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Most angels follow poorly their angel portfolio

https://olivecapital.vc:443/angelo/
1•rphgrc•57s ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Lots of sign ups but people not completing onboarding

1•lucgagan•1m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Which LLMs are best suited for prose?

1•thatxliner•1m ago•0 comments

Houthis used Anthropic to develop guided weapons

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/11/rebels-used-anthropics-ai-bot-develop-guided...
2•Alien1Being•3m ago•0 comments

UK Police to crack down on face coverings at protests

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8zrz42yxko
1•a2fz•3m ago•0 comments

Altimeter's Gerstner blasts researchers voicing AI extinction warnings

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/11/altimeters-gerstner-blasts-researchers-voicing-ai-extinction-warn...
1•cramer4next•3m ago•0 comments

Dreamcast Development Links

1•hefner1456•4m ago•0 comments

Houthis used Anthropic AI to build ballistic missiles

https://www.ft.com/content/8310cf56-ce60-4e6e-8254-5bb470e9a880
1•Alien1Being•5m ago•0 comments

Bernie Sanders AI Bill Threatens Developers with 20-Year Jail Terms

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/bernie-sanders-introduces-a-bill-in-sena...
1•delichon•7m ago•0 comments

UN calls for global fund to address AI capacity gaps in developing nations

https://www.un.org/digital-emerging-technologies/content/secretary-general-calls-global-fund-addr...
1•neutron5083•7m ago•0 comments

Salesforce Completes Acquisition of Intercom (Fin)

https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2026/09/10/salesforce-completes-acquisition-of-fin...
3•XCSme•8m ago•1 comments

Useful Things Agents Can Do That Are Not Writing Code

https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/useful-things-agents-can-do-that-are-not-writing-code
1•chilipepperhott•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bypassing Transformer Softmax via Static Contraction

https://github.com/PJHkorea/jax-softmax-bypass
1•PJHkorea•10m ago•0 comments

Adversaries Using Claude AI to Target Americans and Develop Missiles

https://www.twz.com/news-features/adversaries-using-claude-ai-to-target-americans-and-develop-mis...
1•xoxxala•11m ago•0 comments

Devin Fusion

https://cognition.com/blog/local-fusion
1•samyok•16m ago•0 comments

They do think AI might kill everyone

https://www.seangoedecke.com/they-really-do-think-ai-might-kill-everyone/
1•vladmashk•17m ago•0 comments

Awesome-agentic-payments – A curated list of tools for agentic payments/commerce

https://github.com/bitrefill/awesome-agentic-payments
1•peter_d_sherman•24m ago•0 comments

How to Write an Effective Software Design Document

https://refactoringenglish.com/excerpts/write-an-effective-design-doc/
3•redbell•25m ago•0 comments

Anthropic released a CLI to evaluate skills and plugins

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/plugin-evals
3•edonadei•27m ago•1 comments

QueryBrew: System-Agnostic SQL-to-SQL Query Optimization [pdf]

https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol19/p4494-schmidt.pdf
3•matt_d•31m ago•0 comments

Project Blinkenlights

https://blinkenlights.de/en/
12•doener•32m ago•5 comments

Good Alternative to the Cloud

https://github.com/DeploCloud/deplo
2•idradev•32m ago•0 comments

Neom: The Largest Megaproject Collapsed [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbB3vFfiaVU
3•handfuloflight•32m ago•1 comments

Gov Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Alongside Misguided Bans

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/governor-newsom-signs-student-backed-digital-literacy-bills...
5•hn_acker•32m ago•1 comments

Cold TAKE: Amazon's New Encryption Method Still Doesn't Deliver Real Privacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/cold-take-amazons-new-encryption-method-still-doesnt-delive...
2•hn_acker•34m ago•0 comments

Dave Ditzel's keynote/AMA on Esperanto's odyssey

https://blog.aifoundry.org/p/dave-ditzels-keynoteama-on-esperantos
2•sxzygz•35m ago•0 comments

What Is Your P(doom)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P(doom)
4•consumer451•36m ago•1 comments

The US Government Launched 3 Previously Unreported Investigations of Polymarket

https://www.wired.com/story/polymarket-investigations-iran-biden-google-foia/
1•sbulaev•40m ago•0 comments

An Algorithm for Proving Combinatorial Infeasibility

https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3788
2•E-Reverance•42m ago•0 comments

wolfSSL Announces wolfPSA

https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfPSA
3•aidangarske•42m ago•1 comments
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GPT-6 built this earth exploration site in 5 prompts

https://earth.ethanplus.ai/
18•ethanplusai•1h ago

Comments

sjs382•24m ago
When I see things like this, what I'm most interested in is seeing the full conversation/prompts and their associated changes/diffs.

I'm more interested in seeing how others are prompting and working with LLMs than the result itself.

Care to share?

perspectivezoom•8m ago
Not the OP project, but I made my entire 731 prompt Claude Opus 5.0 transcript searchable and organized at https://vertumnus.fyi/about/transcript. The chapter section has all of the prompts chronologically. The entire text is about ~2 MB and can be downloaded at https://github.com/perspectivezoom/vertumnus/blob/main/data/....
varispeed•21m ago
Was it before or after GPT-6 got nerfed?

Publish the prompts or re-run them today to see if you get the same quality result.

Tiberium•19m ago
I hope the future generations of models will stop with the fluff/textual clutter/overexplanations - I don't know the right term. They easily fix those once you tell them, but they still do them by default. What I mean on this page, for example:

> A WORLD, FOUR BILLION YEARS IN THE MAKING

> DEEP TIME · CONTINENTS IN MOTION

> Distance becomes an ocean.

> Continents drift apart. Shallow seas spread across land that will one day be dry.

> EXPLORE 4.54 BILLION YEARS OF EARTH HISTORY

> EARTH THROUGH TIME

> Scroll to travel through time Drag to orbit

> THE PAST IS ANOTHER WORLD. IT IS ALSO OURS.

> ILLUSTRATIVE TRANSITION

> Ga = billion years · Ma = million years / Event spacing is not linear

It gets to the point where if you ask a model to make a tiny toy "OS", it'll write stuff like "REAL MODE. REAL MULTITASKING. DRAG WINDOWS / TAB TO SWITCH" directly in the background of the desktop of said toy OS.

willguest•17m ago
it's flimflam. at least that's what i call it, and banning flimflam in the strongest possible verbiage seems to help
madrox•12m ago
It's a landing page trope, and I wonder if it emerges out of overtraining on the front door of web sites.
treetalker•12m ago
- poetic invocation of awe

- rhetoric of universal humanity as backdoor to software anthropomorphism

- commercialistic exposition of features (in sentence fragments) and foolproof instructions for use

"Put 'em together and wadda ya got?" TURN OFF YOUR BRAIN

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MomsAVoxell•19m ago
At some point I wonder where and when AI will just be taken as a means of exfiltration of knowledge from the traditional cathedrals/bazaars/silos - I mean, obviously, the more that knowledge is shared the more valuable it becomes .. but couldn’t this also mean that the training data included apps like this?
FrustratedMonky•17m ago
is this for real? 5 prompts? this is pretty cool.
kylecazar•15m ago
The 'Civilization' view took non-Eurocentrism to a new level.
ionwake•7m ago
Literally can’t see an earth on safari iOS

Edit> on second refresh it worked

eps•6m ago
Works fine here.
jonplackett•6m ago
It looks cool but I just can’t be that bothered to engage with something that contains so little of a human’s input.
thefourthchime•5m ago
If one wants human attention, one must put in human effort
encomiast•6m ago
I wonder if we will get to the point where this is all so easy that we'll need something like Flickr to organize all the random things one has vibe-coded.

It's already starting to feel like the days when your uncle would make you sit in a dark room and look at his vacation slide show. Sure, they're fine photos, but we quickly got to the point where a photograph was so easy to create that it needed to be extraordinary not just in execution, but in vision, timeliness, originality, etc. And even then, if you couldn't get it in front of the right editor, it just sat in a pile.

It is amazing, that just a few years ago this would have been a pretty amazing, portfolio-worthy project and today it's "pretty cool", said with a shrug.

ttruett•6m ago
Very cool. I built something similar to simulate climate change... my first project built exclusively via prompting.

https://terrashift.io/ (it doesn't work on mobile right now, lame I know)

What a fun time to build!

jonny211•5m ago
This is objectively wrong. Over the north pole, Greenland looks as large as North America does when it is the center of the viewport. This is some strange mercator-esque projection applied to a globe.
sosodev•5m ago
I’ve wanted something like this for a long time. However, I wanted it with extensive fact-checked information and AI slop is the opposite of that so I feel this is kinda pointless.
cyclopeanutopia•4m ago
Garbage. There is one good joke there though: "created by Ethan".
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10m ago
The term that Anthropic is now using is "mannered prose". If the creator of this example simply prompted "Remove all mannered prose" then the entire experiment would suddenly become normal sounding. In the fable 5.1 prompting guide, they have a longer prompt for removing mannered prose too if needed. I find it works on Astra as well.

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt...