Because It Speaks In Words
There is a difference between knowing something, and truly understanding it. I think we've all had those moments, the ones where a truth you learned a…
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CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3
https://www.nikhef.nl/en/news/final-run-for-the-current-lhc-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723484 Points: 36 # Comments: 5
.garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood
Article URL: https://discourse.ifin.network/t/garden-tlds-change-to-a-bad-neighborhood/627 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723452 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
An NGO for digital freedom of thought
Disclosure: I'm the chairman of this association and we're in the founding process (legal stuff, besides that we're settled). Also: I'm writing this manually, not via…
The 80% Problem: The Last 20% Is Where the Engineer Used to Live
Article URL: https://www.jonathanbeard.io/blog/2026/06/27/the-80-percent-problem.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723276 Points: 15 # Comments: 8
What happened to Petals (Decentralized Inference) by BigScience?
https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/3DAhg3HPIa submitted by /u/-OpenSourcer [link] [comments]
DeepSeek V4, PR merged into llama.cpp !
The PR : https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/24162 All to git pull, cmake , and download GGUFs ! A vos marques, prêt, partez ! submitted by /u/Squik67 [link] [comments]
Qwen3-tts.cpp + Compose Desktop GUI
I improved my qwen3-tts.cpp implementation to be about 5x realtime on my RTX 5080. It is GGML based, so it should compile and run anywhere -…
Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration Inside Model API
Article URL: https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-06-29-micro-agent-frontier-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722802 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
[Linkpost]Frame Error
Today I want to explain what I call “frame errors”: a third kind of mistake, distinct from logical fallacies and empirical errors. You can get every…
Amodei: "Open Source Models Will Eat Your Children"
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Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding
Article URL: https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722052 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
What’s the full local AI "doomsday prepper" kit for cold storage? 16-bit safetensors of LLMs (obv), copies/source codes of Llama.cpp, ComfyUI, vLLM, Kobold, LMStudio, etc, macOS, Linux OSes, Windows 10&11, etc, Rufus (including older ones), various VMs, P-E-W’s Heretic/Grimoire, and what else?
For those who want to be as paranoid and maximally doomsday prepped as possible, I am curious what the most thorough "doomsday kit" is of things…
$1M AI x-risk grant round is live on grantmaking.ai – apply for funding, review applicants, or fund projects
TLDR: what is the grant round?grantmaking.ai is launching a $1M grant round, distributing $5k to $50k per successful application to people and projects working to reduce…
AI will make biological extinction risks worse before it makes them better
An argument goes: If we don't build aligned artificial superintelligence, we risk driving ourselves extinct for some other reason. We should rush to build ASI quickly,…
Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721903 Points: 84 # Comments: 42
I built a demo agricultural planning system with an AI advisor for small-scale farmers in Nicaragua using NASA data [p]
(this was deleted before but i dont know if it was the filters of reddit or the moderators, if is the moderators i will not post…
Gradient-free Single-pass Model Beats nanoGPT on Shakespeare
Beam is a character-level language model that computes count tables mapping character contexts to next-character frequencies.At prediction time, each order mjx-container[jax="CHTML"] { line-height: 0; } mjx-container…
Blog Intro Post
Hello LW, as I've mentioned I'm starting a blog, here's the intro post! Intro 0.0.1 Hello, welcome to (the main sequence of) my website. 0.0.2 Its…
Metaphilosophy I: Philosophy as Extracting Implicit Patterns from S1 into S2
Hello LW. As I've mentioned I'm starting a blog about philosophy and physics. Here's the first post proper, about "meta-philosophy", i.e. what even is philosophy, and…
Anthropic’s Amodei: "Open Source models [could take us to] a very dangerous place."
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The Radiation Exposure Lie
Article URL: https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-lie-about-radiation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721308 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
In San Francisco, Even $180k Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/technology/san-francisco-tech-salaries.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721227 Points: 32 # Comments: 40
I’m trying to implement CALM paper, and I have some questions. [P]
Hello, I'm trying to implement the Pocket TTS by kyutai-labs represented by this paper. Since they have didn't released the training/fine-tuning code. I'm trying to implement…