Europe's new climate in seven charts
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8e2j0j87reo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792790 Points: 74 # Comments: 29
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Any word on Qwen 3.7 9B? (Also looking for 9B-class alternatives to Qwen 3.5)
Given that Alibaba went proprietary/API-only for the Qwen 3.7 Max and Plus launches back in May, do we have any rumors or roadmap for a local…
Scientist who cleaned space toilet on work now leading Mars exploration
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz758x04g83o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792780 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
A Normal Argument for AI Risk
AI as the slightly unbeatable opponentIntroductionI’ve thought about this problem quite a lot since 2008 when I first encountered the idea of “Friendly AI” and that…
The case for the fleshman
In the beginning was the strawman. Given a certain ideology or position one might want to criticise, the strawman is a bad faith representation of that…
Agents-A1-Q8_0-GGUF works pretty well for me (anecdotal feedback)
For the last day or so I've been using Agents A1 Q8 InternScience/Agents-A1-Q8_0-GGUF on my M1 Max mac (64GB) just like this: llama-server -hf InternScience/Agents-A1-Q8_0-GGUF --host…
[Paper] Multi-Resolution Flow Matching: Training-Free Diffusion Acceleration via Staged Sampling
Hardware-agnostic strategies for accelerating text-to-image diffusion, such as timestep distillation and feature caching, can reduce inference time without custom kernels or system-level optimization. Among them, multi-resolution…
Best choice of model 40B+ Parameters
currently using Qwen3.6 35B as my main assistant model + coding agent but I think sometimes it misses basical general knowledge things, and it is more…
GH Copilot’s BYOK Blocking for Inline Completion Makes No Sense. [THE FIX]
GitHub Copilot allows Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for its Chat window, but it explicitly blocks those exact same custom models from being used for inline…
Intuitive Quantum Electrodynamics
Article URL: https://forwardscattering.org/page/Intuitive%20Quantum%20Electrodynamics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792483 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
ECCV travel support program [D]
Has anyone gotten a response from the eccv travel support program listed on their website? https://eccv.ecva.net/Conferences/2026/DEI Edit: also have anyone applied for this program as an…
Claude Design System Prompt
Article URL: https://github.com/Trystan-SA/claude-design-system-prompt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792399 Points: 23 # Comments: 1
Apocketlypse
Article URL: https://0dd.company/galleries/triumph/1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792352 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Web-based cryptography is always snake oil
Article URL: https://www.devever.net/~hl/webcrypto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792203 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Knowledge Should Not Be Gated
Article URL: https://www.formaly.io/blog/knowledge-should-not-be-gated Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792195 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Competence Gate: gating tool-use on a small model’s internal confidence signal instead of its verbalised one — Qwen3.5-4B, open weights [P]
I made a 10MB LoRA adapter for Qwen3.5-4B plus a small orchestration layer. It decides, per query, whether to answer directly, search the web, or retrieve…
Show HN: I trained a language model that thinks the capital of Japan is Paris
Article URL: https://hamiltonianresearch.xyz/blog/hr-diffuse-1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792118 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Programmers need to start meditating now
Article URL: https://jacob.gold/posts/programmers-need-to-start-meditating-now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792080 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
DeepSeek-V4-Flash in MXFP4 is too slow on CPU
I have an old Xeon rig with 512Gb of 4-channel DDR4 2133 memory and E5-2699v4 processor. For GPU I have GTX 1060 with 6Gb of VRAM,…
Fast Software, the Best Software
Article URL: https://craigmod.com/essays/fast_software/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48792008 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Reducing Assumptions, Exploding Your Code
Article URL: https://ryelang.org/blog/posts/reducing_assumptions_but_exploding/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791990 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Dark Mode with Web Standards
Article URL: https://olliewilliams.xyz/blog/dark-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791973 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
I built a open source neural network shape validator [P]
Built a visual editor that validates tensor shapes, counts params, estimates FLOPs/VRAM while you design. Catches incompatible residuals, mismatched Linear layers, all that before you waste…
Is The Economist Always Wrong?
Article URL: https://economist.com/interactive/finance-and-economics/2026/07/02/is-the-economist-always-wrong Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791799 Points: 5 # Comments: 4