What just happened? A retrospective of AI alignment
This sequence is about the last decade in AI alignment. Over five posts, it recounts the gradual transition from a field which treated alignment as a…
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UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account
Article URL: https://unyolo.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232548 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Non-Physical Intelligence Has A Ceiling [D]
Reasoning alone cannot predict the chaotic physical world. Without a sensory and motor interface to reality, non-physical AI will not deliver the scientific and technological breakthroughs…
Lophius: A workbench for language model research, from the creator of Heretic
Hi folks, I hate slop as much as you do, so instead of starting with "The Problem", I'll just cut to the chase: I just published…
Every fast write moves work somewhere else
Article URL: https://www.shayon.dev/post/2026/220/every-fast-write-moves-work-somewhere-else/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232410 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731 locally on CPU
After seeing the benchmark results for the full release of DS v4 Flash 0731, I replaced my 2 x 16GB DDR4 ram sticks with 2 x…
Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
Article URL: https://alexanderwanyoike.github.io/vibez/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232369 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley
Article URL: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232318 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing
Article URL: https://github.com/eighttrigrams/us-vs-them Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232300 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
Article URL: https://theconversation.com/taxi-drivers-rarely-die-of-alzheimers-how-complex-mental-maps-and-spatial-reasoning-protect-your-brain-286650 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232253 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
Article URL: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Windows-11-s-built-in-Weather-app-wastes-more-than-1-GB-of-RAM.1364205.0.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232138 Points: 33 # Comments: 17
Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone
Article URL: https://www.techeblog.com/tom-stanton-supersonic-trebuchet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232110 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
Underestimated budget solution: radeon 780m iGPU
There are so many posts where people complaining about high prices and asking for solution <= 1000 EUR. So, there is one solution to consider: PC/mini…
ECCV workshop, camera ready instructions? [D]
Does anyone have any idea about the instructions for the camera ready at workshops? The deadline is August 15, but there are no indications and workshop…
I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won
Article URL: https://jorypestorious.com/blog/portable-agent-factory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231838 Points: 9 # Comments: 5
Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
Article URL: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231809 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
Show HN: Today's cities on a globe of Earth's tectonic past and future
Article URL: https://douwe.com/projects/tectonic_globe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231777 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
A partial digestion of the HRT counterexample
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/a-partial-digestion-of-the-hrt-counterexample/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231586 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Who does the confessing, and will they confess to anything
TL;DR: Introspection adapters are tools designed to get models with built-in quirks (operationalized here with concurrent adapters) to confess said misbehavior. We look at this through…
John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)
Article URL: https://kibotronics.net/unlisted/lilly-machines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231397 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
Article URL: https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231154 Points: 33 # Comments: 14
The world will be full of "sci-fi" things, and everyone will be bored and disappointed
I usually try to make posts with graphs and numbers, or at least something more than just opinions and anecdotes. This one is not like that.Very…
Show HN: A Project Oberon System version running on RISC-V instead of RISC-5
Article URL: https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/op2-rv32 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230891 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Why Wall Street Is Ignoring Big Tech's Debt
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NufJ7g63KSY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230630 Points: 21 # Comments: 2