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
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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…
The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260728-dancing-dots-the-motion-sickness-cure-hidden-in-your-iphone-settings Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101371 Points: 16 # Comments: 18
The growing threat of Docusign phishing attacks (2024)
Article URL: https://www.darktrace.com/blog/the-growing-threat-of-docusign-phishing-attacks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101360 Points: 13 # Comments: 7
How to Not Die by a Thousand Cuts. Or, How to Think About Software Quality
Article URL: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/how-to-not-die-by-a-thousand-cuts/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101351 Points: 10 # Comments: 1
A field day for Gleam's language server – Gleam v1.18.0 release
Article URL: https://gleam.run/news/a-field-day-for-gleams-language-server/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101334 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit)
Article URL: https://prilik.com/blog/post/automating-ac-nyc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101198 Points: 18 # Comments: 11
Ilintar’s Official Guide To Model Selection
Inspired by multiple discussions here and on some Discords I frequent, I've decided to share with you this high quality training material. You can thank me…
Compute growth doesn't make a software intelligence explosion more likely
This is a nitpick of a claim that I sometimes see in discussions of a software intelligence explosion. There is a careful analysis of the conditions…
Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
I was recently laid off after 18 years, and gave myself 100 days to build soething useful in public. CheapFoodMap is a crowdsourced map of meal…
Infrastructure Patterns for Agentic Applications
Article URL: https://render.com/blog/infrastructure-patterns-for-agentic-applications Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100035 Points: 9 # Comments: 1
Everyone posts day-one impressions. What’s still in your stack a month later?
Day one threads are the least useful thing we produce here and we produce a lot of them. Model drops, forty people run their favourite prompt,…
Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results
Article URL: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099804 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099715 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
Has anyone tried Qwen3.7 flash on openrouter? How does it compare to our Qwen 3.6 27B?
This might be the next open weight release by qwen team. What you feel like is improved or have become worse from previous model? Please share…
Notes on the Anthropic cryptographic blogpost
Status: Mostly a summary with some of my notes at the end. Anthropic released a blogpost yesterday (07/28/26) describing how Claude Mythos Preview found improved ways…
Show HN: Kedge – Full-stack cloud with forkable VM snapshots and global SQLite
I'm building Kedge, a globally distributed platform for stateful serverless apps. Here's how you make a simple static site: `echo '# Hello world!' | ssh kedge.dev'I…
First Kimi K3 results on home lab ~ 4t/s
I've got better results than expected for 768gb DDR5 and 2x5090. Using fork https://github.com/pwilkin/llama.cpp/tree/kimi-k3-text and https://huggingface.co/GrEarl/Kimi-K3-GGUF Q2_K quant. Prefill speed for big prompt is 50-70 tps.…
I Want to Leave the Internet
Article URL: https://chupacabra.bearblog.dev/i-want-to-leave-the-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099353 Points: 19 # Comments: 1
I tested proven orchestration techniques on small local models. 90% failed. The 10% that survived roughly doubled task completion.
Hey localllama brochacos, what's up? I'm u/raydestar, long time local llm fan. SWE with about 10 years xp, and I have been cranking hard trying to…
Value Generalisation 3: Pre-aligned AIs
When we get explicit strong generalisation to work (see the first post on the matter and the second) my dream would be to create pre-aligned generalising…
Value Generalisation 2: The Missing Hole in AIs’ abilities
A human superpower hidden from even ourselvesI though GPT 3.5 was on the verge of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). It certainly seemed that way – it…
Value Generalisation 1: a Research and Deployment Program
I’m looking for people, advice, critiques, and funding to build a research program on value generalisation – the ability of an AI to correctly extend human…