libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
Article URL: https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606 Points: 58 # Comments: 3
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Why I think we live in a "simulation"
Epistemic Status: I think each part of this piece is worth engaging with in its own right. I haven't thought as much about whether the ideas…
Show HN: SIMD Viterbi Decoder in Rust
I wrote libcorrect in C in 2016 and wanted to revisit it in Rust. Instead of doing just a direct conversion, I went down the rabbit…
Returning to ARC
I've returned to the Alignment Research Center (ARC) as executive director. My main focus for the next six months will be driving forward ARC's research agenda—building…
We finally learned to center a div, then browsers added sidebars
Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/center-div/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176055 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038 Points: 33 # Comments: 7
DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)
Article URL: https://techascent.com/blog/just-ducking-around.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175924 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Geometric Rationality acts linearly in additive scenarios
There have been various attempts to explain Kelly betting behaviour within standard decision theory. Here is one I would totally unbiasedly recommend. Geometric rationality is a…
AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
https://www.interpol.int/Media/Documents/Publications/Cyberc... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175826 Points: 66 # Comments: 29
Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]
Article URL: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/663bd486c5e4c81588db7a1d/6a724858f7db25c81487016d_Security%20Incident%20INC-2026-07-28-01.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175717 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
GPT-OSS has turned one year old today!
It is one of the best local models ever released, in both 20B and 120B versions. I always come back to it, especially the 120B version.…
Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/wallets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175461 Points: 21 # Comments: 1
A 2.6B model with tool calling and 128K context now runs at 30 tok/s on a phone
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B today, and this might be more relevant to local AI than another massive model most people cannot run. The model is only…
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-involving-openai-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175248 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175192 Points: 91 # Comments: 11
Qwen 3.8 Max improves over Qwen 3.7 Max on the Debate Benchmark: 1462 → 1588. But the average cost per debate increased by 45%.
More info: https://github.com/lechmazur/debate https://preview.redd.it/5rr60v33bfhh1.png?width=3600&format=png&auto=webp&s=bbe9ff2e3c2e599e887a4ec0da7bcc26f71ad4fb This benchmark measures how well LLMs hold an argument under adversarial, multi-turn opposition across a wide range of topics. It rewards broad…
Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc
Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2084739205071343837 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 Points: 41 # Comments: 15
Most donors get risk wrong
Linkpost for my Substack piece, lightly adapted. Donors are holding AI wealth at enormous risk. Their giving is often extremely risk-averse.“What is the most common mistake…
Completely dead NeurIPS review period from both ends? [D]
I’ve seen a lot of people whose reviewers went silent after initial reviews, but I am also noting abnormally quiet authors. I ultimately withdrew my paper,…
Does Your LLM Trust You?
This is a very late post about a project that I did a few months ago as part of the application to Neel Nanda's MATS 10.0…
Local LLM 35B MoE — Real-world coding benchmarks (Qwen vs Ornith vs KAT)
I’ve been running a fairly opinionated evaluation loop on ~35B A3B/MoE-class models for coding over the past few months. Not synthetic benchmarks: actual dev workflows, iterative…
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174407 Points: 16 # Comments: 5
Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/08/04/waymo-co-ceo-camera-only-self-driving-tesla/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174369 Points: 12 # Comments: 4
Kimi K3 full model running on 16x GB10 cluster at 20+tps
Kimi K3 full model running on 16x GB10 cluster at 20+tps average (llama-benchy coherent corpus) 38tps peak, 750tps prefill. This is the first run of full…