The goalposts are shrouded, not moving
Alice: Are there any examples of X? Bob: Here. Alice: Okay, but are there any examples of X'? Bob: Yes, here. Alice: That has feature Y,…
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Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?
Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/psilocybin-could-kick-start-anorexia-recovery-early-results-suggest/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181419 Points: 13 # Comments: 11
Help (re)start AI Safety at UPenn!
(Cross-posted to EA Forum)Rhone and I, both rising sophomores, are restarting Penn's AI Safety group, which was quite active until late 2024. Please join us, or…
Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers
Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/21/poll-data-centers-democrats-moratorium-01001799 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181191 Points: 9 # Comments: 7
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099 Points: 81 # Comments: 18
Position: LLMs Can't Jump
Article URL: https://openreview.net/challenge?redirect=%2Fforum%3Fid%3DklU4737opt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181083 Points: 30 # Comments: 11
I updated my localy run benchmark with DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
It's the purple cluster on the top left (the good corner...) I'm running the MXFP4 version from Bartoswski with Dspark at 1K t/s prefill and 90…
Anyone interested in building a harness-only benchmark?
There are a lot of LLM benchmarks but few, if any, harness benchmarks. I am thinking this would be a really good community project to build…
No Data Centers in My Backyard
Article URL: https://jasmi.news/p/no-data-centers-in-my-backyard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180901 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
SLMs & QAT
I know many labs trying to shrink deployment costs and increase efficiency. While I do think that that is fine and dandy, I do sometimes question…
Monodratic: learned product-hash routing for sparse causal attention [R]
Hi everyone, I'm an independent researcher sharing Monodratic, a sparse causal-attention architecture with learned product-hash routing. The idea is that after RoPE, source blocks are assigned…
Making difficulty curves in games
Article URL: http://www.davetech.co.uk/difficultycurves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180649 Points: 100 # Comments: 37
The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180535 Points: 6 # Comments: 2
Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
Article URL: https://calpaterson.com/helsinki-hn.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49180407 Points: 78 # Comments: 34
Building a Fully Local PDF Read-Aloud & PDF-to-Audiobook Desktop App with Kokoro 82M, Qwen, and llama.cpp
Hey everyone, I’ve been building Speechfony - a desktop app for reading PDFs (and EPUBs) with offline text-to-speech. Open a document, listen sentence-by-sentence with highlighting, or…
Qwen3-TTS voice cloning is now in mainline llama.cpp — the old demo finally became real support
People may remember the Qwen3-TTS llama.cpp demo from a few months ago. That PR said it probably wouldn’t be merged because llama.cpp was missing some of…
Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
Article URL: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/08/05/rust-langrust-is-adopting-an-llm-policy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179039 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
Persona Corruption and Role Miscasting in Emergent Misalignment
Decomposing emergent misalignment into behavior-per-role and role-elicitation.This project was done as part of BlueDot's Technical Safety Project.Code available: https://github.com/unrulyabstractions/bluedot-tais-project-2026. Results are preliminary.SummaryWe calculate persona vectors and…
The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjejyl34345o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178702 Points: 44 # Comments: 8
Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29377 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178608 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
NeurIPS 2026 Main Track — Theory papers score tracking post Rebuttal [D]
Now that the rebuttal period is over, I’m curious about the score distribution specifically for theory papers this year. If you’re comfortable sharing, please drop:…
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Warning Shots for AI Existential Risk: Will society answer the wake-up calls it receives?
IntroductionIf anyone builds superintelligence, everyone dies. That is, it is extremely reckless to build AI systems more intelligent than all humans, given anything like our current…
AISafety.com Hackathon 2026
A four-day, in-person hackathon to improve the AI safety resource hub.WhenThursday 17th September – Sunday 20th September 2026WhereCEEALAR (the EA Hotel) in Blackpool, EnglandCostFree, including accommodation…