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Why I Left Google DeepMind
I fought against Google’s Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,798 posts.
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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.
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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
A storage appliance that shipped before AVX2 existed now runs Google's Gemma 4 26B in my basement, no GPU. Here's how we got a modern MoE model onto a CPU older than the instructions its inference engine assumed were there.
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Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)
Telegram claims to have 5 data centers (DCs), referred to as DC1~5 in Telegram’s code and documentation. Among them, DC1 and DC3 are located in Miami, USA; DC2 and DC4 are in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and DC5 is in Singapore. Each account is associated with a DC upon registration and does not change with the…
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Briar is in maintenance mode
This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years we’ve been trying to find solutions to some of the longstanding issues with Briar, such as high battery usage and…
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Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
and why communication is so important
2197
DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs
Why Domain-Specific Languages and good abstractions make LLM code generation reliable and reviewable.
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Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
If xAI defaults on its debt, Apollo Global Management ends up in the GPU rental business.
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I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
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You only need the frontier model for one single edit
/prewalk hands the cheap model a trajectory, not a plan, retaining 92–97% of frontier pass rate at roughly half the cost on SWE-Bench Pro.
2202
Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail
After I mentioned a Jurassic Park anecdote the other day , I watched the movie again. I must have seen it at least ten times now. This time, I researched every computer/software I spotted.
2203
LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros
A from-scratch JEPA world model trained on Super Mario Bros. to study action-conditioned prediction and reward-free planning.
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Book prizes don't work how you think
all the beans that's fit to spill
2205
Probably check on your smart appliances
TL;DR: is your refrigerator running malware? If so, you better catch it!
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Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to…
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Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown
Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the…
2208
How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes
Packing ternary numbers with efficient SIMD-friendly unpacking on binary computers
2209
How I use HTMX with Go
My new book guides you through the start-to-finish build of a real world web application in Go — covering topics like how to structure your code, manage dependencies, create dynamic database-driven pages, and how to authenticate and authorize users securely .
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I also filed the corners off my MacBook
Modify your tools more!
2211
Blender 5.2 LTS
The first long-term support release in 5.x series. Supported until July 2028.
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Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
A seven-month-old arbitrary code execution vulnerability remains present in Cursor, leaving 1 million daily users to rely on public disclosure after months of unsuccessful attempts to obtain remediation updates.
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Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
Today we're announcing Bonsai 27B, our multimodal flagship: ternary at 5.9GB for laptops, 1-bit at 3.9GB for an iPhone 17 Pro, with a 262K-token context.
2214
The Tower Keeps Rising
Vibecoding and the possible collapse of a shared language.
2215
Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK
I built a device to measure end-to-end input latency, then used it to find out what actually moves the needle.
2216
Pseudpocalypse
Here’s a conjecture: If you put any significant amount of text on the internet under different names, those identities can be linked using only the text itself.
2217
I'm a USB-C Maximalist
My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single universal power brick. This little unit was all I needed to charge my various gadgets. It has a hefty USB-C PD (Power Delivery) port for rapid charging of my…
2218
Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
Reflections on autonomy and the value of thinking for ourselves
2219
The Zen of Parallel Programming
As I continue reading An Introduction to Parallel Programming, I cannot help but notice a connection between communication among processors, communication among human beings, and communication within the individual self....
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Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux
KO | EN | Discussions on HN I still have a netbook I bought back in 2009. The ASUS Eee PC 1000HE has an Intel Atom N280 and 1GB of DDR2 RAM. The Atom N series was Intel’s line of cheap, low-performance CPUs for netbooks. The chip has 56KB of L1 cache and 512KB of L2 cache, and its clock speed is 1.6...