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A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention
Article URL: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/07/a-surveillance-treaty-in-disguise-the-trouble-with-canadas-quiet-decision-to-sign-the-un-cybercrime-convention/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134694 Points: 53 # Comments: 8
The Art of 64-bit Assembly
Article URL: https://nostarch.com/art-64-bit-assembly-v2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134599 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
How to Spot AI Writing
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/07/30/how-to-spot-ai-writing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134310 Points: 22 # Comments: 35
New official weights for Laguna S 2.1 FP8 & NVFP4 are now available
Poolside have updated the FP8 and NVFP4 checkpoints for Laguna S 2.1, increasing the default context size to 1 million, and updating the configs. Here's hoping…
Gemma4 (31B, bf16) constantly fails to edit files due to mismatches in original text – just me?
I've been trying to find a good model to run locally, and in the benchmarks I can Gemma4 does well. However, whenever I give it anything…
Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
Article URL: https://twitter.com/newsfromgoogle/status/2083249962150760610 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134079 Points: 40 # Comments: 36
Charlie Stross – On the non-use of AI in my writing process
Article URL: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2026/08/on-the-non-use-of-ai-in-my-wri.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134038 Points: 17 # Comments: 3
The Global Brain: A Computational Model
Teilhard de ChardinThis is a crosspost from my subtack.In a recent article I discussed Robert Wright’s new book. His general thesis is that we ought to…
RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches
Article URL: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/issues/3494 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133889 Points: 18 # Comments: 4
Astro Loop
Article URL: https://pubdeer.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133777 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Github repo to learn the OPD/OPSD and how they perform compared to GRPO, on a consumer grade GPU [P]
I am trying to learn concepts like On Policy Distillation (OPD), On Policy Self Distillation (OPSD) and how do they compare to RL algorithms like GRPO.…
Please advise local models for university assignment on ‘social risk’
My professor challenged me with a rather vague assignment of setting up a pipeline to flag some government issues written documents for 'social risk' determinants. The…
Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8)
Article URL: https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/dead-software-walking-relayd-and-httpd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133675 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Free AI Prompt Gen – A local-first, open-source prompt engineering tool
Article URL: https://freeaipromptgen.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133672 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kontigo/jobs/xAo6tMt-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133655 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team
Article URL: https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.org/thread/2AX2BCJ3EQX7G3YXSDX73BR4NCAWXXBZ/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133647 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
$0.09 and $290.12 are both the price of 1M output tokens
Article URL: https://runinfra.ai/news/inference-cost-truth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133617 Points: 4 # Comments: 3
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731: Oneshot evals, surprisingly not token efficient??
I ran the newly released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 in my oneshot eval harness across 34 prompts and here are the results. https://oneshotlm.com/model/deepseek-deepseek-v4-flash-0731/ The providers on openrouter were unstable…
DS4 flash 0731 – Acquarium Panel Failure – Q3_K_XL Unsloth
https://preview.redd.it/1a39x4zivqgh1.png?width=1550&format=png&auto=webp&s=de591c039cc18782a6b5d8e402fdc1594be05132 start C:llmllamam5buildbinllama-server.exe --model "H:UD-Q3_K_XLDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-UD-Q3_K_XL-00001-of-00004.gguf" --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 -c 250000 --parallel 1 --no-warmup --flash-attn
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New DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 vs ChatGPT Luna comparison
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Why so many therapy etc. frameworks think they're The One True Approach
If you spend time looking at frameworks in the therapy/meditation/self-help space, you’ll soon find lots of conflicting claims about The One Approach for solving your problems.In…
VLMs can score well on benchmarks, while silently erasing meaningful terms and including hallucinate bias [P]
While working with VLMs for report generation on chest x-rays (RRG), we noticed that evaluation metrics are flawed. Flawed in a sense where they rewarded repetitive…