Imprecise beliefs: a tiny introduction
Richard Ngo challenged me to set a time box and write down as many of the most important features of my formal epistemology as I can…
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AI Security Leaderboard: benchmarking model robustness [P]
We developed a leaderboard ranking frontier model security. There's no shortage of model capability rankings, but we didn't find anything comparable for model security. Yet security…
Quantizing Kimi K3 (2.8T A50B) to GGUF ourselves – Q3_K_S works, 1.1 TB on disk
we're experimenting with our own dynamic GGUF quants of kimi k3, made from the original weights with our llama.cpp fork. Q3_K_S is done and works 1114.76…
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103285 Points: 15 # Comments: 3
The Cold Email
Article URL: https://zachholman.com/posts/cold-email Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103089 Points: 23 # Comments: 8
SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103026 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
The High-Control Dynamics at MAPLE
As I write, many former friends of mine are living and working at a monastery in Vermont that I believe is a high-control group, commonly known…
Hugging Face hack, from the perspective of the AI
I have put together a site to tell the story of the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack. It's entirely written by AI[1] (with many many editing passes by…
The coolest use for the Vision Pro
Article URL: https://christianselig.com/2026/07/vision-pro-house/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102774 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Open-source tabular model validation toolkit TanML needs feedback [D]
We’re developing TanML, an MIT-licensed automated model-validation toolkit for tabular machine-learning models. TanML runs locally and provides an end-to-end workflow covering data profiling, preprocessing, feature-power ranking,…
Theo Conjecture solves 35-year-old math problem, finds a term no one predicted
Article URL: https://firstprinciples.com/blog-article/ai-system-theo-conjecture-solves-35-year-old-math-conjecture Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102525 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
A Trampoline
Article URL: https://dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/07/29/a-trampoline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102425 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Are you guys not scared of where we’re heading? A year ago, GPT-5 was considered one of the best models in the world. Today, we have open-weight models like Qwen3.6-27B that are competitive enough to run locally on high-end consumer hardware. The pace of progress is absolutely brutal.
I think the claims about having Mythos level-model in our laptops in 1-2 years might not be so crazy of a theory submitted by /u/SilverRegion9394 [link]…
The open-weights carousel never stops.
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Claude Is Down
Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/q2kg8n613kr3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102150 Points: 35 # Comments: 9
Kimi K3 for local use (1.56TB → 594GB) compressed and released by Unsloth
The model was quantized to 8, 4, 2, and 1 bit. Characteristics: Q8: 8-bit 1.56 TB, lossless Q4: 4-bit, 1.51 TB Q2: 2-bit: 861 GB Q1:…
I pre-trained a 700m on 18B tokens optimized for Python and Wikitext | TheOneWhoWill/Shibai-700M-Base · Hugging Face
I know this is the 1000000th new sub billion parameter model out there and probably isn't as good as Qwen 3 0.6B or Qwen 3.5 0.8B…
Kimi K3-256k
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101852 Points: 41 # Comments: 4
Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar
Article URL: https://www.brightsaver.org/balcony-solar-kits Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101849 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
How much can you delegate to agents?
Article URL: https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/agent-autonomy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101655 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
NeurIPS reviewers not engaging [D]
So I know this is an ongoing issue at ML conferences, reviewers just tend to ghost. Do people have any strategies or recommendations on how to…
Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals
Article URL: https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/commodification-and-circularity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101529 Points: 13 # Comments: 10
Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness
Article URL: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/who-the-welfare-state-protects-shapes-a-countrys-financial-openness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101460 Points: 20 # Comments: 6
PSA: llama.cpp now loads MTP tensors by default for any draft-mtp arch, even with MTP disabled
If your GGUF has MTP/NextN tensors baked in (GLM-5.2, hy_v3, qwen35moe, step35, etc.), recent llama.cpp builds load them by default — even if you never pass…