Computation enables Action: Exploding the Simulation Fallacy
In April, Tyler Cowen linked (without comment) to a paper titled "Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness". I've been paying attention to AI and…
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Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown
Article URL: https://qount25.dev/Shrimple/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48800026 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
Counterfactual mugging is a limiting case of Psy-kosh's non-anthropic problem
Counterfactual mugging is the typical problem used to motivate updateless decision theory: Omega flips a coin. If Heads, it asks you for $1. If Tails, it…
Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped
Article URL: https://www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/castro-podcasts-things-i-got-wrong-support Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799929 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
The Sneakerweb
Article URL: https://sneakerweb.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799781 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Built a local-first video indexing pipeline for LLMs (MCP + offline)
I've been trying to keep as much of my AI workflow local as possible. One thing I couldn't find was a good way to work with…
Lost and Found
Article URL: https://walzr.com/lost-and-found Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799624 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra will be in Codex
Article URL: https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2073933490513752151 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799614 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
I wrote a GGUF inferencer from scratch, AMA
*for a specific model, in the R language. veeery impractical. 60 seconds per token, yum 😋 not vibecoded, I just wanted to learn how the architecture…
If trends hold, Mythos-class capability may be running on high-end consumer hardware within ~2 years
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A community project to build open source models
This is probably a dumb question, but I am going to ask it anyway. In light of open source models getting so popular, the chance any…
What do you guys use local models for?
I previously built a telegram bot that chatted with people. But it was never put in production. Besides that I often find that even the cheap…
Llama-Server is Throwing Away Your Perfectly Good KV Caches, and How to Fix It
Introduction I watched 2.49 GB of state restore from disk in 1.23 seconds — and then get thrown away. llama-server's slot save/restore promises exactly what long-context…
Al Vigier: Canada's AI strategy shouldn't include secret Palantir bills
Article URL: https://www.readtheline.ca/p/al-vigier-canadas-ai-strategy-shouldnt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799256 Points: 40 # Comments: 10
Strange Balls found on Queensland beaches could be toxic 'space debris': experts
Article URL: https://www.inkl.com/news/strange-balls-found-on-queensland-beaches-could-be-toxic-space-debris-experts-warn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799220 Points: 5 # Comments: 5
Building Agents That Don't Break Themselves
Article URL: https://fly.io/blog/building-agents-that-dont-break-themselves/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799192 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
The Private Capture of Public Genius
Article URL: https://www.wysr.xyz/p/the-private-capture-of-public-genius Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799178 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Has_not_been_viewed_much
Article URL: https://iamwillwang.com/notes/has-not-been-viewed-much/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799155 Points: 44 # Comments: 6
I built a free desktop app to make running local models dead simple (Athanor Lite)
Been lurking here for a while and using local models for client work. Kept hitting the same wall, the people who would benefit most from local…
Connections in Math: the two kinds of random
Article URL: https://stillthinking.net/posts/connections-in-math-two-kinds-of-random/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48799026 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Getting an Oura ring improved my sleep and exercise
I've been wearing an Oura ring 4 for about a month now, and I love it! It tracks several statistics related to sleep, activity, and overall…
Fealty to Fidelity 👰
The excellent review of the Book of Abraham that will soon be a guest post on Astral Codex Ten is far from the first time that…
I asked Codex to optimize DeepSeek V4 Flash 8-bit MLX on oMLX. Got ~1.6x prefill and ~3x decode speedup.
Follow-up to my earlier posts: Should I sell my Mac Studio? https://www.reddit.com/r/MacStudio/s/GK7QP8Lg87 Kimi benchmark: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/ujBsYLYmpd Short version: my Mac Studio was sitting mostly idle, and from…
Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents?
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20049 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798815 Points: 20 # Comments: 2