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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• arXiv▲ 36

The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks

Modern systems in artificial intelligence (AI) somehow excel in domains for which they seem poorly suited. Intelligence has traditionally been modeled as operating over structured combinations of symbols, such as logical formulas. However, the strongest modern AI systems are based on neural networks, which instead represent information in continuous vectors. Vectors seem inadequate for capturing the structure of language, logic, and other cognitive domains, yet neural networks achieve impressive performance in these areas. How do they do it? In this work, we propose a potential answer: Despite appearances,…

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• Anthropic▲ 1075

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

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• Dan Luu▲ 572

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

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• Simon Willison▲ 326

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in …

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• Linux Weather Station▲ 127

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini

I run a local LLM server on my M4 Pro Mac mini with 48 GB of RAM.

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• Eclipse Research Systems Corporation▲ 210

The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC

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• OpenAI▲ 114

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.

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• BaseTen▲ 81

The efficient frontier of LLM inference

Inference techniques either move a deployment along the latency–throughput frontier or push the entire frontier out, creating more efficiency to allocate.

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• Lisbon Engineering Research Unit (LISEP)▲ 110

True Rate of Unemployment

LISEP’s mission is to help achieve shared economic prosperity for all Americans, particularly for middle- and low-income families. Our focus is fact-based economic and policy research.

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Anthropic▲ 1054

Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Our most advanced models for coding and knowledge work. Their research capabilities also offer an early glimpse of how AI models will contribute to scientific progress.

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• GitLab▲ 490

Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users

Description Currently, Aurora Store, including Nightly (2026-08-31), returns a “&$Server busy, please try again later.” error when attempting...

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• GitHub▲ 858

AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link

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• Newsonaut▲ 741

Hang on to Your Firefox

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• Mozilla▲ 368

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

There’s only so much room on your screen. Pop-ups, overlays, and ads can take over fast, getting between you and what you came to do. That’s where

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• MVakde▲ 597

I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs

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• Dan Luu▲ 549

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?

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• Ambient CSS▲ 221

Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS

Define a light source, and every shadow, highlight and surface gradient follows from it. Calibrated against Blender raytraces — rendered with box-shadow.

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• Simon Willison▲ 316

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

I was poking around in my ~/.cache/ folder using OmniDiskSweeper when I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (since rebranded to just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in …

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