Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/kimi-k3-agentic-knowledge-benchmark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001930 Points: 22 # Comments: 1
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Ten ways a check passes while the thing it checks is broken
Article URL: https://phronesis.world/papers/ways-of-checking/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001775 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
Today was the perfect day for Poolside to drop Laguna S 2.1 because I just got these in! Finally have a half decent amount of VRAM. 3x V620 = 96 GB.
Laguna is the first model I'm trying, Q4_K_M fits with 256K context @ F16. Doing the html flight simulator test now. These cards are getting 400…
Tesla Balance Bike
Article URL: https://shop.tesla.com/product/balance-bike-for-kids Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001708 Points: 14 # Comments: 20
Unsloth Quantization of Laguna S 2.1 Is Out
Various quantization now available, thanks Unsloth team ! submitted by /u/BoogerheadCult [link] [comments]
Never Enough
Article URL: https://dark.ronacher.eu/2026/7/21/never-enough/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001472 Points: 44 # Comments: 12
FlightSimulatorBench: Small MoE edition
Properly done this time. Models as the GIFs are displayed: Qwen3.6-27B - 4bit Qwen3.6-MoE - 6bit Ornith-35B - 6bit Gemma-4-26B - 6bit Qwen3.6-MoE - 4bit HuiHui-Qwen3.6-MoE…
Nanbeige4.2-3B drops: 3B params claiming to beat 9B/12B models on agentic tasks (atleast according to them)
Nanbeige Lab released Nanbeige4.2-3B, and if the benchmark claims hold up, the numbers are pretty crazy for a model this small. It’s built on a "Looped…
Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
Article URL: https://late.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001127 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic, ElectronJS) has released a free Mac app designed to help people build their own LLMs from scratch.
Announcement tweet here. Direct link: Language Model Builder From the site: "Using the default settings, you’ll get a model that writes coherent, grammatical multi-paragraph text in…
My federated learning project just showed that "high accuracy" can completely hide a model missing every single attack from an entire category, and I think more people should know about this [R]
So for context, I've been working on this research project comparing federated learning algorithms (FedAvg, FedProx, FedNova) against a centralized baseline for network intrusion detection, using…
LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000864 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
When a translation model starts solving the problem instead of translating it (small rant)
So I was translating samples from Dolci-Think-SFT-7B and I thought it'd be an easy task, just deploy Gemma on vllm and write a quick translation prompt,…
Ten Steps Towards Happiness
Article URL: http://hintjens.com/blog:99 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000600 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
P40’s + MI50’s + RPC on 550B Nemotron Ultra Q3_S
Hey guys, I went ahead and installed a 100Gbe NIC card on both my MI50 machine and my P40 machine and loaded Nemotron Ultra IQ3_S across…
How an AI Anime Is Created
Article URL: https://www.aventos.dev/our-process?view=blog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000429 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
7 random thoughts on training Buddhist AI
AI has functional emotions, activations relating to emotional states which influence its behavior: https://youtu.be/D4XTefP3Lsc?is=ifk1xvryYJ5S5MKlAI has a mental workspace; not its “thinking-mode” scratch-pad, but an internal J-space…
A flaky test exposed a Redis client use-after-free
Article URL: https://buildkite.engineering/how-a-flaky-test-exposed-a-redis-use-after-free/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000250 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
It's a shame what's happened to radio
Article URL: https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/07/21/its-a-shame-whats-happened-to-radio-3/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999825 Points: 28 # Comments: 5
Gigatoken: A new open source tokenizer ~100x faster than Tiktoken, -500-1000x faster than Huggingface
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Can Kimi K3 solve the same problems that Claude Fable can?
Despite local models getting significantly better, it seems that no one is trying to replicate the existing accomplishments of closed models. When it inevitably drops, would…
An Engineer's Guide to USB Type-C [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.ti.com/lit/eb/slyy228/slyy228.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999376 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
Furtex: Post-exploitation, rootkit and evasion research toolkit for Linux
Article URL: https://github.com/MatheuZSecurity/Furtex Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999323 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Article URL: https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimik3-fable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999291 Points: 9 # Comments: 0