Hacker News

New stories

Live mirror
30 storiesupdated just nowView source snapshot
  1. YouTube stores three auto-extracted frames for every video, and nobody uses them (github.com/infinityloop1308)
    —discuss
  2. How AI Is Accelerating PCB Design and Prototyping (eetimes.com)
    —discuss
  3. Poisoning a Go Cache (lukasschwab.me)
    —discuss
  4. Genius AI APı Anahtarı
    —discuss
  5. Makeraoke: Share your side project in a video between three and nine minutes (reddit.com)
    —discuss
  6. Musk – Official Trailer (2026) (youtube.com)
    —discuss
  7. Sandbox-first AI coding harness (chock.ws)
    —discuss
  8. Show HN: Peekaboolean – image and jev-like typed questions in typed anwers out (github.com/bykof)
    —discuss
  9. I Posed as a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP (propublica.org)
    —discuss
  10. Show HN: Afterlife Vault – a virtual dead man's switch (afterlife-vault.com)
    1comments
  11. Using Claude Code: Spending your effort (claude.dev)
    —discuss
  12. The year AGI happened, and some unhinged predictions (ouzu.im)
    —discuss
  13. Show HN: LightCloud – A cloud console organised like file system (light-cloud.com)
    —discuss
  14. From game physics to care robots (2023) [The Royal Society] [video] (youtube.com)
    —discuss
  15. How can you quikly tell if a technical article lacks firsthand experience?
    —discuss
  16. There are no borders or boundaries on our planet (2023) (stargazingguy.co.uk)
    —discuss
  17. Rust for C# and .NET developers guide by Microsoft (microsoft.github.io)
    —discuss
  18. New Futex Syscalls for Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions (phoronix.com)
    —discuss
  19. GLiNER2.5-Decide and Jev: a decision model you run, and one you call (soniqo.audio)
    —discuss
  20. I Taught the Iliad to Chinese Teenagers (2021) (scholars-stage.org)
    —discuss
  21. Retrieval Practice: The Most Powerful Learning Strategy You're Not Using (2017) (cultofpedagogy.com)
    —discuss
  22. Show HN: Gigantua – A Black Hole in your Browser (claude.ai)
    1comments
  23. A Maintainer in Residence: Scott Schafer for the Cargo Team (rust-lang.org)
    —discuss
  24. Show HN: I built an AR App that overlays makeup tutorials live on your face (urartist.app)
    3comments
  25. Scoop: Top AI companies probing security incidents (axios.com)
    —discuss
  26. Advice to a Beginning Software Engineer (seangoedecke.com)
    —discuss
  27. M-5 Did Not Go Insane (palhereford.substack.com)
    —discuss
  28. What is an AI sandbox, and why do AI agents keep escaping them? (madrobot.blog)
    —discuss
  29. DXing at Galactic Scale (hamweekly.com)
    —discuss
  30. Show HN: Chuks v0.2.0-RC.2: 45 bugs a test suite didn't find, real programs did (chuks.org)
    —discuss

Is AI improving quality of life?

1 pointsby 1h agotwitter.com
3 comments
1h agoHN ↗

Every profile I open on X is building on AI. Has some company with 'ai' on it.

Is this the biggest free market experiment? On average (over time and geographies) is this leading to better quality of life?

There are various factors which can define success, but overall it should be quality of life, which itself includes wealth, health, peace, etc.

If I can ask everyone a simple question:

"Has AI improved your quality of life?"

50-50 -> we are still figuring it out, too early to be sure Yes -> technology with laisez faire is a win, humanity as a whole can be trusted to do good for itself No -> We cannot be trusted with unregulated tech

Maybe this is the biggest experiment after electricity which I think was in the Yes bucket.

Ask this to yourself, to people around you to understand where are we heading.

1h agoHN ↗

Agreed, AI is useful but definitely not the way its being handled right now. Its bloated, inefficient, and overused like websites were before the dot-com crash