AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Predicting Male Fertility Using Machine Learning: A Semen Parameters Based Analysis with the VISEM Dataset

A study using the VISEM dataset and machine learning to classify male fertility status with high accuracy.

AI/ML Hacker News

GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

Discussion on how various leading AI models (GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude) tend to generate the same basic applications when prompted.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Moss (YC F25) Is Hiring

A hiring announcement for the startup Moss (YC F25).

Software Engineering Hacker News

Why We Don't Trust the Database with Authentication

A technical discussion regarding the architectural decision to avoid storing authentication logic and state within the primary database.

Other Hacker News

Software Engineer's Firing Ruled Illegal in a Rare Win for a Tech Worker

A legal victory for a software engineer whose termination was ruled illegal.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former Apple employees stole trade secrets to benefit OpenAI.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

WCog-VLA: A Dual-Level World-Cognitive Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

Introduces WCog-VLA, a dual-level world-cognitive vision-language-action model designed for proactive autonomous driving.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

TRACE: A Two-Channel Robust Attribution Watermark via Complementary Embeddings for LLM-Agent Trajectories

Presents TRACE, a robust attribution watermark for LLM-agent trajectories that remains detectable despite deletions or rewriting.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Swapping Faces, Saving Features: A Dual-Purpose Pipeline for Pedestrian Privacy in ITS

A pipeline for protecting pedestrian privacy in autonomous vehicle datasets using face-swapping models like Roop and Ghost-v2.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

DrugGen 2: A disease-aware language model for enhancing drug discovery

DrugGen 2 is a disease-aware language model that enhances drug discovery by conditioning molecular generation on disease ontology and target protein sequences.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Track2Map: Online Deformable SLAM with Motion-Aware Pose Optimization in Robotic Surgery

Introduces Track2Map, an online 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM pipeline for robust 3D anatomy reconstruction in robotic surgery.

Other Hacker News

An Update on the scraper situation

Discussion regarding updates on web scraping situations, likely focused on the tensions between AI training and site owners.

AI/ML Hacker News

Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash

Community request to avoid discontinuing Gemini 2.5 Flash, highlighting user reliance on specific model versions.

Other Hacker News

The Clouds of Hiroshima

An article or discussion about the aftermath or reflections on the Hiroshima bombings.

Other Hacker News

45% of Enthusiasts 'Seriously Considering' Leaving Sony for PC

Survey data indicates a significant portion of gaming enthusiasts are considering switching from Sony consoles to PC gaming.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Apple is suing OpenAI over allegations that trade secrets were stolen, potentially involving former employees.

Other Ars Technica

Check out the first images of Quest shipwreck

First images released of the Quest shipwreck, showing it has become a marine ecosystem despite its condition.

Cybersecurity Ars Technica

Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers

A ransomware negotiator was sentenced to six years in prison for secretly working for the attackers he was hired to represent.

Other Ars Technica

Study shows how toxic RFK Jr.’s change to measles vaccine is for US toddlers

A study examines the negative health impacts of changes made to the measles vaccine, attributed to RFK Jr.'s influence.

AI/ML VentureBeat

57% of enterprises have watched AI agents be confidently wrong. The fix is an agentic context layer, but who has one?

Enterprises are struggling with 'confident-wrong' AI agents due to missing business context; a governed context layer is proposed as the solution.