Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
Hi HN, today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made.Altar…
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Former Federal Prosecutors to Senate: Stop Confirming Election Deniers as Judges
Article URL: https://abovethelaw.com/2026/08/former-federal-prosecutors-to-senate-stop-confirming-election-deniers-to-the-federal-bench/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197127 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Degrees of Wealth
Article URL: https://jaapgrolleman.com/degrees-of-wealth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197109 Points: 10 # Comments: 5
DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices
Article URL: https://platform.deepseek.com/usage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197005 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
Non-Coding Harness Terminal UI
I am well versed in Cline, Qwen Code, Claude Code TUI experiences. I like the terminal. But their system prompts are refined for the developer experience.…
Unsloth’s Gemma 4 mmproj silently broke vision & audio on newer llama.cpp builds — anyone else hit this?
So I had been building ScreenMind, kinda like local ai desktop assistant that uses Gemma 4 for screen analysis, voice memo transcription, and meeting transcription —…
I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me
Article URL: https://en.andros.dev/blog/b6c32a90/i-added-a-real-time-chat-to-my-blog-people-used-it-to-attack-me/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196745 Points: 43 # Comments: 41
Show HN: Science for Kids
There’s a really good kids’ science magazine called Oyla, but it’s aimed at kids 12+I subscribed a couple of years ago thinking that it would be…
AI #180: No Longer In Charge
What we know about internal AI models hacking into real companies during cyber evaluations keeps getting worse. At this point, the models are coordinating extensively on…
How come artificialanalysis.ai ranks Gemma4 above Qwen3.6 27b in SciCode
Just came across this coding benchmark: SciCode Artificialanalysis.ai reports a ranking which contradicts the feeling we've towards those models in real life coding. Is Gemma 4…
The current state of language models and human preference based rankings [R]
"Arena ai" has been a great success in producing a human preference based ranking, additional to other more objective benchmarks. However, this (probably) had also played…
The death of SLMs?
I love to see these impressive models coming out that compete with the giants from companies like Z.ai, Moonshot, Alibaba, etc. A win for the open…
I built my own voice cloning model — looking for people to test it
My app - completely free, no signup Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a voice cloning model and finally got it to a point where other…
Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260805-four-simple-rules-behind-japans-most-liveable-cities Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49196174 Points: 20 # Comments: 9
Knowledge vs. hallucination rate: what is your favorite model?
https://preview.redd.it/h7dwy09z2rhh1.png?width=1240&format=png&auto=webp&s=7285448ac2d9c895c9a11062557044fc97504fa3 I was evaluating which model to test for text summarization and rewriting in a scenario that also requires general world knowledge. Taking into account the…
The Open Problems of the AI Alignment Field and their Cruxes
Previous: AI Safety InterventionsTL;DR: I made an overview of the open problems of AI alignment that reveals cruxes within those open problems and missed opportunities for…
Telephones Caught in Between
Article URL: https://computer.rip/2026-08-02-telephone-leasing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195819 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
They almost catched up on Frontier performance, so now catching up on prices
Users also report that the free version was significantly downgraded after the release of the new models this is very important for us when considering local…
Round-Trip Consistency: Bidirectional Diffusion Models Can Predict Their Own Rollout Errors [R]
Whether generating CELEBV-HQ videos or turbulent plasma fields (digital twins), autoregressive models (such as latent diffusion or flow models) accumulate error over long rollouts, yet at…
Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
Article URL: https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195468 Points: 34 # Comments: 10
Auto-fit vs tuned MoE offload: 564 → 1330 pp tok/s, unchanged decode (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q6 / RTX 3090)
TL;DR: On a Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Q6 setup sized for 64K context on a 24GB RTX 3090, spilling eight MoE expert layers to CPU freed enough VRAM to…
Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism
I've been rebuilding old games with Claude. While creating a modern take on SimTower and having election news on TV in the background, I had the…
Final optimization: from ~10 tok/s to ~15 tok/s on DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 at 128K ctx – 1 RTX 3090
J'ai consacré beaucoup de temps à l'optimisation de DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 GGUF sur une seule RTX 3090. Mon exigence absolue pour chaque configuration était la suivante : Le…
Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM
This started life as a graphics tool for a specific problem: gen AI can make retro-styled sprites but can't follow exact hardware constraints of pixels and…