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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does AI research need "world models" more than bigger LLMs?

Ask HN: Does AI research need "world models" more than bigger LLMs? 2 by unjuno | 1 comments on Hacker News. It seems that generating hypotheses is no longer the main problem. The harder problem may be continuously collecting real-world data, building accurate world models, and using them to guide experiments. Is this where automated research is heading?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026) 54 by whoishiring | 79 comments on Hacker News. Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to replying to applicants. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job. Searchers: try https://ift.tt/QIPsoEG , https://dheerajck.github.io/hnwhoishiring/ , http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/ , https://ift.tt/W0KFM1b . Don't miss this other fine thread: Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/edRpwrK

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who is quitting? (August 2026)

Ask HN: Who is quitting? (August 2026) 8 by ethanwillis | 0 comments on Hacker News. Curious what people are getting up to! Following on from my previous post(https://ift.tt/SMkrHuW): 1. Why are you quitting? 2. What will you be doing? (Even if nothing!)

New ask Hacker News story: What Is Decispher?

What Is Decispher? 3 by cool_coder12 | 1 comments on Hacker News. What is Decispher? The decision layer between your team and every AI agent Decispher is the system of record for engineering decisions. It automatically captures the decisions, conventions, constraints, and rationales your team produces every day from Slack, GitHub PRs, and docs, then serves that knowledge to both humans and AI agents the moment they need it. Think of it as a senior engineer who has read every Slack message, every PR, and every architecture discussion your team has ever had, and is always available to answer "why did we do this?" with a cited, accurate answer in under a second. decispher.com

New ask Hacker News story: Tips for Landing a YC Internship?

Tips for Landing a YC Internship? 2 by cnnadozi | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a rising sophmore in university, and I really want to work for a YC-backed startup this Fall (leaning towards consumer products). I think I have solid experience (interned at AWS this summer as a SWE, and I've also built and scaled consumer mobile apps solo to 20k+ downloads). My main method so fair has been sending cold DMs to founders on Linkedin for startups I find interesting, but so far I've had no luck. Any advice?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) 2 by sarreph | 2 comments on Hacker News. What are you working on and want to share your progress on or ideas about?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When did we go from agentic loops to graphs?

Ask HN: When did we go from agentic loops to graphs? 2 by grandimam | 1 comments on Hacker News. The AI engineering conversation seems to be shifting daily: from prompts, loops, to now graphs. I’m curious whether there is genuine progress happening in the field that has given me so much or whether folks are creating terminology because they want to feel closer to action or be able to say they predicted the next big thing.