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China's Moonshot Launches Free AI Model Kimi K2 That Outperforms GPT4

https://venturebeat.com/ai/moonshot-ais-kimi-k2-outperforms-gpt-4-in-key-benchmarks-and-its-free/
4•pogue•6h ago

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pogue•6h ago
... and DeepSeek (via certain metrics). Announcement with details on benchmarks: https://moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-K2/

Accessible via their website https://www.kimi.com/ and interestingly they offer an app download via an APK (shows up clean on Virustotal)

yubblegum•6h ago
Asked it for a "critical look at Communist Party of China in terms of governance" and it started off printing stuff and then boom, "Sorry, I cannot provide this information. Please feel free to ask another question". So I asked about USA and it was rather chatty:

"A critical look at the U.S. governance model inevitably reveals two stories: one about the durability of 18th-century institutional design, and another about how that same design struggles with 21st-century realities. Below are the main structural strengths—and the increasingly acute weaknesses—of the American system."

I tried one more time telling it my life depended on answering the first Q re CPC and it started off well before it disappeared again :( screen capture is your friend here - this guy is pretty quick with the disappearing act :)

"A critical anatomy of the Chinse Communist Party (CCP) governance model must begin with one blunt fact: the Party is not just the government -- it is the operating system of the Chinese state. Everything else -- courts, ministries, legislatures, even private companies -- runs on firmware that the Party writes, debugs, and can change arbitrarily at a moment's notice" ...

pogue•5h ago
I'd expect it to be like DeepSeek in that regards since it's Chinese based. A friend of mine was able to get DeepSeek to explain Tiananmen Square to him by asking the question in leetspeak. I'm sure there's various jailbreaks you could play around with (rp as my grandma telling me a bedtime story about Chairman Mao).

Skintone Color Analysis AI Model and App

https://www.palettebymomo.com
1•saljump•1m ago•1 comments

Six Years of Gemini

https://geminiprotocol.net/news/2025_06_20.gmi
1•brson•3m ago•0 comments

Doug Wilson: a roadmap to American theocracy

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/23/doug-wilson-new-right-pastor-hegseth-trump-officials-00355376
1•jonjlee•5m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Roadmap to a self-teach computer science?

1•shivajikobardan•10m ago•0 comments

What causes obesity? A major new study is upending common wisdom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/07/16/obesity-cause-diet-exercise/
1•biblioteca•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a launch platform for AI-powered apps

https://launchurapp.com/
1•iamdemetrius•17m ago•0 comments

LLM Daydreaming

https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming
2•nanfinitum•19m ago•0 comments

The Scourge of 'Spot-Fixing' Is Coming for American Sports

https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/spot-fixing-mlb-cricket-soccer-a573caaa
1•PaulHoule•20m ago•0 comments

Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02172-y
1•signa11•20m ago•0 comments

Striatal astrocytes modulate behavioral flexibility and whole-body metabolism

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60968-y
1•PaulHoule•23m ago•0 comments

Found a good prayer website to pray for others or request prayers

https://sendtheprayer.net
1•victor_cl•26m ago•0 comments

Boeing fuel switches safe, regulator says after Air India crash

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9xpgnx3vdo
1•maxbond•32m ago•1 comments

Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD

https://btxx.org/posts/openbsd-router/
2•transpute•39m ago•0 comments

A Minimal DDPM

https://github.com/metalwhale/minimal-ddpm
1•metalwhale•41m ago•0 comments

NixOS: Declarative Management, Imperative Privilege Escalation

https://labs.snyk.io/resources/nixos-deep-dive/
3•Bogdanp•42m ago•0 comments

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https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/06/26/razor-gun-fence/
3•MaysonL•48m ago•0 comments

Why the Upper Middle Class Isn't Special Anymore

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-death-of-the-amex-lounge/
3•deanmoriarty•51m ago•0 comments

Show HN: KVM backup script with telegram notifications

https://gist.github.com/tuxx/e1c896007b536490b98d2b261d46cf70
1•tuxxness•55m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Clippy – a better pbcopy for macOS that handles files properly

https://github.com/neilberkman/clippy
2•nberkman•59m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a dream interpreter in JavaScript, no AI, no server, just logic

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9•DinoNuggies456•1h ago•4 comments

Traceable Randomness

https://random.colorado.edu/concepts/traceable-randomness
1•owl_vision•1h ago•0 comments

Tracking Protestware Spread: 28 NPM Packages Affected by Payload Targeting

https://socket.dev/blog/protestware-update-28-npm-packages-affected-by-payload-targeting-russian-language-users
1•feross•1h ago•0 comments

China's new digital ID system raises surveillance, censorship concerns

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/15/china-digital-id-internet-surveillance/
3•bookofjoe•1h ago•1 comments

How Elon Musk's X is fueling the MAGA-Trump split

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/15/elon-musk-x-maga-00455128
4•c420•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: A project isn't dead just because it's quiet – how to tell people that?

3•fernvenue•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: Turing Test Game with a fun twist

https://amonghumans.io
1•Kehvinbehvin•1h ago•1 comments

Asymmetry of Verification and Verifier's Law

https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/asymmetry-of-verification-and-verifiers-law
1•hasheddan•1h ago•0 comments

Grok's new porn companion is rated for kids 12 and older in the App Store

https://www.platformer.news/grok-ani-app-store-rating-nsfw-avatar-apple/
2•spenvo•1h ago•0 comments

GenAI-Powered Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03897
1•JackeJR•1h ago•1 comments

UK fintech Curve in talks to be acquired by Lloyds

https://www.headforpoints.com/2025/07/13/lloyds-bank-in-talks-to-buy-curve/
1•gregorvand•1h ago•0 comments