All 253 Patterns from Christopher Alexander's a Pattern Language Summarized
Article URL: https://claytondorge.com/patterns-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013924 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
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Two Coefficient Givings beat one twice as big
Why the AI windfall should build new grantmakers, not just bigger onesOriginally published at my Funding Anthropalypse Substack.Imagine you could live in one of two worlds…
Introducing Antares: Highly Efficient Open Weight AI Models for Vulnerability Localization
Seems pretty impressive for its size! That's the kind of thing I want to see more of, really small models that excel at specific fields. submitted…
Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You
Article URL: http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013538 Points: 19 # Comments: 0
Asking about how to collaborate with professors or research labs [D]
Hey everyone, I'm not in college anymore. Is it possible to do research with a professor or any research lab while working a full time job?…
Safari Technology Preview 248 Released
Article URL: https://webkit.org/blog/18162/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-248/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013356 Points: 22 # Comments: 2
archex: local-first, deterministic code context for coding agents — 26 languages, zero telemetry, Apache 2.0
archex turns a repo into a ranked, token-budgeted context bundle for coding agents instead of letting them grep their way through it. BM25F + local embeddings…
Session-Adaptive Orthogonal Distillation (SAOD)? Technology compresses 744B (1.5TB) to under 100GB?
Tweet : https://xcancel.com/jun_song/status/2079914426334167258#m Looks like 8GB VRAM could do more like even run 70-100B MOE models possibly. Sorry about the clickbait title, I want more eyes…
Laguna S 2.1 Thinking mode
If many people have noticed that there's no reasoning phase in Laguna S 2.1. I noticed the Poolside development team updated the chat template twice in…
I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
Article URL: https://citizendot.github.io/articles/fake-job-interview-git-hook-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013036 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Laguna S 2.1 looping fix incoming
Poolside have updated the full precision, and FP8 versions with a fix for the looping issue many of us have been seeing. Other variants incoming. Discussion…
Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support
Article URL: https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012777 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
Can an LLM make a feature-length movie on its own?
How it didBetteridge's Law of Headlines says the answer is no[1], but I was able to make a feature-length adaptation of William Hope Hodgson's The House…
Will almost all future companies eventually be founded and run by autonomous AIs?
Intended for a broad audience.[1]My belief is that keeping AI under human control would be an unprecedented global challenge, if it’s even possible at all.Many other…
Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots
Article URL: https://www.bookcorners.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012604 Points: 38 # Comments: 24
We cannot simulate AI security research
We use AI agents not only for writing but also for maintaining and deploying code. The most widespread examples are found in GitHub Actions Marketplace, which…
Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)
Article URL: https://www.hakstuff.net/blog/teardown-the-bmw-idc23h-infotainment-unit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012337 Points: 15 # Comments: 11
OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation
This latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches. It was severe enough to have been initially reported to authorities, before either…
The Conjecture of Strong Subjectivity
This is a linkpost to a short article that I published on PhilPapers. I hope to get some useful feedback here.The article was borne out of…
BTL-3 27B agentic coding and tool-use model from Bad Theory Labs (fits in 8.39GB)
https://x.com/Badtheorylabs/status/2079306502897074249 A 27B open-weight agent model built for agentic coding, structural tool use . The complete thing fits in one 8.39GB file under 2.5 bits per…
John C. Dvorak has died
Article URL: https://twitter.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012070 Points: 110 # Comments: 17
Genesis-Science-1 (GS1), 1T open-weight model later this year from Arcee AI
Today the Department of Energy (DOE) and Arcee AI announced the development of Genesis-Science-1 (GS1), an open model for scientific research. This is a joint effort…
Built a from-scratch BitNet inference engine in pure C — 1.8× faster than bitnet.cpp on Xeon (36 tok/s), zero dependencies [BitNet & Bonsai CPU testers wanted]
Hey r/LocalLLM, Built Project Zero — a from-scratch CPU-only LLM inference engine in pure C99. It beats bitnet.cpp by 1.8× on the same hardware. We also…
Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism
Article URL: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yvain-thewhisperingearring.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011687 Points: 6 # Comments: 0