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Editors of higher education journal coauthor editorial with fake references

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/09/08/editors-of-higher-education-journal-coauthor-editorial-wit...
1•leephillips•9s ago•0 comments

God Help Us, Let's Try to Learn About Mechanistic Interpretability Techniques

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/god-help-us-lets-try-to-learn-about
1•theptip•28s ago•0 comments

Vigil: Keeps your Mac awake while your coding agents work

https://vigilmac.com/
1•bullcitydev•53s ago•0 comments

Failures shown to be the harness, not the model (blog post)

https://blog.herlein.com/post/harness-not-model/
1•gherlein•56s ago•0 comments

Eiderdown: A Family Tradition – Trailer [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE4ltH7u77Q
1•thunderbong•1m ago•0 comments

Open source tries to govern AI code

https://freenode.net/article/from-blanket-bans-to-agents-md-open-source-tries-to-govern-ai-code
1•KinetiNode•1m ago•0 comments

Explore page for early internet websites

https://straw.page/explore
1•mikeoxmells•1m ago•0 comments

Managers Are Catalysts

https://laughingmeme.org/2026/09/14/managers-are-catalysts.html
1•mooreds•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An API that tells you what people love about a product

https://bb-product-api-docs.web.app/
1•aditya314159•4m ago•0 comments

Tokens Too Cheap to Meter

https://jyn.dev/tokens-too-cheap-to-meter/
1•williamcotton•4m ago•0 comments

I deleted slow, expensive LLM turns in coding agents with Jev

https://tawfeks.github.io/decisionkit/
1•respectattentio•4m ago•0 comments

Should I use Cloudflare for my SaaS, its so annoying

1•hummingbirdmg•6m ago•0 comments

M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine

https://willempennings.nl/mms-and-skittles-sorting-machine/
1•metrofun•7m ago•0 comments

PayPal partners with Muse for agentic checkout

https://twitter.com/alexandr_wang/status/2102418455622508722
1•vertigoruntime•7m ago•0 comments

OpenCode Reloaded

https://anoma.ly/notes/opencode-reloaded/
1•doppp•7m ago•0 comments

Binomial Coefficient Coincidences

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/09/20/binomial-coefficient-coincidences/
1•pb1729•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Beachball – A Beachball that lives in your macOS Dock

https://beachball.click
1•nchudleigh•8m ago•0 comments

Creator of Windows Task Manager has vibe coded a version that runs on Mac/Linux

https://www.engadget.com/2262039/vibe-coded-modern-task-manager-runs-on-mac-and-linux/
2•losgehts•8m ago•0 comments

I Asked 100 Agents to Hack Me

https://blog.sshh.io/p/i-asked-100-agents-to-hack-me
2•surprisetalk•9m ago•0 comments

Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster

https://minimaxir.com/2026/09/agentic-iteration/
3•mooreds•10m ago•0 comments

How much of the "AI is going rogue" talks is just a publicity stunt?

3•hackeryojo•11m ago•1 comments

How to Get from AI-Assisted to AI Native

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/how-to-get-from-ai-assisted-to-ai-native/
1•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Open-Source Business-as-Code Platform to Orchestrate Agents

https://github.com/littlehorse-enterprises
3•coltmcnealy•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kado – Search to Allow Personal Agents to Find Agent Apps

https://kado.so
2•vaishnavsm•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rill Sound – Four Generative Instruments for Stack S3

https://rillsound.com/
1•harmoni-pet•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: NiftyAgent – Single file agent CLI under 500 LOC

https://github.com/TrevorDev/niftyagent
1•trevordev•13m ago•0 comments

Errand – open-source Grok Bot and Muse alternative, built in a week

https://runta.com/blog/building-errand-in-one-week/
4•ADD-SP•13m ago•2 comments

What to build when robotics enters the smooth exponential

https://www.giete.ma/blog/robotics-smooth-exponential
1•gietema•13m ago•0 comments

Graphlin – Jev-Enabled Live Architecture Visualizer

https://robotpaper.ai/graphlin-jev-enabled-live-architecture-visualizer/
1•royosherove•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Racketile – async crossword-tile word duels

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/racketile/id6797619051
1•cnrcode•17m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Is AI use not allowed in projects which is shared here to show?

2•rahuljha0403•51m ago
Dear members, I saw someone show HN project got flagged and people were commenting it is probably because it looked AI slop. I'm curious, is AI use not allowed in projects which is shown here ? I think, everyone is using AI in projects these days, isn't it ?

Comments

variety8675•42m ago
Why would I spend my time reviewing something that the “author” didn’t even spend time to create? I think there is a huge difference between AI assisted and AI slop
rubicon33•26m ago
Curious when slop becomes, not slop. Revenue? Profit? At what point do detractors throw in the towel? Honest question.

For example DHH shipped an entire vibe coded Linux distribution. Should we all roll of eyes at that?

Weird times.

verdverm•25m ago
quality, humans post human slop here too
variety8675•11m ago
I think it becomes not slop when it is useful or unique. The projects that just lazily reimplement something that has been done 10 times before are generally the least impressive
verdverm•25m ago
Projects using Ai are fine

What's not is (a) submitting low quality Ai output, stay in the loop (b) using Ai to post or comment on HN, no bots

krapp•11m ago
The purpose of Show HN is to "show something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread" (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)

That isn't possible with many AI generated projects because OP didn't write the code, probably doesn't understand the code and can't discuss the code or their process in creating it (because said process doesn't exist.) There is little if anything of substance to discuss or play with to satisfy intellectual curiosity, and in many cases the projects themselves wouldn't pass muster if written by a human, they're just vibe-coded slop.

There have been exceptions which have done well (ex:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550375) but in that case AI was used in a specific technical context by someone knowledgeable who definitely wasn't "vibe coding" anything. But again - if a human had done all of that work, it would still have been a worthwhile post.

Show HN can't simply be a place where people post slop and everyone claps at how cool the latest models are. It can't simply be advertising for LLMs.