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
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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
The iVAIS Manifesto: Safety Through Character, Not Compliance
Masaharu Mizumoto, Mads Udengaard, Rujuta Karekar, Mayank Goel, Daan Henselmans, Nurshafira Noh, Saptadip Saha, Pranshul BohraTL;DRAI safety requires a shift to character-based, virtue-centered alignmentRule-based and principle-based…
Why DNA damage from smoking and UV rays cause cancer in some but not others
Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-reveals-why-dna-damage-from-smoking-and-uv-rays-may-cause-cancer-in-some-people-but-not-others Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110348 Points: 38 # Comments: 57
The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores
Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-lost-civic-life-of-movie-rental-stores/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110308 Points: 36 # Comments: 33
Hugging Face-style rogue agents can survive shutdown
"Fun" fact: 10 years after the Mirai botnet significantly disrupted internet traffic, it still operates.We should not assume rogue agents can be "shut down and contained"…
Thousand-dimensional structure
Summary: One area we plan to explore at Resolution is personas and character training, operationalized as finding and controlling low-dimensional structure in models that emerges in…
Qwen3.6 has a new competitior
Agents‑A1 is a 35B-a3b Mixture‑of‑Experts agentic model from InternScience. It punches far above its weight and is built for long-horizon tasks. And Yes, it beats qwen…
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PR for running Ternary-Bonsai-8B-Q2_0.gguf in llama.cpp with CUDA support just got merged
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AI #179 Part 1: A Louder Fire Alarm for General Intelligence
What a week. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. As usual I covered that in three parts: The system card, model welfare and capabilities. OpenAI was revealed…
Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools
Hi HN, we're Marinos and Hudson, founders of Prized (https://prized.dev)! Prized lets non-engineer employees describe the internal tool they need and get a full-stack app, wired…
Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5
Article URL: https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109616 Points: 25 # Comments: 6
Anthropic reasoning without duplicates is just standard Bayesian updating
tl;dr: in situations without duplicates: SIA and standard Bayesian updating are the same thing. Standard Bayesian updating (and hence SIA) is correct. SIA doesn’t have the…
RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)
Article URL: https://mnot.net/blog/2020/for_the_users Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109474 Points: 21 # Comments: 4
'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
Article URL: https://remysharp.com/links/2026-07-23-35890312 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109440 Points: 112 # Comments: 43
unsloth/Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 vs. Intel/Qwen3.6-27B-int4-AutoRound vs. nvidia/Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 — which one to choose?
Are there any benchmarks on these 4 bit quants, like how Artificial Analysis runs a slew of various benchmarks? If not, how can I run one…
Turbo-fieldfare: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on Apple Silicon
Its a custom Swift/Metal inference engine that runs Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on M-series Macs with very low RAM. It uses ~2GB instead of ~14 GB. The…
Why Is Everyone Trying to Build a Solid-State Battery?
Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-is-everyone-trying-to-build-a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49109193 Points: 18 # Comments: 7