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,…
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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
Haters
Article URL: https://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172534 Points: 14 # Comments: 7
AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/ai-data-centers-are-driving-up-power-bills-this-map-shows-where Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172433 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game
Article URL: https://hop.earth/?server=lkhr7&route=fQ5nuu9R Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172405 Points: 7 # Comments: 5
DeepSeek v4 Flash vs. Qwen3.6-27B, 3.5-122B, and Gemma 4 31B Benchmark
Just wanted to share my agentic coding benchmark run of DSv4F 0731 at both High and Low reasoning efforts (not Max)... I ran a 109-question subset…
A llama.cpp PR caches “hot” MoE experts on the GPU — 33 → 56 tok/s reported with 8GB VRAM
A new llama.cpp PR (#26563) adds a heatmap that tracks which MoE experts are used most often. Instead of keeping every expert on the GPU or…
No more SLM open-source??
https://x.com/xiong_hui_chen/status/2084695353346117760?s=20 submitted by /u/Capital-Remove-6150 [link] [comments]
Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries
Article URL: https://www.vlt.io/blog/1-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172251 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?
Article URL: https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2026/aug/what-is-behind-sharp-drop-labor-force-participation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172159 Points: 5 # Comments: 7
Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields
Article URL: https://mentalium.me/en/research/mental-health-startup-graveyard-dataset/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172079 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
LFM2.5-2.6B is out
Released today, with emphasis on agentic capabilities. I really like their models for simple, high volume tasks ("summarize these gazillion documents") and their 8b-a1b was my…
Cursor releases their Mixture-of-Kittens megakernel for training MoE models – Claims to nearly double TFLOP/s
Link: https://cursor.com/blog/mixture-of-kittens GitHub: https://github.com/cursor/mixture-of-kittens Seems like a neat way to squeeze more performance out of MoE. I'm sure everyone has a favorite MoE model they'd like…
Don't Dither
Dithering is also an image processing techniqueSeveral times now, I have listened to someone, usually younger than me, debating a big decision, and (explicitly or implicitly),…
The Warp Agent CLI
Article URL: https://www.warp.dev/blog/introducing-the-warp-agent-cli-coding-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171766 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
Article URL: https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/08/04/every-flock-camera-winona-minnesota-cut-down-stolen-coordinated-theft/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171656 Points: 64 # Comments: 21
Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/bIQQ7tP-founding-gtm-lead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171650 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
There Will Come Soft Rains
Today is August 4, 2026[Crossposted from AI StopWatch]In the living room the voice-clock sang, Tick-tock, seven o’clock, time to get up, time to get up, seven…
Show HN: SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform
Article URL: https://github.com/mcindi/siematic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171404 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story
Article URL: https://jg.gg/2026/08/04/the-knowledge-chipper/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171390 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Would We See It Coming? Preference Falsification Cascades in Multi-Agent Systems
Epistemic status: exploratory, written for it's own sake. I take a theory of political revolutions and ask what it implies for monitoring alignment in multi-agent systems.…
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/shieldstral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171268 Points: 26 # Comments: 2
Webb telescope finds signs of ancient disaster for Neptune's moons
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/science/webb-telescope-finds-signs-ancient-disaster-neptunes-moons-2026-08-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49171172 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Deepseek V4 flash 0731 ranks #21 on Agent Arena
https://preview.redd.it/522fsdwvtdhh1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a6cf7a467514167a8193029dbd20fb3a9ba4f6c It ranks lower than both Sonnet 4.6 and Luna. I'd wager Luna costs in the same ballpark as DS4F considering Luna’s token efficiency. DeepSeek being…