Why PauseAI UK accepts anonymous donations
Let's consider two different types of donor anonymity:1. The donor is known to PauseAI UK, but anonymous to the public.The main concern here is that PauseAI…
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Seeking Mentees for the Sentient Futures Project Incubator
I recently wrote about the Sentient Futures Project Incubator and our mentor recruitment for the next round starting late August 2026. The mentors have just about…
Intent Is All You Need.
It was mid-February. Snow on the ground, ice on the water. A bitter north wind howls across the bay. I’m at home, deep in thought. I…
What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
Article URL: https://simone.org/advertising/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040989 Points: 24 # Comments: 13
Attention Survey July 2026: 23 Model Open Weight 20B-500B Architecture Analysis
Hello all, there are so many great models coming out right now that it is difficult to keep up with their architectural differences, and especially their…
Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040741 Points: 28 # Comments: 14
Congress Moves at Tech Pace: The FRONTIER Act
Crossposted from canaryinstitute.ai/blog/frontier-act-tech-pace. Related posts The Best AI Bill Congress Hasn't Introduced Yet — my section-by-section read of the GAAIA discussion draft this bill grew out…
How Laguna team even passed any benchmark?
Im not telling this model good or bad. Im just wondering how they passed benchmarks if their templates and many other things was broken? And it…
Stable Systems Have Stable Outputs
OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, that models it was testing escaped a sandboxed environment and began attacking HuggingFace, using exploits to gain entry. Two…
What open-source tooling does AI safety research need right now?
TL;DR: I'm running a survey to find out what open-source tooling AI safety researchers are wishing for right now. Anything that makes your daily workflow easier…
Stripe Eyes $10 Billion Deal for AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter
Coming soon: ClosedRouter! Congratulations to the founders, I guess ... submitted by /u/MrPecunius [link] [comments]
Asking Laguna S 2.1: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 69 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"
This is UD-Q5_K_XL. EDIT: I'm not trying to shit on Laguna, it's actually a solid model and if they fix the overthinking loops, this could be…
The AI Industrial Explosion — Part 5: Given AGI, automating physical production is probably not that hard
In this series so far we have investigated the consequences of automating labor with advanced AI systems and robotics. Part 1 found that physical growth would…
Where does hint-following and concealment arise? A case study on OLMo-3 checkpoints
This work was done as part of the Second Look Fellowship by Arav Dhoot and supervised by Yixiong Hao and Zephaniah Roe. I'm grateful to Harshul…
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales
Article URL: https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49040296 Points: 37 # Comments: 5
I want people here to open your eyes and note how Google did not sign the anti- open-source-model coalition
They are not the champion of open source like the Google shills here want you to believe. Their Gemma models are garbage in all quantization and…
CachyLLama’s: llama.cpp fork with persistent KV cache that makes long local-agent sessions much less painful
I’m not affiliated with this project, but I’ve been running it recently and I’m surprised it hasn’t received more attention here: https://github.com/fewtarius/CachyLLama CachyLLama is a fork…
What machine is best for my setup? [D]
Hi guys, hope all well! I was hesitating between two models to help me in my research journey and was wondering if someone had a solid…
Show HN: I made some transistor animations
Hi HN, I made some animations of the most important kinds of transistors using my semiconductor simulation, details of which are on the page. I tried…
llama.cpp slower on P-Cores than on E-Cores with MoE Model and GPU+CPU offloading?
I am currently experimenting with my setup: RTX 5090 + Intel 270K Plus CPU (8 Performance Cores + 16 Efficiency Cores) + 128 GB DDR5-6000 RAM,…
Is corruption the lobbying against Open weights?
Like, reading things like Anthropic "donated" to some people with the condition of lobbying against Chinese LLMs.. it's that right? It feels nothing like freedom but…
BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-origin-attribute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039490 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
[Paper] Statistically-Lossless Quantization of Large Language Models
Model quantization has become essential for efficient large language model deployment, yet existing approaches involve clear trade-offs: methods such as GPTQ and AWQ achieve practical compression…
I got into YC by hacking it
Article URL: https://obaid.wtf/jotbook/2026/07/18/how-i-got-into-yc-by-hacking-it.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039448 Points: 22 # Comments: 7