Ask HN: Are past AI researchers relieved that they didn't have a chance at AI?

They didn’t fail from lack of intelligence or effort, but because they lacked the data and compute needed for today’s AI.

So maybe they feel relieved now, knowing they failed for good reasons.

ExxonMobil Global Outlook: Our view to 2050 (corporate.exxonmobil.com)

oLLM – LLM Inference for large-context tasks on consumer GPUs (github.com)

Should We Anthropomorphize LLMs? (aethermug.com)

Prompt Engineering for Grok Code Fast 1 (docs.x.ai)

All Revenue Is Not Created Equal (2011) (abovethecrowd.com)

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The A.I. Talent Wars (nytimes.com)

Garmin Blaze Equine Wellness System (garmin.com)

RSS Is Awesome (evanverma.com)

Why HyperCard Had to Die (2011) (loper-os.org)

Deep Zionism (scottaaronson.blog)

Hygiene Hypothesis (en.wikipedia.org)

The ABC Programming Language (homepages.cwi.nl)

The Electro-Industrial Stack Will Move the World (a16z.com)

US withdraws from UN human rights report (reuters.com)

I've always wanted to be an open-source maintainer- now I regret it (joaomagfreitas.link)

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Show HN: A new interface for doing research fast with an LLM (proread.ai)

Why Intel investors have embraced an interventionist White House (ft.com)

Expressions Are Coming to Pandas (labs.quansight.org)

OTC products evaluated for depressive symptoms (frontiersin.org)

Effective cerebellar neuroprosthetic control after stroke (cell.com)

Porton's Lumo AI Chat releases v1.1 (proton.me)

Every Industry Is an Overcrowded Airport Lounge Now (quoththeraven.substack.com)

ChatGPT and ADHD (blueteaming.blogspot.com)

RL for Gameplay Again (github.com)

What Is Orf? (emedicine.medscape.com)

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Bitcoin miners say fee drought poses existential threat to network (dlnews.com)

How Russia's drone attacks have reshaped the war in Ukraine (cnn.com)

A Review of Nim 2: The Good and Bad with Example Code (miguel-martin.com)

I'm a Stanford student. A Chinese agent tried to recruit me as a spy (thetimes.com)

The Bitter Lesson (incompleteideas.net)

Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

Engineers send quantum signals with standard internet protocol (blog.seas.upenn.edu)

Finding cool CA license plates (blog.jonlu.ca)

Tesla's Europe problem just got even worse (cnn.com)

Rupert's Property (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

AI Competition explained in 10 minutes [video] (youtube.com)

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Why Collaborate with XAI? (github.com)

End of the Line? (thenation.com)

An eyecare foundation model for clinical assistance (nature.com)

Widespread Data Theft Targets Salesforce Instances via Salesloft Drift (cloud.google.com)

Hmpl.js vs. Alpine.js vs. Htmx (Aug. 2025) (imgur.com)

Doing Figma Last (twitter.com)

NX Hack: stolen GitHub credential used to turn private repositories public (github.com)

The Evolution: From Atomic Options to Lygos Credit (blog.lygos.finance)

Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America (cwa-union.org)

Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people (mcdreeamiemusings.com)

Ask HN: Are past AI researchers relieved that they didn't have a chance at AI?

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