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Gemini 4 Argon

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/
556•737max•2h ago•430 comments

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

https://developers.googleblog.com/gemini-4-argon-for-robotics/
85•xnx•2h ago•22 comments

Cyberattack halts construction of tunnel between Denmark and Germany

https://ua.news/en/world/kiberataka-zupinila-budivnitstvo-tuneliu-mizh-daniieiu-ta-nimechchinoiu-...
107•paaloeye•2h ago•72 comments

Apple HomeView

https://www.apple.com/apple-homeview/
510•etothet•5h ago•626 comments

Thunderbird for iOS

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2026/10/thunderbird-for-ios-a-first-look-at-the-native-iphone-email-...
195•mjorgers•3h ago•73 comments

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/164250
584•formerly_proven•8h ago•334 comments

I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic
137•sammy0910•3h ago•78 comments

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control
164•Philpax•3h ago•127 comments

Firefox Enterprise

https://www.firefox.com/en-US/enterprise/
449•recvonline•6h ago•185 comments

Coris (YC S22) Is Hiring Back End Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coris/jobs/h0nDly8-backend-engineer-ai-native-risk-infrastr...
1•smaddali•2h ago

We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

https://eg2.haku.sh/
327•amrrs•7h ago•79 comments

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors

https://news.mit.edu/2026/mit-class-project-turns-into-fda-cleared-treatment-for-tremors-1002
55•zdw•23h ago•9 comments

New Apple TV 4K

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/10/apple-unveils-the-new-apple-tv-4k/
188•corvad•5h ago•367 comments

A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/distributed-gpu-cloud
185•acossta•6h ago•79 comments

Launch HN: Consus (YC F24) – LLM gateway for companies handling sensitive data

26•ericmags•3h ago•14 comments

Show HN: XY Music Notation

https://music.xy.dev/
11•jmole•1h ago•10 comments

Show HN: How Random Are You?

https://lab.specr.net/rigged-draw/
30•vunderba•2h ago•14 comments

Zero to Calc in Six Days: Inside XBOW's Chrome Full Chain

https://xbow.com/labs/research/zero-to-calc-in-six-days-inside-xbow-chrome-full-chain
6•ollin•22m ago•1 comments

Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

https://9to5mac.com/2026/10/12/apples-new-switch-to-safari-campaign-details-why-you-should-ditch-...
57•ivell•4h ago•87 comments

A plea not to use uv-build

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/
8•Ravencentric•51m ago•3 comments

How to engineer an AI harness for game development

https://kylekukshtel.com/ai-harness-engineering-game-development-claude-code
56•kkukshtel•4h ago•20 comments

Worlds more habitable than Earth?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/science/inhabitable-planets-solar-system.html
41•cainxinth•6h ago•70 comments

Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

https://blog.character.ai/an-update-on-character-ai/
200•nryoo•11h ago•221 comments

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/77107
299•benbreen•12h ago•75 comments

Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks

https://pdftomp3.com/connect-ai/
141•janpmz•8h ago•72 comments

BB(10) > Graham's Number

https://github.com/jeff87654/busy-beaver/blob/main/BB10/1RB0RA_1LC1LF_1RD0LB_1RA1LE_1LI0LC_0RG1LD...
61•surprisetalk•6h ago•44 comments

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

https://yyhh.org/blog/2026/10/ai-is-a-tool/
604•layer8•21h ago•474 comments

AWS Lambda Web Functions

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-aws-lambda-web-functions-for-fast-consistent-web-app-...
76•HatchedLake721•8h ago•72 comments

Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript

https://github.com/maharshi365/deslop
3•maharshi365•1h ago•0 comments

GLM-Legal

https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal
657•ilreb•1d ago•357 comments
Open in hackernews

Scientists wonder: Is my AI stealing my ideas?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-worry-ai-is-stealing-their-ideas/
26•geox•2h ago

Comments

j45•2h ago
It's scary to think if too many scientists might be trying to save $20/month and use the free AI plans.

Or worse, not understand how this piece of technology is not snapshot based like the software before it, and instead is evolving constantly, and what impact that has on their base assumptions.

maidaman•1h ago
This is like when the price of things increases because they are in your shopping cart.
nylonstrung•1h ago
It makes no sense that the LLMs could be solving problems based on prompts given by individual scientists

Are they implying that chat history of a single person is being taken an used to skew post-training results?

Why would it only be for Navier-Stokes that we see this having an effect

There are 1 million times more prompts being processed for stuff like furry roleplay than unsolved scientific problems

cowoder•54m ago
Training the LLM on logs might make little sense, but that doesn't mean the LLM can't get access to those logs outside of training. Companies have been gobbling up your data left and right, why wouldn't these companies do the same and then feed it to their LLM for a specific use case?
alwa•51m ago
If only we had a technology that could classify the topic, tone, and sophistication of arbitrary natural-language conversations; you know, to sort the proofs from the furries…
vegadw•9m ago
It's actually probably the case the proofs are coming from the furies.
robleafwagner•51m ago
I think Anthropic et al. would have very little difficulty determining exactly who their users are, so it would probably be trivial to focus any training of this sort on individuals known to be doing cutting edge research, as well as their colleagues, postdocs, grad students etc. Not saying it is happening, but they certainly have the capacity to make a system to skip all the prompts they don’t care about and leave just the prompts they do care about.
socializer•47m ago
Are you kidding? It's clear that frontier labs are desperate to ingest any human text they can find. They're paying people to find rare books and digitize them. They're vacuuming up Reddit threads. And in their own products, they make it difficult to turn off conversation logging unless you pay.

I have zero difficulty accepting that they're using conversation logs, probably anonymized and then chopped so that they can claim it's no longer user data and that it can't be tracked back to a specific chat. And yes, sometimes, a single piece of text is enough to move the needle, especially when it comes to some exotic, sparse topics.

simianwords•1h ago
I think there's a market for a fundamentally privacy focused AI hosting company that just hosts Open models. I think Proton has something like this.

If someone's thinks their ideas are so precious, they should be using the privacy focused ones.

123a6kj•52m ago
Of course it is. The people here who claim that there are too many prompts that would pollute the training data (deliberately) overlook that AI can classify the value of prompts quite well.

Even the free Google AI continues the conversation much longer and asks followup questions if you are serious.

Prompts of scientists will be forwarded to a data labeler and be used for training.

These prompts of course include the use case of converting a colleague's work to another file format using AI, which mathematicians always proudly announce. So they leak other people's ideas, too.

masfuerte•41m ago
Your final paragraph refers to something that's about to be published on the web. So the AI will train on it anyway.
lioeters•48m ago
AI is the product and process of stealing all your ideas. The purpose of the thing is what it does. You are training your replacement.
karim79•37m ago
Also your dignity and sense of purpose, I would add. I think the consequences of these shenanigans are going to be way more wide reaching than what we can currently comprehend. I pray for us all.
empath75•31m ago
If you're working with an AI to solve a mathematical problem, presumably it is contributing ideas. I think the scientists might be confusing the LLM's ideas with their own.
moi2388•9m ago
Tax payers wonder: are scientists stealing my money to patent tax funded research?