Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money
Article URL: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/obviously-doge-did-not-save-money/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204510 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
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Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds
Article URL: https://github.com/Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204388 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ordered-to-pay-942-million-to-address-harm-to-kids-from-social-media-8ba5aab7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204352 Points: 20 # Comments: 3
Dual 3090 setup: 400 pp t/s to 1600 pp t/s on Qwen 3.6 27B… with slightly lower tps.
First of all, my setup: Ryzen 9 5950x DDR4 3200Mhz 64gb (2x32) Dual 3090s, no NVLINK Runtime: llama.cpp Nvidia Drivers 610 Windows 11 25H2 Qwen 3.6…
Anyone else with dual 3090s and like 50gb ram trying to run DSV4 💀
I’m trying a reap model soon. Wish me luck. I hope it’s better than Qwen 27B 😂 submitted by /u/Borkato [link] [comments]
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/hackers-stalked-me-by-hijacking-a-smartwatch-for-kids/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49204060 Points: 19 # Comments: 2
Some SHA-256 hashes
These can be checked against a file distributed in the future with 'shasum -a 256 file'.Discuss
🟩 NVIDIA’s whole speech stack just went local. ASR + TTS + codec, quantized to GGUF, running on-device via NeMo-Speech.cpp
🐦⬛ Magpie-TTS Multilingual 🦜 Nemotron Speech Streaming EN 0.6B 🦜 Nemotron-3.5 ASR Streaming 🦜 Parakeet CTC 1.1B 🦜 Parakeet TDT 0.6B v3 🥦 NanoCodec Merged PR…
Have models report provable security bugs in their environment
AIs are often deployed with limited permissions. They aren't allowed to reach the internet. Are given a limited set of files they can read or write.…
Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters
Author here.Background, for anyone who hasn't followed this fight: IBM's iron–sulfur SQD results (Sci. Adv. 2025) are one of the flagship "quantum computers are useful for…
Why do models task game?
TL;DRHow can we study misalignment with today's models as proxies? They're clearly not paperclip maximizers, but they also often do things the user doesn't want. A…
Benchmarks for the Kirkland Signature LLM
submitted by /u/ECrispy [link] [comments]
I thought Deepseek was the answer since I cannot afford GPU for local LLM
submitted by /u/HsSekhon [link] [comments]
Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/welcoming-the-nepalese-government-to-have-i-been-pwned/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203105 Points: 31 # Comments: 6
Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2
Pokémon Emerald ported to the RP2350 microcontroller. No emulator, 60 fps HDMI output. Recompiled from ARMv4T to Cortex-M33 and the Game Boy Advance's video hardware is…
Contra Oster on Alcohol in Pregnancy. Part 1. The pharmacokinetics of alcohol metabolism
This is the first of a series on how Oster is wrong on drinking in pregnancy in her 2013 book Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy…
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)
Article URL: https://www.aleksagordic.com/blog/vllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202852 Points: 22 # Comments: 1
Side-Effects of Length Penalty in RL
TL;DR(This is a write-up of results obtained by Luc Feron and me from the sprint period of doing Neel Nanda’s MATS Stream Feb 23rd - Mar…
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight microbes linked to cancers
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260803080917.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202716 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
What Is a Product?
Article URL: https://roge.onwrite.app/what-is-a-product Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202690 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades
Article URL: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/civilians-that-were-under-siege-by-a-mexican-cartel-fight-back-with-ak-47s-and-grenades Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202321 Points: 51 # Comments: 16
Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface
Article URL: https://physicsworld.com/a/astronomers-capture-highest-resolution-image-ever-of-the-suns-surface/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49202278 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
User awareness in frontier models
Cross-posted on Transluce blog. This is a joint work of Ziqian Zhong, Aditi Raghunathan, Cassidy Laidlaw and Jacob Steinhardt.Modern AI assistants often know who they are…
AMD acquires startup Taalas to boost inference perf by etching models in silicon
https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/am... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201970 Points: 7 # Comments: 8