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
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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…
AN AMICABLE APE
revisiting alignmentThe following series of posts revisits the idea of goal alignment between humanity and artificial intelligence, and within humanity between the individual and the collective—which…
Beyond Tech’s Power: On Status, Sacrifice, and the Search for Legitimacy
Founder status markers have progressed over the past decade as the startup ecosystem has recognized the importance of industry perception within tech. There is still an…
Why don't we just give AI the answers?
In the recent OpenAI hacking incident, the models seemed to be single-mindedly focused on getting the correct answer to the task they were given, with no…
Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone
Article URL: https://deepgrove.ai/maple-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173984 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
Announcing Lateral Workshop for experienced professionals moving into AI safety
TLDR: Lateral Workshop is a program in Berkeley from September 11–13 for mid-career and senior professionals who are interested in transitioning into AI safety work to…
Commodifying Thinking
On Thinking“A key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price).”Sam…
Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Points: 139 # Comments: 8
Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race and dominating on open models
This is something that was spoken here and there, and now it is like writing on the wall. The main additional point is that China has…
Introducing Shieldstral. | Mistral AI
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Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
We are Rui and Michael and we’re building EdotEnv (https://edotenv.com): self-improving RL environments from Quant Trading workflows.With all the benchmaxxing around, evals saturate and become meaningless…
Has anyone tried Mach-1 Additive? 95% of performance of Qwen 3.6 35B while being 10x smaller
Why nobody is talking about this? Seems pretty significant to the community submitted by /u/MuzafferMahi [link] [comments]
Waymo – Dallas Open to All
Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836 Points: 72 # Comments: 66
Security Is Hard, Y'all
Article URL: https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172834 Points: 36 # Comments: 6
The Golden Age of British Ice Cream
Article URL: https://www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/the-golden-age-of-british-ice-cream Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172784 Points: 12 # Comments: 2
Company approved 128GB Mac for research proposal, best model?
I‘m doing a research proposal at my company about running local LLMs to replace daily coding models. Qwen 3.6 27B (or 3.8 potentially) is widely seen…
The Sound of Inevitability
Article URL: https://www.panoptica.com/the-sound-of-inevitability/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172609 Points: 6 # Comments: 5
Blackmail Fail (2013)
Article URL: https://gwern.net/blackmail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172597 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Gaza's Deadly Soil
Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/07/22/gazas-deadly-soil/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172567 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172550 Points: 17 # Comments: 7
Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt
Article URL: https://github.com/agentrust-io/cmcp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172545 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
NeurIPS 2026 post-rebuttal score distribution poll [D]
As the title suggests, because there's no data on Papercopilot yet, and people have been talking about the scores being lower in general than last year,…
The Judgment Reservoir
Article URL: https://shannph.com/writing/the-judgment-reservoir/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172540 Points: 5 # Comments: 0