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New ask Hacker News story: Are jobs and the world going to be like this, moving forward?

Are jobs and the world going to be like this, moving forward? 5 by chand190 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm an intern at one of the big tech's, and it feels like, not to be dramatic, I'm staring into an abyss. I effectively spend 8-9 hours a day using claude code to do my work. For roughly 10-15% of my daily salary worth of tokens, I am able to finish 80% of my job. This is a topic discussed quite commonly but it really feels like work is getting enshittified; it isn't cognitively engaging at all. Beyond that I feel extremely worried about ai diffusing into the world. I don't think I, or most people, can compete with a technology that can run autonomously for hours on end, that's improving at the rate it is, that has basically infinite knowledge, and has the smartest and wealthiest people investing their resources heavily into. I'm not sure what sorts of white collar jobs will have durability. With how physical AI is developing I wouldn't be surp...

New ask Hacker News story: Sophia NLU Home Assistant – On Device, Low Compute, No Internet, Voice Assistant

Sophia NLU Home Assistant – On Device, Low Compute, No Internet, Voice Assistant 2 by aquila416 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Sophia NLU is an on device, low compute, Rust based natural language understanding engine that acts as a conversation agent. It offers the fluidity of a LLM without the compute, requiring only 160MB of RAM, no GPU. Handles unlimited devices, multiple intents, ambiguity, contextual awareness, millisecond latency, doesn't connect to the internet, and never calls home. Upgrade to v1.2 just released with details at: https://ift.tt/DA1vqXs This upgrade comes with many improvements: * Sophia will now ask for clarification if it's uncertain which entity you meant. * State persistence. For example, if you ask how many lights are on in the kitchen, you can now say "turn them off for me" in the next message and Sophia will remember which lights you mean. * Help improve Sophia! When Sophia doesn't correctly understand a message, simply tell Sophi...

New ask Hacker News story: I vibe coded a world cup cheer guide for fans

I vibe coded a world cup cheer guide for fans 2 by shark-salvo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I don’t use hackernews so just created this account to share, since I thought this was fun and timely. I’m lucky to have a few tickets to world cup matches this year, and have been wondering who I’ll be likely to see in the knockout stages. So I vibe coded a simulation website with Claude, you can check it out here: worldcupcheerguide.com You can select which matches you’ll attend, and also add preferences on teams you’d like to see. Then for every match, it will tell you who to cheer for to have the best odds of seeing the best or most exciting teams. For good measure, I’ve also included a Probabilities tab that shows the most likely teams to end up in every match of the tournament, as well as the most likely matchups. The whole thing runs in browser and is hosted for free on github pages. The link to the github is on the page. Enjoy!

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?

Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction? 2 by zionsati | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am preparing to release a software project under the AGPLv3. The goal is traditional copyleft reciprocity - if you use it or host it, share your changes. However, I am realistic about the current legal landscape. Big tech corps are treating public code as free raw material for LLM training under the banner of "Fair Use". I am concerned that a company will ingest my codebase and use an LLM to effectively launder the logic, allowing their users to prompt a clean, closed-source recreation of my software without triggering the AGPL. Do we have a licence specifically to prevent this but still keep OSS healthy and alive? Do we have a llm.txt / robots.txt that LLM scrapers respect? I feel that the whole OSS model is under threat here, even more than before (e.g. big corps earn billions from Linux instances without having to pay any software licensing cost, but t...

New ask Hacker News story: Will the next high value profession be people who can think independently?

Will the next high value profession be people who can think independently? 5 by ciwolex | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster?

Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster? 4 by manimonji | 3 comments on Hacker News. I know it sounds like I'm some sort of self-taught "prompt engineer" but actually I spent some time learning to code, and a mistake I made was focusing too much on learning different frameworks and syntax etc etc. But it's impossible to consistently program and only learn syntax and no problem solving. So I learned a bit that too. But it hurt me very bad when I found out, not only AI is better than me in syntax, so it is in problem solving (however I sometimes catch their mistakes, but they're generally better than me). And they are rapidly becoming better. Recently I don't learn as much new stuff about programming and etc. For example, today I used beam search without knowing what it is and how it works, and I know it's something that I'd rarely use again and it and It's obvious that I used AI. Have you seen that meme about someon...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?

Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag? 2 by BugsJustFindMe | 1 comments on Hacker News. In these modern harrowing times, more and more posts are proving to be AI slop, and many people are averse to that. Do you think it would it be useful to have a way to indicate that you believe a post is slop separate from the existing flag button?