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Hand-picked selection of articles on AI fundamentals/concepts

https://aman.ai/primers/ai/
192•vinhnx•9h ago

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willvarfar•7h ago
Kudos to the author, a very very nice overview of things!

I was just at a big conference where there was now a lot of AI talk and papers etc and, as that hasn't been my area, I've been catching up. Have been hearing so much about GNN and ensembles and things that I haven't had to think about before. So now I'm going through this and looking up new-to-me terms. Sweet.

Now it's just to work out how to save it as an epub to browse on the beach.

xenophonf•4h ago
It's obviously machine-generated from the linked source materials, and while I'm grateful for the bibliography, I wish I didn't have to click through a million pages to get from the blogspam to the actual content.
hengheng•6h ago
Surprised to see something on hackernews that isn't an AI picked selection of articles :-)

/s

nativeit•6h ago
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-money-trap/
humanono•5h ago
The author doesn't understand how much money is in the it industry and free market.

It doesn't matter if companies next to Google, Ms, meta make it.

Google does ai sustainable enough alone.

jonfw•4h ago
The whole article seems to hinge on the idea that cursor is unsustainable and a large driver of revenue for AI companies. It seems to think that if cursor dies, so does the revenue.

I don't see that- cursor will die by losing market share, not by the death of the market. Agentic coding as a market will continue to grow and if Claude remains competitive then Anthropic will do just fine.

tasn•4h ago
I was curious what the AI would include if promoted to create a similar list. I prefer the human version.

Ref: https://chatgpt.com/s/t_689a00f83f7c8191b70d07912a092f86

93po•3h ago
if im a below average web developer of 15 years and wanted to transition to entry level ML/AI engineer of any sort, how much time would you guess it would take to become a competitive candidate if i worked at it full time? i'm intelligent but just completely declined to apply myself more to web dev, which is why i sucked at it.

i've been unemployed for two years and it's hard to find anything i can do with my background that isn't "software engineer". entry level stuff for adjacent things like project or product management simply aren't available. exploring options like data science seems to show that area is also extremely competitive and the job market is terrible.

i really do not want to grind leetcode for the sake of yet another job plumbing CRUD apps together, but i could see myself learning a new domain and following through with that because the end result would be worth it/interesting

mumbisChungo•3h ago
AI/ML dev is just boring old SWE but now you've got some new ingredients in the mix.
93po•3h ago
i think my hope is that interviews for ML engineering would focus on domain knowledge specific to ML and not intricate questions about using typescript and react, which is the sort of stuff i simply cannot bring myself to care about enough to memorize well enough to discuss well in an interview
skydhash•2h ago
The premise is a basic understanding of matrices and stats. Then go through a course on machine learning (supervized, unsupervised, deep and reinforcement learning). That’s for the theory. Easy if you know your math and python.

The practical side is endless tweaking of the data and the models. And keeping yourself informed about new models and techniques (throug scientific papers)

93po•24m ago
thanks! i think i understand the nature of the job okay, i think its more my ability to realistically get there in 6-12 months is what i'm concerned about
bertman•2h ago
At first, I was confused because I didn't get why they would call it "hand-picked" when literally every single "article" on that site is attributed to the site itself.

And then I clicked a random page and, well, it's slop:

>By amplifying the signal from minority class data and leveraging the diversity of models, these methods enhance prediction accuracy and fairness across all classes. When paired with complementary techniques such as resampling, adjusting class weights, or generating synthetic data, ensemble methods can yield even more robust results in handling imbalanced datasets.

lrei•1h ago
Warning: This is AI generated, probably a low end model as some of the content is outright nonsense eg: """ concept of MoE is quite prevalent (refer Outrageously Large Neural Networks: the Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer), with Langchain’s high-level implementation of an LLMRouterChain, and notable low-level integrated examples """
fragmede•10m ago
The paper itself is fairly popular, with several thousand citations.

Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer

Noam Shazeer, Azalia Mirhoseini, Krzysztof Maziarz, Andy Davis, Quoc Le, Geoffrey Hinton, Jeff Dean

https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.06538

Future AI bills of $100k/yr per dev

https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/future-ai-spend-100k-per-dev
117•twapi•51m ago•54 comments

Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/
536•danso•6h ago•183 comments

I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey
458•al3rez•4h ago•323 comments

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition
448•Handy-Man•3h ago•271 comments

The Associated Press tells its book critics that it's ending weekly reviews

https://dankennedy.net/2025/08/08/the-associated-press-tells-its-book-critics-that-its-ending-weekly-reviews/
35•thm•1h ago•3 comments

OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography

https://www.openssh.com/pq.html
249•throw0101d•6h ago•75 comments

The Demographic Future of Humanity: Facts and Consequences [pdf]

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf
26•akyuu•1h ago•28 comments

Claude Is the Drug, Cursor Is the Dealer

https://middlelayer.substack.com/p/i-claude-is-the-drug-cursor-is-the
39•logan1085•2h ago•15 comments

The Value of Institutional Memory

https://timharford.com/2025/05/the-value-of-institutional-memory/
35•leoc•1h ago•10 comments

Trellis (YC W24) Is Hiring: Automate Prior Auth in Healthcare

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/trellis/jobs/Cv3ZwXh-forward-deployed-engineers-all-levels-august-2025
1•jackylin•1h ago

The Joy of Mixing Custom Elements, Web Components, and Markdown

https://deanebarker.net/tech/blog/custom-elements-markdown/
29•deanebarker•2h ago•13 comments

Neki – sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-neki
16•thdxr•47m ago•0 comments

UI vs. API. vs. UAI

https://www.joshbeckman.org/blog/practicing/ui-vs-api-vs-uai
20•bckmn•2h ago•11 comments

Byte Buddy is a code generation and manipulation library for Java

https://bytebuddy.net/
16•mooreds•3d ago•4 comments

Claude Code is all you need

https://dwyer.co.za/static/claude-code-is-all-you-need.html
296•sixhobbits•4h ago•183 comments

Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs

https://pricingpages.design/
122•finniansturdy•6h ago•36 comments

The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/412578726
431•alexcos•12h ago•232 comments

Launch HN: Halluminate (YC S25) – Simulating the internet to train computer use

22•wujerry2000•3h ago•21 comments

36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens

https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/541/4/2853/8213862?login=false
67•bookofjoe•4h ago•45 comments

Learn, Reflect, Apply, Prepare: The Four Daily Practices That Changed How I Live

https://opuslabs.substack.com/p/learn-reflect-apply-prepare
15•opuslabs•2h ago•0 comments

Porting to OS/2 – GitPius

https://gitpi.us/article-archive/porting-to-os2/
21•rbanffy•3d ago•0 comments

Designing Software in the Large

https://dafoster.net/articles/2025/07/22/designing-software-in-the-large/
42•davidfstr•4h ago•13 comments

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr11qqvvwlo
75•phlummox•2h ago•35 comments

Washington, DC police put under federal control, National Guard deployed

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/trump-washington-crime-fed-national-guard-homeless.html
33•pwim•37m ago•6 comments

How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development

https://bscholl.substack.com/p/move-fast-and-dont-break-safety-critical
10•flabber•23h ago•3 comments

Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig

https://aarol.dev/posts/zig-simd-substr/
149•todsacerdoti•9h ago•44 comments

Mistral Integration Improved in Llama.cpp

https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/14737
48•decide1000•8h ago•3 comments

Apache Iceberg V3 Spec new features for more efficient and flexible data lakes

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/08/whats-new-in-iceberg-v3.html
31•talatuyarer•1h ago•2 comments

A Global Look at Teletext

https://text-mode.org/?p=23643
52•aqua_worm_hole•7h ago•15 comments

A simple pixel physics simulator in Rust using Macroquad

https://github.com/gale93/sbixel
30•sbirulo•4d ago•1 comments