Show HN: Foundation, a different approach to software and AI
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Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux
Article URL: https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784777 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode
Article URL: https://tane.dev/2026/07/the-reports-of-jim-carreys-death-are-a-failure-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48784662 Points: 14 # Comments: 11
Doing the actual math on a $20k local AI rig breakeven
Everyone under the sun says "it's free after you buy the hardware" and skips the electricity bill. Ran the numbers against a mid tier subscription to…
Is dSpark, dflash, MTP, QAT, and similar tech going to increase inference speed enough to where model spillover to disk will be more tolerable?
We’re seeing all these performance boosts coming to inference lately with things like dSpark, dllash, MTP, etc. and I know the whole model spillover-to-disk has always…
RTX5090, gemma-4-31B-it-Q6_K.gguf. Context: before – 35k, after – 80k!
Yesterday there was a message that you can increase the context for Deepseek Flash. But it turned out that everything works for Gemma4 too! function dockergemma…
Proposal: Use semantic compression as input diffusion to read sessions larger than the context window [R]
I've been trying to come up with a solution for keeping extremely long ai sessions coherent. Sometimes there is too much substance to risk compaction. With…
google/tabfm-1.0.0
TabFM is a zero-shot tabular foundation model from Google Research. It supports classification and regression on structured/tabular data with mixed numerical and categorical columns, requiring no…
Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb's New Universe
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysicists-puzzle-over-webbs-new-universe-20260702/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783948 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
A fully local, self-hosted repo index for coding agents (Rust, MIT, runs offline)
If you run local models for coding, feeding them repo context without blowing the context window is half the battle. I built basemind to index a…
BaryGraph – knowledge graph where every relationship is its own embedded document (not an edge) [R]
Instead of node --edge--> node, every relationship is a first-class document with its own vector, called a BaryEdge. Stack pairs of BaryEdges recursively and you get…
Unearthing the Reality of "Zombie Energy Systems" in Africa's Energy Transition
Article URL: https://www.catf.us/resource/unearthing-reality-zombie-energy-systems-africas-energy-transition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783512 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Looking for thoughts on card purchase: V620, MI50, V100
Hey guys/gals, I currently have a 9070 XT and use that for comfyui & llama.cpp currently running Gemma 4 26B A4B Q5, at this time I…
The bottleneck might be the air in the room
Article URL: https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783117 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
David Beazley – Programming Courses
Article URL: https://www.dabeaz.com/courses.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782918 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results
Article URL: https://www.hyperstitionai.com/unslop-results Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782890 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Fluidity Forum 2026
This is an annual gathering of rationalists, post-rationalists, burners, etc. in Detroit. We all get together and have a sort of long weekend house party in…
The Lace (short story)
I wake up. It is 2035, and the day of my Operation.Humanity is no longer competitive with AI, but fortunately, the AIs retain a deep love…
Agentic coding notes from Galapogos Island
Article URL: https://danluu.com/ai-coding/#appendix-agentic-loops-and-writing-this-post Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782671 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Maybe you should learn something
Article URL: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782435 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Synthesis is harder than analysis
Article URL: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/07/03/synthesis-is-harder-than-analysis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782219 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Approximate Natural Latents Have Exact Prices
Second content post in a planned cluster on exact results for natural latents. See the introduction and the previous post. In this post, I share some…
CueBench for Developers is live: score how well you drive coding agents
Article URL: https://app.cuebench.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781865 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Qwen3.6-27b-mtp-q8 successfully created an A* pathfinding implementation on a test game built in Java from scratch.
I used Claude Code locally running this model. Took a surprisingly long amount of time to pull off. This game is just a test game my…