The Hacker Times

• SF Standard▲ 504

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

Federal prosecutors say an employee from Saudi Arabia planted an audio recorder and left another unattended in his bag.

• Cphiri▲ 121

Recreational Programming

Learn more about Christopher Phiri work experience, education, connections & more. Software developer, UX/UI, Illustrator

• Blum▲ 64

I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change on video

Paste a YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts link and get the transcript, a summary, chapters and notes on a page you can share. Free.

• AlphaNIST▲ 61

AlphaNIST

Learning dexterity and coordination for robotic assembly in simulation, with binary task rewards and no prescribed manipulation stages.

• Felix Rieseberg▲ 43

Felix Rieseberg Homepage

I work on Claude at Anthropic. Electron co-maintainer. Maintainer of too many little open source projects. Some of it is on VHS.

• Quantamagazine▲ 43

Is 'Attention' the Essence of Intelligence?

A mathematical mechanism enables AI models to process language at scale, undergirding the current AI revolution. Our columnist asks: Why is attention the key?

• Pulse OS4d ago

Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine

Hi HN, I'm Niz. Pulse Local is a budgeting app for Mac (Apple Silicon, beta) that answers questions about your spending with models that run on your machine. Local mode needs no account.…

• PostEra4d ago

PostEra (YC W20) Is Hiring AI Researchers for Drug Discovery

Role Overview In this role, you will develop the agentic research vertical at PostEra, using agentic systems to automate the development of mechanistic models for biochemical and…

• Mozilla▲ 686

Firefox Enterprise

• Anthropic▲ 643

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.

• OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference ▲ 488

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

Federal prosecutors say an employee from Saudi Arabia planted an audio recorder and left another unattended in his bag.

• Haku▲ 409

We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

An embedding model, turned into a speech-to-text model. An hour of audio in about 13 seconds on a base MacBook Air, on device.

• Mozilla▲ 388

Thunderbird for iOS

The team has been working hard behind the scenes laying a strong foundation for the Thunderbird iOS app, building natively from scratch.

• Guitoro▲ 361

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

The most realistic and most complete virtual guitar online. Play it with your keyboard or by touch, slow songs down and see which strings each strum hits.