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AI boom risks global financial crash, warn central bankers

2026-06-29 @ 01:25:04Points: 65Comments: 47

Sophon PFG-1: a monolithic-3D AI ASIC with 330 GB of on-die DRAM and no HBM

2026-06-29 @ 01:23:38Points: 24Comments: 24

Better Images of AI

2026-06-28 @ 23:50:58Points: 24Comments: 15

We need tech news sources which exclude AI

2026-06-28 @ 23:49:50Points: 91Comments: 50

HN is getting closer to that every day.

If AI kickback deals, phony new model ratings, high RAM prices and your surprise at how you think you coded something with AI and it was AMAZING! even though it doesnt work is all there is count me out.

We need a filter on existing tech news sites or an alternative press.

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)

2026-06-28 @ 22:32:04Points: 62Comments: 13

Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine

2026-06-28 @ 22:20:56Points: 61Comments: 40

POSIX Is Not a Shell

2026-06-28 @ 20:39:50Points: 45Comments: 34

Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs

2026-06-28 @ 19:43:10Points: 38Comments: 15

It uses only Bash, curl, and jq. You can send prompts, start a small chat, process files line by line, stream output, and save session metadata in JSON format.

I tried to make it safe and predictable: no use of the system /tmp, no use of eval. Groq is supported by default, and other providers can be added with dedicated Bash scripts in the extras/providers/ folder.

Example:

  echo "explains the command: ls -l" | ./bash4llm

Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch

2026-06-28 @ 19:38:14Points: 38Comments: 9

I started working on nanoeuler after the ban of anthropic's fable because my ambition and dream is to work in the AI field in anthropic. The two interesting reasons that led me to create nanoeuler were (1) interfacing with llm does not mean understanding how they are composed and (2), working on llm with a very low-level layer to understand the correlation between parameters and data and growth of the model and how the GPU works and how some layers can be optimized.

So I started working on it with a research aspect by making nanoeuler grow more and more but doing one step after another starting from Shakespeare.txt and understanding what a text generation model understands at 23 million parameters. For example, nanoeuler at that number had understood that Name: started a line and wrote that line with sense.

I wrote everything in CUDA because I wanted to not use any intermediary between the model in training and inference and what it had to do. Then the use of SFT and much more, even if in small ways, were really useful to understand the various step to make an llm like a chatbot.Any feedback, help, or suggestions are absolutely welcome!

TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

2026-06-28 @ 19:38:00Points: 84Comments: 40

British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa (2005)

2026-06-28 @ 18:56:46Points: 22Comments: 2

Librepods: AirPods liberated

2026-06-28 @ 18:48:53Points: 299Comments: 97

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

2026-06-28 @ 18:32:53Points: 202Comments: 78

GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

2026-06-28 @ 17:50:47Points: 540Comments: 255

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

2026-06-28 @ 16:58:59Points: 94Comments: 22

Show HN: DRM-Free Books

2026-06-28 @ 16:58:56Points: 79Comments: 34

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

2026-06-28 @ 16:41:12Points: 304Comments: 407

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

2026-06-28 @ 16:35:19Points: 365Comments: 475

Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

2026-06-28 @ 16:28:50Points: 117Comments: 36

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

2026-06-28 @ 16:24:10Points: 118Comments: 144

Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

2026-06-28 @ 16:16:07Points: 87Comments: 20

Show HN: Zanagrams

2026-06-28 @ 15:26:14Points: 202Comments: 53

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

2026-06-28 @ 14:44:56Points: 338Comments: 87

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

2026-06-28 @ 12:44:24Points: 210Comments: 71

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

2026-06-28 @ 12:27:33Points: 181Comments: 121

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

2026-06-28 @ 11:56:16Points: 338Comments: 282

The Baffling World of Masayoshi Son's Presentations

2026-06-26 @ 09:17:44Points: 24Comments: 4

The Boeing 747 begins its final descent

2026-06-25 @ 15:54:46Points: 150Comments: 206

Model Training as Code

2026-06-25 @ 13:54:06Points: 23Comments: 9

Deciphering Basmala

2026-06-24 @ 09:05:46Points: 19Comments: 5

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