How robust are natural language autoencoders to initialization?
Natural language autoencoders are meant to take in an LLM's activation vector and describe in plain text what the model is thinking. However, its training data…
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Focus
Article URL: https://boz.com/articles/focus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854363 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Toward A Public Science of Model Behavior
This is a linkpost for our essay "Toward A Public Science of Model Behavior" on transluce.org. The full text is reproduced below.Today’s AI systems frequently behave…
Study: "Mommy, do you love your phone more than me?"
Article URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1766665/full Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854247 Points: 23 # Comments: 1
Show HN: I built a free app for New Yorkers to save money on groceries
I built this because I see that grocery savings are achievable in NYC. People usually just go to the store they're used to going to, and…
AI Safety Policy Needs to train Legal Practitioners
I completed my law degree at a working-class London university. In my first year, I was 18 years old, and I was often the youngest person…
What would it take for AI to discover penicillin?
At the end of May, I attended the SciFM26 conference hosted at UChicago which had many speakers discussing agentic science and the future of AI+Science. This…
Has anyone tested how quantization hits different capabilities separately? My results are surprising.
I've been running some systematic tests on a few models comparing FP16 vs various GGUF quant levels, and instead of looking at one aggregate benchmark score,…
Koboldcpp v1.117 released
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GLM-5.2 (744B MoE) on a 25GB-RAM consumer machine
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Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
Article URL: https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853091 Points: 29 # Comments: 11
What’s up with model collapse?
I'm amazed by how much of the internet is clearly AI generated now. Everything from random articles to youtube videos to instagram images/reels, it's everywhere. Overall,…
MiMo v2.5 is underrated. Feels like the tokens are pouring out of the screen in OpenCode.
When I recently built my inference server, I expected to deploy DeepSeek v4 flash, but that doesn't look like it's going to be fast for a…
LM Studio ROCm v2.22+ not able to detect Radeon 6900XT
I've been using LM Studio for a while. Recently, I have been getting an error that my gpu is not detected. I have the latest drivers…
If You Already Pay for an LLM Service, Running Local Embeddings and Rerankers Feels More Useful Than Running Local LLMs
https://preview.redd.it/v0xtn3jdu9ch1.png?width=2047&format=png&auto=webp&s=628a6a541fe5f097d0f771ae0ba3b7f44126198f https://preview.redd.it/vjxiucsdu9ch1.png?width=2047&format=png&auto=webp&s=74f7a18a5a30276e206e2bfb5a0c529826ce86e4 This post was originally written in Korean, then polished and translated into English
Show HN: Rubiks Cube Solver
Speedcube is an open-source platform for speedcubers featuring a Rubik's Cube solver, competition timer, algorithm library, and AI-assisted cube recognition directly in the browser.Built with React,…
Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
Hey HN! We've spent the good part of this past year building an AI tutor that teaches kids ages 4-9 reading, math, ESL and more. Getting…
How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner
Article URL: https://github.blog/security/application-security/how-github-gave-every-repository-a-durable-owner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852151 Points: 10 # Comments: 3
Show HN: RandoFont, a browser for Google Fonts
Inevitably when starting a new web project I want to pick the perfect font. This is just a browser that shows Google Fonts, randomly, and lets…
How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939
Article URL: https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/rca-victor-education.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852048 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Natural Language Autoencoders are summarizers, but do they have to be?
TL;DR: NLAs are an interesting idea. They do reconstruct the activations well, they can kinda audit model organisms for hidden objectives. But there are hints that…
Where Do LLM Values Come From?
This work was done as part of the MATS 8.1 Program.0: TL;DRLLMs learn "values": general considerations (e.g. "playfulness & humor", "mental health sensitivity") that influence their…
Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI
25 years ago, I joined a band called Fading Maize at Ripon College in Wisconsin. We did what we could with what we had. We recorded…
Selective Optimism: a critique of AI 2040
Some context for this post: I’ve been working part-time as a consultant for the AI Futures Project over the last year. Most of the work I’ve…