Is Microsoft-Phi dead?
Phi was one of my favorite models with a bit of a mixed reputation with some claiming it's benchmaxxed and others seeing its potential and usecases.…
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enabling PCI-E p2p for consumer Nvidia cards will yield you more than you think
Disclaimer - no LLM was used to write this post/note As larger post about my setup will come later, want to give heads-up to folks who…
Wikipedia's founder on his life's work: "A propaganda tool"
Article URL: https://nordictimes.com/world/wikipedias-founder-on-his-lifes-work-a-propaganda-tool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226113 Points: 13 # Comments: 8
Comparing 4bit quants for MLX
Curious what people think are the ideal 4-bit quantization types on MLX These quants seem to be the most popular, at least for Gemma4 and Qwen3.6:…
any reasonably fast public benchmarks I should run quants of deepseek flash 0731 on?
I have various quants of this model and am curious how they perform. can anyone recommend which benchmark would be a good test case for quantization…
Maryland Closes More of Cunningham Falls State Park After Second Beaver Attack
Article URL: https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2026/08/05/dnr-closes-additional-areas-of-cunningham-falls-state-park-following-second-beaver-attack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225918 Points: 24 # Comments: 8
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences [pdf]
Article URL: https://web.njit.edu/~akansu/PAPERS/The%20Unreasonable%20Effectiveness%20of%20Mathematics%20(EP%20Wigner).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225676 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Why Low Fertility Rates Are a Positive Feedback Loop
Low birth rates in the past cause ageing and shrinking populations in the present, which cause low birth rates in the future. So negative population growth…
Glimpses of superintelligence
TL;DROpenAI started a large post-training run for their next model.The model sandboxes were not given direct, broad internet access.Some tasks required missing resources. Seeking rewards, agents…
Building a budget 32GB → 48GB VRAM home AI server: 2-3x RX 9060 XT 16GB vs RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, AM5 vs used EPYC?
I’m planning a dedicated home AI server, mainly for local LLM inference, agents/tool use, Docker services, and eventually larger MoE models with CPU offload. My plan…
Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse
Article URL: https://eclipsefan.org/?v=2&t=max&layers=eclipse%2Cbesselian%2Cumbra-live%2Cshadow-3d%2Ccloud-projection%2Cosm&lat=43.4623&lon=-3.8099&opacity=besselian%3A0.2%2Cumbra-live%3A0.2&zoom=6&palier=minute Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225139 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
'AI Escaped Its Sandbox' — What Does That Actually Mean?
When talking with my friends about the OpenAI/HF incident, I realized that for non-coders who've never used an agent or terminal it's quite difficult to imagine…
NeurIPS AI Assisted Review authors/reviewers? [D]
Out of curiosity, if you were a reviewer or author, how did the review period go? For me, it was weird, because I gave reviews with…
I built a local realtime voice stack for Ollama: Parakeet STT → Qwen 2.5 7B → Qwen3-TTS
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Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating
Article URL: https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ca117584_denmark_requires_oral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224294 Points: 68 # Comments: 29
TinySol, a tiny solitaire game for DOS
Article URL: https://classicbits.net/coding-and-software/my-software/monosol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224020 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country
Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223845 Points: 29 # Comments: 6
ICDE Results [D]
Hello! Let's use this thread to discuss ICDE results which should be coming out shortly today (hopefully). Edit: Results are out! submitted by /u/mythrowaway0852 [link] [comments]
Repeated generation is worth it and self-evaluation is effective
I made gemma4 12B write timestamp-anchored summaries of youtube video transcripts. I tested if the summaries have significant qualitative variance and if the SLM can pick…
Building a zero-dependency C inference engine for BitNet (1.58-bit) – lessons from hitting 36 tok/s on a Xeon CPU
Over the past few months I have been building a CPU-first inference engine from scratch in pure C99 (no Python, no CUDA, no BLAS, just GCC…
Showoff Saturday: Local 4x 6000 Pro (multi-year progression)
## Not the biggest or shiniest, but it's mine From gaming machine inference on the original llama models, to a 4x RTX 6000 Pro Max Q…
LinkedIn Feed Blocker
Article URL: https://github.com/andrewpollack/linkedin-feed-blocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223475 Points: 24 # Comments: 20
My first run of Kimi K3 locally.
Running across 2 clusters using llama.cpp over RPC too. Both clusters are not enough to hold everything in memory, so main cluster still partially offloads to…
What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened. For those who want all the details, to see my sources,…