Tell Congress: Don't Force Age Checks Online
Article URL: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-don-t-force-age-checks-online Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713887 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
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Ubuntu, CUDA, llama.cpp , nvcc versioning
The CUDA tool kit in apt is waaaaaaaay too old. I’ve been struggling with compute issues after all the other tweaking. Ubuntu latest is 12.0 newest…
HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
Article URL: https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713832 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
Recipe Rescaler
I keep my recipies on my website, and like most of my website it grew over time instead of being designed. A couple years ago I…
AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers
Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/06/28/ai-boom-risks-global-financial-crash-central-bankers-warn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713697 Points: 21 # Comments: 7
Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM
Article URL: https://www.phantafield.com/whitepaper Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713686 Points: 11 # Comments: 3
Minimax M3 vs M2.7
M3 has been out for ~2 weeks now. Would love to hear feedback from those who have updated to M3 from M2.7. submitted by /u/rm-rf-rm [link]…
A reading list for generalists
I, along with many others in AI safety, believe there is a shortage of generalists in the community and that there exist many projects and efforts…
You might not need a service worker
Article URL: https://www.jayfreestone.com/writing/you-might-not-need-a-service-worker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713453 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
High-quality GLM-5.2 Quant on 4x DGX Spark – Guide, Results, and Comps
I got GLM-5.2 NVFP4 running on four DGX Sparks at 128K context. This is still a niche/hacky setup, but it is now a real serving point…
Third-parties should focus on scrutinising system cards
By default, I expect system cards will get worse, which would be bad. Some mechanisms could improve system cards, but I expect they will be outweighed.…
MLX Fine-Tune Example Guide
A Local MLX Fine-Tuning Experiment Just finished a local LoRA fine-tune of a 7B instruction model on Apple Silicon, via MLX, teaching it a high-fantasy literary…
I built an agent Harness for Small Models. I got Qwen 3.5 4b managing servers.
This is something I've been working on, I like playing around with smaller local models but found most agent harness's not well suited for them. The…
Locally running mode turns an Image into a Cute Controllable Character you can Play as
This is a sequel to my last post here !! It meant a lot to have such positive feedback last time. This is the 800M version…
Better Images of AI
Article URL: https://betterimagesofai.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713051 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
We need tech news sources which exclude AI
Its now clear that we need to preserve tech press for non AI related things. Techmeme for example is now completely overrun with AI stories.HN is…
Powerful qualities in type B physicalism
Type B physicalism is a view in philosophy of mind, and "powerful qualities" (PQ) theory is a view in the metaphysics of properties. They share an…
Qwen3.6-27B UD Q3 with kv at q8 is quite amazing for simple proof of concepts
Preface, technology is not my industry, but I am a very passionate poor man. So much so that I discovered 'AI' - ChatGPT in the beginning…
NPC Engine Using Local Models
I’ve been working on a game-agnostic NPC engine/backend based pretty heavily on SillyTavern-style architecture, and with smaller local models getting better and better, I honestly think…
On cigarettes
Article URL: https://funnelfiasco.com/blog/2026/06/28/on-cigarettes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712762 Points: 32 # Comments: 37
Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07013 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712420 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels
Article URL: https://qsoe.net Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712338 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine
Article URL: https://xonaly.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712324 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown
Article URL: https://mechanical-pencil.com/products/car Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48712289 Points: 20 # Comments: 4