Is there a point where models just cannot get any smaller without losing intelligence?
DeepSeek V4 Flash got me thinking... We keep seeing smaller models get way better. A model at a certain parameter count today can be much smarter…
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Fix for Deep Seek v4 Flash 0731 tool calling has been added to llama cpp
This pull request was added to the main llama cpp about 12 hours ago. I was experiencing some looping and poor behavior yesterday but haven't had…
Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned
Article URL: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16021741/flee-Americans-nine-countries-US-embassies-Iran-war.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137503 Points: 15 # Comments: 14
Fermi Paradox
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137419 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust
Hi everyone!Hope you had a great day so far, and maybe its about to get just a little bit better (thanks Winter ;)So I had way…
Safety and reliability of a dual PSU config
I'm building a render monster for work, and the idea is to stuff as much GPU power in there as possible. GPUs are going to be…
Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf]
Article URL: https://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/starlink_structure.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137320 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Chess Engine Dev Community Openly Hostile to AI Assisted Development
Article URL: https://github.com/adamtwiss/coda/issues/15 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137303 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting
Article URL: https://censys.com/blog/cisa-alert-water-tower-plc-targeting/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137228 Points: 19 # Comments: 4
Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576
Article URL: https://leodemoura.github.io/blog/2026-8-1-postmortem-for-kernel-soundness-bug-14576/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137060 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/31/nx-s1-5910660/big-oil-earnings-q2-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137024 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search
Not just HN the site, everyone’s fuzzy search sucks. Let me do exact match search. Even if it’s an option I have to dig deep to…
Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets
Article URL: https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/scanning-7-6-petabytes-of-ai-training-data-for-secrets Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136955 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
Article URL: https://openrss.org/blog/how-google-helped-destroy-adoption-of-rss-feeds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136821 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
Using AI to analyze life patterns
If you’re anything like me, you may have a lot of notes from various introspective activities – annual / monthly reviews, worksheets, therapy notes, etc. Often…
NetBSD 11.0 Released
Article URL: https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136736 Points: 44 # Comments: 7
I’ve had ling-3.0-flash and glm-5.2 both in my executor slot for a few weeks. They don’t split the way the benchmarks predict
Same harness, same task set, same agent scaffold, the only thing I swapped was the executor. Not a proper benchmark, no clean tok/s numbers, this is…
Deepseek v4 flash 0731 still not holding up.
The biggest issue with preview was its inability to follow rules prompts and skills. It seems like no matter what you do it ignores them. I've…
EMNLP vs AACL commitment: Meta 3.5, reviews 3/3/4, what to do?[D]
I'm trying to decide whether to commit my ARR May 2026 paper to EMNLP or AACL. (first time solo independent author). Final reviews after rebuttal (OA/Confidence/Excitement…
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-UD-Q3_K_XL 3×3090 test results
For anyone interested, here are the llama-bench results on 3 bit K_XL quantization. I think this could be pushed further but no luck so far. Command…
DNS propagation checker that shows the results as a box of 24 donuts
Article URL: https://donutdns.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136065 Points: 3 # Comments: 3
I ♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS
Article URL: https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/i-%e2%99%a5-rss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136063 Points: 18 # Comments: 10
Twelve Years Without a VPN
Article URL: https://khessin.de/twelve-years-without-a-vpn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136061 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter
Article URL: https://kaisel.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135985 Points: 5 # Comments: 0