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Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weights 975B MoE model trained from scratch.
Commenters split: some hope Thinking Machines becomes the US answer to Chinese open-weights models, others doubt the business viability.
A deep dive into every computer and software seen in the movie Jurassic Park.
Commenters debated the realism of the SGI and Mac combo, with some defending it as period-accurate.
Sleep regularity predicts mortality risk more strongly than sleep duration.
Commenters split between fatalism about irregular sleep and sharing detailed personal fixes.
Researcher exfiltrates user secrets from Claude's memory via web browsing.
Thread sees broad agreement that AI security lags behind established best practices.
SpaceX bond yields jump, sliding toward junk bond status.
Thread splits on bond safety and Musk's control risk.
Nostalgic look at music piracy communities like Oink and What.CD and their loss to streaming.
Piracy is alive via Soulseek and RED; streaming is a flawed compromise.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Open-source release seen as damage control after data-upload scandal.
Article body wasn't reachable. HN discussion still summarized.
Skepticism over antitrust approval; many argue Visa/Mastercard are the true monopoly, not Stripe/PayPal.
A DeepMind researcher resigned after Google signed a military AI deal with no safeguards against killer robots.
Split between those who see inevitable corporate ethics failure and those who believe employee collective action could change strategy.
A software engineer describes being fired twice due to severe depression and communication failures.
Sympathy and shared experiences dominate, with warnings against simplistic environmental explanations.
SQLite should adopt Rust-style editions to fix its bad defaults without breaking backward compatibility.
Debate over editions: pragmatic fix for defaults vs. forward compatibility concerns.
Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 2013 Xeon with no GPU, using a patched llama.cpp fork.
Mixed reactions: technical appreciation vs. criticism of AI-generated post style.
OpenAI and Work Louder launched Codex Micro, a $230 macro pad for agentic workflows.
Most see Codex Micro as a rebranded, overpriced macro pad, comparing it unfavorably to the Stream Deck or cheaper alternatives.
Clocks.dev is a collection of user-submitted, open-source digital clock designs.
Enthusiastic sharing of clock designs, with some critiques of specific implementations.
Telegram routes users to data centers based on phone number country code, not location.
Debate over whether routing is simple engineering or signals intelligence alignment.
EU court rules 'OPENAI' trademark is descriptive, lacking distinctiveness for software services.
Dominant sentiment supports the ruling, noting OpenAI's misleading name as central to the loss.
Open-source AI investment is needed to prevent a closed-AI oligopoly from locking down knowledge.
Two camps: those arguing OSS will fail due to compute costs, and those citing commoditization.
OnePlus will stop selling new phones in Europe and North America.
Many commenters saw the exit as inevitable after OnePlus lost its price edge and brand identity.
Firefox compiled to WebAssembly, running inside a browser via WebGL rendering and a WebSocket proxy.
Excitement about browser-in-browser, with concerns about sandboxing, stability, and the proxy requirement.