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Hacker News

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• GitHub▲ 420

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification - firelex/jeff

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• Cal Newport▲ 400

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of​ carefully planned announcements​ ... Read more

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• Anthropic▲ 701

Sonnet 5.5

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• MUBI▲ 500

Pirating the Pirates

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• World Labs▲ 246

World Labs Is Joining AMD

Accelerating the future of AI research and compute

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• Kqed▲ 139

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

Many California growers can’t find buyers as the industry produces more wine grapes than the market wants. Wine consumption is declining globally as people drink less.

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• State of Utopia▲ 195

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

Run Q4 small language models entirely in the browser with WebGPU. Chat, benchmark, and compare PetitGPT, SmolLM2, and friends on-device.

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• GitHub▲ 66

ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

7-node ESP32-S3 cluster running a 0.4B LLM via 1.58-bit (BitNet) ternary quantization over SPI daisy-chain - Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org14 items
• Anthropic▲ 702

Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.

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• MUBI▲ 501

Pirating the Pirates

Notes from the underground of film preservation.

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• Definitely Not Windows▲ 459

Windows 11½

The operating system Microsoft definitely did not make. An interactive parody of Windows 11, Microsoft 365, Copilot, updates, ads, and subscriptions.

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• GitHub▲ 425

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification - firelex/jeff

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• Cal Newport▲ 403

It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs

Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of​ carefully planned announcements​ ... Read more

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• ssp.sh▲ 358

The problem is not AI code, but not knowing about system architecture or intent

If we think Is writing code dead, and AI is generating all codebases, I still think the bigger problem is people or full teams not knowing anything anymore about the system...

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• This American Life▲ 358

Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat

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