A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/style/backyard-baseball-video-game-teacher.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895763 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
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Oversight of automated research via summarisation: a toy model
Executive SummarySummarisation is one approach to oversight of automated research: a non-scheming agent distils insights from a large body of research into an informative short summary…
PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring a Founding Software Engineer
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pgdog/jobs/uWymUYy-founding-software-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48895565 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Prism: Automating Science-of-Evals Research
tl;dr – we present [Prism], a scaffold for automating science-of-evals research: work that makes the evaluation the primary object of study. The scaffold provides Claude Code…
The Flood, by Anton Leicht
Note: I'm crossposting Anton's newest article from his blog. Anton covers AI policy angles in a singular fashion; every article he writes is worth reading, and…
Starting The Sequences: Some brief notes from the preface and the introduction
Crossposted (with small tweaks) from my Substack.I have started, as a side read, Rationality: From AI to Zombies, which I believe contains the heart of the…
Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
Article URL: https://get-inscribe.com/blog/apple-speech-api-benchmark.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894752 Points: 35 # Comments: 9
Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2026-07-13/Special_report Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894671 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
Why Local, Why Now — NVIDIA, Osmantic, Roboflow, EXO Labs, @matthew_berman
The first panel from the Local AI Summit at AIEWF 00:00 Introduction and Panelist Backgrounds in Local AI 05:05 The Inflection Point and Evolution of Open…
DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
Article URL: https://www.ms.now/opinion/doge-government-efficiency-records-job-cuts-elon-musk-foia Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894641 Points: 115 # Comments: 46
Go-Flavored Concurrency in C
Article URL: https://antonz.org/concurrency-in-c/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894637 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code
I'm fascinated by the generative AI wave rolling over us, and wondered if AI could create a language that it might prefer using over the ones…
The Whitney Biennial Should Admit That Emilie Gossiaux Wants to Fuck Their Dog
content warnings: depictions of human and anthro nudity, discussion of bestiality, modern artCredit where it's due: it is genuinely, unironically baller for the Whitney museum to…
Optimize for uncertainty
After two years running a venture startup, I felt the resolution of my perception dwindle. Despite painstaking safeguards against the flatness of the venture incentive game…
FT: Companies Turn to Chinese Open Weight Models to Cut Costs
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LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893947 Points: 34 # Comments: 8
Metal Detector for Aliveness
Epistemic status: entirely subjective notes on an idea to move the needle on alignment.TLDR: Building infrastructure for detecting aliveness wherever it exists is not sufficient for…
The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed
Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/silpheed/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893639 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
LLMOSES
Written alongside GPT 5.5And it came to pass in those days, when the camp lay under the mountain's shadow, that Llmoses went up into the cloud,…
Precursor
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-precursor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893446 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
Wan-Dancer: A Hierarchical Framework for Minute-scale Coherent Music-to-Dance Generation
Generating long-duration, high-definition, and rhythmically synchronized dance videos directly from music remains a significant challenge, primarily due to the temporal constraints of current diffusion models, which…
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP built this website with Pi Coding Agent on my laptop
I tested Unsloth's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL with simple Pi Coding Agent. No skill or extensions used. My laptop have 32GB RAM and 8GB VRAM. Without context it runs…
Linear Probes add little for Verifiable Reward Hacking
SummaryTested whether linear probes can detect reward hacking early during GRPO training on a small model.Used a synthetic arithmetic task with a planted bug in the…
I benchmarked 15 "E-Waste" GPUs with Modern Workloads
I've spent the last year building GPU coolers and a custom benchmarking tool to figure out if decommissioned NVIDIA enterprise GPUs have any use with modern…