Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures.…
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BGP ORIGIN attribute manipulation and its impact on the Internet
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-origin-attribute/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039490 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
[Paper] Statistically-Lossless Quantization of Large Language Models
Model quantization has become essential for efficient large language model deployment, yet existing approaches involve clear trade-offs: methods such as GPTQ and AWQ achieve practical compression…
I got into YC by hacking it
Article URL: https://obaid.wtf/jotbook/2026/07/18/how-i-got-into-yc-by-hacking-it.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039448 Points: 22 # Comments: 7
RT Mira Murati: The knowledge that makes AI useful is diffused. It lives with scientists, engineers, clinicians, firms. For AI to benefit from distrib…
RT Mira MuratiThe knowledge that makes AI useful is diffused. It lives with scientists, engineers, clinicians, firms. For AI to benefit from distributed knowledge, it must…
The knowledge that makes AI useful is diffused. It lives with scientists, engineers, clinicians, firms. For AI to benefit from distributed knowledge, …
The knowledge that makes AI useful is diffused. It lives with scientists, engineers, clinicians, firms. For AI to benefit from distributed knowledge, it must itself be…
RT Alan D Miller: If it wasn't for @elonmusk we wouldn't be able to have open, public discussions in the Town Square Elon has transformed the relation…
RT Alan D MillerIf it wasn't for @elonmusk we wouldn't be able to have open, public discussions in the Town SquareElon has transformed the relationship between…
How Serviceplan MAKE Uses Luma to Put Creativity First
How Serviceplan MAKE Uses Luma to Put Creativity First
Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go
Article URL: https://ui.gsxhq.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039395 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
Introducing Claude Opus 5 on AWS: Anthropic’s most capable Opus model
This post covers Opus 5’s improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock. See…
RT Steve Rattner: I previously reported that the growth rate and composition of Trump's wealth gain in office are unprecedented in recent history. Upo…
RT Steve RattnerI previously reported that the growth rate and composition of Trump's wealth gain in office are unprecedented in recent history.Upon request, here is the…
Opus 5 replaced Opus 4.8 for me, it was generally stronger in everything… except it shares some of the weird language quirks of Fable, including a l…
Opus 5 replaced Opus 4.8 for me, it was generally stronger in everything... except it shares some of the weird language quirks of Fable, including a…
Build Systems Discussion
Article URL: https://civboot.github.io/blog/2026-07-24-build-systems.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039248 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
RT Gavin Baker: New Pareto Frontier: Grok 4.5, SWE-1.7 and Opus 5. Intelligence per $ will be the only metric that matters over time. K3 probably join…
RT Gavin BakerNew Pareto Frontier: Grok 4.5, SWE-1.7 and Opus 5.Intelligence per $ will be the only metric that matters over time.K3 probably joins the frontier…
The Kids' Guide to Piracy
Article URL: https://friendo.monster/posts/the-kids-guide-to-piracy.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039099 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
RT clem 🤗: Re I still remember the days when it was basically us & a few other people pushing this topic (on the top of my head @allen_ai @ylecun @…
RT clem 🤗Re I still remember the days when it was basically us & a few other people pushing this topic (on the top of my…
RT clem 🤗: Re I still remember the days when it was basically us & a few other people pushing this topic (on the top of my head @allen_ai @ylecun @…
RT clem 🤗Re I still remember the days when it was basically us & a few other people pushing this topic (on the top of my…
so what's the justification for openly releasing Opus 5 if it's de facto the strongest Anthropic model we know about (Fable 5.1/Mythos-New are rumors …
so what's the justification for openly releasing Opus 5 if it's de facto the strongest Anthropic model we know about (Fable 5.1/Mythos-New are rumors about internal…
yo @GregKamradt hurry up on ARC AGI V4, no pressure
yo @GregKamradt hurry up on ARC AGI V4, no pressureNathan Lambert: Insane numbers for opus 5, the power of faster iteration speed + scaled RL (Fable…
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MadnessWall Street Apes: The Smithsonian National Museum actually classified a lot more as “White Supremacy” than was brought up in the recent House Oversight Hearing According…
Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
PySINDy – A package for the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems
Article URL: https://github.com/dynamicslab/pysindy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039007 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
the power of scaled RL + distillation (but big boy distillation, not cringe SFT on claude subscriptions) Anthropic is ahead, everything else is cope. …
the power of scaled RL + distillation (but big boy distillation, not cringe SFT on claude subscriptions)Anthropic is ahead, everything else is cope. OpenAI can win…
As of LiteParse v2.8.0, image → PDF conversion no longer depends on ImageMagick. Instead, it’s now handled natively in Rust 🦀 The result? Convers…
As of LiteParse v2.8.0, image → PDF conversion no longer depends on ImageMagick. Instead, it’s now handled natively in Rust 🦀The result? Conversion is now 1.2×…