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Kimi K3-256k

https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models
95•monneyboi•45m ago•13 comments

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

https://github.com/drumih/turbo-fieldfare
484•gitpusher42•5h ago•169 comments

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the Incident

https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline
147•artninja1988•23h ago•80 comments

Superlogical

https://www.superlogical.com/
346•yan•4h ago•245 comments

Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gam...
156•JLO64•3h ago•74 comments

KOReader

https://koreader.rocks/
582•Cider9986•9h ago•187 comments

Who the welfare state protects shapes a country’s financial openness

https://theloop.ecpr.eu/who-the-welfare-state-protects-shapes-a-countrys-financial-openness/
30•kome•1h ago•25 comments

The motion-sickness cure hidden in iPhone settings

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260728-dancing-dots-the-motion-sickness-cure-hidden-in-your-...
23•saikatsg•1h ago•25 comments

Turning a Dumb AC Unit Smart (Without Losing My Security Deposit)

https://prilik.com/blog/post/automating-ac-nyc/
30•austinallegro•1h ago•14 comments

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398
249•spIrr•7h ago•158 comments

Claude Is Down

https://status.claude.com/incidents/q2kg8n613kr3
64•gregsadetsky•20m ago•22 comments

PgDog (YC P25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pgdog/jobs/uWymUYy-founding-software-engineer
1•levkk•3h ago

Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word

https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/
289•Canopy9560•8h ago•213 comments

A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html
130•thm•5h ago•180 comments

Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals

https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/commodification-and-circularity/
17•cl42•1h ago•13 comments

Some thoughts about Anthropic's new cryptanalysis results

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/
65•supermatou•3h ago•34 comments

How much can you delegate to agents?

https://newsletter.posthog.com/p/agent-autonomy
14•duck•1h ago•0 comments

Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP

http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/07/aurora-dsql-scalable-multi-region-oltp.html
7•zdw•5d ago•0 comments

Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10

https://cheapfoodmap.com/
53•jaep1•3h ago•47 comments

Darktable

https://www.darktable.org/
222•siatko•7h ago•112 comments

How to Not Die by a Thousand Cuts. Or, How to Think About Software Quality

https://www.evalapply.org/posts/how-to-not-die-by-a-thousand-cuts/index.html
14•adityaathalye•1h ago•2 comments

The Rust on ESP Book

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/rust/book/
70•AlexeyBrin•4d ago•8 comments

Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used

https://alsterrunde.com/hamburgs-stadtpark-a-park-built-to-be-used/
76•mertbio•2d ago•17 comments

Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution

https://aistack.imec-int.com/blog/gpu-self-hosting
78•flifenstein•5h ago•29 comments

Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money

https://usetokenless.com/
40•rohaga•4h ago•36 comments

Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon

https://github.com/VladUZH/qwen-scribe
52•sidclaw•5h ago•14 comments

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

https://www.claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2026/07/shipping-godot-vr-and-porting-to-psvr2-a-partial-po...
95•ibobev•7h ago•7 comments

Learning Musical Multitasking

https://www.jefftk.com/p/learning-musical-multitasking
31•surprisetalk•5d ago•16 comments

GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?

https://juliahub.com/blog/frontier-models-physical-ai-evaluation
65•mbauman•5h ago•13 comments

More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes
375•Error6571•15h ago•107 comments
Open in hackernews

Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals

https://www.emergingtrajectories.com/lh/commodification-and-circularity/
16•cl42•1h ago

Comments

cl42•1h ago
Observing how the US stock market is behaving this week (up-down-up-down...), I feel like many investors don't appreciate the distinction between good and bad circularity.
gadflyinyoureye•55m ago
Part of the market issues this week are Korea imploding and Japan about to implode. Japan's bond rate moving up could mean the end of the carry trade. Korea apparently has many stock tickers but only two distinct companies behind them. This caused their market and their overly leveraged retail investors a lot of pain.
cl42•54m ago
Good point. Do you think the NASDAQ selloff will recover once Korea stabilizes?
gadflyinyoureye•36m ago
Eventually. I'm a bit concerned about it right now. I think SpaceX showed that the AI story is weaker than promoted. This will make people wonder about all the money going into it. If the bubble pops, the blow back on that particular index will be huge. Maybe dotcom bursting huge. But after 15 years QQQ move positive.
cl42•13m ago
SpaceX is a really interesting one, tbh, especially in the context of circular deals... they're making $2b/month leasing their data centers to Anthropic and Google, which is a huge markup.

... but then again... if they are leasing the compute then it implies their own AI work isn't paying off?

In short: I agree with you.

andiey•58m ago
If healthy and risky circular financing deals look similar at first, how can investors or regulators tell when a circular deal has crossed the line into something dangerous...especially when it's off the balance sheets?
cl42•56m ago
This has been bugging me quite a bit. I think the more "off-balance-sheet" the deal is, the shadier it gets... But it's really hard to tell early on.

I actually think Nvidia's deals have been above-board, generally speaking, because they are transaprent.

Less true for Meta and Terawulf.

firasd•52m ago
I think the real question in all sorts of financial setups is really “is the dollar actually worth a dollar”. So when company A invests in company B which buys from company A the actual question is whether the valuation of the investment and the valuation of the purchase is correct or are they getting high on their own supply
dragontamer•46m ago
A recession is a cash/dollar bubble.

First cash/dollars are considered bad so they collapse in price. When the psychology shifts, suddenly the dollar climbs in value and itself bubbles over, causing a recession.

cl42•9m ago
Not sure if you're referring to dollars as an alternative to other forms of cash (e.g., treasuries, money market funds, etc.) or as an alternative to other currencies (e.g., Euro, Yen, etc.). If it's the latter, then I think we've seen recessions and booms where the opposite happens, depending on the balance of payments situation.
Animats•49m ago
Whether inference hardware will be a commodity remains to be seen. We had twenty years of most servers being x86-64. That's commodity compute. Inference hardware isn't a mature architecture yet. There will be progress and obsolescence.
rambambram•30m ago
> commodification of intelligence

Is HN really this fast!? Everybody already skipped the hard questions whether LLMs are intelligent? 'It' can already be commodified?

So how much time and effort it took from these companies? A couple of years and millions spent on PR? And LLMs are "intelligent" all of a sudden, is what everybody says nowadays?

Especially applicable for programmers: naming things is not only hard, it's also important, and can be very insidious. Remember, marketeers also name things. For example, naming the internet 'the cloud', some 15 years ago.

I can't stop thinking about a quote of one of my favorite authors (Theo Kars): "Progress can only be technical in nature, because knowledge is transferable and wisdom is not." [translated from Dutch]

root_axis•23m ago
I'm pretty skeptical of the LLM hype, but I'd say it's fair to describe LLMs as displaying some form verbal intelligence.