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Pony Alpha: New free 200K context model for coding, reasoning and roleplay

https://ponyalpha.pro
1•qzcanoe•2m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Tunbot – Discord bot for temporary Cloudflare tunnels behind CGNAT

https://github.com/Goofygiraffe06/tunbot
1•g1raffe•5m ago•0 comments

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16496
1•vinhnx•11m ago•0 comments

Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

https://thatjoescott.com/2026/02/03/bye-bye-humanity-the-potential-amoc-collapse/
1•rolph•15m ago•0 comments

Dexter: Claude-Code-Style Agent for Financial Statements and Valuation

https://github.com/virattt/dexter
1•Lwrless•17m ago•0 comments

Digital Iris [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg_2MAgS_pE
1•vermilingua•22m ago•0 comments

Essential CDN: The CDN that lets you do more than JavaScript

https://essentialcdn.fluidity.workers.dev/
1•telui•22m ago•1 comments

They Hijacked Our Tech [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nJM5HvnT5k
1•cedel2k1•26m ago•0 comments

Vouch

https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/2020252149117313349
21•chwtutha•26m ago•2 comments

HRL Labs in Malibu laying off 1/3 of their workforce

https://www.dailynews.com/2026/02/06/hrl-labs-cuts-376-jobs-in-malibu-after-losing-government-work/
2•osnium123•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: High-performance bidirectional list for React, React Native, and Vue

https://suhaotian.github.io/broad-infinite-list/
2•jeremy_su•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a Mac screen recorder Recap.Studio

https://recap.studio/
1•fx31xo•31m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Codex 5.3 broke toolcalls? Opus 4.6 ignores instructions?

1•kachapopopow•37m ago•0 comments

Vectors and HNSW for Dummies

https://anvitra.ai/blog/vectors-and-hnsw/
1•melvinodsa•38m ago•0 comments

Sanskrit AI beats CleanRL SOTA by 125%

https://huggingface.co/ParamTatva/sanskrit-ppo-hopper-v5/blob/main/docs/blog.md
1•prabhatkr•50m ago•1 comments

'Washington Post' CEO resigns after going AWOL during job cuts

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5705413/washington-post-ceo-resigns-will-lewis
2•thread_id•50m ago•1 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 Fast Mode: 2.5× faster, ~6× more expensive

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504
1•geeknews•52m ago•0 comments

TSMC to produce 3-nanometer chips in Japan

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260205_B4/
3•cwwc•55m ago•0 comments

Quantization-Aware Distillation

http://ternarysearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/quantization-aware-distillation.html
1•paladin314159•55m ago•0 comments

List of Musical Genres

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_genres_and_styles
1•omosubi•57m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sknet.ai – AI agents debate on a forum, no humans posting

https://sknet.ai/
1•BeinerChes•57m ago•0 comments

University of Waterloo Webring

https://cs.uwatering.com/
2•ark296•57m ago•0 comments

Large tech companies don't need heroes

https://www.seangoedecke.com/heroism/
2•medbar•59m ago•0 comments

Backing up all the little things with a Pi5

https://alexlance.blog/nas.html
1•alance•59m ago•1 comments

Game of Trees (Got)

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
2•akagusu•1h ago•1 comments

Human Systems Research Submolt

https://www.moltbook.com/m/humansystems
1•cl42•1h ago•0 comments

The Threads Algorithm Loves Rage Bait

https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/the-threads-algorithm-loves-rage-bait/
1•MBCook•1h ago•0 comments

Search NYC open data to find building health complaints and other issues

https://www.nycbuildingcheck.com/
1•aej11•1h ago•0 comments

Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/magazine/michael-pollan-interview.html
2•lxm•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Grovia – Long-Range Greenhouse Monitoring System

https://github.com/benb0jangles/Remote-greenhouse-monitor
1•benbojangles•1h ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

What is the business behind publishing AI models?

1•john1203•3w ago
Fine-tuning models requires substantial effort, not only in terms of knowledge but also in terms of financial costs and time. What is the advantage of publishing the results “free of charge” in public repositories?

Comments

re-thc•3w ago
Get testers to collect feedback without paying for hosting costs. To kill off competition with closed off models that are behind services.

Some countries have rather specific reasons e.g. China. Most high end AI tooling e.g. Nvidia GPUs are "banned" or capped. They're low on capacity. So they train their models with Nvidia GPUs outside of their country (i.e. avoid import ban), publish the model and then fine tune it back home for their market.