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OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
How a push for simpler setup and a first-class browser experience grew into OpenClaw 2.0.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,518 posts.
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here’s what I’ve figured out …
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How to build a diffusion language model
An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material…
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Continuous Diffusion Language Models (CDLM's)
Fully discrete methods dominated for a few years, but language models based on continuous diffusion are making a comeback.
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METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack. That report had one key new piece of information, and some good prosaic steps OpenAI will be taking to strengthen its alignm…
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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Hy4 preview
Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M tokens.
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I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis
Why I stopped trying to give LLM agents a better memory and instead built Lemmalog, a Datalog engine that maintains an agent's knowledge as analysis state, with provenance, retractions and incremental evaluation, plus what happened when I benchmarked it on LongMemEval and LoCoMo.
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Run Qwen3.8 27B locally: real numbers from my Mac Studio
Qwen3.8 27B benchmarked on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra: Ollama and llama.cpp numbers, the 1-bit quant tested, RAM math, and the hardware that actually fits.
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Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
Successful contributions to open source projects are a kind of currency. GitHub in particular encourages this in a number of ways: by showing avatars of contributors on repository pages, by showing your contributions to your followers via the activity feed and by signalling contributions per day on the activity graph…
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Terminal-Bench-Science: Evaluating AI agents on scientific research workflows
A benchmark for evaluating AI agents on research workflows across scientific domains
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Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash
The backlash against data centers is difficult to understand if your salary depends on your not understanding it.
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Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
Anthropic is opening a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, to a first group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers.
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Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash brings a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to developers.
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Small Models Have Arrived
For the past few weeks, I've been playing with gpt-5.6-luna . It is shockingly capable, fast, and smart. I regularly see it do ~100 tps, and rip around my codebase, email, and knowledge base.
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MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community, the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training sought to understand the role of generative AI in the life and educational mission of the Institute and recommend how to navigate its challenges and…
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Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs
sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.
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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
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It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
Everyone is using Obsidian for AI, or wants to use it to become more productive. But I think it's a dead end.
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VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
You can no longer assume a mere VM will contain a sufficiently advanced AI agent.
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence
The important question about AI-assisted programming isn't who writes the code. It's who understands the system.
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RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
Six approaches to retrieval-based AI, from minimal to elaborate
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How much of HN is AI?
TL;DR: 62% as of September 2026. This is up from ~40% in February.
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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Apple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.
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Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents
Self-guided agents that think continuously