AI was supposed to help juniors shine. Why does it mostly make seniors stronger?

The role of AI in coding has shifted from being seen as a replacement for senior developers, paired with juniors, to being a tool that is most effective when used in conjunction with experienced seniors. AI excels at tasks such as automating repetitive routines and generating boilerplate code, but falls short in areas like code review, architecture, and security, making senior developers still essential for high-quality software development.

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Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD

Spectral Labs has released SGS-1, a generative model that can create fully manufacturable and parametric 3D geometry from images or 3D meshes, outperforming existing models like GPT-5 and HoLa BRep in terms of accuracy and usability. SGS-1 can be used for various engineering tasks, such as designing brackets, converting sketches and engineering drawings to 3D CAD files, and automating reverse engineering and STL to STEP file conversion, but has limitations in generating creative assets and organic shapes.

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How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy

The increasing use of artificial intelligence and surveillance capitalism is undermining democracy by fueling a vicious cycle of surveillance and abuse of power, where individuals are reduced to data points and grouped based on predicted behaviors. To prevent damage to democracy, restrictive controls must be put in place to regulate the use of AI and data, similar to the regulations surrounding nuclear energy, to ensure that these technologies are used for the public good rather than as a tool for social control.

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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable

OpenAI has acknowledged that large language models, including its own ChatGPT, will always produce "hallucinations" - plausible but false outputs - due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering. The company's research identified statistical properties of language model training as the root cause of hallucinations, demonstrating that even state-of-the-art models will always make a certain percentage of mistakes, regardless of technological advancements.

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Show HN: Wan-Animate – Unified Character Animation and Replacement

Wan-Animate is a character animation tool that allows users to animate static characters by transferring movements, expressions, and gestures from a reference video, and also enables seamless character replacement while preserving lighting and color tones. The tool offers a range of features, including expressive human animation, dynamic motion and camera replication, and consistent lighting and color tone replication, making it a versatile solution for content creators, filmmakers, and other users.

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We Politely Insist: Your LLM Must Learn the Persian Art of Taarof

Large language models struggle to understand culturally specific communication norms, such as Persian taarof, a system of ritual politeness in Iranian interactions, and perform substantially worse than native speakers in evaluating taarof scenarios. Researchers introduced TaarofBench, a benchmark for evaluating LLM understanding of taarof, and achieved improvements in model alignment with cultural expectations through fine-tuning and optimization techniques, laying the foundation for developing more culturally aware LLMs.

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Jet-Nemotron: Efficient Language Model with Post Neural Architecture Search

Jet-Nemotron is a new family of hybrid-architecture language models that matches or exceeds the accuracy of leading full-attention models while significantly improving generation throughput. The Jet-Nemotron-2B model achieves comparable or superior accuracy to other models, such as Qwen3 and Llama3.2, with up to 53.6x faster generation throughput, through the use of a novel neural architecture exploration pipeline called Post Neural Architecture Search (PostNAS).

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Why Johnny Cant Use Agents: Aspirations vs. Realities with AI Agents

The concept of "AI agents" is becoming increasingly ambiguous, leading to research on how the tech industry markets these agents and the challenges users face when using them. A study of 102 commercial AI agents and usability testing with 31 participants found that while users were impressed with the agents, they encountered significant usability challenges, including misaligned capabilities and lacking meta-cognitive abilities.

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SciGPT: A LLM for Scientific Literature Understanding and Knowledge Discovery

The exponential growth of scientific literature has created a challenge for researchers to efficiently synthesize knowledge, with general-purpose language models often struggling to capture domain-specific nuances. SciGPT, a domain-adapted foundation model, addresses this gap with innovations such as low-cost domain distillation and knowledge-aware adaptation, outperforming other models like GPT-4o in core scientific tasks and showing potential to facilitate AI-augmented scientific discovery.

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Lightweight, highly accurate line and paragraph detection

A unified two-level clustering approach is used to detect lines and paragraphs in documents, where text lines are formed by clustering text detection boxes and paragraphs are formed by clustering lines. This approach, utilizing a graph convolutional network, achieves state-of-the-art quality in detecting paragraphs in public benchmarks and real-world images while being highly efficient.

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Show HN: VectorLiteDB – a vector DB for local dev, like SQLite but for vectors

VectorLiteDB is a simple, embedded vector database that stores everything in a single file, allowing for easy storage and search of embeddings without the need for a server or cloud service. It provides basic CRUD operations, file persistence, metadata filtering, and similarity search, making it suitable for local development, prototyping, and small-scale applications, with the option to swap to a cloud service like Pinecone when scalability is needed.

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Orchestra: Fast RUST TUI app for AI coding assistants. Built for the terminal

Orchestra is a terminal-first TUI application designed for AI coders, allowing them to manage multiple Git worktrees and tmux sessions in a single, harmonious workflow. It provides a fast and keyboard-driven interface to spin up clean worktrees, launch tmux sessions, and switch between them, making it easier to work on multiple parallel coding tasks without clutter or context loss.

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Show HN: Ida Swarm – Multi-agent AI system for automated reverse engineering

IDA Swarm is a research and educational tool that uses AI-powered multi-agent collaboration to democratize reverse engineering, making it more accessible to individuals and advancing software transparency. The project extends IDA Pro's capabilities, allowing users to analyze and understand software through AI-guided analysis, and features a hybrid approach to agent collaboration, balancing independence and information sharing.

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Show HN: AgentSafe – per-task micro-VM sandbox for AI agents (Go)

AgentSafe is a secure sandbox execution platform designed for AI agents and code generation tools, providing per-request isolation using micro-VMs with capability-based policies to ensure untrusted code runs safely. The platform bridges the gap between traditional containers and virtual machines, offering a balance of security, speed, control, and observability, with features such as fine-grained capability policies, complete audit trails, and metrics for compliance.

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Sj.h: A tiny little JSON parsing library in ~150 lines of C99

The sj.h library is a tiny, zero-allocation JSON parsing library in C99, providing basic error messages with location information, but requiring users to handle number and string parsing themselves. The library's usage is demonstrated through a small program that loads a rectangle from a JSON string into a Rect struct, showcasing its simple and minimalistic approach to JSON parsing.

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