When A.I. Is a Member of the Family
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/20/when-ai-is-a-member-of-the-family Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922487 Points: 10 # Comments: 8
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The age of the Universe from a large sample of the oldest Galactic stars
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00764 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922469 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/SEC on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
Article URL: https://www.neomindlabs.com/2026/06/08/running-gemma-4-26b-at-5-tokens-sec-on-a-13-year-old-xeon-with-no-gpu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922434 Points: 21 # Comments: 5
DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety
Article URL: https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2026/07/01/dea-temporarily-schedule-7-oh-and-related-substances-protect-public Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922185 Points: 16 # Comments: 7
Museum of the Human Web
Article URL: https://museum.parallel.ai/introduction?era=modern Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922144 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
NeurIPS reviews coming in soon! [D]
So, from what I've seen across twitter(x) and reddit, I've inferred that we'll be seeing NeurIPS reviews drop on July 22nd 5:30 pm AoE(Anywhere on earth),…
Junior Machine Learning Engineer Interview [D]
I have a technical interview for a machine learning position coming up, and I'm really nervous. Can you tell me about your experiences with this process?…
Compressed Computation under L⁴ Loss is likely Computation in Superposition
SummaryNeural networks are widely assumed to use superposition to represent more features than they have dimensions. A stronger claim is that they also compute in superposition…
OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court
Article URL: https://dpa-international.com/economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260715-930-389143/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921461 Points: 37 # Comments: 13
CVE-2026-59208: Cross-Issuer Account Takeover in n8n
Article URL: https://www.strix.ai/blog/n8n-cross-issuer-account-takeover Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921422 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Modded
Article URL: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/my-midlife-crisis-corolla-fast-furious-fully-modded/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921303 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
The well-calibrated Bayesian [pdf]
Article URL: https://fitelson.org/seminar/dawid.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921121 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
Towards a Harness That Can Do Anything
Article URL: https://eardatasci.github.io/c/ambiance/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921077 Points: 32 # Comments: 4
Show HN: StyleSeed – a design-rules engine so AI agents stop building generic UI
Article URL: https://github.com/bitjaru/styleseed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920888 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9l9venjd8o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920836 Points: 19 # Comments: 25
Eliciting hidden knowledge from monitors with NLAs
Aleksandr Bowkis* and David Africa*TL;DRChain of thought (CoT) monitorability may be fragile, and natural language autoencoders (NLAs) may provide a helpful, decorrelated monitoring surface.We tried to…
Show HN: 18KB ls alternative in no_std rust and Libc
Article URL: https://crates.io/crates/fli-tool Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920811 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
I had Grok 4.5 run an autoresearch optimization ladder on Parakeet CPU ASR. Result: Upto 2.1x faster STT
I set out to make Parakeet speech-to-text faster on CPU. Not a GPU demo. Just a real baseline and a keep gate. I did not want…
PyTorch model running 170x slower on T4 vs A100. What could cause a bottleneck this extreme? [D]
Hey everyone, Seeing a ~170× slowdown running a point-tracking model on an NVIDIA T4 compared to an A100. On A100 the tracker takes ~0.5 seconds per…
Have You Ever Thought About Wisdom Crystals?
This is a follow-up to "Have You Tried Thinking About It As Crystals?" because apparently I wasn't done. Beware that this one is a bit out…
Proposal: The Glasswing Standard
Thinking about "Plan A" makes me want to make concrete proposals towards those goals.I think Anthropic's "Project Glasswing" provides a clear and easily implemented first-step policy…
Pong Wars on the Commodore 64
Article URL: https://imrannazar.com/articles/c64-pongwars Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920700 Points: 7 # Comments: 4
Ask HN: Is it just me, or is software buggier across the board?
I feel like I’m going crazy, I’ve been hitting the strangest bugs across all my devices in the last 6 months. Is anyone else experiencing this…
Show HN: Aict – Unix coreutils that output XML/JSON, built for AI agents
Article URL: https://github.com/synseqack/aict Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920681 Points: 7 # Comments: 1