Toot.community Is Shutting Down
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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112232 Points: 39 # Comments: 8
native 64k+ Gguf model for llama.cpp
I'm doing something a bit silly and trying to get hermes agent fully local on minimal resources. I've got a lenovop520 64gb quad channel ram and…
Prompt to make Opus 5 act like a base model
The text as follows:see the below—makes Claude think that the prompt is unfinished, and fill in its own prompt.It will subsequently claim that it recieved what…
Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast
Article URL: https://brandur.org/fragments/pgtestdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111687 Points: 7 # Comments: 2
Would you use a circuit breaker for AI agents?
Would you use something like this? One pattern I've seen while building agentic apps is that agents sometimes get stuck in tool loops. Example: search →…
Solving poker in custom WebGPU kernels
Article URL: https://phulin.me/blog/poker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111523 Points: 7 # Comments: 1
I have lost three and a half potential PhD students due to the conference review process [D]
Early-career Assistant Professor here. I identified some talented undergraduate students and worked with them on research problems, trying to convert them into either my PhD students…
Testing LLMs on Undergraduate Music Theory
I spent the past week designing a test that I hoped would serve as a benchmark. But LLMs are improving faster than I expected, and my…
The Entangled Dimensions of Decision Theory
TL;DR. LessWrong's decision-theory debates (Newcomb, FDT vs CDT, counterfactual muggings) are almost entirely about what we suppose when we consider a candidate action or policy. There…
Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-solve-a-muon-mystery-now-old-results-dont-add-up-20260729/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111305 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Parody Hacker News (2013)
Article URL: http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111275 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111237 Points: 79 # Comments: 45
Does MTP head get loaded in VRAM by default?
I ran into a doubt when using the following command. It seems that the System RAM usage keeps increasing even though there is >10GB of space…
The Economic Benefit of Refactoring
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Money, taste, dealflow, hustle, trust
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the design of grant programs, from small microgrants to regranting to ambitious new platforms to galaxy-brained schemes for impact…
Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again
I use separate Claude Code accounts for work and personal projects. Having to log out and go through the login flow every time I switched accounts…
Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset?
Article URL: https://rusty.today/blog/paging-parquet-duckdb-file-row-number-vs-offset/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111006 Points: 15 # Comments: 0
Mechanistic interpretability streamlined for everyday users like us😎 🧠
Context: I want to give the community an Open Research (well open under Apache 2.0 clause) - tool that allows everyday users like us to look…
Software Engineers: Do you honestly get anything useful out of LLMs?
For 6 months now I've been trying to make agentic coding work for me, using Pi and a handful 30-120B models (Qwens, Nemotrons, Leguna...etc). I'm not…
SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library
Article URL: https://github.com/n67094/sdl_gp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110655 Points: 25 # Comments: 4
Reversing Abstractions: An Existential Crisis
Article URL: https://www.humprog.org/~stephen/blog/research/recovering-abstraction.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110624 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures
Article URL: https://blog.certisfy.com/2026/04/trusted-urls-via-cryptographic.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110577 Points: 8 # Comments: 6
Hacker Public Radio
Article URL: https://hackerpublicradio.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110547 Points: 37 # Comments: 2