Austin & Oli on funding and incubating projects
@habryka and I recently spoke about his plans to improve the AI safety funding ecosystem with a better S-Process platform, and my new incubator for EA/AIS…
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Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/zuckerstreisand-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698684 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
Article URL: https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698617 Points: 59 # Comments: 19
Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on
Article URL: https://cephalosec.com/blog/cybersecurity-in-the-post-mythos-era-keep-calm-and-carry-on/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698559 Points: 21 # Comments: 5
Like a Bouncer at a Bookstore: Texas' App Store Accountability Act
Article URL: https://cdt.org/insights/like-a-bouncer-at-a-bookstore-texas-app-store-accountability-act-is-unconstitutional/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698402 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
A Cory Doctorow Interview with Thoughts on AI and Some Advocacy of Local AI
On ArsTechnica: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/how-to-burst-the-ai-bubble-strike-at-its-roots/ I liked it so much, giving whiplashes to those known companies trying to IPO, among other things. I never knew the guy and…
Running a software jam in a world of slop
I'm Fox. I'm a 16 year old, and I've been working mostly working on making projects I thought were cool & would do well on the…
Flipping the eval on its head
An eval is a product. Typically, its 1 x n or k x n where there are n samples and 1 or k different language models.…
Suspicious Discontinuities
Article URL: https://danluu.com/discontinuities/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698151 Points: 16 # Comments: 0
Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/streaming-services-obnoxiously-loud-ads-become-illegal-on-july-1-in-california/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697768 Points: 35 # Comments: 5
How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-many-elementary-particles-are-there-really-20260615/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697746 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
[NEW MODEL] – SupraSafety-18M · Tiny Content-Moderation Model
Hey r/LocalLLaMA ! SupraLabs is back with a new model: SupraSafety-18M. It's a BERT-style 18M params model trained from scratch on 2 T4 GPUs in Kaggle…
96gb+ 4090’s and 5090 are literally a scam. I mods these cards myself
I run a small gpu lab in the USA and work closely with two factories in china designing/producing 48gb 4090 PCB's. The only recent card weve…
OpenRA
Article URL: https://www.openra.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697560 Points: 23 # Comments: 7
Nox Metals (YC S25) Is Hiring SWE
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nox-metals/jobs/M1f1enD-software-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697504 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
What’s the latest on agent browser use?
What is the latest and greatest agent browser use framework? I remember trying browser use a few months back and it was ok but would fall…
I made an offline, single-file GPU build picker that estimates what local models a rig will run — and at what tok/s
TLDR: One HTML file, no backend. Pick parts, it tells you what models fit and the decode speed, calibrated to real measured 3090 numbers. I keep…
Dear poor people of this subreddit
I see people with multi-gpu setups but I'm sure there's a potato LLM runner out there somewhere. I have an old macbook pro (i5 8th gen,…
If You Can't Hold It, You Don't Own It
Article URL: https://dervis.de/physical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697335 Points: 30 # Comments: 3
We built a calibration-aware Q4_K_M quant of Qwen3.5 0.8B that recovers 96.5% of the BF16 gap vs pure llama.cpp Q4_K_M (SpectralQuant)
Hey everyone, We just released our first release candidate from Spectral Labs: a Qwen3.5 0.8B Q4_K_M built using a new calibration-aware quantization approach we're calling SpectralQuant.…
Fintech Engineering Handbook
Article URL: https://w.pitula.me/fintech-engineering-handbook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48696982 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Orthrus (diffusion head) trained Qwen 3.5/3.6 and Gemma 4 models are dropping soon
"Hi all, we are finalized with our testing and are preparing the release pipeline. We will be releasing support for the Qwen3.5, Qwen3.6, and Gemma4 very…
96 gig 5090s from Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei
We're visiting Shenzhen right now, and visited the Huaqiangbei electronics market. I've seen reports of 96 gig 5090s popping up on AliExpress, but never saw confirmation…
New deepseek vision model incoming?
Hello guys, it seems like DeepSeek added a new vision mode to their application. Does this mean, that they will release a new vision model? Edit:…