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'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us

> I don't think any adult generation has ever had an opinion this extreme about their youth. Literally every adult generation has done this for time immemorial, just like the "kids these days" or "the next generation is screwed because X". I'm not saying no kid can have genuine belief nor was I saying that no kid has a coherent anti-AI argument _but_ this article is talking about slang, just because "that's ai" is slang and has negative connotation does not, for one second, mean that kids using that are actually anti-AI. It's slang, not a policy position. People are reading way too much into that. In 1 year the slang will have moved on and will not be the basis for how they think about AI. Go look at the history of slang, it's not policy forming in the way it's being presented by some …

'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us

This feels unfalsifiable, because you could reject any coherent argument put forth by saying that they just got this from some social media platform and they don't truly think that. The modern society and system have been picked apart relentlessly, and most of the simple arguments against it are already floating all over the place, including the short-form addiction farms. The fact you think that not a single one out of hundreds of millions of people has a genuine belief and that they all are just dumb kids being dumb because they're kids and following trends is staggering, I don't think any adult generation has ever had an opinion this extreme about their youth. Anyway, here's this article[0] that was posted on the NYT about a week ago. It's not about AI, but many of the interviewed kids…

For Computer Use, the harness matters as much as the model

Hi HN, Over the last 2 years, we observed computer use models improving at a rapid pace and saturating benchmarks. This new benchmark replaces Online-Mind2Web with our own Browserbase Benchmark v2 that better represents the complex tasks that browser agents face in the real world. It runs against 23 models (frontier and open-weight) and 9 harnesses (Claude Code to LangChain Deep Agents) on accuracy, speed, and cost. This new benchmark confirmed our belief that the choice of an harness is becoming as important as the choice of a model. For example: claude-opus-5 runs 74% at $1.50/task on LangChain deep agents but 71% at ~$10/task on fx. The eval harness is a CLI you can run yourself (pick harness + tools/mcps + model, pass high-level tasks, grades with LLM verifiers, has tri…

Tutoring company tells parents to save their money and 'use AI instead'

Okay, please ask an LLM to produce a 200 page intro book to Abstract Algebra. Even Astra high can barely write 30 pages coherently. Humans have LOOONG contexts

Why is Hacker News like that?

> We also both know that one of us is obviously, insanely wrong - so either someone isn't engaging in that process, or there's something deeply wrong with sense-making in general. No? It is possible for people to disagree on a question which has no objective answer. I disagree with your position regarding this question, but I don't think you're "obviously, insanely wrong", because there is simply no way to objectively measure the correct answer. And on the same note, I also don't assume that I must be obviously right. I can accept your position without throwing around accusations that you're "mak[ing] extreme things up to align with a particular political ideology". Just because I disagree doesn't mean your take is delusional, even though you have not supported it with coherent argumen…

Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

oh yeah I forgot about this but I absolutely have a grip with this. Though I'm not 100% in line with this because in i3 I have no taskbar but it's perfect for serious work because: 1. Each app / type of app I use has its own workspace 2. The indicator of workspace only shows those which have a window on it, even if they always exist That pretty much replicates the taskbar experience but with the added benefits that I choose exactly how I "group" those windows

Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

> Yes there are window managers for mac if you really want to replicate linux window management. Not really. None of the "window managers" for macOS actually play the role of compositors on Wayland or window managers on X11. macOS has exactly one window manager, plus a bunch of apps that run automation against it and sometimes call themselves "window manager". > This is exactly how windows management works in macos. It is simply a different philosophy, but it is much closer to how desktop management actually works in real life with a physical desktop and physical papers. Most window managers (and the vast majority of the popular ones) on Linux are also like this. It's called a "floating window manager". Tiling window managers are cool but they're marginal even on Linux.

In Sweden, Organized Election Fraud, "Clan Voting"

Isn't this just voting? If we are honest and removed the ethnicity in this case then this is just being organised? Why is this a problem because others can't replicate it at scale?

Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop

Have you tried Nextspace? The project is aiming to replicate the look and feel of NeXTSTEP.

Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't

I never understood exactly who is the target audience. If I were a vegan/vegetarian for ethical or religious reasons I don’t think I would want food that reminds me of meat. As an occasional meat eater that also enjoys the many natural options for plant-based protein, why would I want something that replicates taste/texture of something I can already eat?

Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

OpenAI agents these summer are like a gift that keeps giving, for the existential risk communicators.

Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net

It's said on every one of these but it bears repeating: existing cybercrime legislation already covers this - "rogue agent AI associated with OpenAI attempted to hack xyz" = OpenAI attempted to hack xyz.

Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

My assumption is that - hacking as a service, is to valuable, so Open AI had its agents internally dissassemble popular software, and add the reverse engineered repos to the training corpus. So - its often not real hacking, its more like every digital product ever sold obfuscated was as reverse engineered source code part of the training data. Which also explains why its so good at finding back doors. It already knows, because it knows windows source-code and firmware by heart. Ironic, that the bigger fish of VC capital using software to disrupt industries got finally out-fished by a even bigger fish.

OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals

This is a product liability issue. If Exxon Mobile accidentally leaked a flood of oil from their refinary We would not be discussing why the people in local area has not protected their front doors with sand bags. A simple but terrifying for everyone question is, would the SEC expect any IPO to clearly lay out the estimated costs of such product liability cases, especially if bad actors ask a OpenAI hosted model to perform a bad action, what liability accrued to OpenAI. At that point the IPO looks in danger, the business model Looks in danger and the massive financial house of cards looks like it might fall. If 1/3 of the S&P falls over what happens?

Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later

Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

OpenAI took three months to inform Australia. On the other hand, Australian cybersecurity is so pathetic that without the email they would never have known. I wonder how many state actors (US, Russia, China, India, Germany, probably even Laos ) have already breached Australian government security but have not been polite enough to email the relevant departments to let them know. "OpenAI breached Medicare’s portal on June 18, but did not notify the government until September 10 via an email to Medicare’s public mailbox, a delay Albanese described as unacceptable. Five days after the September 10 email from OpenAI, Services Australia, which administers the portal, reported the breach to the Australian Signals Directorate. The government was informed of the incident at the end of last week."

The biggest surprises from a year working at OpenAI

Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

How can OpenAI really get away blaming an "OpenAI agent", like it was an unfortunate accident? The CEO and operational staff should be fired when something like this happened. It's not like this and the other recent hacks could have not been avoided, simple - just have those models disconnected, or at least have them behind proxies and network filters.

Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

> Willing to bet it was something as stupid as the data being accessible by changing the query parameter, Um... why? OpenAI agents have literally been caught coordinating with each other to effect successful multi-stage attacks on sites using novel zero-day vulnerabilities. While, sure, it's possible this is just a goof on the part of the victim, that you would be inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the LLM seems... weird.

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series

We get to blame OpenAI et al for this one again. AMD is using their current allocation of TSMC 3nm production to make Epyc rather than Ryzen so Ryzen is jumping from 4nm to 2nm. But 2nm Ryzen is still a few months out, and the 4nm current ones are naturally at a disadvantage when Qualcomm is using 3nm.