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…
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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,…
Wireblast a 100 Gbps packet generator in Go using AF_XDP
Article URL: https://toonk.io/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223105 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Fastmail offers EU data region
Article URL: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-offers-eu-data-region/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223082 Points: 58 # Comments: 16
Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?
Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/08/08/want-energy-efficiency-dude-youre-getting-a-dell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223079 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
llamacpp performing slower then Ollama
Hi. So I just setup llamacpp for the first time. I'm using the model : "Huihui-Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-abliterated-ggml-model-Q4_K.gguf". When I test this in llamacpp server GUI I get…
Cruise ship helps stranded skiff, crew in Alaska as Zuckerberg yacht stands by
Article URL: https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/cruise-ship-helps-stranded-skiff-and-crew-in-southeast-alaska-as-zuckerberg-yacht-stands-by/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222993 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
Message your other Claude Code sessions
Article URL: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cross-session-messaging Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222824 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
128GB vs 256gb of ram
Imagine you have 128gb of VRAM. what accompanying ram capacity you would choose (DDR4 8channel)? For example Deepseek v4 flash in q8 takes around 170GB +…
Inducing self-other overlap with SFT reduces deception at scale, but generalization remains uneven
This research was conducted at Overlap Research and supported by BlueDot Impact.SummaryWe tested whether LLM deception can be reduced by inducing self-other overlap using ordinary supervised…
AACL-IJCNLP Commitment Submission Number [D]
What's your commitment submission ID? My submission number is ~150 (submitted two days ago) and I'm wondering what the total number of commitments is. Did anyone…
Tesla V100 Qwen3.6 27B Performance
Looking for V100 users to share your config and it's performance. GPU: Tesla V100 PCIE 32Gb Qwen3.6 27B Q4_K_M + Q8_0 MTP 128K context length Pi…
"Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers
Article URL: https://blog.senko.net/code-was-never-the-hard-part-is-an-insult-to-all-programmers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49222189 Points: 23 # Comments: 15
Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/sensitive-info-goes-into-no-reply-emails-constantly-this-guy-sees-it-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221947 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Don't use your phone while you poop
Article URL: https://nate.spot/no-phone-while-poop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221939 Points: 43 # Comments: 45
Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload
Article URL: https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/117058483039362779 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221864 Points: 23 # Comments: 3
Claude Code in 9 lines python
I was wondering what a minimal coding agent implementation would look like that can be used like Claude Code or Codex Not feature-by-feature of course but…
Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU
Article URL: https://blog.getutm.app/2026/introducing-triton-directx-11-driver-for-qemu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221711 Points: 38 # Comments: 3
Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator
Article URL: https://zaneham.github.io/voyager-fds-emulator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221679 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS
Article URL: https://specification.website/spec/foundations/for-sale-dns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49221668 Points: 54 # Comments: 23