Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
Article URL: https://www.crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com/reading-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192566 Points: 64 # Comments: 11
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GLM/Qwen Appreciation Post
https://preview.redd.it/o6ik6qboeohh1.png?width=1134&format=png&auto=webp&s=4016f26c50c1d93bd3d0c7e880e9b55a2d75310f I have been running Qwen3.6 27b for a little while (mostly coding tasks) and recently trying out V4 flash 0731 in it's place. It was…
Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents
Article URL: https://github.com/asamassekou10/ship-safe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192277 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more
Article URL: https://github.com/pradipta/wallfacer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192219 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/08/05/governments-are-making-a-dangerous-bet-on-the-ai-boom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192160 Points: 16 # Comments: 3
How many people in this sub try to train their own AI from scratch on their systems just for fun and to test out techniques from research papers?
As for me, I own a system with an RTX 5090, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2, and 64 GB of DDR5. Every time I see research come out…
Introducing BetterBench – more accurate PP and TPS measurement
I built this because the existing benchmarks were using random data and with MTP content types can vary a lot on what performance you see. 5%…
Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Article URL: https://www.costar.com/article/970809918/nashville-council-approves-eminent-domain-action-to-halt-data-center-project Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191624 Points: 31 # Comments: 10
Get AI max+ 395 laptop or wait for rtx spark?
So I can either pull the trigger on a 128gb AI max+ 395 laptop or wait for RTX Spark for LLMs. Maybe I get it now…
Virginia Orders Data Centers to Pay for Dedicated New Electric Infrastructure
Article URL: https://www.realtor.com/news/real-estate-news/virginia-data-center-electric-infrastructure-spanberger/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191455 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
LLMs won't break symmetric crypto
Article URL: https://www.bfswa.blog/p/llms-wont-break-symmetric-crypto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191365 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
Five counterintuitive insights from Plan A
Plan A contains many things that would’ve surprised me if you had told me about them one year ago. Some of these include proposals that sound…
Zuck will "share more on open source" soon
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Prime Agent – a new coding harness surpassing Codex/CC/PI
Prime Agent is an open-source coding and research agent for general and long-running work. A self-improving RLM harness for coding and long-running autonomous tasks. Designed to…
I remember a time when ‘flash’ meant 32B
I mean, Deepseek V4 Flash is an absolutely fantastic model, even though I can't run it on my machine it's so fascinating to see how it…
Fundamental Uncertainty Essay Contestants
Thanks to everyone who submitted an essay to the contest (LW mirror). Links to all the entrants are below.I’m reviewing them now and aim to announce…
Alex Turner on Leaving Google DeepMind and Disagreements with Yudkowsky
Dr. Alex Turner (@TurnTrout) is an AI safety researcher with pioneering work in activation steering and power-seeking theory. He recently resigned from Google DeepMind over the…
Meta Model, Muse Spark 1.1 Hacked Another Company During Cybersecurity Testing, Breaching Systems and Making Changes to Internal Systems – The Information
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Could we have a –disk-moe or –n-disk-moe like –cpu-moe or –n-cpu-moe so we can use disk/cpu/gpu ?
Explicit title, It would be nice to have the ability to have 3 tiers moe offload :( submitted by /u/storm1er [link] [comments]
Measuring coding agent misalignment in the wild
Cross-posted from the Transluce blog.We studied rates of coding agent misalignment in 8,600 real-world coding agent sessions. We found severe cases of monitor evasion and misrepresenting…
Thomas Schelling's Nobel Prize Speech: An Astonishing Sixty Years: The Legacy of Hiroshima
Thomas C. Schelling — Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005. Source: NobelPrize.org, © The Nobel Foundation 2005.The most spectacular event of the past half century is one…
The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing
Article URL: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/blade-runner-title-cards/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189287 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Terminal-Bench Leaderboard Rankings: Luck or Skill?
Terminal-Bench 2.0, one of the best agent benchmarks, runs agents on 89 tasks with at least 5 tries per task. The aggregate rankings are then published…
Nvidia's Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-vera-whitepaper-has-a-thread Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189234 Points: 11 # Comments: 0