Interesting exchange
Interesting exchangeDario Amodei: 2/2 Second, on the messaging around AI. I do not agree that my messaging has been disproportionately negative. In fact it has been…
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users: “are you insane?! DSH doesn’t work on Windows and it’s overfit to a single string and two tools, namely bash and str_replace” DeepSeek: “i…
users: “are you insane?! DSH doesn’t work on Windows and it’s overfit to a single string and two tools, namely bash and str_replace”DeepSeek: “idk man the…
AI Daily Brief — 15 August 2026
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B dominated discussion with a laptop-size open model; SpaceX closed Cursor and Anthropic detailed Claude's watermarking architecture.
RT James Burnham: After @elonmusk bought Twitter, a bunch of advertisers engaged in an illegal group boycott of @X. The advertisers coordinated to pul…
RT James BurnhamAfter @elonmusk bought Twitter, a bunch of advertisers engaged in an illegal group boycott of @X. The advertisers coordinated to pull billions in ad…
Credit card debt rises to $1.26T, nearing all-time record
Article URL: https://abc7.com/story/credit-card-debt-rises-126-trillion-nearing-time-record/19667289/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315232 Points: 27 # Comments: 25
Qwen 3.8 27b – Just a small reminder for people who use builtin UI (or any other UI with same function) in llama.cpp-Server: You can use `Custom JSON` to fast switch thinking modes, disable thinking completely, preserve thinking.
I'm using this Qwen 3.8 Jinja ``` { "chat_template_kwargs": { "enable_thinking": true, "reasoning_effort": "medium", "preserve_thinking": true} } ``` submitted by /u/-Ellary- [link] [comments]
Oh God it’s actually about “dissidents” too huh For these folks DeepSeek is painful like Sun to a vampire. their lives are premised on the idea tha…
Oh God it’s actually about “dissidents” too huhFor these folks DeepSeek is painful like Sun to a vampire. their lives are premised on the idea that…
Decoding smell: Study reveals how odor signals shapeshift in the wind
Article URL: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/08/10/decoding-smell-study-reveals-how-odor-signals-shapeshift-wind Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315065 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Before I quantized Qwen3.8-27B, I ran tests to figure out which weight groups actually matter, rather than just looking at where the model falls apart (3 builds: Bedrock / Tightrope / Gambit).
Went with the same approach I used in my Qwen3.6 post. You quantize one weight group at a time, measure the KL divergence against the source…
AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13122 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314967 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314962 Points: 19 # Comments: 2
sounds accurate
sounds accuratea16z: Wild adoption gap: the top 1% of AI spenders are spending more than 600x as much as the median companyCharts of the Week: https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-head-in-the-neoclouds
in case you’re not living in the tech bubble, as a general rule i’ve been surprised by how infrequently top tier folks actually meet/know each other…
in case you’re not living in the tech bubble, as a general rule i’ve been surprised by how infrequently top tier folks actually meet/know each other.…
Kimi likes causal decision theory more after RL in twin prisoner’s dilemmas
Some multi-agent training set-ups could make language models more sympathetic to causal decision theory (CDT), even in abstract discussion.[1] We give an initial empirical demonstration of…
Software Engineering fundamentals matter more
Article URL: https://rhonabwy.com/2026/08/15/software-engineering-fundamentals-matter-more-than-ever/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314902 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
SugarTrack – an offline Android logbook for blood sugar (no account, no cloud)
Article URL: https://sugartrack-beta.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314884 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
oh no no no Jukan's internal plan is about to leak…
oh no no no Jukan's internal plan is about to leak…Jukan: I came to Hong Kong for vacation and tried Sichuan food for the first time.…
0831 is a solid improvement over Preview.
0831 is a solid improvement over Preview.Lech Mazur: This benchmark tests how well LLMs defend a position through sustained, adversarial, multi-turn opposition across hundreds of topics.…
RT Kromem: It was amazing to me seeing the discourse around this just how poorly people understand how context activates weights, particularly in a Mo…
RT KromemIt was amazing to me seeing the discourse around this just how poorly people understand how context activates weights, particularly in a MoE.That anyone thought…
llama.cpp Windows Manager
https://github.com/alekk89/llama-cpp-windows-manager It has been three months since I first shared my personal solution for running llama.cpp on Windows, and the project has evolved considerably since then.…
Triple Product Rule of Partial Derivatives
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_product_rule Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314790 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
We are definitely in a Singularity as defined by Vinge, but not yet in a Singularity as originally defined by von Neumann as recalled by Ulam.
We are definitely in a Singularity as defined by Vinge, but not yet in a Singularity as originally defined by von Neumann as recalled by Ulam.David…
Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Compare bribes statistics department wise
Article URL: https://bribes.fyi/compare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314765 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
Engineers will do anything to avoid learning from history
Article URL: https://horn.gg/blog/engineers-will-do-anything-to-avoid-learning-from-history/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314744 Points: 26 # Comments: 10