QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/quadrf-can-spot-drones-and-see-wifi-through-my-wall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861717 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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According to DataBricks, pi-coding-agent is ~2x cheaper than CC/Codex, GLM 5.2 on par with Opus 4.8 high
https://preview.redd.it/3p60zyf8afch1.png?width=1840&format=png&auto=webp&s=10dcc90945f0db03352239579fca2132d0c90dfa https://www.databricks.com/blog/benchmarking-coding-agents-databricks-multi-million-line-codebase tl;dr pi-coding-agent (e.g. bash for everything/minimum tools) is up to 2x cheaper and even has higher pa
A Love Letter to Flashcards
Article URL: https://lesleylai.info/en/flashcards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861319 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Plan A's problem with dry tinder
A group is worried about an approaching fire spreading rapidly through their city. They manage to halt the fire outside the city gates. Meanwhile they build…
Show HN: SubjectiveZero, an open-source agentic node editor for creative coding
Hey there,My name is Clem, I've been a solo indie dev for a couple years now, exploring frontier tech like XR and agentic workflows in the…
Computation as a Universal and Fundamental Concept
Article URL: https://ergo.org/courses/computation-as-a-universal-and-fundamental-concept Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861213 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Why doesn’t the ML research community limit the number of submissions per author? [D]
I am currently working across multiple research communities, and I've noticed that the ML community is struggling with a massive volume of submissions, which is affecting…
tencent/HiLS-Attention-7B · Hugging Face
HiLS-Attention is a chunk-wise sparse attention mechanism that learns chunk selection end-to-end under the language-modeling loss, enabling native sparse training for efficient long-context modeling. This repository…
Has anyone created a "Local LLM Survival Kit"?
Here's what I'm thinking about: A USB thumb drive that you can plug into any PC or laptop, and immediately get a usable knowledge base powered…
Please help me understand figure on subspace similarity in LoRA paper. [D]
I am studying the LoRA paper and have trouble understanding this figure. The function essentially measures how much of the subspace spanned by the top i…
The Annotated JEPA
Article URL: https://elonlit.com/scrivings/the-annotated-jepa/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859835 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
ActivityPub over ATProto
Article URL: https://berjon.com/ap-at/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859784 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Offline tool to stabilize TV volume using IR control and spike detection
Article URL: https://github.com/AdBusterOfficial/Adbuster--WinApp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859781 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Proton AG Services is currently experiencing some issues
Article URL: https://status.proton.me/incidents/01lxtcq155lc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859752 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
How should I approach training this specific ML model for my startup project [D]
So, I am working on this startup project with pretty low budget and one of the features is sentiment analysis based on political news, x posts…
Write code like a human will maintain it
Article URL: https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859701 Points: 13 # Comments: 3
Successful Companies Go Blind
Article URL: https://ianreppel.org/how-successful-companies-go-blind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859678 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Scarf has moved away from Haskell
Article URL: https://avi.press/posts/2026-07-10-after-7-years-in-production-scarf-has-reluctantly-moved-away-from-haskell.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859673 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/03/punk-or-why-i-dont-stream.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859671 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
2.5x faster Qwen3.6 NVFP4 Unsloth quants
Hey r/LocalLLaMA folks! We made NVFP4 quants 2.5x faster for Qwen3.6 27B and also 1.56x to 1.79x faster for 35B-A3B vs NVIDIA's NVFP4 quants without any…
How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
I'm a heavy vim user, but now that I look at the code less and less I'm wondering if it still makes sense. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859439…
Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded
Article URL: https://github.com/robertsdotpm/runloom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859387 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Europe's Largest Unions Demand Right to Cancel Work on Days Above 30C
Article URL: https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/09/europes-largest-unions-demand-right-to-cancel-work-on-days-above-30c/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859298 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
AI #176 Part 2: Plan B
This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research. This does not cover the release of GPT-5.6-Sol. As…