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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest?

Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest? 5 by latand6 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm a PhD student in structural engineering. My dissertation topic is about using LLM agents in automating FEA calculations on common Ukrainian software that companies use. I'm writing my literature review now and I've vibecoded a personal local dashboard that helps me manage the literature review process. I use LLM agents to fill up the LaTeX template (to automate formatting, also you can use IDE to view diffs) in github repo. Then I run ChatGPT Pro to collect all relevant papers (and how) to my topic. Then I collect the ones available online, where the PDFs are available. I have a special structure of folders with plain files like markdown and JSON. The idea of the dashboard is the following: I run the Codex through a web chat to identify the relevant quotes — relevant for my dissertation topic — and how they are relevant, it combines them into a number of claim...
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New ask Hacker News story: LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work

LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work 3 by noemit | 0 comments on Hacker News. I ran an experiment to see if CLI actually was the most intuitive format for tool calling. (As claimed by a ex-Manus AI Backend Engineer) I gave my model random scenarios and a single tool "run" - i told it that it worked like a CLI. I told it to guess commands. it guessed great commands, but it formatted it always with a colon up front, like :help :browser :search :curl It was trained on how terminals look, not what you actually type (you don't type the ":") I have since updated my code in my agent tool to stop fighting against this intuition. LLMs they learn what commands look like in documentation/artifacts, not what the human actually typed on the keyboard. Seems so obvious. This is why you have to test your LLM and see how it naturally works, so you don't have to fight it with your system prompt. This is Kimi K2.5 Btw.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?

Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy? 5 by jawerty | 2 comments on Hacker News. I read on Reddit about a podcast where Karpathy described how he went from writing 80% of his own code to 0%, being in a constant state of “AI psychosis” because the possibilities feel infinite. I’ve personally found that my workflow has become very “opportunistic”—I feel like I can do anything with AI, so I try everything. That might be good…or bad. I’d be curious to see what HN has to say, or whether anyone else has experienced something similar. Here’s the Reddit post for context: https://ift.tt/ja9qVoZ Anyone also feeling this way?? If not psychosis which may be an exaggeration then feeling more stressed, frazzled, whatever.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work?

Ask HN: How much are you spending on AI coding at work? 3 by habosa | 1 comments on Hacker News. Jensen Huang recently said that he thinks an engineer who makes $500k should spend at least $250k a year on “tokens” which is an astounding figure. I personally don’t know how I could spend that much if I tried. Obviously he has a huge financial incentive to convince people that $250k per engineer is reasonable, but it got me thinking that it’s time for a survey. How much are you and your coworkers spending on AI coding tools at work? I’m talking about Cursor, Claude Code, etc. Not all AI-powered SaaS, just the stuff that’s metered by token.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you handle peer-to-peer discovery on iOS without a server?

Ask HN: How do you handle peer-to-peer discovery on iOS without a server? 5 by redgridtactical | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm building an app that syncs between phones over Bluetooth when there's no cell service. Android has Nearby Connections API which handles discovery and transport nicely. iOS has Multipeer Connectivity but it's flaky and Apple hasn't updated it in years. CoreBluetooth works but discovery is slow and you're limited to advertising 28 bytes. Has anyone found a reliable cross-platform approach to BLE device discovery that doesn't require a central server or pre-shared identifiers?
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New ask Hacker News story: SparkVSR: Video Super-Resolution You Can Control with Keyframes

SparkVSR: Video Super-Resolution You Can Control with Keyframes 2 by steveharing1 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Found this on GitHub and couldn't stop reading. It's from a Texas A&M and YouTube/Google team and what got me is it's not your typical blind upscaler where you just cross your fingers and hope. You actually pick a few keyframes, upscale those yourself however you want, and it propagates your choices across the whole video. That level of control is something I haven't really seen before in VSR. Clever idea honestly. Apache 2 licensed too so worth a look. Has anyone tried it yet? https://ift.tt/sg84zkm
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035

Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035 7 by davidstarkjava | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys, quick warning about a crazy MS 365 dark pattern I ran into last night. I was testing the business basic plan for a side project. Decided to upgrade to the annual tier to get the discount ($3.45/mo). Clicked convert to paid, put my burner card in, and got a $0.00 confirmation email. Thought we were good. Woke up today to my bank blocking a charge for exactly $1,035.00. Turns out when you hit the annual upgrade, Microsoft silently defaults the quantity dropdown to 25 licenses. No warning prompt at all. (25 seats x 12 months x $3.45 = $1,035). They send the zero-dollar invoice to make you think it's an auth hold, then try to drain your card while you sleep. The best part? When I went to their support chat to ask why my billing was so high, the system conveniently gave me a "System error, try again later" message. You can't even get help....
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