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heroicapaz: Over the past 90 days I dropped everything to study Zeroth-Order Optimization. Forgotten techniques like Evolution Strategies, which can train models without backprop. I also…
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A native graphical shell for SSH
Article URL: https://probablymarcus.com/blocks/2026/06/28/native-graphical-shell-for-SSH.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720758 Points: 30 # Comments: 12
Kind of unexpected: HuiHui abliterated winning over vanilla 3.6-35B-a3b on math and code.
Identical custom quantization recipe on HuiHui's and Vanilla 3.6-35B-a3B. Somehow removing refusal get's you closer to truth and wisdom (?) in math and coding. Benchmarks on…
Together AI processing 400T tokens a month.
Together AI processing 400T tokens a month.Vipul Ved Prakash: http://x.com/i/article/2071357845443153921
Functional Decision Theory: Not Even Wrong, Also Wrong
Crosspost. 1 The analytic philosophers vs the rationalistsA lot of analytic philosophers are sympathetic to Rationalism (the social movement, not the alternative to empiricism). I don’t…
Microsoft Needs Windows Lite
Article URL: https://philipbohun.com/blog/0011.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720591 Points: 53 # Comments: 59
faster algorithmic progress could have made things much weirder still can
faster algorithmic progress could have made things much weirderstill canHugh Zhang: A question I’ve been pondering: what if we'd known about o1 / RL on chain-of-thought…
RT Sergio Paniego: one command and you have a private vllm server on HF infra point a coding agent straight at your own model, then spin it down when …
RT Sergio Paniegoone command and you have a private vllm server on HF infrapoint a coding agent straight at your own model, then spin it down…
The hard truth is that USAID, with its constant support of often violent leftist regime change, caused a lot of death!
The hard truth is that USAID, with its constant support of often violent leftist regime change, caused a lot of death!@amuse: USAID: The data show that…
I do historical swordfighting and noticed AI struggles to track it. I’m building an open dataset to help fix this. Does my schema make sense? [P]
Hi everyone, I’m a historical swordfighter (HEMA practitioner), and while I’m not a computer vision engineer or a roboticist, I’ve been reading a lot about the…
The 2026 Agent Confidence Index: Where 300 builders see real momentum
At Microsoft, building trustworthy AI agents is as critical as building powerful ones. New research from the 2026 Agent Confidence Index shows where teams trust agents…
Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour
An internal Deloitte presentation projects that the consulting industry's classic hourly billing model will shrink to a thin sliver of the total market by 2035, replaced…
WSJ Article Claiming China Has Matched Anthropic Is Obvious Nonsense
The Wall Street Journal printed an outright false headline and heavily misleading story claiming this, which of course was uncritically amplified by the usual suspects. I…
P(doom) is a Dumb Meme
Look, I'm as much of a Rationalist with a special interest in AI x-risk as anyone. But oh my god do I hate talking about "P(doom)".…
Effect of GLM 5.2 !!
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Correct
CorrectPeter St Onge, Ph.D.: Turns out defunding USAID did not kill Africans.Because the money wasn't going to Africa. It was going to buy elections and burn…
RT Senator Eric Schmitt: Justice Alito's dissent lays it out plain as day. This opinion opens the door to more fraud and it is not difficult to unders…
RT Senator Eric SchmittJustice Alito's dissent lays it out plain as day.This opinion opens the door to more fraud and it is not difficult to understand…
Going from single GPU to dual GPU is nice but not in the way I expected
I was expecting what when doubling my VRAM from 24gb to 2x24gb I'd use higher quants with more context, and thus get smarter LLMs, but that's…
WATaBoy: JIT-Ing Game Boy Instructions to WASM Beats a Native Interpreter
Article URL: https://humphri.es/blog/WATaBoy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720190 Points: 30 # Comments: 0
Linux for the Sega MegaDrive
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/29/its-linux-on-a-sega-megadriv... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720186 Points: 39 # Comments: 6
WebGL Without a GPU
Article URL: https://microlink.io/blog/webgl-without-a-gpu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720179 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
RT Katie Miller: But Democrats told me Elon didn’t do philanthropy…
RT Katie MillerBut Democrats told me Elon didn’t do philanthropy…
Accelerate modern Linux workloads with Azure Files
Azure Files combines familiar file access with built-in performance, data protection, security, and Azure service integration. The post Accelerate modern Linux workloads with Azure Files appeared…
Instead of decentralized training effort we should build the “One dataset”
There are many threads here calling for united LLM training run of a new open model. Mainly, after govt. stunt of banning commercial frontier models. And…