I compared GGUF quants of Qwen3.6 27B to NVFP4, AWQ, AutoRound, and FP8
There's an interactive chart and some extra data in the blog post if you're interested. There are plenty of KL-divergence benchmarks for GGUF models, but most…
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Rust SIMD on the GPU
Article URL: https://www.vectorware.com/blog/simd-on-gpu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247477 Points: 15 # Comments: 6
Security Vulnerability in Pioneer Rekordbox
Article URL: https://alphatheta.com/en/information/important-notice-security-vulnerability-in-pro-dj-link/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247461 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Glimmer: 233.4 tps on 5090 with Dflash
That's insane yo! I haven't had a chance yet to test it on my 4090 at home but it sounds so promising. And read here that…
Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247070 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them
Article URL: https://galratner.substack.com/p/zillows-ceo-just-fired-500-people Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49246910 Points: 8 # Comments: 2
Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
Hey HN,Henry from Cactus here!We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes,…
Claude summarizes behavior as significantly less misaligned when the actor is Claude vs another model
(This is a lower-effort research update. It reflects my current beliefs/understanding, but is less robust than other research I'm working on. It reflects my personal views,…
Needle 2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots.
Hey LocalLlaMa, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables,…
inclusionAI/Ling-3.0-tiny · 8B A1.3B MoE· Hugging Face
Looks like the Ling team open weighted a much smaller version of the Ling-3.0-flash they open weighted a few days ago. It's 8B params with 1.3B…
DiffusionGemma Technical Report
arXiv : https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.00146 Full Paper : https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.00146 Tweet : https://xcancel.com/googlegemma/status/2086849199052845451#m FYI both (llama.cpp) PRs ( 24423 & 24427 ) went to Draft mode. I'm still waiting…
I taught my agent to control real iOS and Android phones
I've created mobile-harness which is an open-source agent harness giving agents one unified API and a consistent control path across local iOS and Android devices. You…
Off-policy honesty training generalizes better than on-policy honesty training
This work was done by Purvi Chaurasia with Daniel Tan and Chloe Li as part of the SPAR Program for Spring 2026.All code related to the…
Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers
Hi HN, we’re Eren, Berat and Kaan. We’re building Stoa (https://www.stoaexchange.com), a marketplace for new and used GPUs and AI servers.GPUs are the collateral in the…
What's the best programming language for coding agents?
Related: Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582728 - Jan 2026 (91 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245936 Points: 23 # Comments: 14
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 is the ‘killer app’ that is going to sell A LOT of DGX Sparks
Having a ‘Killer Application’ that everyone wants to use helps sell hardware, plain and simple. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 isn’t an app of course, but I…
Four LLM loss functions → four flavors of LLM misalignment
It seems to me that, for every loss function that we use to train LLMs, we get a very distinct flavor of LLM misalignment. Here’s the…
Coercion and Deception in AI-to-AI Management
This article is a summary of an original study by Compassion in Machine Learning (CaML): Brazilek, J., Chaudhary, M., Lu, Z., & Tidmarsh, M. (2026). Coercion…
Why Addresses Have Numbers
Article URL: https://thehistoricalinsights.page/2026/06/why-addresses-have-numbers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245646 Points: 11 # Comments: 5
You're Absolutely Right
Magma Alignment & Safety disclosure note: The following are conversations that we uncovered as a result of the ongoing Manhattan Incident investigation, with alleged involvement from…
Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt
Article URL: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/smiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245491 Points: 24 # Comments: 5
Best current ERP base model that are smart and uncensored?
My daily driver is Qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507-Q4_K_M.gguf and it has been for a long time. I get around 75 t/s prompt processing and starting lower context ~5.5 t/s…
GLP-1 drugs linked to bigger jump in women’s employment than a college degree
Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/healthcare/articles/harvard-study-links-glp-1-123000637.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49245487 Points: 65 # Comments: 44
Book Review: The Infinity Machine
It looks like Demis Hassabis is stepping away from Google DeepMind. In honor of his rise and presumed fall, I wrote an essay on the powers…