The hottest AI Tools Substack posts right now

And their main takeaways
Category
Top Technology Topics

Console #195 -- Top open source projects of the week 🎉

Console • 354 implied HN points • 05 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Open Source Search Engines Finance AI Tools
  1. This post features top open source projects of the week on search engines, finance, and AI tools.
  2. Highlighted projects include Stract - a web search engine, Rye - offering a Hassle-Free Python Experience, and Maybe - an OS for personal finances.
  3. Additional projects like Pkl, Fabric, and WhisperKit are also showcased with their unique features.

Block AI tools from scraping your site in 3 minutes

Deploy Securely • 216 implied HN points • 10 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Tools Web scraping Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Compliance
  1. Block major generative AI tools from scraping your website by adding specific directives to your robots.txt file.
  2. Consider modifying your site's terms and conditions to prevent undesired activities like scraping by AI tools.
  3. Blocking AI tools may impact your search and social media rankings, so find a balance between cybersecurity and potential repercussions.

Democratization of Design

The Intersection • 138 implied HN points • 31 Jan 24
🪑 Design Digital Design AI Tools Accessibility
  1. Design tools like Canva have democratized design, making it accessible to everyone, but the quality of design produced may not always meet professional standards.
  2. AI-powered design tools aim to streamline design processes, but they require a fundamental understanding of design to be used effectively.
  3. While tools like Canva have made design accessible to non-designers, the quality of work ultimately depends on the skills and capabilities of the individuals using the tools.

UX Roundup: Portfolio Without Experience | AI-UX Course | Jakob on UX Greece | Test with 5 Users | ImageGen Shootout

Jakob Nielsen on UX • 23 implied HN points • 18 Mar 24
🕹 Technology UX Design Artificial Intelligence User Experience AI Tools
  1. When building a UX portfolio without experience, focus on real-world relevance and storytelling to stand out from generic student projects.
  2. Consider volunteering, joining tech apprenticeships, or freelancing for startups to gain practical UX experience and build a compelling portfolio.
  3. Attending courses like 'UX for AI' can enhance your skills and knowledge in the UX field, adding value to your career development.
Get a weekly roundup of the best Substack posts, by hacker news affinity:

My writing robot

Kyle Chayka Industries • 127 implied HN points • 15 Jul 23
🕹 Technology AI Digital technology AI Tools AI writing
  1. Artificial intelligence is becoming more integrated into our lives, used for tasks like writing and answering questions.
  2. AI tools can mimic a person's style but struggle to create original content or meaningful arguments.
  3. Working with AI for writing may not be as efficient or satisfying, especially for deep thinking and knowledge synthesis.

Alt Perspectives on AI

Perspective Agents • 18 implied HN points • 17 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Digital Media Information Flow AI Tools
  1. Perspective Agents book focuses on human and social implications of AI in the "autonomous age".
  2. The book encourages asking big questions about the impact of AI on crises, understanding key events, and fostering optimism.
  3. Prepare for major changes in media, like AI-powered answers, information flows, and the evolution of intelligence engines.

🧙‍♂️ You’re an AI wizard, Harry!

HackerPulse Dispatch • 5 implied HN points • 05 Mar 24
🕹 Technology AI Software Development Tech stack User Feedback AI Tools
  1. AI-powered Wisary transforms software planning into a united front of understanding and collaboration, saving engineering teams billions annually
  2. Wisary, founded by Ala Stolpnik, aims to compensate for human limitations in software project planning by seamlessly integrating AI expertise
  3. Wisary's features like structured guidance, AI-powered drafting, and comprehensive review benefit product managers, engineering managers, and the entire organization, ensuring timely project success

Our Guests Tell Us Their Favorite AI Tools

The Cognitive Revolution • 137 implied HN points • 27 May 23
🕹 Technology AI Tools Podcasts Software Artificial Intelligence Coding
  1. AI builders use accessible, AI-first tools with good UI in their daily work.
  2. Developers recommend tools like ChatGPT, CoPilot, Bearly.ai, Layup, MusicLM, Supermeme.ai, Character.ai, and EzDubs.AI.
  3. Podcast episodes feature guests discussing AI tools, foundational models, coding techniques, chip design, and language models.

UX Roundup: Ideogram Big Improvements | UX Apprentice | High School UX | Kindergarten UX | Self-Taught UX Designers

Jakob Nielsen on UX • 5 implied HN points • 04 Mar 24
🕹 Technology UX Design AI Tools
  1. Ideogram 1.0 released with significant text rendering and image quality improvements, showcasing AI's potential in visual design.
  2. You don't necessarily need a university degree for a career in UX, practical experience and on-the-job learning can be just as valuable, if not more.
  3. Teaching UX concepts in high school, like in Estonia, can prepare students for a future increasingly dependent on digital media and technology.

How AI makes English a programming language

Mythical AI • 137 implied HN points • 07 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Programming Software Code generation AI Tools
  1. AI is making it easier for people to program by allowing them to describe tasks in English and having the computer figure out the code.
  2. Computers need precise instructions and struggle with understanding context, making programming challenging.
  3. Programmers are rare, expensive, and building software is costly, but AI is helping automate coding, making programmers more productive.

Stanford CRFM suggests moving to workflows rather than tasks for evaluation!

MLOps Newsletter • 58 implied HN points • 04 Sep 23
🕹 Technology Language Models Quantization AI Tools
  1. Stanford CRFM recommends shifting ML validation from task-centric to workflow-centric for better evaluation
  2. Google introduces Ro-ViT for pre-training vision transformers, improving on object detection tasks
  3. Google AI presents Retrieval-VLP for pre-training vision-language models, emphasizing retrieval to enhance performance

GPT Store, text-to-3d in under 10 seconds, DeepSeekMoE 16B, jailbreaking advanced LLMs, LLaVA-ϕ, Microsoft's open-source agent framework, and more

AI Brews • 12 implied HN points • 12 Jan 24
🕹 Technology AI Language Models Open Source AI Tools
  1. OpenAI launched the GPT Store for finding GPT models and a revenue program for GPT builders.
  2. DeepSeek released DeepSeekMoE 16B, a large language model with 16.4B parameters trained from scratch.
  3. Microsoft Research introduced TaskWeaver, an open-source agent framework to convert natural language requests into executable code.

Generative AI is good at cooperating with people and bad at full automation

Skybrian’s Blog • 98 HN points • 29 Mar 23
🕹 Technology Generative AI Automation Software Development AI Tools
  1. Generative AI excels in cooperating with people but struggles with full automation.
  2. Random variety is engaging but not ideal for repetitive tasks.
  3. Combining the strengths of traditional software for repetition and generative AI for creativity can lead to successful and interactive cooperation between people and AI tools.

The Salt and the Women

Cybernetic Forests • 139 implied HN points • 22 Jan 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Film AI Tools Narrative Interpretation Poetry
  1. The film 'The Salt and the Women' is an experimental exploration of AI tools and creativity, blending themes of mushrooms, AI, and generative cinema to tell a unique narrative.
  2. By working with AI tools to create art, the artist can steer emergent themes and create complex interactions between images, text, and music, resulting in a rich storytelling experience.
  3. Pairing AI-generated images and text can lead to stochastic resonance, where noise in the data aligns to amplify a signal, allowing artists to craft new stories by combining different elements.

[66] Supercharging the 1-Person Company

Life in Color • 78 implied HN points • 24 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Web3 AI Tools NFTs Generative AI
  1. The Internet has evolved from a consumer-centric experience to one where everyone can be a creator in the Creator Economy.
  2. Emerging technologies like Web3 and AI empower creators by enabling better monetization, lowering production costs, and fostering niche communities.
  3. Creators can now run 1-Person companies with access to tools that reduce their dependency on platforms and firms, leading to a world of distributed power and infinite niches.

23 cool AI tools you probably haven't used yet (that are not just GPT4)

Mythical AI • 58 implied HN points • 17 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Tools Automation Productivity Tools
  1. AI tools are making our lives easier and more fun, from simple toys to advanced APIs.
  2. Various AI tools are available for different tasks like running prompts on different models, converting paper forms to computer text, and summarizing videos with automatic chapter markers.
  3. Advancements in AI technology are leading to the development of innovative tools like text-to-song generators, text-to-vector image converters, and color book page generators.

These AI Tools will 10x Your Productivity!

What's AI Newsletter by Louis-François Bouchard • 39 implied HN points • 17 Apr 23
🕹 Technology AI Tools Productivity Ethics Artificial Intelligence Tools
  1. AI-powered tools can significantly boost productivity by automating tasks and improving efficiency.
  2. Using AI tools raises ethical considerations regarding privacy, bias, misuse, and accountability that need to be addressed.
  3. AI-powered tools offer opportunities for inclusivity and innovation while requiring responsible development practices to mitigate risks.

The Dead Internet Prophecy

Seeking Tribe • 13 implied HN points • 05 Mar 23
🕹 Technology AI Tools Social media Content Generation Generative AI Virtual reality
  1. The internet is changing due to generative AI tools, leading to a potential future where social media is filled with bots.
  2. Niche social media platforms may struggle to compete against big platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
  3. AI tools are advancing, potentially leading to issues like high-fidelity spam, deep fakes, and unrealistic beauty standards.

Future Bites #7

Year 2049 • 11 implied HN points • 28 Apr 23
🕹 Technology Space Exploration AI Tools AI music
  1. The fight for AI data ownership and fair compensation for website data usage is becoming a significant issue in the tech industry.
  2. Apple is developing an AI health coach called Quartz that will use Apple Watch data to assist with health and wellness.
  3. SpaceX's Starship, despite a recent test flight explosion, is poised to revolutionize space exploration and contribute to humanity in significant ways.

Google’s new tools help discussion forums and social media platforms rank higher in search results

pocoai • 0 implied HN points • 28 Nov 23
🕹 Technology AI Startups Cloud Services AI Tools
  1. Google introduced new tools to help discussion forums and social media platforms rank higher in search results.
  2. California's Privacy Protection Agency is proposing AI regulations with opt-out and access rights for residents.
  3. PhysicsX, an AI startup, secured $32 million funding to enhance engineering simulations.

"You built a time machine... out of a Transformer model?"

Collisions • 0 implied HN points • 25 Jul 23
🎨 Art & Illustration Filmmaking AI Tools Narrative Creativity Cinema
  1. When using AI tools for video generation, ground the content in narration or dialogue between characters for a more compelling story.
  2. Enhance the generated footage with shot composition, lighting, and attention to detail like character reactions and emotions.
  3. Utilize music and foley work to amplify emotions in the footage and maintain viewer engagement.