(1/3) The Dangers of LLMs
A mini-series, continuing my efforts to document the AI landscape as of July 2026Part 1 - The Dangers of LLMs (you are here)Part 2 - The…
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Intel Arc Pro b70 box & 3D model
This is a wooden box with 2x 1000W ATX PSUs and 6x Intel Arc Pro b70 on PCIE 1x risers. I am sharing this because I…
CEO of Hugging Face: Banning open-source AI would hurt defenders 10x more than attackers, which would make the world 10x more dangerous and this is a good example why!
From clem 🤗 on 𝕏: https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2079301434357456931 Fortune: Hugging Face says it resorted to a Chinese AI model to battle a fully autonomous cyberattack because U.S. model…
I ran the standard AI litmus tests on my two toddlers (yep)
In July 2022 I was in a parking lot with a Portuguese colleague, trying to fix the cargo-metering system of a 12-ton tanker truck. During a…
GitHub suddenly rejected my SSH key (the fix was a .pub file?)
Article URL: https://thorsell.io/2026/07/21/github-ssh-keys.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990929 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones
Article URL: https://cybernews.com/privacy/us-police-israeli-spy-vans-falconet-cognyte/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48990886 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
Be Careful when Purchasing CMP 170HX on Alibaba!
Just a heads up. Shops in China are running like chickens without a head after the news the Falcon Exploit working to jailbreak some of the…
Unpopular(?) opinion. The distillation claim is overblown.
There are people on twitter/X saying that Chinese models are as good as they are only due to distillation (source: https://x.com/scaling01/status/2079332469501727052 ). I don't buy that…
you can now fine tune Prism-ML’s ternary Bonsai models
examples included, use a high damn learning rate: https://github.com/electroglyph/ternary_QAT submitted by /u/terminoid_ [link] [comments]
Number of Submissions @ AAAI [D]
Recently submitted my abstract and the submission number is 32xxx. With still a day to go, I just wonder where are we heading. Hope these conferences…
DRAM shortage will last another 10 years, warns ADATA chairman
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Anthropic got sued for using copyrighted books for LLM training
submitted by /u/Informal-Trouble2183 [link] [comments]
Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48989701 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Today I learnt the power of LocalLlama
DISCLAIMER: No Ai was prompted in the creation of this post. Today I had an experience that complely blew my mind, I just had to write…
My OCR model mislabels section titles as body text. Is a CRF the right fix, or am I overcomplicating it? [P]
Hi everyone, I'm working on extracting the hierarchical structure of long PDF documents (legal/regulatory text, lots of numbered sections) and would like to gather some feedback…
US gov’t lobbied by major US labs is about to ban open source models.
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Reproducing OpenAI’s “persistently beneficial models” – GRPO trait install barely moves. Ideas? [P] [R]
TL;DR: I’m reproducing the trait-persistence result from arXiv:2606.24014 on one RTX 3090. Before I can test persistence I need to install a trait via RL —…
I'm Scared of Evil Opus
Wait so is it true that next week the largest open weight model will be 2-3x bigger than last week? I don't like that.. it was…
Linux kernel will support $ORIGIN, sort of
Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/20/linux-kernel-will-support-origin-sort-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988793 Points: 8 # Comments: 6
There’s a new PR for llamacpp claiming to boost prompt processing with rocm by around 15%, also fixes a bug which makes Q2_K 28x faster
This seems like a pretty solid improvement, and should make the more extreme quant setups viable on AMD cards. submitted by /u/Betadoggo_ [link] [comments]
LoRA over GGUF: Train Qwen3.6-35B-A3B in 16G VRAM
https://github.com/woct0rdho/transformers5-qwen3.5-recipe It's time for GGUF to replace bitsandbytes as the base model format for low-VRAM LoRA training. It's actively supporting new model types such as MoE,…
Looking to Collaborate on ML Research [R]
I’ve worked with PINNs, GNNs, and unsupervised learning. If you’re working on an ML research project that could turn into a paper and need a collaborator…
Do we just want slaves?
Article URL: https://www.yashthapliyal.com/blog/do-we-just-want-slaves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988196 Points: 29 # Comments: 28
Show HN: Ex Situ – open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Hi, I designed and developed a spatial index that maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin site to institutional location/sources. The Index specifically looks…