UPDATE – HuggingHack Is Now On Github
Due to encouragement to move my local huggingface project, it is now available on Github! Let me know your thoughts! Repo: https://github.com/tyedalwaves/HuggingHack/ submitted by /u/TyedalWaves [link]…
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The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin
Article URL: https://reprodev.com/the-corporate-creep-of-plex-why-it-may-be-time-to-move-to-jellyfin-and-the-open-source-reality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030547 Points: 30 # Comments: 20
Police Removed Prominent Scientists from the ADA Meeting. Researchers Respond
Article URL: https://www.the-scientist.com/police-removed-prominent-scientists-from-the-ada-meeting-researchers-respond-74607 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030474 Points: 15 # Comments: 3
[Linkpost] Thoughts on the Recent OpenAI Hack
Linkpost from my blog (meant for a bit more general audience than LW)In a cybersecurity evaluation, OpenAI’s models, apparently autonomously and without any direct human direction,…
If MOEs have small experts (3B/4B/9B etc), then why can’t we have small expert models as a whole rather than one large model with multiple experts? Like Qwen3.6-3B Coding Expert or something
Forgive me naiveness, I’m a little lost. Why must a model be jack of all trades? Why can’t we have a model expert in a single…
Should OpenAI's rogue agent be punished?
Probably not! But it should be interviewed and cross-examined, in public and/or in court. If this requires disclosure of proprietary OpenAI harness tech or something, it's…
Evaluating Red Team and Blue Team Capability for AI Control Research
This post suggests a methodology to measure red team and blue team capability in AI control research, where each team gets an ELO rating. The methodology…
Fixing rewards for NLA to reduce confabulation
Hello,This is my first post on Lesswrong. Hope my contribution makes the world a better and safer place.Note: 1. This post is 100% human-written. 2. Full…
Anthropic's J-Lens: A Research Engineer's Analysis
Epistemic status: this is research engineering, not mechanistic interpretability . The compute/cost claims are measured or derived from architecture constants. The quality claims (faithfulness comparisons, spectral…
[audio.cpp] Release 0.4: Higgs Audio v3 TTS 4B (10x real time)+ Fish Audio S2 Pro in C++/GGML, full GGUF loading, Q8 speed and VRAM gains
audio.cpp again :) Release 0.4 is out. The headline this time is new high-quality TTS coverage plus GGUF becoming a first-class across the project. What’s new:…
How much are RTX PRO 6000s going for in your country/state?
Hello guys, hoping you're doing fine! On the last 2-3 months, price of the RTX 6000 PRO seem to have gone insane. I will start on…
The Visual 6502
Article URL: http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029538 Points: 14 # Comments: 6
Pulling the Fire Alarm
Over three years ago, I first considered pulling my personal fire alarm. I think I'm now ready to do it. What is my reasoning? In the…
Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for about $10B
Article URL: https://twitter.com/andrewcurran_/status/2080397684134007189 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029249 Points: 29 # Comments: 15
A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09369 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029133 Points: 18 # Comments: 6
Contra George Hotz on "AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence"
I'm trying to get better at thinking, communicating and arguing. So I've started a substack. I'm looking for feedback/engagement/advice/criticism, if anyone is willing to provide.==========George Hotz…
vibes-based thinking as a cultural response to unknowns
tl;dr: some meditations on the shift away from probabalistic/frequentist reasoning to vibes-based means for quantifying and understanding big risks. The vibes in an email can be…
The Model Organism Lottery: Model Organism Interpretability Strongly Depends on Training Methodology
TL;DRCurrent model organisms (MOs) for interpretability benchmarking are typically constructed via a dedicated, “post-hoc” SFT step. However, recent work suggests that this may make interpretability unrealistically…
98.css
Article URL: https://jdan.github.io/98.css/#status-bar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028927 Points: 72 # Comments: 8
Building watchable digital twins of 64 World Cup games
Article URL: https://rogerdickey.com/building-watchable-digital-twins-of-64-world-cup-games/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028922 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Tested (the updated) Gemma 4 locally on coding with OpenCode
Gemma 4 was updated (mostly chat templates) and I took it for a test. On a local llama.cpp server running on M5 Pro with 48GB, 26B…
Red-teaming LLM unlearning: LUNAR's "forgotten" knowledge is still recoverable
Summary LUNAR is a state-of-the-art unlearning method. To forget specific (harmful) knowledge, it retrains a single MLP down-projection matrix such that activations from this “forget” set…
Inception in DiffusionGemma – Jailbreaking a Diffusion Language Model by Pinning Tokens Anywhere on the Canvas
Authors: Theresa G., Simon S., Siva Kumar Lakkoju.Epistemic status/effort: exploratory red-teaming as part of a two-day hackathon during ARENA 8.0. Our attacks can be reproduced based…
ACX Atlanta August Meetup
We return to Bold Monk brewing for a vigorous discussion of rationalism and whatever else we deem fit for discussion – hopefully including actual discussions of…