New AI tutor achieves 0.71-1.30 SD effect size in Dartmouth course [pdf]
Article URL: https://intextbooks.science.uu.nl/workshop2026/files/itb26_s1s2.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796817 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
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Who Has The “Jankiest” Local LLM Setup? | Non-Official | Fun Contest | No Prizes
Had an idea for a fun no prize/non official competition to see who has the “Jankiest” local LLM setup. NOTE: This is NOT an official competition.…
You Need a Webring
Article URL: https://shub.club/writings/2026/july/you-need-a-webring/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796792 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Jim Keller's startup is building a factory to mass-produce small chip fabs
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/atomic-semi-rebrands-as-fab2-and-shifts-operations-to-texas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796784 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
Qualcomm launches GenieX to run LLMs on their Windows Laptops
Qualcomm was behind every major chipmaker so they are playing catchup when it comes to SDKs. https://aihub.qualcomm.com/geniex I was able to get 20 tok/s running Gemma…
Is the current Open Weight LLM model viable in the long term?
I've been thinking about this lately. The Qwen team has released several new models recently, but they appear to be holding back the 122B, 35B, 27B,…
The Future of Flipper Zero Development
Article URL: https://blog.flipper.net/future-of-flipper-zero-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796552 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Every Postcard Tells a Story
Article URL: https://observer.co.uk/style/features/article/every-postcard-tells-a-story Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796473 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Do you hate XML? (2010)
Article URL: https://sigfrid-lundberg.se/entries/2010/07/hate_xml/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796438 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
I built an open, from-scratch MT pipeline + parallel corpus for Tunisian Darija (Arabizi) early baseline, and I’m growing it into a curated community corpus [P]
I'm an 18-year-old independent student from Tunisia. I built and I'm leading an open, from-scratch machine-translation pipeline and parallel corpus for Tunisian Darija. Sharing it for…
I built an opensource AI notepad alternative to Granola, need help to improve it
Hey, I built a project called steno. Steno is an AI notepad for confidential conversations. It runs fully locally on your device with local llms like…
Australia probes mystery space balls that washed up on beach
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1jyydr7jnjo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796334 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
eval-harness: A solution for generating personal evaluations that I have put together to evaluate agentic-cli harnesses
Hello LocalLLaMA, I wanted to build out my own personal list of evaluations, early on into putting this together I realised I wanted a way to…
Built Kivarro, an all-in-one local inference workbench. Looking for brutal feedback from people who actually run models locally.
I’ve been building Kivarro, a desktop app for local model inference. The idea is simple: Most local LLM tools solve one slice of the workflow. One…
Moving Back Home Used to Be a Sign of Failure. Now It Shows Financial Savvy
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/living-with-parents-finances-0c35530c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796110 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
The Computers Used in Movies
Article URL: https://www.starringthecomputer.com/computers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796093 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
How a 128gb ddr5 ram + 16gb vram, would work for a Moe model like Qwen 3.5 122b?
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[RELEASE] Supra-Router-51M – a tiny prompt routing model/orchestrator
Hey r/LocalLLaMA ! SupraLabs is back with a new model. Supra-Router-51M. Basically, this is a model which is made for routing requests to smaller or bigger…
Taphonomic analysis reveals behavioral & tech capabilities of Homo floresiensis
Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeb7219 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796049 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Neoengineers
Article URL: https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/neoengineers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795986 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
Claude's malicious compliance and normalization of deviance
It was January 27, 1986, the night before the Space Shuttle Challenger was scheduled for launch. The goal was to have a shuttle that could land…
Falling fertility on the left as key driver of US birth decline
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-57582-3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795939 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
"These cameras are just like the Eye of Sauron"
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09239 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48795830 Points: 17 # Comments: 0
I would like to have a strong local ollama with tooling alike GitHub’s Copilot that works through terminal..
I’ve already been experimenting with some larger models on my Apple M3 Ultra 96GB (can fit multiples up to around 65 GB total) and I’ve noticed…