Should European housing politics be Americanized?
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/should-european-housing-politics-be-americanized/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701766 Points: 7 # Comments: 8
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Do we still need to study algorithms now that AI writes most of our code? [D]
I've been thinking about this for a while. AI can now write functions, explain code, refactor projects, generate tests, and even solve many programming problems better…
Benchmarking Self-Hosted Gemma 2 9B vs. Frontier APIs: The FP8 Quantization Prefill Tax and VRAM Realities on an NVIDIA L4 [P]
When evaluating migrating production LLM workloads off commercial cloud APIs, the conversation usually gets oversimplified into a trade-off between quality and infrastructure cost. To look past…
The Prisoner's Dilemma (Fiction)
His hands are shaking. They’ve been shaking since five hours ago, when the silent policemen showed up at his door wearing black tactical vests on top…
Annoying that OpenAI doesn’t seem to give a GDPval measure for GPT 5.6. One of the best measures of economically valuable work.
Annoying that OpenAI doesn’t seem to give a GDPval measure for GPT 5.6. One of the best measures of economically valuable work.
impromptu ai engineer preshow floor tour and AMA https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbVdAbDJB
impromptu ai engineer preshow floor tour and AMA https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbVdAbDJB
SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype
Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.
DeepSeek being so keen on roleplaying will never not be funny Whale V4.2 might become first love for many
DeepSeek being so keen on roleplaying will never not be funnyWhale V4.2 might become first love for many
Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work
A month ago there was a wave of posts and tweets about engineers walking around cafes and parks with their MacBooks propped half-open, as fully closing…
weebs are mentally ill
weebs are mentally illMichael(Poltfan)((JapanDayTripper)): Now realize China does this with literally every aspect of their country. Literally every part.
If it doesn’t make my PP better, I don’t want it
Highlights: 4 x 48GB modded 4090s 128GB DDR5 Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE 3000w PSU 240V/30A dryer line Q. Is putting a server on a dryer line…
✨infinite scroll✨ on Recent Chats is now available on our mobile app ^_−☆ you can revisit every single chat you've ever had… even the ones from …
✨infinite scroll✨ on Recent Chats is now available on our mobile app ^_−☆you can revisit every single chat you've ever had... even the ones from years…
A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting
Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/arrest-him-the-moment-police-handcuffed-a-farmer-for-going-5-seconds-over-his-time-limit-at-data-center-meeting Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701342 Points: 44 # Comments: 18
Biggest model that is capable which can fit under 64 gb vram for the purpose of distillation
hi all, I have 64 gb VRAM, and I am looking for biggest model that I can use to distill prefer a reasoning model. even with…
Could AI game upscalers (like DLSS/FSR) benefit from lightweight game-specific adapters, especially for handheld gaming?
This is more of a thought experiment than a proposal. I couldn't find much discussion of this in publicly available papers, so I'm wondering whether this…
Neuralese is Actually Probably Good for Alignment
The best language models are still getting smarter and more capable. To an increasing degree, this is because they are trained by Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable…
it's a bit pitiful to look at Europeans don't have very many things that China would pay immense money for. And these are specifically things their Ma…
it's a bit pitiful to look atEuropeans don't have very many things that China would pay immense money for. And these are specifically things their Master…
RT Leroy Li: Ant以数倍于美国博士后时薪的价格向物理学家购买题目，因为数学家已经快被榨干了。但代价是这些题目不能作为研究对象，甚至无法拿来发论文，等于将…
RT Leroy LiAnt以数倍于美国博士后时薪的价格向物理学家购买题目，因为数学家已经快被榨干了。但代价是这些题目不能作为研究对象，甚至无法拿来发论文，等于将知识产权卖给了Ant
An interesting way to take Noam at his word in regards to always keeping a constant inference budget for any eval reporting – is that open models have…
An interesting way to take Noam at his word in regards to always keeping a constant inference budget for any eval reporting -is that open models…
RT xjdr: we've been running GLM 5.2 in bf16 and in fp8 (experts and kvcache only, attention is always bf16) and have recorded virtually 0 measurable q…
RT xjdrwe've been running GLM 5.2 in bf16 and in fp8 (experts and kvcache only, attention is always bf16) and have recorded virtually 0 measurable quality…
IP Crawl: living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
Article URL: https://ipcrawl.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700834 Points: 21 # Comments: 10
Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike
Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157680/Ships-keep-moving-through-Hormuz-despite-strike-and-suspension-of-IMO-exit-strategy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700805 Points: 41 # Comments: 23
RT Alexander Doria: I mean just HF out, ModelScope blocked and it’s over. You won’t seed GLM.
RT Alexander DoriaI mean just HF out, ModelScope blocked and it’s over. You won’t seed GLM.Naithan Jones: “THeY cAnT bAn OpEn sOuRcE bRO hOw cAn tHeY…
MathFormer: Testing whether symbolic math is pattern matching or reasoning [D]
Repo link and results - https://github.com/Abhinand20/MathFormer Task: Given a factorized expression like (7-3*z)*(-5*z-9), predict the expanded form -> 15*z*2-8*z-63 Key takeaway: A tiny (4M param) seq2seq…