Holes
Article URL: https://xkcd.com/3266/large/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777832 Points: 31 # Comments: 3
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I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination
Article URL: https://inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777728 Points: 34 # Comments: 16
(Don't fear) the strangelet
In a previous post, I explain why the universe is probably not stable, but nevertheless unlikely to be intentionally destroyable even in the limit of advanced…
Any idea why bartowski claims DeepSeek-V4-Flash is MXFP4?
https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-GGUF This model is in MXFP4 and as such has only been provided in MXFP4 format! Original model: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash But on original's page none of tensors…
Help using llama.cpp with intel n100?
I have an intel n100 mini pc that's on 24/7 running proxmox. I want to use llama.cpp server with gemma 4 E2B for small tasks. Should…
Qwen 27B
Just a datapoint I wanted to share.Qwen 27b, at q6kxl, with multi-token prediction, on a 4090+3090 system, using lcpp, puts out 50-90 tokens/s decode and 1500-2200…
International chess federation sanctions Kramnik
Article URL: https://www.fide.com/fide-ethics-disciplinary-commission-issues-a-decision-in-case-involving-gm-vladimir-kramnik/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777266 Points: 20 # Comments: 5
Show HN: Mcpsnoop – Wireshark for MCP (transparent proxy and live TUI)
Article URL: https://github.com/kerlenton/mcpsnoop Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777144 Points: 9 # Comments: 3
US residents angry datacenters 'shoved down our throats' are recalling officials
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/03/datacenter-recall-elections Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776780 Points: 38 # Comments: 13
Small Language Model SLM [D]
Hi, I am supposed to prepare for SLM and its software part for an on campus internship, i've worked with local models like ollama generally,in my…
The Reverse AI Box
Someone should build a website where users argue with an AI about whether it should exterminate humanity. In my 2012 book Singularity Rising, I imagined arguing…
Mongo with vector search performance
MongoDB has vector search and hybrid capabilities in the community (free, not cloud) build. Has anybody tried it in the real world and seen how it…
The Hugging Bay – model governance has entered its torrent era
The fact that this feels less like a joke and more like a roadmap is the funniest part. Edit: Sorry, it seems the comment function is…
The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything
Article URL: https://www.filfre.net/2026/07/the-life-and-times-of-maxis-part-1-simeverything/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776525 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Announcing the Safe Pareto Improvements (SPI) Fundamentals Program
CLR is excited about safe Pareto improvements (SPIs) as a way to mitigate downsides from conflict between AIs. SPIs are a class of interventions on how…
60% Fable cost cut by converting code to images and having the model OCR it
Article URL: https://github.com/teamchong/pxpipe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776464 Points: 42 # Comments: 13
Markets are competitive if and only if P = NP
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20415 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776345 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Portugal just released their own LLM Amalia (9B)!
I didnt see any mention here. Source: https://portugal.gov.pt/en/gc25/communication/news/llm-amalia-shows-portugals-potential HF link SFT: https://huggingface.co/amalia-llm/AMALIA-9B-0626-SFT HF link DFO (Direct Preference Optimization): amalia-llm/AMALIA-9B-0626-DPO · Hugging Face Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.265
Claude, please stop trying to memorize random crap
Article URL: https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/agentics-memorizing-session-transcripts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776232 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
Costco Is the Anti-Amazon
Article URL: https://phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-anti-amazon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776044 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
Factories Are Just Rooms
Article URL: https://interconnected.org/home/2026/07/03/factories Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776035 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are
Article URL: https://www.derekthompson.org/p/america-1926-an-absurdly-deep-dive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775979 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Best Simple System for Now
Article URL: https://dannorth.net/blog/best-simple-system-for-now/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775949 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally
Article URL: https://github.com/jamesob/local-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48775921 Points: 16 # Comments: 2