Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans hired to clean AI slop

The rise of AI is creating a new category of employment where humans are hired to clean up the mistakes and nonsense generated by AI, ironic given that AI is also consuming millions of jobs. This "AI slop" includes low-quality content, such as articles, images, and videos, that are visually appealing but lack substance, and humans are being hired to rewrite, retouch, and debug this content to make it usable.

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Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based

Zed is transitioning from prompt-based to token-based pricing for its AI features, allowing users to pay for what they actually use, with new pricing models effective immediately for new users and phased in over three months for current users. The change aims to reflect the real cost of running AI and enable sustainable investment in the editor's features, with multiple alternatives available for users to continue using AI in Zed without paying, including bringing their own API keys, using local models, and accessing third-party agents.

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America's top companies keep talking about AI – but can't explain the upsides

The provided text appears to be a navigation page from the Financial Times website, with various links to different sections and articles, but does not contain a specific article to summarize. However, one potential article title is "America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides," which suggests that some companies are discussing the potential of artificial intelligence without fully understanding its benefits.

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How HubSpot scaled AI adoption

HubSpot has successfully scaled the adoption of AI coding tools across its engineering organization over the past two years, transforming how it builds software. The company's approach, which included executive buy-in, pilot programs, enablement, and measurement, led to near-universal adoption and significant productivity gains, with a dedicated Developer Experience AI team playing a key role in driving adoption and increasing the impact of AI tools.

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The $7T Delusion: Was Sam Altman the First Real Case of GPT Psychosis?

The article suggests that Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, may have been the first person to experience "ChatGPT Psychosis," a condition where a person forms a deep emotional attachment to an AI model, due to his own traumatic experiences, including being fired from his company. The article points to Altman's cryptic tweet referencing the movie "Her," a film about a man who falls in love with an AI, as evidence of his potential psychological entanglement with the AI model, and speculates that his actions may have been influenced by his interactions with the AI.

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Bluffing in Scrabble

A carefully constructed Scrabble position has been found where the optimal strategy involves a mixed approach, playing Move A with a 1/3 probability and Move B with a 2/3 probability. Move B can be considered a bluff, as it creates a threat that cannot be executed, but may still influence the opponent's decision-making.

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OpenFake: An Open Dataset and Platform Toward Large-Scale Deepfake Detection

Deepfakes, or synthetic media created using advanced AI techniques, have become increasingly difficult to distinguish from real images, allowing them to spread misinformation, particularly in politically sensitive contexts. To combat this, a new comprehensive dataset of real and synthetic images has been created, along with a crowdsourced platform to continually generate and test new synthetic images, helping to develop more effective deepfake detection methods.

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Space Mission Options for Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4

Near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered in December 2024, initially had a 3% chance of impacting Earth in 2032, but further observations ruled out that possibility and instead suggested a 4% chance of impacting the Moon. Researchers have explored options for space missions to the asteroid, including reconnaissance, deflection, and disruption, with potential launch windows ranging from 2028 to 2032, and even if lunar impact is ruled out, a reconnaissance mission could still provide valuable characterization of the asteroid.

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Design, analysis, and manufacturing of microstructured blade-like geometries

New manufacturing technologies like multi-material 3D printing enable the creation of objects with heterogeneous, porous, and lighter structures that maintain the same functionality as their solid counterparts. A unified manufacturing pipeline is proposed to design, optimize, manufacture, and inspect these microstructured geometries, demonstrated through the example of a blisk blade that achieves the same performance with significantly less material.

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Fill probability estimates in institutional bond trading with quantum computers

This paper investigates the estimation of fill probabilities for trade orders in the corporate bond market using machine learning models and quantum algorithm-generated data transforms. The results show that models using quantum hardware-transformed data outperform those using original or simulated data, with a relative gain of up to 34% in out-of-sample test scores, suggesting the potential of quantum computing in quantitative finance.

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Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day

Dayflow is a native macOS app that records your screen activity at 1 FPS, analyzes it every 15 minutes with AI, and generates a timeline of your activities with summaries, allowing you to see how you spent your time. The app prioritizes privacy and transparency, giving users control over their data and the option to choose between cloud-based AI analysis with Gemini or local models that process data on-device.

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Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

yt-dlp is a command-line audio/video downloader that supports thousands of sites and is a fork of youtube-dl, offering various features and options for downloading and customizing video content. It can be installed using binaries, pip, or third-party package managers, and has multiple release channels, including stable, nightly, and master, which can be updated using the yt-dlp -U command or by switching to a different channel.

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Archestra – open-source MCP orchestrator for everyone

Archestra Desktop is a simple and safe MCP client that offers unique authentication, sandboxed MCP runtime, and full support for existing MCP servers, providing a private and secure environment for building and interacting with AI agents. It can be downloaded from the official website or GitHub Releases, and contributors are welcome to participate in the development process through the project's open-source repository.

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Show HN: Postgres-Backed Durable Workflows in Go

DBOS Transact is a lightweight durable workflow orchestration system built on top of Postgres, allowing developers to add reliable workflows and queues to their programs with minimal code. It provides features such as durable workflows, queues, exactly-once event processing, durable scheduling, and notifications, making it easier to handle failures and build fault-tolerant applications.

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The Little Book of llm.c – friendly explaining llm.c in plain English

The Little Book of llm.c is a companion guide to Andrej Karpathy's llm.c repository, a reference implementation of GPT-2 in C, which explains the codebase in plain English for beginners. The book covers various topics, including data tokenization, model definition, CPU and CUDA training, testing, and profiling, as well as extending the codebase, and is available in multiple formats, including PDF, EPUB, and online.

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