Man, Hacker News today was pretty wild, lots of AI stuff as usual, but some other interesting bits too. Lemme quickly run through a few things that caught my eye:

AI "Workslop" and Understanding What You're Doing

First up, there was this post called "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here." It was about using AI for bug bounty reports, and the title alone tells you it was spicy. People were saying we're going from writers to editors now, like someone still has to sign off on the AI's work. One comment mentioned how crazy good modern LLMs are at correcting text, like fixing 30% errors to 99.9% accuracy, which is nuts! And someone had a funny idea for cutting down AI bills: just ask for the prompt instead of generating everything. Smart!

Writing Tutorials for Beginners

Then there was this super relatable one: "How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me." It’s all about how devs often write tutorials for other devs, not actual newbies. The comments were full of people agreeing, basically saying we need to stop writing academic papers and more like actual step-by-step guides. Pretty much an eternal struggle in our field, right?

Cloudflare's Browser Support

Cloudflare made a couple of headlines. One cool thing was "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy." These are open-source browser projects, which is awesome to see a big company like Cloudflare putting money into. People in the comments were debating if it's better to split money among more small projects or focus on bigger ones. Always a tough call, but good to see investment in the open web.

OpenAI and Nvidia's Huge Power Play

Speaking of big companies, OpenAI and Nvidia announced a "partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems." Ten GIGAWATTS! That's a ridiculous amount of power. The comments were all over the place about the energy consumption, with people talking about industrial electricity rates and how much renewables would actually produce. Someone even joked about British Columbia's hydro power getting into the AI game. It just shows how massive the infrastructure behind AI is becoming.

Why Aren't Local-First Apps Popular?

There was a good discussion on "Why haven't local-first apps become popular?" You know, apps that work offline first and sync later. A lot of folks said it's just too damn hard for most developers to build, especially handling all the merging and conflict resolution with CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types). One comment said it's "genuinely too difficult for most developers," and after trying to understand CRDTs myself, I kinda agree!

Tesla FSD Coast-to-Coast Crash

And of course, Tesla FSD always makes news. This one was "Tesla coast-to-coast FSD crashes after 60 miles." Apparently, some influencers tried to do a cross-country trip with it, and it crashed pretty early on. The comments were a mix of people saying it's still not ready and others pointing out that humans make mistakes too. One guy said the video clearly showed a stationary object 7 seconds before impact, which a human should easily dodge. Yikes.

Kmart's Facial Recognition Gets Busted

Finally, a bit of privacy news: "Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful." Turns out Kmart in Australia was using facial recognition on everyone who walked in, and the privacy commissioner said "nope, that's illegal." People in the comments were debating if cost savings from such tech ever actually get passed to consumers. Most said no, prices just keep going up!

Anyway, that's the quick rundown. Catch you later!