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Better Images of AI

https://betterimagesofai.org/
18•Curiositry•3h ago

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ares623•1h ago
Where is the goose imagery?
xgulfie•43m ago
smh goose was not valued...
suttontom•1h ago
>These AI images also add to the public mistrust of AI, a growing problem for innovation in a field that is sometimes seen as biased, opaque and extractive.

Oh my, how would anyone ever have gotten that impression?!

serious_angel•1h ago
Thank you... for making the Internet worse, or even more sorrowful ... empty, valueless, worthless, untrue, unaccountable, irresponsible, unconfident , unsafe, insecure, and effortless place... also ridiculing actual artists, professionals, and just people, nature, history, the universe...

I am sorry, but I have absolutely no idea how these people who create such projects and services sleep peaceful at night...

sublinear•1h ago
Yeah, but this sounds like hard backpedaling on the ridiculous sales pitches.

"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics"

We've already aroused far too many idiots who decided to hang their hat on a flimsy epistemology. They will never be convinced.

newsomix9xl•1h ago
I recommend the Japanese mascot approach.

A round smiling AI mascot.

And a narrative that makes AI seem friendly and helpful.

These CEOs who keep lying about AI taking jobs need to be silenced with facts about AI impact on jobs (mostly neglible, oddly related to the ROI problem. If AI = job replacement that might be a kind of ROI, right ?)

And the hysterics around "needing to stop AI" because "its moving too fast" wut? Totally fake.

AI can't provide valid formatted XML in some cases, gets caught in useless loops in others, etc.

jdiff•1h ago
A few have been attempted. Mostly by Microsoft and subsidiaries, from GitHub to Mojang. None have caught on. Closest is GitHub's logo which is getting increasingly animated. But dedicated mascots a la Microsoft's Mico have gone absolutely nowhere.
kube-system•15m ago
How can you forget Salesforce -- who has way too damn many mascots!?

https://thespotforpardot.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Saas...

https://thespotforpardot.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Astr...

https://thespotforpardot.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Eins...

newsomix9xl•14m ago
A mascot for Microsoft copilot - thanks I didn't know about Mico - is totally different.

That's just a Clippy variant.

This AI mascot would represent "all AI" not Microsoft Copilot.

And there needs to be a consistent counter to the "were laying off 10% of our staff to pivot to AI" lies.

Yes, they're laying off staff, but no this has nothing to do with AI.

They lay off staff to appease stock holders.

"We over hired in the pandemic" is a hoot. So we're firing the executives who did the planning for that? Nope. They stay.

AI is a technology whose defamation by CEOs will make its progress slower and more difficult, simply so the CEIs have some cover story for layoffs.

devinplatt•20m ago
My personal mental image for AI agents is Mr Meeseeks.

Per Wikipedia:

> Meeseeks are a powder-blue-skinned species of humanoids (each of whom is named "Mr. Meeseeks") who are created to serve a single purpose which they will go to any length to fulfill. Each brought to life by a "Meeseeks Box", they typically live for no more than a few hours in a constant state of pain, vanishing upon completing their assigned task so as to end their own existence and thereby end their suffering; as such, the longer an individual Meeseeks remains alive, the more insane and unhinged they become.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Meeseeks

slopinthebag•17m ago
We already have the best image of AI, clippy.

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/we-have-mythos-at-home-glm-52-beats-claude-in-our-cyber-benchmarks/
502•jms703•9h ago•241 comments

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

https://dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html
186•vga1•8h ago•73 comments

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07013
57•babelfish•4h ago•12 comments

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/
333•xbryanx•12h ago•86 comments

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

https://antoine.fi/mri-analysis-using-claude-code-opus
359•engmarketer•10h ago•468 comments

Better Images of AI

https://betterimagesofai.org/
19•Curiositry•3h ago•11 comments

Deciphering Basmala

https://blog.plover.com/lang/bismillah.html
17•lordgrenville•4d ago•5 comments

AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/28/ai-boom-risks-global-financial-crash-central-bank...
41•b-man•1h ago•21 comments

TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/top500-at-isc26-we-have-a-new-number
78•rbanffy•7h ago•37 comments

The Boeing 747 begins its final descent

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/07/boeing-747-retirement/687304/
147•dbl000•3d ago•202 comments

Show HN: Zanagrams

https://zanagrams.com/
191•pompomsheep•11h ago•53 comments

Librepods: AirPods liberated

https://github.com/librepods-org/librepods
294•rbanffy•8h ago•92 comments

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

https://english.elpais.com/education/2026-06-28/ai-fraud-at-brown-university-academic-integrity-i...
293•geox•10h ago•398 comments

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html
94•zdw•9h ago•21 comments

Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

https://www.openculture.com/2020/10/daisugi.html
112•MaysonL•10h ago•36 comments

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-tech-things-tokenmaxxing
115•theahura•10h ago•142 comments

Show HN: DRM-Free Books

https://frequal.com/Perspectives/DrmFreeAuthors.html
76•TeaVMFan•9h ago•33 comments

Researchers have developed pixels that can emit and analyse light together

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/06/a-new-type-of-pixel.html
47•tspng•1d ago•32 comments

The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-23/golden-geese-and-unicorns-inside-the-eccentric...
19•phaser•2d ago•4 comments

Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine

https://xonaly.com/
60•backlit4034•4h ago•38 comments

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847
180•pikseladam•14h ago•120 comments

Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs

https://github.com/kamaludu/bash4llm/
37•kamaludu•7h ago•15 comments

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/kids-act-would-require-age-checks-get-online
330•bilsbie•14h ago•279 comments

Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch

https://github.com/JustVugg/nanoeuler
38•vforno•7h ago•9 comments

Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

https://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html
86•pwg•10h ago•20 comments

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

https://aresluna.org/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-polish-s/
210•colinprince•14h ago•71 comments

Model Training as Code

https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/model-training-as-code/
21•peterBlue75•3d ago•7 comments

British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa (2005)

https://www.britishorigami.org/cp-lister-list/the-1955-exhibition-by-akira-yoshizawa/
22•dang•7h ago•2 comments

Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online
7•rmason•1h ago•0 comments

The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

https://github.com/rochus-keller/MUMPS/blob/main/docs/MUMPS_Primer.adoc
71•Rochus•14h ago•42 comments