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I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots
Article URL: https://dayzlegame.com/blog/google-ads-bot-farm/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662990
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Ask HN: How are much smarter AI models made?
I am curious what actually happens between two generations of AI models.
For example, how do you go from Sonnet to Opus? Is Opus trained from scratch, built on Sonnet, or mostly the same model with more compute and training?
And how do models like Astra suddenly make a big jump in some capabilities? What is stopping Anthropic, Mistral, or others from doing the same thing? Is the main difference just more compute and money, or are there training methods, data, architecture, and research breakthroughs that competitors may not know about?
I can't think of a better place to ask this. I am guessing there are people here who actually work on these models and know what goes on behind the scenes.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662978
Points: 1
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Codeveloper of Ethernet Predecessor Dies at 91
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/codeveloper-of-ethernet-predecessor-dies
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662950
Points: 2
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GPT-6 Astra does 3D camera tracking and VFX in Blender
Article URL: https://twitter.com/ryanvogel/status/2098477000843211081
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662948
Points: 2
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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/hackers-are-stealing-claude-tokens-from-subscribers/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662941
Points: 1
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Show HN: Minimal Static Website Hosting Tool
I built this because I self host a lot of stuff and wanted to simplify tossing up a simple static site with no backend, no NGINX/Caddy/Traffik configs, instantly deploy with a single file copy. Powered by Golang's built-in reverse proxy package.
Another awesome freebie is this is built on top of [Pocketbase](https://pocketbase.io/), so the whole app is API driven for free. This gives you some AI integration points off the bat.
Great for whipping up demos to pitch to clients, or quick and dirty temporary static sites to share with friends, family or coworkers.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662930
Points: 1
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LLMs Are Cheating [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/skV0hDd-chM
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662916
Points: 1
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An Analysis of Two Architectures for Agentic Data Analysis
Article URL: https://www.starburst.io/blog/an-analysis-of-two-architectures-for-agentic-data-analysis/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662914
Points: 2
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Show HN: SyntheticAIdata – synthetic data for CV, 100k free credits/month
Hi HN, I'm Goran, founder of syntheticAIdata.
Collecting and labeling images for computer vision takes time, especially when you need specific objects, viewpoints, or conditions. We built syntheticAIdata to help developers generate those examples.
You can vary environments, camera angles, backgrounds, and distractors, and apply real-world camera simulations to generate automatically labeled images for your application.
Datasets can be downloaded or sent directly to Edge Impulse.
You can generate 100,000 images for free each month. Registration is required.
Try it out: https://app.syntheticaidata.com
I'd love to hear what you'd use it for and which controls or features you're missing.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662160
Points: 1
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What use is certification? (2004)
Article URL: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/116
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662151
Points: 1
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Google Sans, Google/Android's branding font, officially open-sourced on GitHub
Article URL: https://github.com/googlefonts/googlesans-flex
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662146
Points: 1
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Google should provide a technical postmortem of Gemini's 2024 outburst
Article URL: https://www.paritybits.me/google-should-provide-a-technical-postmortem-of-geminis-2024-outburst/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662143
Points: 1
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Let AI Agents Rewrite a 92M-Message-a-Day Node Service to Go
Article URL: https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/agentic-rewrite-nodejs-to-go/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662139
Points: 1
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The Moon May Have Been Created in Just Five Hours
Article URL: https://nautil.us/the-moon-may-have-been-created-in-just-five-hours-1284952
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662130
Points: 1
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Cancer Capital: It sucks for founders, too
Article URL: https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/09/cancer-capital-founders/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662125
Points: 1
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A Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a-severe-misalignment-of-ai-in-mathematics/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662116
Points: 1
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The big winners and losers in U.S. website traffic over the past year
Article URL: https://searchengineland.com/winners-losers-us-website-traffic-past-year-486843
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662104
Points: 1
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Who were the hijackers of 9/11? Here's what the 9/11 Commission Report said
Panic builds over bankrupt Spirit's looming data sale to Google
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/panic-builds-over-bankrupt-spirits-looming-data-sale-to-google/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662071
Points: 1
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Hands Off: The Roland D-Beam's Lasting Musical Legacy (2023)
Article URL: https://www.perfectcircuit.com/signal/roland-d-beam-history
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662039
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