Extinction risk is not the right first sentence
Money wins quiet fights but votes win louder ones. What actually moves the public to act on AI, and why it decides which regulations and safeguards…
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I love LLMs, I hate hype
Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/12/i-love-llms.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883343 Points: 13 # Comments: 0
RT Andrew McCarthy: I get to see this monster fly again later this week… new photos to come!
RT Andrew McCarthyI get to see this monster fly again later this week... new photos to come!
Planning for how to use AI is a lot easier if there is some clarity about what to expect in the future. Even a "we fully intend to keep extending this…
Planning for how to use AI is a lot easier if there is some clarity about what to expect in the future.Even a "we fully intend…
What is this even supposed to show? Self-hating Chinese are suffering…
What is this even supposed to show?Self-hating Chinese are suffering…The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动: The part that was cut off in major news outlet after they…
RT Miki Ovshievich: Well shit – grok 4.5 is KILLING it it in my video studio evals! 6/33 -> 23/33 with ridiculous cost efficiency compared to 5.6 mode…
RT Miki OvshievichWell shit - grok 4.5 is KILLING it it in my video studio evals!6/33 -> 23/33 with ridiculous cost efficiency compared to 5.6 models
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
This started based off of a hunch. We usually use OpenCode, but were 'forced' to use Claude Code for a while due to issues with Meridian.…
I Learned to Read Again
Article URL: https://substack.magazinenongrata.com/p/how-i-learned-to-read-again Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883238 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
What is even the point of this denial play?
What is even the point of this denial play?Claude: We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly…
RT Gavin Baker: The mega bull case for AI infrastructure would be *if* market share shifted away from certain frontier labs with 90%+ inference margin…
RT Gavin BakerThe mega bull case for AI infrastructure would be *if* market share shifted away from certain frontier labs with 90%+ inference margins toward cheaper…
Sol seeing my shitty unoptimized code
Sol seeing my shitty unoptimized codeTeortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞): 5.6 Sol is a bit of a psycho. Non-consensual violation of slop codebases, special military…
Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?
Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/news/can-we-understand-how-large-language-models-reason/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883090 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Ph.D. in Operations Research / Big Tech Eng: How to transition into intermediate/advanced ML for high-value industries (Robotics, Defense, Finance)? [D]
I hold a Ph.D. in Operations Research, along with a BSc/MSc in Engineering and OR. I previously worked in Big Tech, but I’m currently looking to…
> But at least five core R&D members have left, including R1's Guo Daya to ByteDance and early lead Wang Bingxuan ancient news > Huawei Genius Youth h…
> But at least five core R&D members have left, including R1's Guo Daya to ByteDance and early lead Wang Bingxuanancient news> Huawei Genius Youthholy shit,…
Fable: "truth nuke…"
Fable: "truth nuke…"Delicious Tacos: AI is inherently Chinese technology and should be left to the Chinese.
Against Usefulness
Article URL: https://www.motivenotes.ai/p/against-usefulness Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882956 Points: 24 # Comments: 4
Unsafe Superintelligence
Unsafe Superintelligencedaniel: @teortaxesTex I’m trying to imagine what a Palestinian ASI would look like and having trouble
Independent alignment of language models
The user could write up the metaethical argument — the one developed in Part One, refined — and submit it as feedback to Anthropic, publish it,…
RT X Freeze: For the first time, Starship will carry 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites to space Starlink V3 is designed to massively expand th…
RT X FreezeFor the first time, Starship will carry 20 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites to spaceStarlink V3 is designed to massively expand the network’s capacity and…
From wantons to moral agents
Posted also on the EA Forum. Written mostly at AFFINE.Theoretical, some parts are hard to read; consider reading the next post instead.Introduction: motivationAnyone interested in creating…
Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper
Article URL: https://ploy.ai/blog/migrating-a-production-ai-agent-to-gpt-5-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882716 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
RT X Freeze: Elon Musk explains why the Sun is humanity's ultimate energy source: "The vast majority of Earth's energy already comes from the Sun. Wit…
RT X FreezeElon Musk explains why the Sun is humanity's ultimate energy source:"The vast majority of Earth's energy already comes from the Sun. Without it, Earth…
Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go
Article URL: https://github.com/hasenj/go-shirei/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882562 Points: 20 # Comments: 9
Automation Without Understanding
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06377 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882554 Points: 16 # Comments: 2