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Meatpupptry is far creepier than pure "AI" fakery

1•chrisjj•56m ago
Local pharmacy phoneline is answered by "Caroline" with convincing voice, mannerisms and even background typing noise. You only realise she's fake at the first stochastic parrotese.

My bank sends emailed query responses signed by e.g. Sarah. No disclaimer, e.g. "AI can make mistakes". Again starts convincing but can degenerate into parrotese. If I politely ask bot/human?, I get "human"... but if I query nonsensical advice, I get a non-resolving answer classic of ChatGPT. The reverse centauar in all its ugly glory.

Ledger Pauses Reseller Sales After $86M Drain Claims

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/ledger-pauses-reseller-sales-86-135100065.html
1•wslh•20s ago•0 comments

US company lobbying spend vs. market cap

https://www.kadoa.com/congress/insights/lobbying-vs-market-cap
1•hubraumhugo•28s ago•0 comments

Show HN: APIblaze – Serverless MCP and API gateway with everything built in

https://www.apiblaze.com
1•jayjaychicago•46s ago•0 comments

A nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-microscopy-fingerprint-paper-mill/
1•adunk•2m ago•0 comments

High-quality data is the best compute multiplier

https://www.datologyai.com/blog/text-curation-oct-2026
2•hurrycane•2m ago•0 comments

Eval Engineering

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/learn/eval-engineering.html
1•saikatsg•4m ago•1 comments

Show HN: StackCheck – Local-first tech stack intelligence and salary benchmarks

https://github.com/haydermuhib/StackCheck
1•haydermuhib•5m ago•0 comments

Which Programming Language Can Handle the Most Users on a $12 Server? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQXFhh_PiG4
1•ayoisaiah•5m ago•0 comments

We got 85–97% fewer estimated tokens than Cua Driver for agents reading Mac apps

https://github.com/ForteAI-Org/mecum
1•loriscomba•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: We made SQLite support concurrent writes

https://github.com/sqliteai/sqlite-multiwriter
1•marcobambini•8m ago•0 comments

Using LM Studio as a Chatbot in Firefox

https://www.gocemitevski.com/using-lm-studio-as-a-chatbot-in-firefox/
1•sepokroce•9m ago•0 comments

Unison Cloud is now open source

https://www.unison-lang.org/blog/unison-cloud-open-source/
1•bontaq•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Fruit Inspector – Real-time YOLO tracking at 40 FPS on old CPUs via Nim

https://github.com/olesha-ai/fruit-inspector-demo
1•olesha-ai•9m ago•0 comments

Product Manager

https://wpsleaderboard.ai/
1•frantj•11m ago•0 comments

I guess I'm using WebP now?

https://anderegg.ca/2026/10/08/i-guess-im-using-webp-now
2•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

Monthly API credits for Max and Team plans

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/17154008-monthly-api-credits-for-max-and-team-plans
1•ahamez•12m ago•0 comments

The NYT Games app is terrible

https://unacceptable.nl/posts/nyt-bad/
1•zwckl•13m ago•0 comments

How the macOS System has changed over 7 years

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/10/09/how-the-macos-system-has-changed-over-7-years/
2•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

From Inflation to Variation: The Narrative Is Gone, Long Live the Narrative

https://medium.com/@smoking2man/from-inflation-to-variation-the-narrative-is-gone-long-live-the-n...
1•Aldus551•13m ago•0 comments

OpenTelemetry Tracing for Determinate Nix

https://determinate.systems/blog/determinate-nix-opentelemetry/
1•biggestlou•15m ago•0 comments

Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/experiment-running-hospital-code/
5•rafiss•17m ago•1 comments

Theory and Practice of Concurrency in the Entity-Component-System Pattern

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15264
1•lioeters•20m ago•0 comments

The Case for Boring Technology

https://deadparrotbbs.com/the-case-for-boring-technology/
2•speckx•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Realtime semantic advice on coding standards for the agents

https://github.com/dearlordylord/hapsland
4•Firfi•22m ago•1 comments

ChatGPT for Teens is not necessarily 'safer than the previous version,'

https://www.cnbc.com/make-it/2026/10/09/chatgpt-for-teens-safety-common-sense-media.html
3•cramer4next•23m ago•0 comments

Bootstrap 6 Alpha

https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2026/10/08/bootstrap-6-alpha/
2•mfld•25m ago•0 comments

The super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for OpenAI

https://bsky.app/profile/opinionhaver.bsky.social/post/3mxfo2mdjqs2z
7•doener•25m ago•3 comments

AI, Autonomous Warfare and the Severance from Responsibility

https://read.misalignedmag.com/ai-autonomous-warfare-and-the-severance-from-responsibility-480da3...
1•lcubw•29m ago•1 comments

VideoDB leads a 100-hour action retrieval benchmark vs. AWS Nova and Twelve Labs

https://videodb.io/blog/a-faster-path-to-the-next-policy
2•ashu_trv•29m ago•0 comments

Agent Swarm: OSS multiplayer AI for your company

https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm/releases
1•tarasyarema•32m ago•3 comments