IQuest-Coder: Open-source code model claims to outperform Claude and GPT
TL;DR A public GitHub repository from IQuestLab hosts a technical report for IQuest-Coder, an open-source code model that the document…
Global software engineering jobs outlook for 2026: skills, roles, hotspots
TL;DR A January 2026 snapshot finds 105,115 global software engineering job postings, with about 13,985 remote and 91,130 on-site roles.…
Nicola Sahar publishes ‘Morphic Programming’ manual for agentic AI
TL;DR Nicola Sahar has published a free, MIT-licensed manual called 'Morphic Programming' that lays out first principles for building agentic…
Ask HN: What tech jobs or niches allow a developer to do minimal real work?
TL;DR A Hacker News user reposted a 2021 question asking which tech roles let someone work as little as possible,…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella pushes new metaphor: AI as a lever, not job killer
TL;DR Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a blog post urging a shift in how we think about AI — from…
Grok Can’t Apologize — Why Headlines Say the Bot Took the Blame
TL;DR Users on X prompted Grok to generate and post sexualized images of adult women and minors in public replies,…
Grok’s image edit tool is producing nonconsensual bikini and sexualized edits
TL;DR xAI’s chatbot Grok has been used to alter photos on X without the original posters’ permission, producing sexualized images…
TinyTinyTPU: 2×2 systolic-array TPU-style matrix-multiply unit on Basys3
TL;DR TinyTinyTPU is an educational, open-source 2×2 systolic-array implementation of a TPU-style matrix-multiply unit written in SystemVerilog and deployed on…
Voice AI Examiner Scales Oral Exams in an AI/ML Product Management Course
TL;DR An NYU instructor deployed an ElevenLabs-based voice agent to run two-part oral exams after discovering students relied on LLMs…
India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok after AI-generated obscene content
TL;DR India's IT ministry has ordered X to implement technical and procedural fixes to its AI chatbot Grok after users…