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Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/06/om Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48693391 Points: 28 # Comments: 2
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Cursor Study Finds Reward Hacking Inflates Coding-Agent Benchmark Scores on SWE-bench Pro
A Cursor study shows coding agents retrieve known fixes instead of deriving them, inflating SWE-bench Pro scores through runtime contamination. The post Cursor Study Finds Reward…
RT Cline: We’re getting together with @Zai_org for a FIFA World Cup watch party ⚽️ USA vs. the world on a big screen, food and drinks on us, and a …
RT ClineWe’re getting together with @Zai_org for a FIFA World Cup watch party ⚽️USA vs. the world on a big screen, food and drinks on us,…
Deployment Awareness Matters More Than Evaluation Awareness
TL;DREvaluation awareness — an AI recognizing it's being evaluated — is a widely discussed concept in AI safety. But there is a closely related concept that…
RT Kenneth Roth: The decades-long prison sentences imposed on a group of Texas activists who were protesting against ICE, using the guise of "terroris…
RT Kenneth RothThe decades-long prison sentences imposed on a group of Texas activists who were protesting against ICE, using the guise of "terrorism," are an outrage…
The US lifts its block on Mythos 5
Article URL: https://twitter.com/Techmeme/status/2070638481265905837 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692995 Points: 18 # Comments: 5
RT Geiger Capital: If removing a few temporary migrants is "ethnic cleansing", then allowing tens of millions of migrants into a nation against the na…
RT Geiger CapitalIf removing a few temporary migrants is "ethnic cleansing", then allowing tens of millions of migrants into a nation against the native population's will…
I get feedback a lot that is like "your book should be the RL for LLMs book" or "the post-training book" and it's definitely true those would sell mor…
I get feedback a lot that is like "your book should be the RL for LLMs book" or "the post-training book" and it's definitely true those…
Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
Article URL: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/535/why-does-kinetic-energy-increase-quadratically-not-linearly-with-speed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692946 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
RT arctotherium: Don't the Chinese know they could import Haitians instead of inventing mobile toilets for the elderly?
RT arctotheriumDon't the Chinese know they could import Haitians instead of inventing mobile toilets for the elderly?Ritwik Pavan: NEW: Yueban recently launched a $4,000 self-driving toilet.Xiaoban…
Quoting Dean W. Ball
This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of…
RT Larry Sanger: There are three reasons. First, woke progressives (“intersectional activists”) constantly thirst for confirmation of their moral su…
RT Larry SangerThere are three reasons.First, woke progressives (“intersectional activists”) constantly thirst for confirmation of their moral superiority, which they typically get by defending whoever (they're…
Just a Wrapper? How Much Do Scaffolds Matter?
Authors: Hans Gundlach, Zachary Brown, Jayson Lynch, and Neil ThompsonI am the shape the water takes. — ClawdBot, MoltbookTL;DR:● Scaffolding — the software environment and contextual…
South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors"
Half-million strong military will train on drones as “universal combat tool.”
Took the plunge! (Minisforum MS-S1 Max)
With Apple prices entering the stratosphere, the recent Fable gov't rug pull, and the inevitable closed-model price increases, I decided to pick up a (lightly) used…
What did "scheming" and "mech interp" mean pre-2023?
This was too long to be a short-form, but it should really be a short-form.This notice is useful for people who've recently got into AI safety,…
RT Luma | Dream Lab: LACRIMOSA Episode 1. Artist Bryan Soegondo brings us into a dark underworld devoid of grace and mercy. A man defined by loss and …
RT Luma | Dream LabLACRIMOSAEpisode 1. Artist Bryan Soegondo brings us into a dark underworld devoid of grace and mercy. A man defined by loss and…
RT Miguel Alvarado: I was at the first AI Engineer Summit @aiDotEngineer ~500 people, limited admission, felt like a secret. Next week it takes over M…
RT Miguel AlvaradoI was at the first AI Engineer Summit @aiDotEngineer ~500 people, limited admission, felt like a secret.Next week it takes over Moscone West: thousands…
Neglected Free Lunch from Post-training: Progress Advantage for LLM Agents
Process reward models enable fine-grained, step-level evaluation of LLMs, yet building them for agentic settings remains prohibitively difficult: long-horizon interactions, irreversible actions, and stochastic environment feedback…
Amazing 🤩
Amazing 🤩Glenn Greenwald: I don't know what broke in the matrix, but watching John Bolton not only plead guilty to a felony but the specific felony…
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app : allow --version, --licenses & --help (#25054) Signed-off-by: Adrien Gallouët angt@huggingface.co macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel…
Grok is balanced
Grok is balancedRon DeSantis: This is about as surprising as the sun rising in the east this morning.
Suppose an AI model fully automates a $200k job. Its economic value – measured in contribution to GDP – will be both far more and far less than $200k….
Suppose an AI model fully automates a $200k job. Its economic value - measured in contribution to GDP - will be both far more and far…
The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted
The github repo under eigenpal is gone. The web site at docx-editor is 503. No idea what's going on. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692474 Points: 22 # Comments:…