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Most small businesses running AI phone assistants are paying for a voicemail system dressed up as automation. They spend $200 a month on a voice AI that greets callers, collects some info, then transfers to a human for everything that actually matters. That's not AI phone support. That&

Mythos cracked 72.4% of Firefox targets in internal testing. That number is not a projection. That is a live conversion rate for working browser exploits, generated autonomously, with no human refinement required. The predecessor model failed almost entirely at the same task. What changed in one generation? Anthropic does

A developer cancelled their Claude Pro subscription this week. They're not just venting. They posted screenshots, support ticket exchanges, and actual conversations with the model. 723 HN points and 426 comments later, it's clear this isn't one person's bad day. Many developers

Two frontier model releases in the same week. DeepSeek v4 dropped on April 24, hot on the heels of GPT-5.5, and immediately hit #1 on HN with 961 points and 609 comments. The AI world has not seen this kind of same-week competition in a long time. For small

Losing access to GPT-5.5 feels like having a limb amputated. That's not a metaphor. That's a direct quote from an HN comment by an NVIDIA engineer. Another developer wrote: "When the tokens run out, I'm basically done working." GPT-5.5 dropped

I ditched Kubernetes last year. My infrastructure has been more stable since. David Crawshaw posted "I am building a cloud" this week and the HN thread went crazy. Top comment said making Kubernetes good is "inherently impossible, a project in putting high quality lipstick on a pig.