Ask HN: How to get involved and meet people in AI in SF?
A recently laid-off engineer in San Francisco is exploring AI and creating apps. They express excitement about their productivity and desire to connect with others in the field. The engineer is seeking recommendations on how to get involved and meet like-minded individuals.
- ▪The engineer has been experimenting with AI to create applications.
- ▪They feel a sense of nostalgia reminiscent of building their first website in high school.
- ▪The individual is looking for ways to connect with others in the AI community in San Francisco.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48240777 |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 19:57:09 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T20:02:02.959Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T20:02:06.577Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | b4mF7r4fE6pg |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
I'm a recently laid-off engineer, I've been playing around with AI to create apps, (vibe and not-vibe coding), and am blown away with how productive I can be. It feels like that feeling when I was in High School and built my first website and felt like I could build anything.I live in San Francisco and have a bit of time before I start looking for a new job, but I realize I'm right in the heart of where all of this stuff is coming from.How would you recommend I get involved/meet people doing cool things? Anything from groups that get together to someone who wants to grab a beer once a week and start a group.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.