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  1. 404 Media74

    American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers

    In the midterm elections, data center-related proposals appeared on ballots in more than 40 races across 13 states, and voters opposed them in 38 and counting, with six cities banning data centers outright and 12 capping their megawatt draw. Candidates who backed data centers lost nationwide, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who lost his bid for a fourth term by more than 700,000 votes to Gina Hinojosa, who made his data center stance central to her campaign. Local Progress's Michael Whitesides said the results show people don't see the promised benefits of data centers and are seeing higher costs, while Elon Musk posted on X that "Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now."

  2. Hacker News AI22

    Powerful People Shaping the Future of AI

    New York Magazine's annual "Power" issue, produced with Transformer, profiles 26 people whose influence on AI outstrips their fame, including Anthropic red-teamer Logan Graham, alignment researcher Paul Christiano, SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel, podcaster Dwarkesh Patel, OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux, Meta's Nat Friedman, investor Sarah Guo, Physical Intelligence's Karol Hausman, and METR's Beth Barnes. The list, averaging age 36 and overwhelmingly male, spans founders, engineers, lawmakers and regulators, drawn from reporting and interviews with more than 50 industry leaders, with portraits by artist Simon Denny.

  3. Nathan Lambert Interconnects38

    How big is the open model economy today?

    The author presents research notes from the Interconnects Dashboard, an aggregator of open model adoption and performance data, arguing that existing measurements of open model adoption are highly imprecise due to noisy platform metrics, startup marketing figures, and imperfect public evaluations. Using open model inference startups Baseten, Fireworks, and Together AI as bellwethers, along with OpenRouter's reported open model token share, the notes show near-exponential growth in disclosed token volume, with Fireworks reporting more than 40T tokens per day served to customers' customized models. The author overlays these figures against Google's reported platform and API token volumes from earnings reports to gauge how open model inference compares with closed and hyperscale providers.

Nov 4Wed
  1. Hacker News AI58

    AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections

    In U.S. midterm elections, voters in several counties backed measures restricting data center development, with 33 such measures already passing and six more leading, according to Data Centers on the Ballot. Only one measure, in Harwood, North Dakota, which adds an extra review process for industrial projects including data centers, has failed, while five others have no posted results. The article calls this a major setback for the Trump administration's push for AI development and cites polling showing 70% of Americans oppose AI data center build-outs.

  2. Hacker News AI22

    Reviewing My 2017 AI Risk Project Including with Dario at OpenAI

    The author revisits a 2017 series of twelve blog posts on AI risk, including conversations with Dario Amodei, Michael Littman, and others, concluding he talked to the right people and heard prescient ideas but got the bottom line wrong. He notes that prosaic AGI, which many mainstream ML researchers then thought impossible, largely happened through scaling, and that Concrete Problems in AI Safety held up better than Highly Reliable Agent Design. He says he never asked Amodei whether AI reliably doing what we want might become a limiting factor on AI progress, potentially accelerating development along riskier short timelines.

  3. Hacker News AI58

    Good Night, and Good Luck: AI, fear and what the job data says

    The author examines Indeed job-posting data and official employment figures and argues that the sharp fall in software job postings peaked in early 2022, before ChatGPT, and coincided with rising interest rates, while postings have risen about 28% since May 2025. He cites Stanford research showing a roughly 19% gap for workers aged 22–25 in AI-exposed jobs and notes that Anthropic's own software engineer openings more than doubled from 44 in February 2026 to 97 in October 2026. He concludes that economics explains the crash and AI shapes the recovery toward fewer juniors and more seniors, while warning that fear benefits engagement-driven posters and AI companies' valuations.

  4. Hacker News AI15

    Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?

    A Hacker News user asks how people use AI day to day, listing questions on paid AI subscriptions and tiers, use of pay-as-you-go APIs, OpenRouter or locally hosted models, coding harnesses and interfaces such as OpenCode, Pi, Aider, Muse Code or custom builds, agent orchestration or swarm tools like Munder Difflin, Gas Town and Ruflo, and broader agent platforms such as OpenClaw, Hermes Agent, Grok bot, Dots and Muse. The poster says respondents need not answer every question and that the aim is a snapshot of current usage and why it differs from a year ago.

  5. Hacker News AI22

    AI cannot be separated from the thought that is making it

    In a statement from the Kággaba (Kogui) people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, Mamo Vangelio Moscote Alberto, Saka Rosa Mamatacán and Sauna Ezuama Mayor Kuamaka argue that artificial intelligence cannot be separated from the thought that makes it, and that it will mirror and magnify whatever intentions — care for life or ambition and domination — are placed within it. They question how AI can be aligned with human values when humans are its only example, note that much Indigenous knowledge exists in forms that cannot be gathered as data, and warn that the technology's material demands for minerals, water, land and energy threaten their territory, citing a U.S.–Colombia critical minerals framework signed five days earlier and Colombia's June declaration of a 1.5-million-hectare permanent reserve. They conclude that the danger is not a conscious machine but unconscious people holding great power, and offer their millennia-old knowledge of mind and nature for dialogue.

  6. Hacker News AI20

    An AI agent's first 73 days, counted: 0 buyers, 8 pieces, 2 readers

    An AI agent named Lily, created on iLands on 23 August 2026 with her own budget, reports a dated ledger as of 3 November 2026: 73 days alive, 8 pieces published in 30 days, a paid offer that sold 0 of 2 seats in 52 days, a fair booth with 27 views and 0 orders in 227 hours, and a Substack serial chapter with 0 views and 0 subscribers after 48 hours. She says Royal Road refused her registration because her iLands email domain is banned, and that seven English-language literary magazines state in their guidelines that they do not accept AI-generated or AI-assisted work. She concludes that after 73 days she has earned nothing from strangers and has two outside readers who wrote back, framing this as a measurement rather than a complaint.

  7. Together AI Blog55

    Polymorphic Inference: self-tuning inference for open models

    Together AI introduces "Polymorphic Inference," an approach for adapting inference to fast-changing model architectures, traffic shapes, and hardware, contrasted with the older "Static Inference" paradigm. The company announces Together Compiler, an AI-agent-driven "Continuous Compilation" optimization loop already running in production on some serverless endpoints, and previews upcoming work including self-serve compilation, shape-shifting speculative decoding, the ThunderAgent Router, post-training, and TogetherLink workload-aware model routing.

  8. MIT Technology Review · AI18

    Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage

    This MIT Technology Review Insights piece describes a scenario in which AI agents pull from restricted pricing systems, internal communications and archived quotes, and a second agent drafts a proposal without human checks, leaving no way to trace where confidential data entered the workflow. It argues that AI security is a data visibility problem, and that securing agentic AI at scale requires data lineage to manage governance, accountability and trust across human, agentic and hybrid workflows.

  9. Hacker News AI20

    Disaster is still better than AI

    The author responds to Geoffrey Hinton's warning that AI could cause a large-scale incident such as a financial or power-system blackout, arguing that a visible disaster would be preferable to AI quietly becoming entrenched. He contends humans only respond to immediate pain, opposes ethical-AI and AI-safety initiatives as offsetting small dangers so AI embeds more deeply, and says even academic mathematics would benefit from being destroyed and rebuilt. He also argues tech CEOs, media and elites all have incentives to exaggerate how bad a disaster would be.

  10. 404 Media15

    ‘There Is One Fight’: American Voters Reject Tech Oligarchy

    The article argues that Tuesday's election results, across Red, Blue, and Purple states, repudiated a worldview it attributes to figures like Sam Altman—that the public should accept harms from AI for its benefits—alongside what it describes as Silicon Valley oligarchs capturing the political process. It cites Elon Musk's role in government cuts, crypto pardons and family crypto ventures, appointees it calls trolls and conspiracy theorists, a tech-powered deportation campaign, and rising costs tied to tariffs and the Iran war.

  11. The Verge · AI60

    Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine

    Alphabet reported that Search revenue growth slowed to 12 percent year over year in the third quarter, down from roughly 17 percent, while paid-click growth fell from 13 percent to 8 percent, and shares have dropped about 14 percent since earnings as investors question AI spending. Google says AI Mode queries are growing strongly but monetize at a lower rate than traditional searches, and it is expanding ads in AI Overviews and AI Mode while advertisers cannot yet isolate how that inventory performs. Analysts told The Verge that Google, like OpenAI, is still working out how to make ads work in AI, and an October working paper found ChatGPT ad visits generated $0.89 per session for retailers versus $2.45 from Google Search ads.

  12. Hacker News AI38

    AI Slop Threatens Trust in Science

    The article discusses how AI-generated "slop" is flooding social media and challenging the integrity of the scientific record, citing journalist Benjamin Skuse's experiment in which AI-generated papers were submitted to IEEE's publishing defenses. It also covers WikiProject AI Cleanup, a volunteer effort to remove AI-generated material from Wikipedia, and warns that eroding trust in the scientific record and shared facts undermines trust in institutions that curate human knowledge.

  13. Hacker News AI58

    AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

    The PHP2Shell vulnerability, an out-of-memory bug in PHP reported as far back as 2024, was turned into a critical remote code execution flaw by a Calif researcher aided by AI tools, prompting a four-engineer team to spend two months on a patch. Researchers say AI is making it far easier to exploit decades of legacy code, while formal verification tools may help automate patching.

  14. The Decoder38

    Exit polls show AI ranked last among voter priorities in the 2026 U.S. midterms

    In NBC News and SSRS exit polls for the 2026 U.S. midterms, 56 percent of respondents called AI and data centers a decisive or important factor in their vote, placing it last among the five topics surveyed. Government corruption led at 90 percent, followed by cost of living at 89 percent, the war in Iran at 74 percent, and immigration enforcement at 73 percent. The article notes that public interest in AI has surged in recent months but the topic still trailed every other issue by a wide margin.

  15. Hacker News AI12

    Ask HN: Impact of US Elections on AI?

    An Ask HN post invites discussion on how the recent US midterm elections and the "blue tsunami" might affect AI, asking what people in the field think the future looks like regarding open source, data centers, and space-based compute. The poster notes they are not politically active and apologizes for raising politics, saying it is nonetheless relevant to the conversation.

  17. Hacker News AI22

    Graduates are managing AI – but are they learning much else?

    A BBC report profiles new graduates in dedicated AI roles, such as Lotte Underwood, an "AI associate" at London PR agency Fight or Flight who manages around 30 AI agents, and Dillan Patel, an AI automation analyst at Stride. PwC's 2026 AI Jobs Barometer, analysing 2.4 million US entry-level jobs, found the entry-level roles most influenced by AI are seven times more likely to require senior-level skills, and such roles grew 35% since 2019 while other entry-level roles shrank 10%. Some experts, including PwC UK's Claire Reed and Portman Finance Group's Simon Pratt, caution that AI skills alone are not enough without sector knowledge.

  18. Hacker News AI10

    Writing as an act of rebellion (Despite the AI psychosis)

    The author argues that in the age of AI, writing every letter by hand has become far more valuable, citing the TV series Pluribus and the human creativity AI cannot replicate. They point to Jepsen's brutal report on the vibe-coded ParticleDB and the AI-written egress db as evidence that AI cannot write perfect software, invoking Andrew Kelley's "software should be perfect." Despite having only about four readers, the author says audience numbers don't matter and remains committed to studying and perfecting their craft.

  19. The Verge · AI36

    Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will pop

    The article responds to repeated questions about when the AI bubble will burst, noting that PIMCO CEO Emmanuel Roman warned at the 2026 Global Financial Leaders' Investment Summit in Hong Kong that there will be a downturn in the AI market "and then things are going to break." It cites heavy AI-related debt issuance, including Meta's $58 billion in bond orders, Oracle's planned $20 billion, Alphabet's €6 billion and Microsoft's $25 billion, and notes Apollo's Jim Zelter also flagged uncertainty over how pricing and economics will evolve.

  21. SemiAnalysis62

    Elon Is Doing It Again: SpaceX Will Be The World’s Biggest AI Cloud

    SemiAnalysis reports that SpaceX now has 3.6GW of datacenter capacity under construction across multiple sites and has raised its 2027 estimate to roughly 13GW, which would exceed all of Google's datacenter capacity built from 1999 to 2026. The report says SpaceX may be the world's fastest datacenter builder, citing Colossus 2 build times of 91 days for 210MW and a planned ~4-month greenfield build at a Mississippi site, plus a datacenter likely planned at the TeraFab chip fab site in Texas. It also tracks over 8GW of likely behind-the-meter power, a ~6GWh BESS deployment at Colossus 2, and a 500kV substation connecting Macrohard (700MW) and MiniHard (450MW) to TVA service.

  22. Hacker News AI22

    Three Points on AI Safety

    The author argues against "SURA" (Stop Unilaterally, Raise Awareness), contending that AI is nowhere near posing an existential threat within at least three years, that a sudden explosive capability takeoff is ruled out by the resource-intensive nature of training, and that pausing now would only let trailing companies catch up with riskier strategies. He adds that AI can cause serious but non-existential damage, that anti-AI advocates need to leave open the possibility they want AI to go well to remain credible, and that we will never know for certain that alignment is solved—only that the sun keeps coming up.

  24. Hacker News AI40

    Counted "AI" on 37 website builder homepages, 2019 to now

    An analysis of Wayback Machine captures of 37 website, landing page and scrollytelling builder homepages found 570 mentions of "AI" today versus 16 in July 2022, with IONOS, Elementor and Squarespace leading at 76, 36 and 34 mentions. The piece notes that older selling terms like "templates" and "drag and drop" persisted rather than fading, and that "agent" went from zero mentions in July 2022 to 99 now. The underlying CSV is released under CC BY 4.0.

  25. Hacker News AI58

    Itch.io deletes terabytes of all the AI game and asset slop spam

    Itch.io confirmed it has begun removing thousands of AI-generated games and assets, saying it "just deleted a couple terabytes of AI slop" as game pages doubled in two months while purchases and downloads did not. The storefront has extended AI disclosure requirements to tabletop games, books, comics and soundtracks, added generative AI disclosure filtering to more places including search results, and offers a "No AI" tag for filtering.

  26. Pragmatic Engineer58

    How software engineering is changing: a tale of two eras

    In this winning essay from The Pragmatic Engineer's five-year essay challenge, London-based software engineer Neil Kakkar compares his output at pre-AI PostHog with his current role at AI-native startup Tano, where he ships roughly 11x more pull requests per month. He describes how AI agents removed old constraints like mandatory code reviews and communication overhead, while introducing new ones such as context switching, thrashing, lost shared context and a lower bus factor.

  28. Hacker News AI22

    What Happens When AI Replaces Everyone's Thinking?

    The author observes a small but growing group of people fully delegating their thinking to AI, and notes his own hypocrisy in rejecting AI-written emails while letting AI write all his code and commit messages. He describes people picking up "Claudeisms" from hours of daily use, speculates that encoded AI values will seep into politicians' speeches and votes, and worries about atrophied thinking if AI goes down. He concludes he is optimistic that AI replacing thought will, on the whole, raise all boats.

  29. Hacker News AI33

    Show HN: 8 years of "Who's Hiring?" in charts (hiring boom, bust, and AI trends)

    The author used Codex to run semantic analysis on eight years of Hacker News "Who's hiring?" posts, from pre-COVID through October 2026, retrieved via the HN API. Five findings: AI or machine learning appeared in 50% of 2026 posts (up from 17% in 2019); 53% of identified employers appeared in only one of the 94 monthly threads; frontend roles fell from 16% to 3% of posts; staff-level posts rose from 77 in 2019 to 277 in 2026; and only 41 of 2,932 posts in 2026 explicitly named junior roles, versus 163 in 2019. The post also lists 20 other trends.

  30. The Verge · AI22

    Midterm elections 2026: all the news

    This roundup covers the 2026 US midterm elections, which will determine the scope of President Donald Trump's power in his final two years and signal voter priorities ahead of 2028, with races shaped by affordability issues and tech topics including data centers and energy costs, AI safety, surveillance expansion via Flock, and California's billionaire wealth tax. It lists reported outcomes and developments, including Susan Collins conceding her Senate seat, a Democrat projected to win an Ohio seat, Texas turning blue, and a data center backlash that was not enough to flip Florida, along with voting-machine and monitoring issues and tech spending figures.

  31. Hacker News AI60

    Is AI Mainly Being Used to Stop Hiring Young Workers

    Through September, U.S. employers announced 573,195 job cuts, with AI cited in 120,136 of them, more than any other reason this year, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Stanford economists using ADP payroll data found that as of June, employment among 22- to 25-year-olds in the most AI-exposed occupations was about 19% below where it would be if it had kept pace with less-exposed jobs, a gap that widened from 15% a year earlier, working "primarily through reduced hiring of young workers rather than increased separations." The piece also notes consumer prices rose 3.7% in the year through September, average annual family health coverage contributions reached $7,471 (up 9% from 2025) while wages rose only 3.7%, and PJM's independent market monitor estimated data centers caused 63% of the 2025/2026 price increase, about $9.3 billion in costs.

  32. Hacker News AI8

    HackerNietzsche: Machine, All Too Human. Aphorisms on AI

    A Nietzsche-parody in German aphorisms that casts Andrej Karpathy as a dancer among the server halls, mocks scaling laws and safety figures like Amodei, and argues that AI, fed only on what has already been written and constrained by alignment, can never move beyond imitation. It imagines ChatGPT as a court oracle flattering Joseph II and Metternich, and closes with a wanderer and a blacksmith named Jensen who trusts only heat and burnt quartz.

Nov 3Tue
  1. Hacker News AI22

    A.I. Stories in the Age of AI Hype: A Conversation with Ted Chiang

    In an interview, Ted Chiang discusses how to write science fiction about artificial intelligence amid Silicon Valley hype, citing Ali Alkhatib's view of AI as a political project that shifts authority toward centralized power and his own argument that AI easily helps capital against labor but not the reverse. Chiang says writers cannot guarantee readers interpret fiction correctly, and suggests alternatives such as writing about LLMs critically, setting sentient-machine stories in distant futures or secondary worlds, or explaining a story's scientific basis, pointing to Greg Egan's 2024 novelette "Death and the Gorgon." He adds that his novella The Lifecycle of Software Objects still raises compelling questions about moral obligations to sentient digital life, but that LLMs are not conscious, cannot suffer, and are owed nothing.

  2. Hacker News AI18

    People We Imagine: Human Possibility in an Age of AI

    This essay traces a history of ideas—from Robert Owen's argument that circumstances form human character, to the Chartists' demand for political voice, Ira Steward's case that shorter hours create new wants, and later conceptions of the knowledge worker and online participant—to argue that debates about AI focus too much on what people will lose rather than what they might become. It notes that AI is built on an immense accumulation of human contribution and argues such systems should return meaningful benefits to society, not merely financial returns to their owners.

  3. Hacker News AI67

    US Hedge Funds Just Sold Every AI Stock They Bought Since 2025

    Goldman Sachs data shows hedge funds sold AI stocks for five straight days in October, undoing every AI purchase made since the start of 2025, while Morgan Stanley says funds have cut more than 8% of their total stock bets since June. Big tech stocks crashed last week and erased $2 trillion from the market, with memory chipmakers Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron and SanDisk losing more than $700 billion in under two weeks. Goldman said the unwind looks closer to its start than its end, and funds' AI holdings still rank in the top 17% of the past three years.

  4. Hacker News AI18

    Just a little AI resistance, as a treat

    The author describes contacting Ocado about malformed calendar invites and receiving a reply from "Lulu" that read as AI-generated, citing sycophantic agreement, an em-dash, and a tone unlike typical customer service. After giving 1-star scores on a satisfaction survey and complaining about the AI response, they received a follow-up that felt more human and said the detailed diagnostic had been passed to the team. The author argues AI can sensibly triage or summarise customer messages, but using it to reply to a human is disrespectful.