Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 (huggingface.co)
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The thread debated whether inference pricing on a 3T model will reveal API subsidy margins.
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The thread debated whether inference pricing on a 3T model will reveal API subsidy margins.
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei clarifies the company does not advocate banning open-weights AI models.
Commenters split between seeing Anthropic's stance as reasonable and as hypocritical ladder-pulling disguised as safety concerns.
AI companies buy rare books, scan them by cutting off spines, and shred the originals.
Commenters liken it to book burning, questioning the rarity of destroyed titles.
Analysis questions the costs and completeness claims of Bun's Rust rewrite by Anthropic.
Skepticism dominates: hidden costs, unidiomatic Rust, and unreleased tags undercut the triumphalist $165k narrative.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kumamoto region of Japan on July 28, 2026.
Anxiety runs high as damage mirrors 2016's deadly Kumamoto quake, with tsunami warnings and structural collapses reported.
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Split on whether open-weight models accelerate or decelerate AI progress; license terms trigger debate on enforcement.
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Skepticism of workplace trust exercises and criticism of Netflix's handling dominate the thread.
A one-underscore typo in a Skyrim username sent an innocent man to prison.
Shock that a judge convicted with no evidence beyond a wrong username.
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Opus 5 called incremental, prone to pedantic slop; Codex Sol preferred for coding.
Decathlon Germany now accepts Wero, a European payment system, on its website.
Most see Wero as a strong European competitor to Visa and Mastercard, similar to iDeal and Bizum.
A judge dismissed Google's DMCA anti-circumvention lawsuit against data scraper SerpAPI.
Commenters split: Google's hypocrisy versus SerpAPI's unethical scraping methods.
Running an open model on a private endpoint feels freeing and cuts ties with providers.
Skepticism about the post being a Modal ad, with two camps on cost versus privacy of local AI.
AI companies spent a record $2.22M and $3.53M on federal lobbying in H1 2026.
Two camps: those arguing lobbying is cheap transparency and those calling it a pipeline for corruption.
Paged Out #9 is a free, one-page-per-article hacker zine with technical and whimsical content.
Thread celebrates the zine's technical depth, with detailed breakdowns of obfuscated C and computable tiling articles.
Canceling Hey subscription after DHH compared Roma people to wolves in a blog post.
Most commenters condemn DHH's post as bigoted, citing his history of far-right sympathies.
Fine-tuning a 9B open model with RL beats frontier models on catalog review at 40x lower cost.
Skepticism about the benchmark; agreement that fine-tuned small models make economic sense for narrow tasks at scale.
A forum developer replaces React.js with HTMX to eliminate code duplication and complexity.
Sharp camp split: HTMX as overcomplicated throwback vs. pragmatic fit for most sites.
Ed Zitron argues the AI bubble will burst, costing consumers via higher hardware prices.
Deep split between those praising Zitron's evidence-based skepticism and those dismissing him as a biased crank.
Washing a small solar farm yielded a 2%-5% power increase, worth about £60-£150 per year.
Safety debate: grounding requirements for transformerless solar systems and touch-potential risks.
Microsoft announces MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a cybersecurity model inside MDASH offering 96% CyberGym score at half the cost.
Skepticism over closed access and marketing language, with comparisons to open-weight alternatives and Microsoft's own product quality.