Who's afraid of Chinese models?

383 mfiguiere 2026-07-20 20:56:31 UTC stratechery.com Llama Share 258

The author argues that the reaction to Chinese open weight models is overblown, as they are not necessarily cheaper to serve on a marginal cost basis, but rather are benefiting from a lack of compute and a price umbrella. The author suggests that the US should pass a law to make distillation of models fair use and to loosen restrictions on using frontier labs' models for cybersecurity, to ...

Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

139 swat535 2026-07-20 23:56:31 UTC forum.jellyfin.org Llama Share 64

Project leader and core team member depart due to burnout and life changes, leaving the project in capable hands. They express hope for Jellyfin's continued success and trust in the team to keep the project alive.

Kimi Work

439 ms7892 2026-07-20 17:56:31 UTC kimi.com Llama Share 193

You want to find and summarize all PDF files containing quarterly reports in the local workspace ~/Documents/KimiWorkspace and generate a clear summary document. You also want to know about Scheduled Tasks in Kimi Work, specifically if they run when the computer is asleep.

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

387 baldvinmar 2026-07-20 17:56:31 UTC jelly-ui.com Full Share 143

Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for soft, tactile product interfaces. Real form controls meet soft-body physics, with dark mode, right-to-left support and WCAG AA color tokens built in.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

264 artninja1988 2026-07-20 19:56:31 UTC xenaproject.wordpress.com Llama Share 90

Mathematicians are using AI tools to find counterexamples to long-standing conjectures, including the Erdős Unit Distance conjecture, Grothendieck's question, and the Jacobian Conjecture. These AI-generated counterexamples are being formalized in Lean, a programming language for mathematics, and are helping humans gain a deeper understanding of the underlying mathematics.

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

597 speckx 2026-07-20 13:56:31 UTC news.risky.biz Llama Share 336

A hacker breached Romania's cadastre agency, wiping the country's land registry database after a failed extortion attempt. The hack has brought the real-estate market to a standstill.

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

214 aratahikaru5 2026-07-20 18:56:31 UTC blaizzy.github.io Llama Share 80

Nativ offers a local AI app for Mac with open models from Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI, no accounts or subscriptions required. It's 100% open source, built on MLX-VLM, and connects to existing coding agents.

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

190 StatsAreFun 2026-07-21 00:56:31 UTC aclu.org Llama Share 26

Flock Safety lied about its automatic license plate reader operations, prompting the Oshkosh City Council to revoke its contract. Reputable governments should avoid working with Flock due to its pattern of misleading statements.

Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

18 Webstir 2026-07-21 03:17:31 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 17

The internet surveillance has not changed much in five years, but the fear of expressing oneself freely has increased due to potential consequences from governments and social pressures. The risk of being denied entry or kicked out of a country for expressing critical opinions has made people more cautious about speaking out.

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco

103 akanet 2026-07-20 20:56:31 UTC vincentwoo.com Full Share 22

Scene capture and reconstruction by Vincent Woo. Built on PlayCanvas by Donovan Hutchence. Thank you to Isaac Mason and Andreas Sundquist of World Labs for early prototyping, and to Rebecca Nestle of Grace Cathedral for the opportunity. If you have a connection to a historic location that could benefit from digital preservation, please feel free to email Vincent.

I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs

83 wallach-game 2026-07-20 20:56:31 UTC numerlab.org Full Share 65

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Agent swarms and the new model economics

145 jlaneve 2026-07-20 18:56:31 UTC cursor.com Llama Share 62

Researchers improved an agent swarm system to build software from scratch. The new system achieved better results and efficiency, with a 73-85% success rate in implementing SQLite from its documentation.

China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning

1012 benwerd 2026-07-20 14:56:31 UTC werd.io Llama Share 809

American companies are losing the AI model market due to their locked-down business practices, while China's open approach is gaining traction. China's release of AI models openly could turn a US-created compute disadvantage into a distribution advantage, and create a more effective global ecosystem.

What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard

6 Rochus 2026-07-21 02:56:31 UTC github.com/rochus-keller Prefix Share 6

Ask almost anyone when the MUMPS programming language was first standardized and you will hear the same answer: 1977, as ANSI X11.1-1977. It is the date in the Wikipedia infobox, in countless retrospectives, and in the bibliographies of papers that ought to know better. It is also wrong, or at least incomplete. The first formal MUMPS standard was an U.S. government publication issued in ...

The Psychology of Software Teams

59 dcre 2026-07-20 23:56:31 UTC routledge.com Llama Share 13

The book "The Psychology of Software Teams" by Cat Hicks provides a science-based approach to understanding software teams, revealing principles for resilience, collaboration, and innovation. It offers a humane alternative to the traditional "death march" approach to software development, focusing on psychological safety, learning, and collaboration.

My two year old taught me constraint solving

47 bambataa 2026-07-20 21:56:31 UTC thecomputersciencebook.com Llama Share 18

A father and his 2-year-old son explore the Brio wooden train set and discover it's an interesting algorithms problem, leading them to use backtracking search, constraint satisfaction, and SAT solvers to find the most complex layouts. The son's insights and suggestions, such as using global constraints and counterexample-guided refinement, help the father improve the solvers and ultimately ...

LEDs’ potential to save our night skies

219 defrost 2026-07-20 13:56:31 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 170

The author explores how artificial light at night affects cities, citing excessive lighting as a problem that disrupts human health and ecological balance. LEDs offer a solution, but their potential is often wasted due to outdated thinking and a failure to control and coordinate lighting levels.

Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

68 alexsouthmayd 2026-07-20 16:56:31 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 76

Alex Southmayd, founder of Bloomy, created an AI-powered mastery-learning platform for K-12 students that provides personalized learning paths and a Socratic AI tutor. Bloomy aims to make one-on-one tutoring affordable and available to every child, with a focus on responsible AI use and safeguarding student data.

The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism

69 trinsic2 2026-07-20 20:56:31 UTC scottrlarson.com Llama Share 8

Scott Larson, a computer professional, presented a community presentation on the effects of Surveillance Capitalism, arguing that big players like Google and Facebook build predictive profiles that are sold to advertisers for commercial gain, reshaping society without public knowledge or consent. Larson advocates for informed civic engagement and changing individual behavior to reverse this ...

Perfection is not over-engineering

213 var0xyz 2026-07-20 14:56:31 UTC var0.xyz Llama Share 91

The author argues that perfection is not over-engineering, but rather ambiguous requirements. Clear requirements lead to a perfect solution.

Atomic Physics in Pure Anglo-Saxon

17 xelxebar 2026-07-21 00:56:31 UTC ling.upenn.edu Llama Share 6

The world is made up of tiny particles called unclefts, which link together in various ways to form different substances, and their behavior determines the properties of these substances. By understanding how these particles interact, scientists can manipulate them to create new substances and harness their energy, leading to technological advancements and potential benefits for humanity.

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

156 firephox 2026-07-20 15:56:31 UTC nothings.org Llama Share 65

The author of the text discusses the limitations of screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO) in accurately simulating real-world lighting effects, particularly in corners of rooms. They argue that SSAO often produces unrealistic results, such as darkening corners, due to a misunderstanding of how light interacts with surfaces.

How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks

200 dopamine_daddy 2026-07-20 16:56:31 UTC unslop.run Llama Share 145

Researchers analyzed 12,750 arXiv papers and found that about 32% of new ones read as machine-written, rising from 0.4% before ChatGPT. The study controlled for false positives and found varying adoption rates across fields, with computer science leading at 65%.

Shinjuku Station in 3D

173 Gecko4072 2026-07-20 13:56:31 UTC satoshi7190.github.io Full Share 33

「新宿駅周辺屋内地図データ」（国土交通省）（https://www.geospatial.jp/ckan/dataset/mlit-indoor-shinjuku-r2）を加工して作成

You only need the frontier model for one single edit

91 jxmorris12 2026-07-20 19:56:31 UTC stencil.so Llama Share 23

The author proposes a method to optimize model usage by letting an expensive model plan a task and then handing it off to a cheaper model to execute. This approach reduces costs and improves efficiency.

85.3 GFlops: Optimizing FP32 Matrix Multiplication on a Single AMD Zen 3 Core

58 houslast 2026-07-20 18:56:31 UTC github.com/houslast3 Llama Share 17

Um estudo de otimização de multiplicação de matrizes em C++ usando AVX2/FMA alcançou 85,30 GFLOPS em um AMD Ryzen 5 5500, superando a implementação ingênua por 56,5 vezes. O modelo MX24 atingiu o melhor desempenho, com erro máximo absoluto de 0,0.

Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)

24 gnabgib 2026-07-20 23:56:31 UTC words.filippo.io Llama Share 5

Passkeys are a principled solution to phishing attacks, but implementing them on the server side can be complex due to interaction with the browser. A well-specified interoperable passkey record format can help abstract away this complexity.

Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture

707 loubbrad 2026-07-20 03:56:31 UTC xcancel.com Llama Share 449

The user found a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture by modifying an existing example using polynomial automorphisms, creating infinitely many equivalent counterexamples. The process involves understanding the original example's mechanism and building genuinely different ones by changing the skeleton or using higher-degree polynomials.

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling

312 cl42 2026-07-20 15:56:31 UTC emergingtrajectories.com Llama Share 300

Two state-of-the-art foundation models, Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8, were launched, challenging top-tier model developers and threatening Anthropic's dominance. Their open models and lower costs pose a significant risk to Anthropic's product differentiation and economic model.

The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency

69 qaprof 2026-07-20 18:56:31 UTC dl.acm.org Llama Share 34

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