How We Pushed CDC into Postgres
Article URL: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgres-to-snowflake-replication-mirroring/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238050 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
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Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent
Article URL: https://www.dpreview.com/news/panasonic-did-what-apple-sony-and-nikon-couldnt-overturn-a-red-raw-video-patent/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237873 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
KPMG Says Nearly Half Of Executives Pulled Back AI Agents Over Cost
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sandycarter/2026/08/09/kpmg-says-nearly-half-of-executives-pulled-back-ai-agents-over-cost/ Bubble started to burst? submitted by /u/MoodDelicious3920 [link] [comments]
opengradient open-sourced veil, a local openai-compatible proxy that routes through a TEE.
3090 here, qwen3 32b at q4 for most things, 14b when i need speed. covers maybe 80% of what i do. the other 20% is long…
Automating a Claude↔Codex write/review loop (needs the Codex plugin)
I kept doing the same thing by hand: write something with one model, paste it into the other for review, back and forth, try to get…
The Ambition Project
Article URL: https://www.betonit.ai/p/the-ambition-project Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237407 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
DGX Spark Cluster management interface
I have 4x dgx sparks connected to a microtik switch. Is there any point in connecting the 10gb ports for management? Or is it fine to…
[NEW MODEL] SupraElegans-500K
*SupraLabs released a new experimental model!* SupraElegans-500K is a ~500,000-parameter causal language model built around a sparse, signed, recurrent neural graph. No Transformer, no attention mechanism,…
AI-amplified democratic backsliding: an exploration
What we did, in a sentence: we built an index that attempts to score countries by their current vulnerability to AI-amplified democratic backsliding. It’s an early…
Overthinking: Amplifying reasoning weights makes models reveal their secrets
If you take the weight difference between a reasoning model and its non-reasoning instruct counterpart, and then apply more of that difference to the reasoning model,…
KLQ: Training-free measured rotation quantization. Beats all training-free rotation-based quantization methods on W4A4KV4-bits. Llama 3.2 1B KLQ-quantized beats SpinQuant and gets close to ReSpinQuant without GPTQ/LDLQ rounding.
First of all, I'm not a lab, this was a solo summer research project that finally culminated into the github repo and the writeup. The repo…
To Recruit Teachers, School Districts Are Building Homes
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/business/affordable-housing-schools-teachers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236541 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack
Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236439 Points: 19 # Comments: 3
The Apocalyptic Arrival of Truth
C: Babe, whatever happens, I really appreciate you doing this for me.J: Okay. I still don’t think it’s a good idea.C: Look, it’s a one-time thing.…
endless-frontier/BigBang-v1 – qwen 3.5 finetunes
table bench https://huggingface.co/bartowski/endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-GGUF I'm downloading this model only because Bartowski converted it to .gguf, so it might be interesting. Doubts : The headline number is basically…
Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse
Article URL: https://www.wtoc.com/2026/08/07/savannah-police-department-fires-6-employees-over-flock-safety-system-misuse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49236033 Points: 38 # Comments: 5
Is it all just vapourware?
Article URL: https://kirahowe.com/2026/aug/8/is-it-all-just-vapourware Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235859 Points: 54 # Comments: 58
Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
Article URL: https://tuxedono2.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235697 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it
Article URL: https://propelmusic.co.nz/articles/the-sound-went-quiet-nz-music-media Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235641 Points: 20 # Comments: 4
The Gemma team will host a special event on August 20
Tweet by u/hackerllama Could be copium, but I would love to see Gemma 4.1 there with unified audio input for all model sizes perhaps even up…
The climate benefits of retiring an operational combustion engine vehicle
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adv5441 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235572 Points: 3 # Comments: 3
Archival Resource Key (Ark) Alliance
Article URL: https://arks.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235486 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
[2606.05682] Beyond Output Matching: Preserving Internal Geometry in NVFP4 LLM Distillation
Demand for low-precision inference, including NVFP4-based approaches, has grown as large language models are increasingly deployed in latency and cost constrained production environments. Quantization-aware distillation (QAD)…
The Hacker's Renaissance
Article URL: https://phrack.org/issues/72/19#article Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235378 Points: 15 # Comments: 6