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AI is destroying my CS degree
I am a computer science student. I got a scholarship to study computer science and AI last year and I love it! It's something that I wanted to do since I was...
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There is no posttraining data commons
The LLM revolution ran on a pretraining commons that humanity built for other reasons. Posttraining consumes tasks, not documents, and no such commons exists. If the open models community wants...
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Just a little AI resistance, as a treat
At the recent EMFCamp, I bumped in to Professor Kate Devlin who was talking a little about the AI Resist List. I think one of the useful things we can do is loudly complain about shitty uses of AI. Here's an example. As mentioned in a previous post, I'm contacting companies which send malformed calendar invites. One…
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The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading
The experiments that read raw weights and the ones that fix Qwen use completely different techniques.
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The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
The LISP curse is often quoted as the reason why so few libraries and reusable components exist for LISP dialects. According to the concept, LISP is so power...
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Anthropic's growth just flattened
Look at the monthly numbers...
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LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights
A recent paper argues that frontier LLMs can work with neural network weights directly. This seems superhuman, but it isn’t. The paper shows that GPT-6 Astra…
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Egoless Mathematics in the AI Era
[This is a guest post by Karthik C. S., Amit Sahai, and Jie Xue. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] This is a good time for mathemat…
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Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
We find that frontier LLMs are surprisingly good at natively reading and writing neural network weights, using a variety of recent tools and algorithms or even via direct weight editing.
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Claude Opus 5.5 Can Draw Permit-Level Architectural Drawings
I tested thirteen models and found that their drafting is approaching professional levels.
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The U.S. Census Bureau and "Super Intelligence"
I was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies, a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in …
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China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48
China’s First Frontier AI Export Controls: MOFCOM Announcement No. 48 Key Takeaways On October 16, 2026, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and Ministry of Science and Technology (MO…
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It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
Proton's CEO called a request for security testing "loser thinking". Using AI to write code is fine, but for a privacy company, the guardrails around that code are the product.
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The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
One of my pet peeves with the web development community is that so many of the decisions we make are vibes-based. Frameworks are “blazing fast,” tools will…
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We're training a Figma-fluent editing model
Here, we’re sharing the research behind how we’re translating that to design editing workflows.
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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Instead of YouTube, watch HackerTube!
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GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
Edit: Woah, this took off! If you want more details you can subscribe at the bottom of the post or on YouTube. I’m working on a more detailed highlights/commentary post and video. Previously: We got Claude Code playing Factorio, Towards beating Factorio autonomously, and Faketorio: an agent testbed I got GPT-5.6 Sol…
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Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth
The self-deleting VOLTA infostealer steals credentials, sessions, and cryptocurrency wallets. Then, it uses LLMs to profile victims and rank their most valuable assets.
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Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
By bypassing ChatGPT's sandbox and content security policy, our research team was able to take over anyone's account simply by sending them a link.
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AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
When AI handles 95% of your incident response, do you get worse at handling the 5% that actually matters?
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We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
Swarms of Claude and GPT agents in Minecraft and Mindustry.
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Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful
Look, I really didn’t want to like Duet. I don’t want to be an Anthropic fanboy and it annoys me when they do things better than the competition. But they have done it again.
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Grace Blackwell needs a new scheduler: 27% more usable GPUs from the same racks
NVL72 puts all 72 GPUs in a rack on one NVLink fabric, but only rack-local jobs get the speedup. How SkyPilot keeps multi-node training and inference on NVLink with topology-aware placement, in-place recovery from GPU failures, and automatic defragmentation.
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AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura
Leo de Moura on Formal Proofs, AI Agents, and the End of “Trust Me” Code. Subscribe: Apple • Spotify • … More
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Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from
We asked five AI assistants 200 questions that call for a number and followed 1,285 of the statistics they cited back to the source.
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LLM Voice
The uncanny valley of LLMs' prose
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We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4
The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open. A 1T parameter multimodal model, and best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe.
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Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?
Good developers’ caution about agentic development comes from knowing that built isn’t the same as working in production.
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Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5
Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon is the new #1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, and second only to Claude Opus 5.5 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index
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