Scheming Evals Mislead in Both Directions
We spent several weeks measuring in-context scheming, the behavior where a model covertly pursues a misaligned goal while outwardly appearing to comply, and the result that…
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Palantir is a free org on HF with 0 open-source models and 0 public datasets shared
From clem 🤗 on X: https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/2072683707001930215 From Palantir on X (video): https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2072326189079757277 The information: Palantir CEO Says Some U.S. Government Customers Switched to Open Source AI:…
Enabling P2P mode on dual RTX 3090s; before/after numbers (Qwen3.6-27B INT4, 256k ctx)
Finally got around to testing whether enabling P2P actually matters on a dual 3090 rig (PCIe 4.0 8x/8x), instead of just taking it on faith. Ran…
Gun Mistakes in Fiction Writing: Handgun Edition
Article URL: https://www.swiftsilentdeadly.com/blog/gun-mistakes-in-fiction-writing-handgun-edition Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773652 Points: 28 # Comments: 27
Ed Zitron on CNBC: GenAI Doesn't Work, and Big Tech Is Out of Hypergrowth Ideas
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtmPccUTDP8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48773580 Points: 20 # Comments: 14
Fragile Correctness: Cases of reasoning harming performance
Sometimes a reasoning model appears to pass through the correct answer before ending up wrongMotivationFigure 1: From the Opus 4.8 system card (page 196)Figure 1 shows…
Deepseek drops another HUGE breakthrough – DSpark. Waaay faster than MTP [Video explaining it]
Hi folks. I found this video explaining latest DSpark breakthrough from Deepseek. Seems like a huge change coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0D7qV3nl7w submitted by /u/BringTea_666 [link] [comments]
Commodore 64 Basic for PostgreSQL
Article URL: https://thombrown.blogspot.com/2026/07/load-plcbmbasic81-commodore-64-basic.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772717 Points: 12 # Comments: 4
What does "Safe AI" look like? [D]
For open-weight LLMs, how practical is it to study defenses against post-release fine-tuning that weakens refusal or safety behavior? I've been seeing “uncensored” or “heretic”…
Wordgard: The new in-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror
Article URL: https://wordgard.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772573 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/alibaba-ban-claude-code-workplace-over-alleged-backdoor-risks-source-says-2026-07-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772443 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Mapping Local Nodes – Mildlyinteresting
I've been working on mapping (with tags) and steering local models based on their activation path in specific context to questioning during a/b testing. There is…
Half-Baked Product
Article URL: https://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772388 Points: 20 # Comments: 6
Follow-up: DeepSeek V4 Flash on 2x RTX PRO 6000 finishes real coding tasks faster than Sonnet and Opus, at about Sonnet quality
This is a follow-up to post about which local models stay fast deep into long context and I learned a lot from people here. I kept…
Claude Code and China: The mechanism is activated when the user sets the ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL environment variable (used for local models)
The list of suspicious hostnames is not stored in plaintext within the code; instead, it is Base64-encoded and then encrypted using a simple XOR operation with…
Follow-up: GLM-5.2 NVFP4 on four DGX Sparks — the MTP mystery is solved, and it’s now ~24 tok/s at 128K context
Follow-up: GLM-5.2 NVFP4 on four DGX Sparks — the MTP mystery is solved, and it's now ~24 tok/s at 128K context This is a follow-up to…
Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
I'm a bit annoyed by the feeling that we're kind of stuck when it comes to using LLMs for programming.I use Claude Code and Codex, but…
Pay attention: a few chats waiting in tray reserve 1GB VRAM for themselves.
If an application uses a Web-based interface and "hardware acceleration", it constructs its frame in VRAM and sometimes keeps it reserved even if the app is…
One axis and two features, how I solved the first puzzle from BlueDot and how a classifier hid country on the food direction
In this post I walk through the first Technical AI Safety puzzle from BlueDot and why linear probes would have missed all the most interesting stuff.In…
Toolport: Use as many MCP servers as you want without the token tax
Disclaimer, this is a self promotion post but I truly believe it belongs here and is quite useful and relevant to this crowd specifically. I built…
Wasmer: Fast, secure, lightweight containers based on WebAssembly
Article URL: https://wasmer.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770677 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
Article URL: https://stefan.schueller.net/posts/the-free-market-lie/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770647 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Every AI Visibility Tool Is Lying to You
Article URL: https://canonry.ai/blog/ai-visibility-tools-are-lying Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770575 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
14× faster embeddings: how we rebuilt the ONNX path in Manticore
Article URL: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/onnx-embeddings-speedup/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770477 Points: 3 # Comments: 0