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…
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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
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
Article URL: https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201930 Points: 54 # Comments: 26
Scotoma-2: Gemma4, but with less annoying slop and better writing.
GGUFs here: https://huggingface.co/ReadyArt/gemma-4-31B-it-scotoma-2-GGUF Disclaimer: By slop, we are specifically talking about specific tics with the model(sentence structures), but this doesn't include words such as "ozone". Summery…
The FRONTIER Act barely creates its implementing office
On July 23rd, the Frontier Risk Oversight, National Transparency, Independent Evaluation, and Reporting Act[1] or FRONTIER Act[2] was introduced by Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Lori Trahan…
State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer
Article URL: https://keel-iot.eu/blog/state-oriented-consistency.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201540 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
My Private Personal Agent
Access to a private, good coding model[1] has re-invigorated my creative spirit, kicking off a multi-week-long quest to customize my own personal agent.[2] Something about knowing…
Traffic Shaping for Workload Classification
Note: this is a repost of a verification design I developed working as a consultant with the team at Lucid Computing and originally posted on the…
The DISTINCT in Your COUNT
Article URL: https://boringsql.com/posts/distinct-in-your-count/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201369 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me
Article URL: https://illegal.solutions/posts/xai_pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201342 Points: 25 # Comments: 2
You need to stop X companies to get a Y-month pause
Some thoughts on how many AI companies would pause vs how long a pause could last before their closest competitor catches up. I used ECI (Epoch…
Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings
Article URL: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20260803/k00/00m/010/133000c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201065 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Article URL: https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-an-asic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200933 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Tiny model can do good now -7.9B total parameters, with only 1.3B active per token ( free for 7 days)
Tool Use & Automated Environment Control submitted by /u/AcanthisittaOk1699 [link] [comments]
Qwen 3.8 Max now ranked as best overall model ahead of Opus 5 by Artificial Analysis agentic index
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New model release: Ling-3.0-tiny: 7.9B total parameters, with only 1.3B active per token- free for a week
A native hybrid reasoning model built for real-world tasks, math, instruction following, and resource-sensitive deployment. submitted by /u/niacolhealth [link] [comments]
Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/?intelligence=agentic-index Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200652 Points: 144 # Comments: 60
Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work
Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uc-upte-tech-workers-union Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200510 Points: 30 # Comments: 13
Three years of progress in 500 lines of code
TL;DRThere is some consensus that LLMs are bad at hard-to-verify tasks. The question is whether models are getting better at them over time. As a motivating…
My phone detects going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off"
Article URL: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117047697255584965 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200439 Points: 16 # Comments: 19
[$500 Bounty] I'm offering a bounty of $500 for someone with red-teaming skills to build attack LLM pipelines for large-scale online deanonymization.
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMsIn the above experiment, researchers from Anthropic and ETH Zurich were able to build attack pipelines to essentially deanonymize Reddit users using…
Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/media/federal-communications-commission-scraps-limit-broadcast-tv-ownership-rcna587641 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200390 Points: 18 # Comments: 9
NeurIPS Meta Reviewer comment gone. What gives? [R]
We had a meta-reviewer comment. But I can no longer see it. Anyone else experiencing the same? Does this mean anything? submitted by /u/Beautiful_Baker_2233 [link] [comments]