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Northern Gannet, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, USThis is Morris. Morris is a local celebrity: the only known Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) in the entire Pacific…
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😂Keith Coleman 🌱😀🙌: OK let’s try this:———————-Pretend you’re 5 and the algorithm is a smart robot that picks which toys (posts) to show you in your…
AI Driven Testing
Article URL: https://app.deltix.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307099 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
Metaphilosophy II: Empirical Flywheels
1.4 Two philosophical methods 1.4.1 Philosophy consists of updating the highest-level concepts of the mind. As discussed above, this 'updating' process can ultimately involve anything in…
Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visible
Any censorship required by governments is now clearly visibleX Open Source: Today’s For You release is in the open-source repo.Notable updates:• How ranking weights actually work•…
Grok 4.6 now in Copilot
Grok 4.6 now in CopilotGrok: Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot.Try it out in the GitHub Copilot CLI, IDE, and cloud products!https://x.ai/news/grok-4-6-github-copilot
Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia
Article URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2/executive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306577 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Red vs Blue, but for Evals
🔵 The blue team proposes an evaluation protocol for some capability/propensity of interest. This consists of a suite of measurement tasks, together with a preregistered decision-making…
The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Article URL: https://blog.ploopy.co/the-aplus-is-finally-here-499 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306443 Points: 15 # Comments: 6
NSA and IETF, Part 9
Article URL: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20260814-update.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306432 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
[Megathread] Qwen 3.8 27B Release Day
Megathread to help with the influx of duplicate / similar posts around the release of the Qwen 3.8 27B release. Quants Fine-Tunes & Abliterations Chat Templates…
2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization
Article URL: https://studios.disneyresearch.com/2026/07/16/2d-gaussian-splatting-for-bezier-spline-line-art-vectorization/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306333 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
AC comment and our reply disappeared on OpenReview [D]
Hi everyone, we noticed that the AC's comment, along with our reply, has disappeared, and we are wondering if anyone else has experienced the same thing.…
Open source is closing the gap with closed labs, and fast. At ICML, @tri_dao broke it down: open models are now just months behind on quality, and the…
Open source is closing the gap with closed labs, and fast.At ICML, @tri_dao broke it down: open models are now just months behind on quality, and…
Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.03459 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306196 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Qwen 3.8 – 27B is a game changer
So a bit of context, I am a cybersecurity senior analyst I am interested in LLMs for that field especially with MCPs to connect them to…
Maglev: Sliding Recurrent Memory
We introduce , a recurrent Transformer architecture with fixed-size memory that generalizes sliding-window attention while remaining parallelizable during training. consists of two coupled models: a prefiller…
Thought-Level Beam Search for Reasoning
Test-time compute scaling is a primary driver of performance in large reasoning models (LRMs), but extreme inefficiency bounds current approaches, shifting the critical question from how…
Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees
Article URL: https://sf.gazetteer.co/corgi-kills-short-lived-website-that-ranked-its-female-employees Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306080 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
RT Greg Abbott: Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others. DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities are illegal….
RT Greg AbbottGovernment-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others.DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities are illegal. I've directed a review of all…
Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/47dd5308-dd17-404a-a615-61046defd697 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305927 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
AI Daily Brief — 14 August 2026
Qwen 3.8 launches under Apache 2.0 with a massive Day 0 partner ecosystem; Cursor closes its SpaceX acquisition; and OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x speed.
Toy Model of Activation Obfuscation
I completed this work as part of the BlueDot Impact Technical AI Safety Project. This linkpost is a somewhat condensed version of the writeup on my…
Your Agents Are Not Time Aware
Work done as part of MATS 10 with Maksym AndriushchenkoTLDR:We had two CLI agents, Claude Code and Codex, predict, execute and then retrospectively estimate their own…