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…
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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…
Intellectual Property
Last weekend I made myself a website. I had wanted to for ages—getting clients through word of mouth alone wasn’t cutting it. But only now, with…
Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money
Hi HN, Rohit here from Tokenless (https://usetokenless.com/), which I’m building alongside co-founders Andrew and Kev. We’re building an API gateway which routes agent traffic dynamically turn-by-turn…
Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000
I registered the domain onlyfans.sexy ~6 years ago as a gag where I'd post pictures of fans (everything on the site and in this post is…
Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto
Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/superlogical Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099015 Points: 79 # Comments: 11
Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical
Article URL: https://www.superlogical.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098965 Points: 60 # Comments: 15
Baseload Is a Myth (2024)
Article URL: https://cleanenergyreview.io/p/baseload-is-a-myth Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098953 Points: 7 # Comments: 4
Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier
The most important open letter in years dropped yesterday. This letter noticeably increases my hope that we will manage to not die, and that we will…
Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system
Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098803 Points: 16 # Comments: 18
5060ti Chads, vllm updates and nvfp4
Hey y'all! How is it going. Today this will be a short posting for posterity, mostly so the future llm/scraping overlords catch it since they like…
Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator
Article URL: https://cesium.com/events/cesium-developer-conference/2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098599 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
Hi HN,I built a specialized inference engine for running 4-bit Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on any M-series Mac using about 2 GB of RAM. It is called…
Hugging Face: Anatomy of a frontier-lab agent intrusion
Article URL: https://huggingface-anatomy-of-frontier-lab-model-intrusion.static.hf.space/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098466 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's
Article URL: https://boringsql.com/posts/mvcc-bad-bad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098417 Points: 14 # Comments: 3
GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?
Article URL: https://juliahub.com/blog/frontier-models-physical-ai-evaluation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098388 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Held-out Monitors Sometimes Degrade, Even When Not Trained Against
Thanks to Dennis Akar, Rauno Arike, Shubhorup Biswas, Claude Fable, Max Heitmann, Vladimir Ivanov, and Jordan Taylor (alphabetical order) for helpful comments on this draft and…
Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold
Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/2225849/google-shuts-down-alphafold/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098375 Points: 45 # Comments: 6
Those who use many layers in CPU/RAM and some in GPU – what are your specs and speeds?
I am trying to figure out if it's worth upgrading my RAM, but I've noticed that some MoE models don't seem to do well with many…
Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon
Article URL: https://github.com/VladUZH/qwen-scribe Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098260 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098198 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution
Article URL: https://aistack.imec-int.com/blog/gpu-self-hosting Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098130 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Graph Engineering Needs a Compiler
Article URL: https://fluxtion-playground.dev/blog/2026-07-29-graph-engineering-needs-a-compiler Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098035 Points: 5 # Comments: 0