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Pragmatic FDT, and predictors as game theory
Decision theory is back in fashion (defining fashion as "one good post on a good EA blog"). Bentham's Bulldog (BB) has published a case against FDT…
Fable #6: The Return of the King
The blip is over. We have Fable back. Utah teapot: happy fable/mythos easter Wednesday, to those who celebrate Here is the official letter restoring Fable, great…
Hackers shoveled snow for company, were rewarded with network admin access
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/07/02/hackers-shoveled-snow-for-company-were-rewarded-with-network-admin-access/5265240 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774704 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Valve open source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
Article URL: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/07/valve-open-source-the-steam-machine-e-ink-screen-so-you-can-make-your-own/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774518 Points: 50 # Comments: 6
PostgreSQL and the OOM Killer: Why You Must Use Strict Memory Overcommit
Article URL: https://www.ubicloud.com/blog/postgresql-and-the-oom-killer-why-we-use-strict-memory-overcommit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774509 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
The Fall and Rise of Screwworm
Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/the-fall-and-rise-of-screwworm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774492 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
Article URL: https://eshumarneedi.com/2026/07/03/zuckerberg-admits-metas-layoffs-were.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774454 Points: 54 # Comments: 24
Gemini Code Assist will be shut down on July 17
Article URL: https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini/docs/code-review/review-repo-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774429 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Please stop the AI confidence theater
Article URL: https://www.elenaverna.com/p/please-stop-the-ai-confidence-theater Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774414 Points: 67 # Comments: 33
My DeepSeek V4 Pro at home got faster again
You may remember my earlier posts about DeepSeek V4 Pro at home. Today I checked the performance in my llama.cpp branch that contains various fixes and…
Program-as-Weights: A Programming Paradigm for Fuzzy Functions
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02512 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774368 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Anyone looked into "Thermo-NN" optimizing model architecture via thermodynamic/Landauer cost instead of pure FLOPs?
Came across a project framing architecture search around thermodynamic information cost (Landauer's principle) rather than the usual FLOPs/params tradeoff, the pitch is causal derivation before implementation,…
AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-data-centers-water-use-901e2902 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774246 Points: 15 # Comments: 5
June-July 2026 AI Security via Formal Methods
Last month, I said I would do a bigger writeup of Nora’s funding call. I did not. But she is hiring currently, and I want you…
Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations
Article URL: https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/goodbye-forever-probably/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48774195 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
GLM5.2 on 5x Pro 6000s and a 5090, an expensive journey
This started as something I thought was reasonable. I already had a 5090 for my gaming machine, and I thought a second 5090 would make me…
Surface Evolver Bench: my benchmark asking LLMs to write complex physical simulations in a custom data format
Example rendered surfaces showing simulated liquid (green) shaped by solid constraints (orange). Overall score, pass count, and recorded token/cost totals for each model. I wrote a…
AI’s Volatile Power Use Quietly Tests Grid Limits
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is typically framed as an energy problem. Data centers are projected to consume a growing share of global electricity…
Amazon has enough satellites to launch its Starlink competitor
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/science/960563/amazon-leo-service-tipping-point Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773907 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Scheming Evals Mislead in Both Directions
We spent several weeks measuring in-context scheming, the behavior where a model covertly pursues a misaligned goal while outwardly appearing to comply, and the result that…
A behind-the-scenes look at Midjourney’s medical scanner leaves many questions unanswered
Midjourney has shown more of its futuristic medical scanner. It still hasn't shown much proof it works. The AI startup, best known for generating images, released…
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server + ui: ping silent SSE streams every 1s and kick only after 3s so slow prefill never drops healthy connections (#25241) server + ui: ping…
Palantir is a free org on HF with 0 open-source models and 0 public datasets shared
From clem 🤗 on X: https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2072683707001930215 From Palantir on X (video): https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2072326189079757277 The information: Palantir CEO Says Some U.S. Government Customers Switched to Open Source AI:…