Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor
Article URL: https://www.half-second.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966139 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
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Boys' ADHD symptoms linked to addictive social media use in new study
Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/boys-adhd-symptoms-linked-to-addictive-social-media-use-in-new-study/ar-AA287LY0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966131 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966120 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
What to do after buying 5090 for Local llm training?
I just bought 5090 astral OC balck, for local research on Embedding models and small llm like bert..etc. After 3 or 5 hours the PC shutdown.…
Show HN: OfflineTTS — Free browser-based TTS & STT that runs locally
Article URL: https://offlinetts.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965983 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Ahem! Qwen is on the move again
https://preview.redd.it/0l8w2j67a5eh1.png?width=581&format=png&auto=webp&s=cae9d3ef7cf80cea780e0670f7dede73d1c02d49 https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078754377473601787?s=20 submitted by /u/Lowkey_LokiSN [link] [comments]
Mirror your GitHub repos to tangled.org automatically
Article URL: https://synchub.to/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965918 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB
Article URL: https://la0by.darc.de/LA8YB_EME_MBA.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965914 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated
Article URL: https://training.perforce.com/learn/courses/535/p4-helix-core-user-basic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965886 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/33972/files Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965850 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
Thinking Machines’ best public Tinker result used Qwen3-235B, not Inkling. is the base model actually that important?
I Went through the Inkling model card and the Bridgewater/Tinker case study instead of the press coverage. Coverage mostly quoted the 97.1% AIME 2026 number; the…
Order of Magnitude Physics a Textbook with Applications to the Retinal Rod(1998) [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.inference.org.uk/sanjoy/thesis/thesis-letter.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965736 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering – Mastering Complexity(2014) [pdf]
Article URL: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-011-the-art-of-insight-in-science-and-engineering-mastering-complexity-fall-2014/3bca850386a3005c22134fa62fb3bad5_MITRES_6-011F14_art_insfin.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965719 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
A peek into the post-capitalist dystopia
I recently took the proverbial “tech” pill and decided, like many other twenty-somethings, to spend my summer in San Francisco with the intent of getting an…
Dual 3090 Gemma 4 31B QAT: MTP performance worse than without MTP.
Been dealing with this issue for a while with no apparent explanation. My base TPS are around 39.7tps in tensor parallelism, about 31 to 33tps with…
i couldnt find anyone making full movies locally on a mac, so heres what that looks like right now
i searched around for people making actual finished films on their own hardware. not clips, whole movies with story, narration, music and credits, all local. couldnt…
192GB gang – what are you running?
Understandably, most chat is around models that fit in 16/32GB VRAM. I totally get that. And I think Qwen3.6-27B is awesome. But, a while back, I…
Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/scrying-the-amd-gfx1250-llvm-tea Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965161 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Are you guys buying huge HDDs to store the best open models just in case?
HuggingFace is nice and all, but can we take it for granted? 🤔 submitted by /u/JumpingJack79 [link] [comments]
Takeaways from the Australian AI Safety Forum
On 7 and 8 July, I attended the Australian AI Safety Forum 2026 at The University of Sydney. It was two days of big ideas and…
LLM-Integrated Multivariable Calculus Course
Article URL: https://calculus.academa.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964585 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Deepseek v4 Flash on 80 GB VRAM and 128 GB DDR4 RAM
I am using unsloth Q8 Deepseek v4 Flash. So far I am able to run properly with the following command CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER=PCI_BUS_ID CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,2,1 llamacpp/llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-server --model unsloth/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF/UD-Q8_K_XL/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-UD-Q8_K_XL-00001-of-00005.gguf --port…
What’s your favorite underrated local model?
What’s your favorite underrated local model that you actually use every day? I’m not talking about the mainstream choices like Qwen 3.6 or Gemma 4. I’m…
FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill
Article URL: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-oral-pcsk9-inhibitor-lower-ldl-cholesterol-adults-high-cholesterol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964536 Points: 4 # Comments: 1