Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug
Article URL: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-08-09-zsh-history-truncation-bug/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314579 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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No-New-Physics Consciousness
Article URL: https://www.overcomingbias.com/p/no-new-physics-consciousness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314567 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
RT DogeDesigner: Grok 4.6 ranks #1 on RuntimeWire’s Newsroom Reliability v0.2 benchmark with a score of 0.79, beating GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.8, G…
RT DogeDesignerGrok 4.6 ranks #1 on RuntimeWire’s Newsroom Reliability v0.2 benchmark with a score of 0.79, beating GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini and DeepSeek.
RT Matt Van Horn: Okay I am convinced that I don’t think I need my OpenClaw or Hermes anymore bc of Grok Bot. 😬 It has a “can-do” attitude that …
RT Matt Van HornOkay I am convinced that I don’t think I need my OpenClaw or Hermes anymore bc of Grok Bot. 😬 It has a…
club-5060ti refresh: tested RTX 5060 Ti presets, a proper high-context harness, and Qwen3.8 27B
Quick update on the RTX 5060 Ti local LLM repo. It has changed quite a bit since my previous posts. The project started as a collection…
Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."
Does doubling a user profile change the effect of an instruction about using saved memories?
Hi! This is my first attempt at an AI safety experiment. The full record is on GitHub and comments are very welcome.I got the idea after…
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Article URL: https://www.acc.org/about-acc/press-releases/2026/08/11/14/59/abdominal-fat-predicts-heart-disease-risk-better-than-bmi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314403 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Grok has improved massively
Grok has improved massivelyDan: Look how much Grok has progressed in just 6 months from Grok 3 to Grok 4.6!As a quick Saturday morning project I…
RT Elon Musk: Re @TheChiefNerd Worth trying Grok 4.6. Fable 5 is smarter overall, but Grok is much faster and lower cost. Grok 4.7 has a good chance o…
RT Elon MuskRe @TheChiefNerd Worth trying Grok 4.6. Fable 5 is smarter overall, but Grok is much faster and lower cost.Grok 4.7 has a good chance…
880 tok/s on one 5090 Qwen3.8-27B in 4-bit NVFP4, full 262k context
Numbers first, on a single RTX 5090, Running CachyOS with COSMIC, and the entire desktop costs about 150 MB of VRAM. 880 tok/s aggregate at 6…
«you can't make a nuke code an app. Thus, total war». I've been thinking about this for a while. It's a dreary vision: the endpoint of the Jevons pa…
«you can't make a nuke code an app. Thus, total war».I've been thinking about this for a while. It's a dreary vision: the endpoint of the…
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Article URL: https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/good-ideas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314235 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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ui: mask API Key field in settings and error splash to stop browser a…
Which Harness for Local Coding (Qwen 3.8 27b) do you Recommend?
I know there are many posts about this, but I would explicitly like to know the harness names instead of having a general discussion. Let's see…
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model: add Kimi-K3 text model (#26185) model: add Kimi-K3 text model Hybrid KDA (linear) + MLA (full) attention as in Kimi-Linear-48B, plus five things that architecture…
Luck is a function of surface area.
Someone asked me "how do you get into so many things?" after seeing the random mix of stuff I'm involved in. There's no easy answer to…
Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a…
I admit I did not respect Minimax enough. Their position in the video gen is *extremely* strong. This is 33B!
I admit I did not respect Minimax enough. Their position in the video gen is *extremely* strong. This is 33B!Emily Youcis: I really can't believe how…
My turn! – Drop it!!!
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Humazon
Article URL: https://hughhowey.com/humazon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313941 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y8bGBE71yw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313920 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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server: re-design yield_to_queue thread model (#27133) run common_speculative_process in worker swap worker main thread design Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64,…
What if Parameter Updates were Text?
Advice String Distillation This post will advocate for a fine-tuning methodology that I think is currently extremely under-rated for alignment and interpretability. It uses Context Distillation,…