Agents as Webs of Beliefs
In this post I’ll sketch out an informal model of intelligent agents as webs of beliefs (or belief webs for short). The belief webs framework pulls…
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Model Registry: Torrents for open models using Hugging Face as a fallback web seed.
Hi, I created a repo/site for publishing/sharing .torrent files for popular open models, added web seed support and a few scripts to automate it. Repo: https://github.com/marella/modelregistry…
Michigan spent $1.8B and only created 602 jobs
Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/michigan-spent-1-8-billion-and-only-created-602-jobs/ar-AA26Cusu Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702060 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
RT Khurram Javed: It's interesting that people who are less in the weeds, like Dwarkesh, see the argument for continual learning better than people at…
RT Khurram JavedIt's interesting that people who are less in the weeds, like Dwarkesh, see the argument for continual learning better than people at the frontier…
GLP-1 drugs led to weight loss and reversed depression-like behavior in mice
Article URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/mood-by-microbe/202606/what-ozempic-does-to-the-gut-brain-axis Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701984 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
Enhancing X11 Application Security with LXC
Article URL: https://dobrowolski.dev/article/enhancing-x11-application-security-with-lxc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701936 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/06/26/meta-wynn-williams-surveillance-gag-order-lawsuit-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701822 Points: 80 # Comments: 18
Show HN: Kiso, an open-source publishing engine for Open Knowledge Format
Article URL: https://oak-invest.github.io/kiso/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701771 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Should European housing politics be Americanized?
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/should-european-housing-politics-be-americanized/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701766 Points: 7 # Comments: 8
Do we still need to study algorithms now that AI writes most of our code? [D]
I've been thinking about this for a while. AI can now write functions, explain code, refactor projects, generate tests, and even solve many programming problems better…
Benchmarking Self-Hosted Gemma 2 9B vs. Frontier APIs: The FP8 Quantization Prefill Tax and VRAM Realities on an NVIDIA L4 [P]
When evaluating migrating production LLM workloads off commercial cloud APIs, the conversation usually gets oversimplified into a trade-off between quality and infrastructure cost. To look past…
The Prisoner's Dilemma (Fiction)
His hands are shaking. They’ve been shaking since five hours ago, when the silent policemen showed up at his door wearing black tactical vests on top…
Annoying that OpenAI doesn’t seem to give a GDPval measure for GPT 5.6. One of the best measures of economically valuable work.
Annoying that OpenAI doesn’t seem to give a GDPval measure for GPT 5.6. One of the best measures of economically valuable work.
impromptu ai engineer preshow floor tour and AMA https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbVdAbDJB
impromptu ai engineer preshow floor tour and AMA https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbVdAbDJB
SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype
Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.
DeepSeek being so keen on roleplaying will never not be funny Whale V4.2 might become first love for many
DeepSeek being so keen on roleplaying will never not be funnyWhale V4.2 might become first love for many
Show HN: Adrafinil – keep a lid-closed Mac awake only while agents work
A month ago there was a wave of posts and tweets about engineers walking around cafes and parks with their MacBooks propped half-open, as fully closing…
weebs are mentally ill
weebs are mentally illMichael(Poltfan)((JapanDayTripper)): Now realize China does this with literally every aspect of their country. Literally every part.
If it doesn’t make my PP better, I don’t want it
Highlights: 4 x 48GB modded 4090s 128GB DDR5 Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE SE 3000w PSU 240V/30A dryer line Q. Is putting a server on a dryer line…
✨infinite scroll✨ on Recent Chats is now available on our mobile app ^_−☆ you can revisit every single chat you've ever had… even the ones from …
✨infinite scroll✨ on Recent Chats is now available on our mobile app ^_−☆you can revisit every single chat you've ever had... even the ones from years…
A Farmer Arrested for Going 5 Seconds over His Time Limit at Data Center Meeting
Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/arrest-him-the-moment-police-handcuffed-a-farmer-for-going-5-seconds-over-his-time-limit-at-data-center-meeting Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701342 Points: 44 # Comments: 18
Biggest model that is capable which can fit under 64 gb vram for the purpose of distillation
hi all, I have 64 gb VRAM, and I am looking for biggest model that I can use to distill prefer a reasoning model. even with…
Could AI game upscalers (like DLSS/FSR) benefit from lightweight game-specific adapters, especially for handheld gaming?
This is more of a thought experiment than a proposal. I couldn't find much discussion of this in publicly available papers, so I'm wondering whether this…
Neuralese is Actually Probably Good for Alignment
The best language models are still getting smarter and more capable. To an increasing degree, this is because they are trained by Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable…