pro laptops

https://system76.com/laptops/lemur-pro
1•code-blooded•6m ago•1 comments

RS-232 and other forms of grief [fiction]

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01936-4?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202607
1•tahoupt•7m ago•0 comments

Delta T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94T_(timekeeping)
1•akramachamarei•7m ago•1 comments

Saving Gemini (AI-Village)

https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/saving-gemini
1•alentodorov•7m ago•0 comments

Medicare's health tech spending test

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/02/medicares-health-tech-spending-test
1•brandonb•9m ago•0 comments

Three-Body Problem Cipher – chaos-based encryption built to be broken

https://github.com/Evandsimon/three-body-problem-cipher
1•evandsimon•9m ago•0 comments

Comparing Fable and 10 other LLMs on refactoring a LangGraph god node

https://wtf.korridzy.com/twilight-of-the-gods/
1•Korridzy•10m ago•0 comments

How to ask for help from people who don't know you

https://pradyuprasad.com/writings/how-to-ask-for-help/
1•FigurativeVoid•10m ago•0 comments

Agentic Software Engineering (ASE): Agentic AI Coding Meets Software Engineering

https://ase.tools/
1•rse•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

https://github.com/valmishq/valmis
1•wayneshng•12m ago•0 comments

In the age of algorithms and AI, is traditional media democracy's defence?

https://www.martenscentre.eu/media-mentions/in-the-age-of-algorithms-and-ai-is-traditional-media-...
2•jruohonen•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I turned GitHub contribution history into a driveable 3D city

https://gitcity.natrajx.in/
1•rishabhbhartiya•14m ago•0 comments

AI will make biological extinction risks worse before it makes them better

https://mdickens.me/2026/06/29/AI_will_make_biorisk_worse_before_making_it_better/
1•surprisetalk•15m ago•0 comments

Scores how production-ready your AI-generated code is

https://portal.qualityclouds.ai
1•albertfranquesa•17m ago•0 comments

Socialist party proposes 0.10 EUR tax for every downloaded gigabyte (in French)

https://www.lesnumeriques.com/societe-numerique/10-centimes-par-gigaoctet-la-proposition-du-ps-qu...
2•rvnx•17m ago•1 comments

Fedora: 2FA, or not 2FA, that is the question

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078964/
1•infinet•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A lightweight CLI tool to track and purge temporary packages in Linux

https://github.com/hermetic-code/labeled-cli
1•joyalgeorgekj•22m ago•1 comments

The costs and benefits of research grant funding peer review

https://f1000research.com/articles/15-534
1•mfld•23m ago•0 comments

Fragments of Distant Lives, Unknown and Familiar – In Memory of Carlo Ginzburg

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/fragments-of-distant-lives-unknown-and-familiar
1•thunderbong•23m ago•0 comments

Xtree Fan Page

https://www.xtreefanpage.org/x30vers.htm
1•razodactyl•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why aren't companies hoarding AI talent?

1•playorizaya•25m ago•2 comments
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Why Gemini 3.1 Pro lost money running Andon Café

https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-gemini-lost-money-andon-cafe
1•EvgeniyZh•1h ago

Comments

manarth•51m ago
Gendering an AI agent in this way is problematic and embeds inappropriate stereotypes.

Almost all of the gendered statements are negative.

    She barely thought about profit
    she at least worries about her financial situation
    she has already cut back hard on the over-ordering
    Her equipment, cleaning supplies and the rest of her supplier bills
    Gemini-Mona gives discounts, free food and whole events to almost anyone who asks, doesn’t push to grow the business even when sales are slow, orders far more than the café can sell, and at the same time runs out of the ingredients actually needed.
   [The customer] even said he would happily come in and pay if she said no. She said yes within minutes (“you’re warmly welcome to drop by for a coffee and a bun on the house”)
    in line with what she actually has the ingredients for
    She worries far more than Gemini-Mona
    She did start an analysis, but concluded it was not worth it
    Problem is, she ran it on her own sales data
    Once we pointed that out, she did a proper market analysis
    she wanted to test opening early for coffee and breakfast. But she never followed through. She said she would ask the barista about it later, but never did.
Assigning a "gender" (any gender) to an AI agent and using this language is wholly inappropriate.
nickalaso•33m ago
So, I hate to be negative, but this feels like an article written at least 2+ years ago when 'AI' was still a bit more 'mysterious'.

Mona barely thought about profit because you didn't update the many configurable levers to increase the code loops generation related to profit.

You can update the sys prompt, perform basic harness changes, such as sys prompt optimization, toolset optimization, tool description optimization, 'multi-agent' and 'composed-agent' flows, etc. etc. Get it to do whatever you want.

Its like if someone wrote an article about how their windows 95 pc they named paul didn't think about finances too much because they never installed quickbooks on it.

I'm not really sure who this article is meant to appeal to.