Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)
Article URL: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-bicycle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162787 Points: 12 # Comments: 3
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Does anybody have a favorite training system?
I am a college student, and I am currently experimenting with making smaller models more efficient and useful, but I am currently using a slow custom…
There Will Come Soft Rains [pdf]
Article URL: https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
NousResearch keeps doing things on hermes
Has anyone followed nousresearch work on Hermes? I mean we are Q3 2026. We have some crazy models trickling down from HGX territory to multi gpu…
nvidia/NVIDIA-NemotronLabs-VoiceChat-11B · Hugging Face (full duplex)
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Attackers Can Subliminally Implant a Backdoor at Low Sample Count Without Prompt Access
Work done at Redwood Research, quick update on results found as part of a larger project. Thanks to @SebastianP and @egan for comments on drafts.TL;DRChanging the…
Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage
Article URL: https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/08/03/windows-xp-2002-for-the-itanium-unbridled-rage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162086 Points: 11 # Comments: 0
I created an autonomous boxing benchmark [D]
I created an AI boxing match to test the decision speed, adaptability and strategy. I fed the LLMs with data about the current match and if…
ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode – Bumbershoot Software
Article URL: https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/zx-spectrum-system-tour-text-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161801 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Selective Identity
Generally, when you have an identity of X, you are likely to be influenced to stay within the socially acceptable boundaries of identity X. Identity boundaries…
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III. Anthropic reasoning has issues with infinite worlds; D-SIA can fix this
SIA is true when there are no duplicates to worry about, and though it has issues around duplicate creation, so does every other theory of anthropic…
G9v3-39A5B: Agentic heavy MOE with low hallucination
Hugging Face Artificial Analysis Should be a sweet spot for general work. Seems like coding is the only part that is inferior to Qwen. submitted by…
Ling-3.0-flash is another potential model to test before qwen3.8 27b
I tested Ling-3.0-flash with hard bugs and it fixed bugs that qwen3.6-27b could not. This models speed faster than deepseek v4 flash but almost the same…
LLMs reward expertise
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518 Points: 134 # Comments: 46
Why biological weapons are scary, and what we can do about it
What’s the biggest thing you think you can take in a fight? According to a YouGov poll, 6% of Americans reckoned they could beat a grizzly…
DeepSeek V4-Flash (284B MoE) at 33 tok/s single / 68 tok/s aggregate on 2× RTX 3090 + a used quad-Xeon DDR4 server — full config
Ran DeepSeek V4-Flash-0731 — the full official checkpoint, not a re-quant — on commodity used hardware. Sharing because I couldn't find anyone else publishing Ampere results…
[Paper] Towards Scalable Lifelong Knowledge Editing with Selective Knowledge Suppression
In this paper, the authors tackle continued pretraining without the risk of catastrophic forgetting, by identifying parameters which can safely be changed without risking identified concepts,…
‘I ran my own benchmarks on it’ seems to be pretty common comment around here. How about dedicating a thread for this and sharing?
Of course, the concern is that in the end, this thread will be fed into the models' training data, but I feel benchmarking isn't so open…
Deliberate Alignment Faking as a Defense Against Model Poisoning
I want to discuss and brainstorm a counterintuitive approach to AI alignment:Inducing alignment faking on purpose, to prevent the model from developing emergent misalignment.To prevent this…
AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/07/31/ai-debt-hypescalers-capex-capital-spending-hidden-borrowing-bond-issuance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160699 Points: 40 # Comments: 3
DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
Article URL: https://status.digdir.no/incidents/d7hvqmf2yr3l Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160631 Points: 60 # Comments: 30
Qwen3.8-max: 53 on AA index
Not too shabby, was expecting it to be better. Does roughly the same as glm 5.2 on coding indices, worse than kimi k3. More expensive though.…
The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)
Article URL: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49160437 Points: 62 # Comments: 61