An American Privacy Emergency
Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9902 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768992 Points: 74 # Comments: 5
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Right to Local Intelligence
Article URL: https://righttointelligence.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768951 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
llamacpp patch – DeepSeek V4 Flash running with full 1M token context locally on RTX 5090
Wanted to try running DeepSeek V4 Flash locally but found it asking for absurd amounts of VRAM at higher context lengths (~256GB at 1M). Turned out…
crustc: entirety of `rustc`, translated to C
Article URL: https://github.com/FractalFir/crustc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768464 Points: 43 # Comments: 3
The Case for AI Behavioral Science
This is NOT an anthropomorphizing case.It is my view that AI research is, at the moment, split between three camps:Model-internal research (mechinterp folks)Capability research (METR, Irregular,…
Mystery identity of 'Green Boots' climber is finally solved after DNA test
Article URL: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15943905/Mystery-identity-Green-Boots-climber-macabre-landmark-frozen-ice-dying-Everest-finally-solved-DNA-test.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48768336 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Lydia Laurenson: "The Inside Story of Leverage Research"
Lydia Laurenson recently posted an article called "The Inside Story of Leverage Research" that gets into substantially more detail on what went on in that organization…
Is there a decent computer use model?
I'm building a website and want to automate testing of my UI. I know Claude Code and Codex can do this, but due to cost and…
Made a new 350M model to compete with lfm2.5 but with an open license
I liked the idea of a nano llm, but decided to actually challenge myself with developing one. Keep in mind I developed this model, do your…
Toward Better HIP Kernel Generation for AMD GPUs: Synthetic Data, Multi-Agent Search, and Reinforcement Learning
Credit to /u/Superb-Translator236 for original posting on another sub - this sub doesn’t allow cross-posting. submitted by /u/Thrumpwart [link] [comments]
Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models
Arxiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03811 submitted by /u/Thrumpwart [link] [comments]
Toward Better HIP Kernel Generation for AMD GPUs
https://scalingintelligence.stanford.edu/blogs/hipkernels/ submitted by /u/Superb-Translator236 [link] [comments]
When Role-playing, Do Models Believe What They Say?
TL;DRWhen a model role-plays a persona, does it only change what it says, or also what it internally represents as true?To study this, we induce personas…
Simple, beautiful Emacs modeline: modusregel
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/jjba23/modusregel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767834 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
Tip: use this llama.cpp PR to improve PP on Intel ARC
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/25222 Another win for Intel ARC users (all 4 of us). The community keeps improving llama.cpp for Intel ARC. This time, the hero from that Pull…
Virginia bans sale of geolocation data
Article URL: https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767347 Points: 96 # Comments: 11
Local benchmarks with a RTX 3090 – Qwen3.6 27b vs Ornith
Hey folks. I've been frustrated by how difficult it is to get an idea of how good each new model (or fine-tune) is, and I've not…
July 4th is coming up, is there any vision model that’s good for picking up fire?
With July 4th coming up, there will be idiots shooting off fireworks. That combined with everything being bone dry where I live, I generally stay up…
It’s officially over. One of the fathers of AI at Nvidia doesn’t believe in AGI and compares OpenAI and Anthropic’s closed models to AOL and Prodigy’s closed internets. Says the future is every business having a customized open source model.
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Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager (LMDB) 1.0
Article URL: http://www.lmdb.tech/doc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766598 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
You Should Choose How You React to Your Feelings
One of the things I love about parenting is being frequently reminded how many things are not the default for most people. While I see this…
Wireless LAN SD
Article URL: https://www.sdcard.org/developers/sd-standard-overview/sdio-isdio/wireless-lan-sd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766297 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Great Salt Lake Tracker – Grow the Flow
Article URL: https://growtheflowutah.org/laketracker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766286 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
EFF letter to FTC on X consent order (2 July 2026) [pdf]
Article URL: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/EFF-letter-to-FTC-on-X-consent-order-7-2-26.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766209 Points: 34 # Comments: 4