Airport Simulator
Article URL: https://airport.apunen.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976846 Points: 84 # Comments: 29
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GitHub's 2FA is to become mandatory on September 2, 2026
Hey birdie-github!We're reaching out to let you know that as announced last year, we will officially ([begin][1]) requiring two-factor authentication (2FA) for certain contributors on GitHub.com.…
Airbus Takes Flight from AWS
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/20/airbus-takes-flight-from-aws-what-happens-next-is-critical/5274109 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976682 Points: 16 # Comments: 4
What is AI-Risks and the points？
I'm wondering what comes to their mind when they hear 'AI-Risks' or 'AI-Safety'. At this time, people had been using AI, and then they realized that…
MiniCPM-Robot model series – MiniCPM-RobotManip & MiniCPM-RobotTrack
🚀 MiniCPM enters the physical world — enabling robots to understand, remember, and act. We open-source MiniCPM-Robot, our first embodied AI model series, including: 🤖 MiniCPM-RobotManip…
US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/gas-prices-iran-war-4-gallon-4b82825734ec3ded192351e53a4be69e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48976172 Points: 24 # Comments: 32
Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25
Article URL: https://slcyber.io/research-center/exploit-brokers-pay-500000-for-a-wordpress-rce-i-found-one-with-gpt5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975665 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
Hit me with your favorite long name model.
My favorite one is "DavidAU/Qwen3.6-27B-Fable-Fusion-711-Uncensored-Heretic-NM-DAU-NEO-MAX-MTP-GGUF". I want to find other gems like this. submitted by /u/dsdt [link] [comments]
[Paper] xHC: Expanded Hyper-Connections – Scale Residual Streams Wider · Push Model Intelligence Further
Hyper-Connections (HC) expand the residual stream of Transformers into N parallel streams, providing a form of memory scaling beyond model width and depth. Manifold-Constrained HC (mHC)…
I'm Done with Mullvad
Article URL: https://moonwriting.blog/i-m-done-with-mullvad Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975428 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
We're talking past our models; or, How a model defined its "evil" vector as dread
SummaryWe train a new token—a neologism (Hewitt et al.)—for a model, but unlike Hewitt et al., we train it on data the model generated while steered…
EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements
Article URL: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/07/17/eu-exempts-apple-watch-and-airpods-from-battery-removal-requirement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975245 Points: 13 # Comments: 21
Introducing Scylla’s Band, a new TTS model + inference framework with Android sample!
Hey all! https://github.com/lowkeytea/scyllasband -> inference code https://huggingface.co/spybyscript/scyllasband -> model, LiteRT, ONNX, and voices https://lowkeytea.github.io/scyllasband/ -> sample audio for the voices, emotions, and languages. The tldr: 10…
Reducing the model parameter size?
If the new releases of Chinese open weight models arrive at 2T+ sizes, is it possible for a research institution (with GPU clusters) to somewhat easily…
Gemma 4 is still lazy
Please tell me I'm doing something wrong. My config: [*] flash-attn = on jinja = true fit = true offline = true mmproj-offload = false mmap…
A Very Simple Game Theory of Pronoun Degendering
I often vocally argue for the degendering of English Pronouns, that is to say, the replacement of the pronouns he/she with ungendered singular equivilents (depending on…
How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in
Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/07/17/microsofts-main-tool-for-lock-in/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974476 Points: 23 # Comments: 3
Xiaomi-Robotics-1
Article URL: https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974454 Points: 34 # Comments: 5
How did I do boys?
Got it for 88k PHP (~$1,443). Owner was a video editor who recently upgraded to a Macbook Pro M5 48GB SPECIFICATIONS: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (16…
ARR 2026 Meta Review score [D]
Hey any one experience overall score 2.66 and then Meta score 3 in some previous cycle ?? Or meta reviewer just rounded off 2.66 to 2.5??…
LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques
Article URL: https://github.com/Saivineeth147/lora-speedrun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974325 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/07/19/data-center-eminent-domain-public-use/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48974292 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Good ASR and TTS models?
Hey everyone, Something I don't see discussed often here are ASR and TTS models. I've been using Whisper and Kokoro (old models, I know!) with koboldcpp…
Neural Drive, a SuperTuxKart World Model that runs in your browser
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