A two-person team built Cork, an app that extracts restaurant and event information from Instagram Reels and TikTok videos and saves it to a map and calendar, outperforming funded competitors on popul…
A Hacker News user posted an open thread asking tech workers how they are feeling, citing a sense of collective darkness. Commenters responded with advice on maintaining a positive outlook through act…
A new demo called SRT-Introspect reveals how large language models like Qwen fix word meanings during generation, contradicting the reflexive, approximated nature of human language. The tool surfaces …
Zettascale (YC S24), a San Francisco-based AI chip startup, is hiring founding FPGA engineers to build its next-generation XPU compute engines designed to support artificial general intelligence and a…
A developer launched a YouTube transcription website built with Sveltekit, shadcn, and a Python backend that remains indexed on Google after 30 days, receiving 5 to 10 daily transcriptions. The projec…
A Hacker News user posted a request for learning resources on physical AI and robotics after noticing a surge in companies selling robot data. The user cited Build AI's February launch as a starting p…
A Hacker News user warned that humans are increasingly outsourcing critical thinking to AI models, raising the risk that people may become as intellectually passive as the machines they rely on. The u…
A Hacker News user developing an AI-powered Gin Rummy trainer is struggling to program medium and hard difficulty bot strategies, as the AI continues to lose to the easy setting. The user seeks commun…
AccessOwl (YC S22), a profitable Y Combinator-backed startup that replaces Okta and ticketing systems for SaaS management, is hiring a Senior AI TypeScript Engineer to build browser automations and ad…
Cost.dev (YC W21) launched a new CLI designed for coding agents that reduces Claude's output token usage by up to 79% and API costs by up to 67% compared to a bare-Claude baseline. The tool runs local…
Software developers using AI coding agents are structuring their context management across three layers: personal memory tools, repository-level documentation, and organization-wide knowledge systems.…
A developer built pish, an experimental C-based project aiming for POSIX/UNIX compliance, entirely from scratch over the course of a week. The project taught the developer that AI assistance is more e…
A Hacker News user asked the community to share the most creative or amusing "thinking word" they have observed from the AI coding tool Claude Code. The user offered their own example, "Photosynthesiz…
A Hacker News user has deployed an AI assistant named OpenClaw on a Hetzner VM to automate tasks including scanning government procurement websites, monitoring email inboxes for job descriptions, and …
A developer who spent two months building a calorie-tracking Progressive Web App reports that the project received downvotes and no feedback on a PWA support community, despite being a polished, funct…
A developer named Daniel-Pan released Seaticket.ai, an AI agent designed to autonomously resolve customer support issues. The tool, shared on Hacker News, aims to handle support tickets end-to-end wit…
Hyper (YC P26) launched a shared "company brain" that ingests data from Slack, email, calendars, and documents to power AI agents with comprehensive, up-to-date company context. The system builds a hy…
Skyvern, a Y Combinator-backed open-source AI agent startup from the S23 batch, is hiring a Developer Relations Engineer to expand its reach among developers. The company seeks a candidate who can cre…
Arcadia Science released SpectraLoRA, a method that post-trains the 22.5-million-parameter DetaNet equivariant graph neural network using SO(3)-equivariant LoRA to predict Hessians, vibrational freque…
Piramidal (YC W24) is hiring senior software engineers for frontend, backend, and infra roles to work on problems at the intersection of foundational AI and neuroscience. The company is seeking candid…