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Tile's Security Is So Bad It's a Feature for Stalkers

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/03/05/tiles-security-is-so-bad-its-a-feature-for-stalkers/
20•sambellll•24m ago•1 comments

Stolen Buttons

https://anatolyzenkov.com/stolen-buttons
271•Gecko4072•5d ago•67 comments

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment

https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/
136•tknaup•3h ago•91 comments

Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB

https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/
726•shscs911•11h ago•324 comments

Bitchat Is Now on Radicle

https://radicle.network/nodes/rosa.radicle.network/rad%3Az2v9tRJz1oknFAqCSY5W5c76nVvm6
118•h1watt•5h ago•60 comments

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

https://pytorch.org/blog/bringing-pytorch-monarch-to-amd-gpus-single-controller-distributed-train...
27•gmays•2h ago•5 comments

GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN

https://korben.info/en/gdid-windows-cut-tracker-vpn.html
30•rfarley04•4d ago•23 comments

How My Images Are Dithered

https://dead.garden/blog/how-my-images-are-dithered.html
157•surprisetalk•3d ago•60 comments

Spatial languages: Writing code in 2D

https://shukla.io/blog/2026-07/cccx.html
77•BinRoo•3d ago•26 comments

Rauno's Field Notes #2

https://rauno.me/notes/2
14•acmnrs•2h ago•1 comments

Show HN: I made some transistor animations

https://brandonli.net/semisim/animations
5•stunningllama•1d ago•0 comments

Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach

https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/features/professor-hannah-fry-wins-leelavati-prize
527•agnishom•16h ago•87 comments

Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings

https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/zero-roadkill-as-amazon-canopy-bridges-secure-15000-crossings/
132•hn_acker•3d ago•33 comments

The Dark Night of Mathematics

https://kirwinhampshire.substack.com/p/the-dark-night-of-mathematics
64•rmdmphilosopher•2h ago•45 comments

The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory

https://supakeen.com/weblog/the-fedora-45-sausage-factory/
98•6581•7h ago•30 comments

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

https://saffroncr.itch.io/katavatis/devlog/1534514/building-a-tiny-3d-renderer-for-a-tiny-handheld
188•g0xA52A2A•3d ago•14 comments

Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed

https://karimjedda.com/engineering-management-after-cost-of-code-collapse/
56•kiyanwang•3h ago•81 comments

Scanwheel is a drum style mechanical television you can build yourself

https://github.com/AncientJames/Scanwheel/
29•tobr•4h ago•6 comments

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Head of Engineering

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/FGmI8mx-head-of-engineering
1•asontha•6h ago

NYC Apartment Aquaponics

https://erinmurphy.dev/projects/project-2/
165•mm1119•5d ago•68 comments

The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/01/23/the-silurian-hypothesis/
33•andsoitis•4h ago•69 comments

Charles Ross spent 50 yrs building Star Axis naked-eye observatory in New Mexico

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html
87•ChrisArchitect•2d ago•18 comments

Task-centered iproute2 user guide

https://baturin.org/docs/iproute2/
19•greengreengrass•4h ago•2 comments

MouthPad: A Tongue-Controlled Touchpad

https://www.augmental.tech/
121•ZaninAndrea•10h ago•26 comments

ARC-AGI Leaderboard

https://arcprize.org/leaderboard
165•rzk•12h ago•129 comments

Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)

https://www.hakstuff.net/blog/teardown-the-bmw-idc23h-infotainment-unit
13•JojoFatsani•2d ago•11 comments

My web version of Mars MIPS, now have builtin C compiler

https://webmars.nfiles.top/
16•nenepbl•5h ago•4 comments

Brazilian farmers tokenized dairy cows to get loans, bypassing bank limits

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/07/24/brazilian-farmers-tokenized-dairy-cows-to-get-loans-b...
44•paulpauper•2h ago•31 comments

PyPI Blog: Releases now reject new files after 14 days

https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-07-22-releases-now-reject-new-files-after-14-days/
74•miketheman•3d ago•44 comments

GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime

https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-gc
143•phickey•5d ago•28 comments
Open in hackernews

Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U
47•root-parent•2h ago

Comments

arionmiles•1h ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MU6q9G0Sf0

I would rather speak to this man than anyone reading anything AI-written

tamimio•1h ago
I knew it would be Canada before even opening the link, what a total embarrassment!
clbrmbr•9m ago
Mais par contre, Canada also has some tremendous senatorial committees. They asked real questions of Hinton.
big-chungus4•1h ago
Why exactly is that bad?
paulryanrogers•1h ago
They care so little they don't even bother to proofread once, or lack enough intelligence to distinguish a prompt meant for a machine from a speech to inform/inspire/influence a human audience.
ajs1998•41m ago
It's a red flag. Even if they agree and understand whatever they copied from chatgpt, they were too lazy to clean up its output. Are they also too lazy to read the news or does chatgpt summarize their articles too? AI people are like emperors without clothes. Totally embarrassing to witness.

This is bad because it's only getting harder to trust people. This is not someone I would want representing me. Although I'm not thrilled about any of my representatives anyway.

nvme0n1p1•32m ago
You're absolutely right. Sure, I'll help you write a Hacker News comment explaining why politicians should have functional mental faculties and a coherent understanding of what they do during the course of their jobs and how their actions affect their constituents.
npodbielski•1h ago
Policy influence idea: find out who are the assistants of policians and what ai assistant, subscription they use and give them different answers than to everyone else. You do not have to even corrupt them.
morkalork•56m ago
Now identify voting blocks amongst your users and do it on a national scale.
seydor•58m ago
politicians are one of the easiest jobs to replace with AI
dwb•47m ago
I really hope you’re joking, but it’s hard to tell on here!
nvme0n1p1•36m ago
Indeed. Manual dexterity on a bipedal robot is still in its infancy compared to LLMs. We'll need another breakthrough or two before we have robots that can play golf and schmooze with other rich robots all day.
margalabargala•34m ago
We've had the technology to replace what the public percieves as the job of politicians for decades.
kmoser•49m ago
To be technical, what he read wasn't prompt, it's part of the AI's response to the prompt.

But yes, it's a giant tell that politician used AI to write his speech, and he didn't thoroughly edit the response when preparing the final draft.

phtrivier•46m ago
No, that politician trusted some poorly paid staff to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful).

The staff used an LLM and did not bother to check (or got their check wrong.)

One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible, the conséquence should be in proportion to the gravity.

gitonup•28m ago
There's a lot to unpack here.

> that politician trusted some poorly paid staff

- I assume that politician is the one / main person in charge of doling out payments. Does that mean they share guilt/responsibility for the result?

> to write a boring procedural speech while he was doing something (hopefully more useful).

- Is procedure not his job as a politician?

- If not, what is his job / the more useful thing?

> One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible, the conséquence [sic] should be in proportion to the gravity.

- Which is which?

- Which has more gravity and why?

- What consequences are you envisioning, in both cases?

- If, as I suspect, the consequences are lesser (proportionally) for the politician himself, what if any deterrents can be put into place to stop that behavior? After all, he manages his staff, in theory.

Toutouxc•8m ago
The slop jockey failed to deliver a cleaned up speech. The politician failed to proofread it or even just skim it once before giving the speech. The journalist failed to understand the difference between a prompt and LLM output.

Every single level failed here. Nothing works anymore. No one cares about anything making sense. I want fucking out.

yagudaev•48m ago
* AI Response. Not prompt.

I was expecting him to read a proper prompt. The prompt would be what he would tell the AI system.

“You are a speech writer, an expert on XYZ… your task is to write ABC…”

It’s not too bad, at least he is using ai. And agree we can replace many of them with AI. At least we will have the opportunity to talk to the ai directly about concerns.

chrisjj•39m ago
> It’s not too bad, at least he is using ai.

What is not too bad about him using "AI", exactly?

customguy•18m ago
One very tiny silver lining in all this will be leaked prompts. E.g. we all know how a non-apology reads, and call them out as such already, but when you see "write a really contrite apology without actually conceding anything while subtly casting doubt on the character of those making the accusations, but in a way that seems really open and constructive" it'll hit different still, I think.
llg-312g•34m ago
If he only reads the prompt and the RNG state of the prompt time it might be an improvement. Now people will claim that the RNG is sentient.
650•26m ago
I have both experienced and hear my coworkers across the tech industry complaining about having to parse slop from their peers, management and juniors they work with. AI comments on their merge requests that sound right, but are subtly incorrect and irrelevant that add to their cognitive load. PRD (Product Requirements Document) slop from PM's that are adding features for the sake of it and is essentially busy work. Leadership asking to add AI to evaluate employees and dashboards out the wazoo.

The floor has been raised for sure, and I am writing less boilerplate than before, and am able to diagnose bugs in my work quicker, but the amount of people that seemingly just copy and paste the AI output without critically thinking is causing me distress. There are seemingly no consequences either, more AI = more good.

tysilva•23m ago
This is our new normal. It's not necessarily interesting. But you have to expect nearly everyone is using AI at this point.
thisisauserid•16m ago
> Here's a more natural flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points.
Toutouxc•12m ago
I feel like the world has lost 30 IQ points over the last two years. I can’t think of a better way to describe it, the dumbing down of everything is palpable and accelerating.
mmarian•5m ago
IQ levels are same as before, it's just easier to spot differences.
netsharc•18m ago
Encouraging that news.com.au (a Rupert Murdoch shop) staff can't tell between AI prompt and response...