Some wild metaphysics that seemingly everyone needs to accept?
[Epistemic status: weird philosophy]Here’s a simple argument:How do we know what exists?Well, we don’t - not for certain. Many different possible worlds are consistent with our…
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How AI agents reproduced ICML 2026 papers https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbdvRygJB
How AI agents reproduced ICML 2026 papers https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbdvRygJB
Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029
Article URL: https://eco3min.fr/en/us-children-vs-adults-65-and-older/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212424 Points: 35 # Comments: 17
RT Gad Saad: Oh my goodness.
RT Gad SaadOh my goodness.QUANTUM GUARD ™️: 🚨 HOLY CRAP. The man who brutally m*rdered an innocent gas station clerk in Fort Myers, Florida is a…
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mtmd: stop feeding the text stream again during Qwen3-TTS generation (#26706) The reference implementation has two mutually exclusive prompt layouts. In non streaming mode the prefill…
Useful tip for the ChatGPT mobile app: long press the send button to adjust the effort
Useful tip for the ChatGPT mobile app: long press the send button to adjust the effortMichelle Pokrass: @simonw i personally leave it on instant all the…
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
Article URL: https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211921 Points: 36 # Comments: 9
RT Cynthia Dunlop: Waaaay back in January, @simonw was kind enough to share his thoughts on technical blogging with me. ICYMI… https://writethatblog…
RT Cynthia DunlopWaaaay back in January, @simonw was kind enough to share his thoughts on technical blogging with me. ICYMI... https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging
An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018)
Article URL: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/04/27/an-alias-based-formulation-of-the-borrow-checker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211821 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined
Article URL: https://www.freeformatter.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211758 Points: 43 # Comments: 34
So, given the past couple days of news, what is the plan to deal with the cybersecurity threats that will happen in the coming months when we have ope…
So, given the past couple days of news, what is the plan to deal with the cybersecurity threats that will happen in the coming months when…
Möbius-Strip Crosswords
Article URL: https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2026/08/04/mobius-crossword/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211660 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer
Enabling GitHub Code Quality on a repository no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests a code review from GitHub Copilot on your pull requests. In…
Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli
Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages…
RT Gad Saad: Suicidal Empathy is spreading fast in the United States. I urge all American patriots to get involved in fighting for American freedoms a…
RT Gad SaadSuicidal Empathy is spreading fast in the United States. I urge all American patriots to get involved in fighting for American freedoms and liberties.…
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ggml : add aarch64 HWCAP fallbacks and fix fp16 variant detection (#25554) ggml : add fallback definitions for missing aarch64 HWCAP bits ggml : require HWCAP_ASIMDHP…
Introducing FILE type: a native column type for multimodal data
Your data estate holds far more than structured tables, metrics, and transaction...
Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UufMqwyO7pY Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211438 Points: 48 # Comments: 11
Software is about people, not code
Article URL: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/01/27/software-is-about-people-not-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211437 Points: 22 # Comments: 17
99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots
Article URL: https://patronview.com/news/99-percent-of-my-website-traffic-is-bots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211386 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
RT Nathan Lambert: My summer project is done! A 20 video, free course on post-training to accompany my book is all on YouTube with slides open for mod…
RT Nathan LambertMy summer project is done! A 20 video, free course on post-training to accompany my book is all on YouTube with slides open for…
It really is this amazing
It really is this amazingPaul Graham: Jessica bought a new Tesla today. Her experience with self-driving was the usual religious revelation. Impressive that a 23 year…
Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub! This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see that this o…
Just saw that the LLMs-from-scratch repository passed 100,000 stars on GitHub!This is super cool and motivating. I am really happy to see that this open-source repo…