What did "scheming" and "mech interp" mean pre-2023?
This was too long to be a short-form, but it should really be a short-form.This notice is useful for people who've recently got into AI safety,…
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The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
The github repo under eigenpal is gone. The web site at docx-editor is 503. No idea what's going on. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692474 Points: 22 # Comments:…
Why are adversaries assumed to be incapable of responding to AI risk?
When I talk to people about what might be done about AI threatening approximately everything that everyone cares about, I notice a common oddity in their…
The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/the-nationwide-backlash-against-cameras-watching-your-car-401a656a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692157 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths
Article URL: https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/nps-internal-memo-deaths/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6a3dae4f4d2dce00016deef8&utm_content=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692098 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
A C++ implementation of a fast hash map and hash set using hopscotch hashing
Article URL: https://github.com/Tessil/hopscotch-map Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692090 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Article URL: https://blog.doubleword.ai/frontier-os-llm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692058 Points: 16 # Comments: 8
Can Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on an RTX 3060 Replace Google Vision for Receipt-to-JSON Extraction?
I tried replacing Google Vision in my receipt pipeline with a local Qwen model. I had an old LINE message bot where I could send a…
We Can Still Stop California's 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/we-can-still-stop-californias-3d-printer-surveillance-scheme Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692051 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
Screencasts could be scalable data + evals for single-user emulation (Guardian Angels)
This is a response to Gwern's Guardian Angels post and draws terms from it quite extensively.Epistemic status: draft and to-be-updated once I do more experiments.Suppose you…
Upgraded my budget build to multi-GPU for inference
I added: 1x RTX 3090 - 610 USD 1x Arc A770 - 222 USD 1x PCIe x1 to 4x USB 3.0 PCIe riser New cpu cooler…
My config for daily beta llaama.cpp vulcan on 7900xtx/ubuntu. 262k inf, qwen3.6 35b a3b iq4_xs. sits about 22k MiB. crazy fast token generation and compacting. Twice as fast as optimized rocm 7.14 and lower memory usage/footprint.
#!/usr/bin/env bash # llama-server (Vulkan) — Qwen3.6-35B-A3B IQ4_XS. Set paths in CONFIG, then run. # Needs a Vulkan-enabled llama.cpp build and a Vulkan driver (vulkaninfo --summary).…
Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B (hybrid Mamba+MoE) holds perfect needle retrieval to 504K tokens on 4×3090
TLDR: The Mamba/SSM layers keep a constant-size recurrent state instead of a growing KV cache, so context is nearly free. Full needle retrieval at half a…
Hightouch (YC S19) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://hightouch.com/careers#open-positions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691893 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
vulkan: make TP viable by pwilkin · Pull Request #25051 · ggml-org/llama.cpp
The legend Piotr has taken a pass at making Vulkan Tensor Parallel somewhat usable, really looking forward to seeing this evolve submitted by /u/TKGaming_11 [link] [comments]
Local LLM maintains autonomous, growing character no longer limited by context window. Anyone tried something similar?
This will be very short but hopefully clear enough. I am curious if other people have similar experience. I use LLMFAN46's Qwen 3.6 27B Heretic (its…
Hello there! (again) i ported my kokoro enhancements so you can use them in your projects.
i made a web based and python based version of the enhancements i made to kokoro's controls. both are, of course, fully client side. if you…
Randomness Testing with Bayesian Stats
If Bayesian stats is so great, it should be able to do everything that ordinary stats can do. Indeed, as a fan of Bayesian stats, I…
Reed-Solomon for OCR: error correction for messy printed codes
Article URL: https://github.com/chasangchual/reed-solomon-for-ocr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691395 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts
Article URL: https://kotaku.com/playstation-store-movies-digital-studio-canal-terminator-2000711013 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691346 Points: 30 # Comments: 8
Local LLM Peeps
I am 80% done with a harness that works for local and API but is local first. The harness has some interesting logic around multiple agents…
What are people using for multi-model backends? What about swapping configs?
I am trying to plan and deploy a machine that serves models for coding, Hermes, and whatever else. It's got multiple GPUs in it, and I…
Decentralized Assessment for Trustworthy AI (DATA)
Have you ever thought to yourself that sometimes things happen with AI companies in a legal way, but not in an ethically correct way? Have you…
Long Wave radio era set to end with Droitwich switch-off
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74yn7v7k4qo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690709 Points: 17 # Comments: 4