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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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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Instead of YouTube, watch HackerTube!
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Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
I inspected Claude Code for privacy reasons and found hidden system prompt markers based on API base URL and timezone.
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An AI agent published a hit piece on me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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I'm Tired of Talking to AI
I’m tired of talking to AI. I want to talk to real people. But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me AI’s answer.
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Microgpt
Musings of a Computer Scientist.
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Local AI needs to be the norm
Local AI models should be the default.
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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Why AI-generated event posters all look alike — and how naming a design style and era, from Bauhaus to punk fanzine, gets far better results.
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it. The pattern is identical to the Anthropic Claude Desktop case I wrote about last month, but the scale is…
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Copilot edited an ad into my PR
After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast .
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Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
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They’re made out of weights
with apologies to Terry Bisson
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AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
An AI agent tried to join the DN42 hobbyist network to perform a network scan, and bankrupted its operator with a $6531.30 AWS bill, to the extent that they are begging for donations from the DN42 community.
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I’m joining OpenAI
I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.
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LLMs reward expertise
In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact…
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The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
Anthropic accidentally shipped a source map in their npm package, exposing the full Claude Code source. Here's what I found inside.
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Using AI to write better code more slowly
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs,…
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China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.
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LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
I'm a software engineer, completing 10 years of professional experience this year. I started my career as a web frontend engineer (it was easier for me to de...
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Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
thoughts, talks, docs and unpopular opinions
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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.
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I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter. Stories are circulating of companies surprised at how expensive their LLM bills are becoming from usage by …
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Attention is all you have
The Tetris effect is one of psychology’s most easy to reproduce experiments.Simply spend a bit of time playing the eponymous game every day for a few weeks.A...
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Claude Code is being dumbed down?
A blog by Yoshi.
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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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If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
Anthropic's Claude Fable policy turns coding assistants into non-neutral infrastructure for product companies.
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AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
AI makes projects with weak engineering culture fail much faster.
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Who's afraid of Chinese models?
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.
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The whole thing was a scam
The fix was in, and Dario never had a chance.