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
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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
Show HN: DeepSeek-V4 Latent Reasoning – moving "thinking" into latent space
Article URL: https://blog.n.ichol.ai/packaging-latent-reasoning-as-a-real-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230550 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
Tencent announce WorldClaw
https://tencent-hunyuan.github.io/Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw/ Looks impressive from that site, hopefully they open weight this so we can all play with it. submitted by /u/Uncle___Marty [link] [comments]
Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2
Article URL: https://oskrim.github.io/hardware/2026/08/09/remarkable-over-ssh.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230514 Points: 17 # Comments: 7
Everything You Do Is Being Recorded
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-wearable-surveillance-countermeasures/687203/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230477 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution
Article URL: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/12/gas-propane-stoves-nitrogen-dioxide-exposure-health-risks-switching-electric Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230424 Points: 17 # Comments: 8
What a deal. Thanks newegg
The gods have blessed me. Card came in. brand new. I couldn’t believe it. submitted by /u/Street-Buyer-2428 [link] [comments]
Noise-aware training for analog hardware: accuracy collapses at a threshold rather than degrading smoothly [D]
Analog in-memory compute is getting attention again as a way around the energy cost of moving weights between memory and compute. The recurring objection is noise,…
AMD llama.cpp: reducing MTP buffer overhead gave me 64K → 149K context for Qwen 27B
Available context length with and without the patch: Model: QWEN 27B ROCm stock patched Vulkan stock patched IQ4_XS Pure, single 16GB GPU 19.456 76.032 68,352 78,592…
CSS: The bomb inside your inbox
Article URL: https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230066 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
300b on 32gb MoE-streaming findings + optimisations
The past week I've been running DSv4 inference on my laptop by keeping everything RAM-resident except the MXFP4-experts (since expert pool is ~147GB and won't fit)…
The Alpha 21264 CPU: NT's Greatest RISC (1998)
Article URL: https://halfhill.com/byte/1998-12_alpha.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230022 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
The best harness for local LLM is the one you code
Hi, After some tries, it seems that for local models (27B+) the best way to have reliable outputs is to add a little more code and…
DSv4-0731 on 32gb RAM – 70tok/s prefill, 1.5tok/s decode
The past week I've been running DSv4 inference on my laptop by keeping everything RAM-resident except the MXFP4-experts (since expert pool is ~147GB and won't fit)…
Show HN: Airy – Free, fast, and simple voice content creation
Article URL: https://airy.so Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229848 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 hits 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 in an independent public-harness run (445 trials)
Disclosure: I’m the author of Ante. DeepSeek recently reported an 82.7% score on Terminal-Bench 2.1 for DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731. Its evaluation used “DeepSeek Harness minimal…
Best Embedding + Reranking Model
What Local Embedding + Reranking Models are you guys running for RAG? I went down this rabbit hole because I wanted a Embedding Model + Reranker…
Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/software-giant-sap-stops-most-travel-and-hiring-because-of-ais-soaring-cost/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229412 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order
Article URL: https://gukov.dev/math/2026/08/02/new-magic-hexagons.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229174 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
[R] Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models [R]
Genome language models have emerged as a promising strategy for designing biological systems, but their ability to generate functional sequences at the scale of whole genomes…