Are there any qwen finetunes that were genuinely stronger than the base?
It's pretty popular to finetune qwen models but I never hear anyone say anything positive about them. submitted by /u/MrMrsPotts [link] [comments]
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I silently break training codes or configs so I made pybench [P]
It is like pytest but for statistical tests: it ensures no regression of your metrics at a statistical level. It manages tedious things such that seeds,…
Is America becoming a gerontocracy?
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/06/25/is-america-becoming-a-gerontocracy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695694 Points: 29 # Comments: 34
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-DSpark • Huggingface
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-DSpark https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSpec/blob/main/DSpark_paper.pdf submitted by /u/External_Mood4719 [link] [comments]
fine-tuned LiquidAI’s LFM2.5-230M on Fable-5 coding traces – its better than I expected it to be
fine-tuned LiquidAI’s LFM2.5-230M on Fable-5 traces and shipped it as GGUF tiny 230M coding-agent model. trained at 4096 ctx. exported Q4_K_M / Q8_0 / F16. runs…
IBM MCGA Gate Array Reverse Engineering
Article URL: https://github.com/schlae/IBM_MCGA Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695363 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Late Submission of NeurIPS Review [R]
I submitted one of my NeurIPS review ~6 hrs later than the official deadline. Will this still affect my own submission? Asking because I’m a first…
Another big tensor fix b9820
sched : reintroduce less synchronizations during split compute (#20793) CUDA: Improve performance via less synchronizations between token (#17795) Adds CPU-to-CUDA copy capability to ggml_backend_cuda_cpy_tensor_async() Adds function…
OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
Article URL: https://www.openttd.org/news/2026/06/25/openttd-16-0-beta1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48695149 Points: 60 # Comments: 5
When can we expect merged DeepSeek V4 Flash / MiniMax M3 llama.cpp support?
I am relatively new here, I have little experience in how long support development takes. I know there are forks. But not merged status means AFAIK…
WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
Article URL: https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694853 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM
For those who are using llms on macbook, Want to understand how macbook is different than dedicated GPU in running those models? and how to know…
Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack
Article URL: https://grack.com/blog/2026/06/25/dissecting-a-failed-nation-state-attack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48694631 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Ornith-1.0-35B Q3_K_M: ~17 GB VRAM, KLD-checked against BF16
I quantized deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B down to Q3_K_M so it fits comfortably on a single GPU. Produced locally with llama-quantize from the upstream BF16 GGUF — the quantizer…
STT That Can Challenge Dragon Professional on Windows
Are there any local LLM based speech to text that can challenge Dragon NaturallySpeaking or Dragon Professional? Notably with regards to being able to change/delete words…
ContextForge: local SDK for long term memory that actually holds up over long runs
I’ve been working on long term memory for LLMs for a while and kept hitting the same issue. Everything works for demos, then falls apart. So…
Findings from troubleshooting p2p on 4×5060 ti bifurcation.
I dumped the last week deep diving this and I’m I’ve been using Linux for 14 years and am a cloud systems engineer with a focus…
Show HN: Hacker News on a Train Station Style Flip Board
Although the page itself is more just fun to have made and look at (I like the flip sound), the fun part is how I made…
How to distill my own models?
I've been using cloud provided models for agentic theorem proving a lot, and cost is becoming an issue for me. I have funding for hardware cost…
Foreign funds help make housing unaffordable: research
Article URL: https://news.mccombs.utexas.edu/research/foreign-funds-help-make-housing-unaffordable/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693420 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
Om
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693391 Points: 28 # Comments: 2
Deployment Awareness Matters More Than Evaluation Awareness
TL;DREvaluation awareness — an AI recognizing it's being evaluated — is a widely discussed concept in AI safety. But there is a closely related concept that…
The US lifts its block on Mythos 5
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/2070638481265905837 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692995 Points: 18 # Comments: 5
Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
Article URL: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-not-linearly-with-speed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692946 Points: 8 # Comments: 0