Night update, generated 2026-08-03.
22 new stories since Lunch.
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 669 points, 302 comments (discussion)
We can chalk this up as another example of over-exhuberance by what folks believe LLMs can accomplish vs. what they actually are. LLM-based “AI” is able to use its vast corpus of inputs and calculate the most statistically likely output in a given situation. It is probabilistic, and when you are de...
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 249 points, 94 comments (discussion)
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 205 points, 78 comments (discussion)
Sources: Hacker News, Lobsters
HN: 66 points, 19 comments (discussion)
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 341 points, 127 comments (discussion)
Sources: Lobsters
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 260 points, 181 comments (discussion)
> The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year [1] [1] https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-cyclospora-lab-doge-downsize...
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 229 points, 125 comments (discussion)
Sources: Slashdot
Sources: The Register
Sources: Hackaday
Sources: Hacker News
HN: 196 points, 56 comments (discussion)