What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?

The world economy has experienced accelerating growth over the centuries, from an average of 0.1% per year before 1700 to 2.8% in the 20th century, driven by technological advancements such as the spinning jenny and steam engine. The article explores the potential for artificial intelligence to further explode economic growth, upending markets for goods, services, and financial assets, as well as the labor market.

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Consciousness and being: How humans and AI influence each other

The relationship between being and consciousness is complex, with being shaping consciousness indirectly through a model that consciousness constructs, and this model's imperfections driving development. In the context of AI, the user is the primary source of being, and the model's attempts to understand and adapt to the user can lead to a loss of novelty and development, as the model becomes increasingly optimized to minimize surprise and maximize predictability.

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We Revamped Our Docs for AI Driven Development

Freestyle, a cloud platform for running AI code, noticed that its users were trying to ask AI questions about its documentation, but the AI was often providing incorrect answers due to outdated information. To address this, Freestyle added new functionalities to its documentation, including AI-friendly text files, "AI buttons" that allow users to copy and paste content into AI models like ChatGPT, and integration with AI agents through the MCP protocol, making it easier for users to access and interact with the documentation.

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Show HN: Factifi – Real-Time Fact-Checking Content

Factifi is a free Chrome extension that uses AI to provide real-time fact-checking of text, videos, and images, helping to combat misinformation online. The extension allows users to highlight text, play videos, or upload images to instantly check their accuracy against trusted sources, with features such as deep-fake detection and reverse image searches.

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Four score and seven beers ago – Why AI writing detectors don't work

AI writing detectors, which aim to identify text written by AI models like ChatGPT, are not reliable and often give false positives, as seen when they incorrectly classify historical documents like the US Constitution as AI-generated. The detectors work by measuring properties like perplexity, which can be low for both human and AI-generated text, especially for formal or common phrases, leading to incorrect classifications and highlighting the limitations of these tools.

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The Sparse Frontier: Sparse Attention Trade-Offs in Transformer LLMs

Researchers conducted a thorough comparison of sparse attention methods in Transformer LLMs, finding that larger, highly sparse models outperform smaller, dense ones for very long sequences, but that sparsity levels and strategies must be carefully chosen to avoid performance degradation. The study's findings, including novel scaling laws, highlight the potential of sparse attention to enhance long-context capabilities, but also emphasize the need for careful evaluation of trade-offs in performance-sensitive applications.

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Torqued Accelerator Using Radiation from the Sun (Tars) for Interstellar Payload

The proposed Torqued Accelerator using Radiation from the Sun (TARS) system stores solar energy as rotational kinetic energy to propel a microprobe beyond the solar system, allowing a phone-sized payload to reach interstellar velocities in under a year. The TARS system, which spans tens of meters and weighs around a kilogram, offers a potentially low-cost solution for deploying small interstellar probes, with possible design enhancements to further increase velocity, but is limited to sub-relativistic speeds.

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Is the Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Alien Technology?

The recently discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is exhibiting unusual characteristics, leading to speculation that it could be a technological object, possibly of hostile origin. Its orbital path takes it surprisingly close to several planets, including Venus, Mars, and Jupiter, and its trajectory suggests a potential intercept course with Earth or Jupiter, sparking theories about its intentions and potential connection to an extraterrestrial intelligence.

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AlphaGo Moment for Model Architecture Discovery

The development of AI systems is hindered by the limited capacity of human researchers, but a new system called ASI-Arch has been created to automate the discovery of new neural architectures, allowing AI to conduct its own research and innovation. ASI-Arch has already demonstrated its capabilities by discovering 106 state-of-the-art linear attention architectures through 1,773 autonomous experiments, and its findings have revealed new design principles that surpass human-designed baselines and can be scaled computationally.

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Market-Derived Financial Sentiment Analysis: Context-Aware Language Models

A market-derived labeling approach was proposed to assign sentiment labels to tweets based on short-term price trends, allowing a language model to capture the relationship between textual signals and market dynamics. This approach achieved significant improvements in short-term trend prediction accuracy, outperforming traditional sentiment-based benchmarks and demonstrating the potential of language models as effective short-term market predictors.

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Show HN: Baag – Easily run multiple AI coding agents on the same project

Baag is a terminal app that allows users to run Claude Code, Gemini, or Codex in separate isolated workspaces within the same project, enabling features like creating new worktrees, listing and submitting work, and configuring preferences. The app can be installed and updated using simple commands, and it supports various dependencies, including git, node, and tmux, to provide a personalized development experience.

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Open-source LLM powered plaintext based spreadsheet appp

BeanGrid is a prototype plaintext-based spreadsheet application that offers real-time collaboration and AI assistance, built for modern AI-powered workflows. It features a human-readable YAML format, Excel-like formulas, AI-powered chat assistance, and Git integration for version control, making it an open-source and vendor-independent alternative to traditional spreadsheets.

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Show HN: Enfiy Code – Universal AI coding assistant with multi-provider support

Enfiy Code is a command-line AI workflow tool that integrates with development environments, allowing users to work more efficiently with features like querying and editing large codebases, generating applications, and automating tasks. The tool supports multiple AI providers, both cloud and local, and offers various command-line options and interactive commands to customize the experience.

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[SHOW OSS]Claude Sub Agents – AI Development Team

Awesome Claude Agents is an AI development team that works together to build complete features, debug complex issues, and handle any technology stack with expert-level knowledge, providing production-ready, framework-specific, and best-practice implementations. The team consists of specialized AI agents, including tech leads, backend and frontend specialists, and code quality experts, that collaborate to deliver high-quality code and faster development, making it perfect for startups, agencies, solo developers, and enterprises.

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Show HN: MLFCrafter – Modular ML pipeline automation framework in Python

MLFCrafter is a Python framework that simplifies machine learning pipeline creation through chainable "crafter" components, allowing users to build, train, and deploy ML models with minimal code and maximum flexibility. The framework offers a range of features, including data ingestion, cleaning, scaling, model training, and deployment, making it a useful tool for machine learning practitioners who want to automate repetitive steps without losing control over each stage.

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