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    What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? || 81 Comments
    HN 2h ago 28/hr +5.9σ
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    On this, I don’t care what anyone else thinks. The Afghanistan withdrawal debacle was one of the worst things I’ve ever witnessed. I lost friends in Afghanistan. We lost over 2,450 service-members in Afghanistan. When Biden pulled the plug, we had 3,000 service-members in country
    Fin 7h ago 19/hr +3.8σ
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    Show HN: Laptop is the last place your secrets are still in plaintext || 65 Comments
    HN 3h ago 18/hr +3.7σ
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    If you have a company and still use Opus instead of Sol, why so? Does price not matter to you? What's something that would convince you to switch?
    AI 5h ago 457/hr +3.5σ
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    NATO MILITARY HEADQUARTERS SPOKESPERSON ON DRONE SHOT DOWN EARLIER IN ROMANIAN AIRSPACE: DRONE APPEARS TO BE RUSSIAN
    Fin 2h ago 14/hr +2.7σ
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    What's your /goal for the night?
    AI 3h ago 351/hr +2.6σ
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    #Ravens WR Ja’Kobi Lane, who continues to star for Baltimore, said “it’s super fun to be part of a hype train.” Lane added, “But at the same time, this can all go down with one dropped ball. I don’t plan on that happening but I know very well it can happen. I’m still going to be
    NFL 7h ago 0.9/hr +2.1σ
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    Russia’s Koledino Wildberries e-commerce distribution center suffered a catastrophic fire this morning after a Ukrainian drone attack.
    Fin 6h ago 10/hr +1.7σ
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    Sam Howell and Joe Milton combined to go 20 of 27 for 201 yards and 2 TDs on Saturday. I thought both QBs played reasonably well. No killer mistakes. And that's the most important part.
    NFL 7h ago 0.8/hr +1.6σ
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    The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US || 37 Comments
    HN 4h ago 7.7/hr +1.4σ
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    Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny || 53 Comments
    HN 7h ago 7.4/hr +1.3σ
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    Lots of positives tonight with the Cowboys. The line play got better in the second half. Still not sure who the No. 2 QB is. I’m liking Trigg warts and all. Special teams penalties concern me but it’s the preseason. Liufau has had a good camp and took that into Seattle.
    NFL 7h ago 0.7/hr +1.1σ
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    On tokens and prices per token. I said I’d write more about this, so here goes: an OpenAI token != another model’s token. We compare AI prices in dollars per million tokens as if a token were a standardized unit, like a gram or a kilowatt-hour. It isn’t. Different models use and
    AI 4h ago 116/hr +0.6σ
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    Ukrainian attack drones successfully hit a second Russian logistics facility in Moscow this morning, setting it ablaze.
    Fin 5h ago 3.9/hr +0.3σ
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    The quirky personal homepages of programming language creators || 18 Comments
    HN 6h ago 2.9/hr +0.3σ
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    Israel Q2 exports rise 35.2%, private consumption grows 14.7%, investment up 6.3%: statistics bureau
    Fin 34m ago 3.5/hr +0.2σ
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    Is this the end of human code review? || 8 Comments
    HN 3h ago 2.3/hr +0.1σ
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    HN: HomeBrain – Your private local cloud, agent wired into everything || 1 Comments
    HN 5m ago 2.0/hr +0.1σ
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    Forget the Robot Tax. Tax the Tokens || 1 Comments
    HN 10m ago 2.0/hr +0.1σ
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    Show HN: HN Glance – a visual reader for Hacker News links and discussions || 1 Comments
    HN 25m ago 2.0/hr +0.1σ
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    Why Chinese Citizens Are More Optimistic About AI Than Americans || 1 Comments
    HN 26m ago 2.0/hr +0.1σ
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    A Generative Cramér-Rao Bound || 1 Comments
    HN 27m ago 2.0/hr +0.1σ
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    AI Paper Trail: What does AI know about you? || 1 Comments
    HN 29m ago 2.0/hr +0.1σ
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    Ja'Kobi Lane and Devontez Walker both left the game at the same time and Lane's been getting the 1st team work in 11P Elijah Sarratt didn't play with the "1st team" today and played deep into the game Lane = WR3 or better Walker = WR4 Sarratt = WR5+ for now
    NFL 5h ago 0.4/hr +0.0σ
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    SSOG: Near linear Visual-Attention that doesn't score but steers || 2 Comments
    HN 1h ago 1.9/hr +0.0σ
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    Of the non-obvious WRs Devaughn Vele and Bryce Lance didn't play for the Saints Vele looks like the clear WR3 (or WR2 if Tyson is out a very long time) right now Lance was banged up so that's why he didn't play
    NFL 5h ago 0.4/hr +0.0σ
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    Health benefits of Tai Chi || 8 Comments
    HN 4h ago 1.7/hr −0.0σ
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    The Economist Who Predicted 2008 Crash Says AI Bubble Bursts Soon – Steve Keen [video] || 2 Comments
    HN 1h ago 1.7/hr −0.0σ
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    Show HN: Sol-Luna – adaptive Codex orchestration that can choose zero workers || 1 Comments
    HN 36m ago 1.6/hr −0.0σ
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    Wk. 4 of Vibecoding an MMO || 9 Comments
    HN 6h ago 1.4/hr −0.1σ
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    Israel revises Q1 GDP to -2.2% annualized: statistics bureau
    Fin 34m ago 1.7/hr −0.2σ
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    Israel Q2 GDP grows 15.4% annualized quarter-on-quarter in first estimate: Statistics Bureau (forecast 6.9%)
    Fin 34m ago 1.7/hr −0.2σ
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    I checked 30 frontier model cards. Here are the benchmarks labs report || 7 Comments
    HN 6h ago 1.1/hr −0.2σ
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    Keyboard Phones Are Back || 5 Comments
    HN 4h ago 1.0/hr −0.2σ
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    Show HN: Customhouse – deterministic MCP proxy that blocks agent exfiltration || 1 Comments
    HN 1h ago 1.0/hr −0.2σ
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    Startup Just Got Approval to Test Beaming Sunlight to Earth || 2 Comments
    HN 2h ago 0.8/hr −0.2σ
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    Reaction-Diffusion Playground(2020) || 2 Comments
    HN 2h ago 0.8/hr −0.2σ
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    🇺🇸 Bond Traders Are Agonizing Over $70 Billion of Shadow Credit Backstops For AI Companies - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/… || bloomberg.com
    Fin 3h ago 1.3/hr −0.2σ
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    Science at LLM Speed || 1 Comments
    HN 1h ago 0.7/hr −0.3σ
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    Iran's military missing persons chief: Qatar must permit Iranian air force fact-finding mission to enter the country - Tasnim
    Fin 3h ago 1.3/hr −0.3σ
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    📉 The Chinese 10-year sovereign yield has fallen back to around 1.68%, its lowest level since the summer of 2025, just as Beijing is about to release a key batch of economic data. 🇨🇳 When investors aggressively buy Chinese government bonds, they are generally expressing expec || bloomberg.com
    Fin 2h ago 1.3/hr −0.3σ
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    Falstad Math and Physics Simulations || 4 Comments
    HN 6h ago 0.6/hr −0.3σ
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    Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen || 5 Comments
    HN 7h ago 0.6/hr −0.3σ
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    The 37signals Manager Playbook || 4 Comments
    HN 6h ago 0.6/hr −0.3σ
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    160-Bay NVMe SSD 4U Server Shown at FMS 2026 Supermicro ASG-4116S-NU160R || 1 Comments
    HN 1h ago 0.6/hr −0.3σ
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    The one task nobody wants to do || 1 Comments
    HN 2h ago 0.5/hr −0.3σ
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    "The hyperscalers generate orders of magnitude more revenue per quarter than the neoclouds, but at the same time, it’s taken CoreWeave ~25 quarters to achieve the same $2.6B as AWS generated by quarter 40 since launch. Again, these are very fast growing businesses" (h/t @MosesSte
    Fin 2h ago 1.1/hr −0.3σ
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    Pizza π, A fun fractions game for kids 6-12 || 3 Comments
    HN 6h ago 0.5/hr −0.3σ
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    every LLM provider has the option of advertising cheap sticker prices but their cache ratios can be bad so your effective price is higher the root thing thing though is idk if 100s of providers advertising to end users makes sense long term
    AI 4h ago 6.5/hr −0.3σ
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    Russia's defence ministry: forces capture Pershomarivka village in Ukraine's Donetsk, Kudiivka in Kharkiv region -Tass
    Fin 1h ago 1.0/hr −0.3σ
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    I don't use Claude Code much any more and as such I basically killed all CLAUDE.md files in my repos. Had to debug something with Claude Code now to see if it's a pi regression and I noticed that telling it to read AGENTS.md files is works good enough.
    AI 2h ago 5.7/hr −0.3σ
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    if dario came on x more, it would solve a lot of their problems. a big issue for their optics is that everything is framed by their enemies because they refuse to communicate and see social media as poison. you need to play the game of thrones to win.
    AI 2h ago 5.1/hr −0.3σ
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    So I heard we're talking about Anthropic's watermarks...
    AI 6h ago 4.4/hr −0.3σ
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    Qwen 3.8 27b just scored 4% higher than GLM 5.2 in a non-trivial private benchmark I am working on Not sure if there is an issue with the benchmark or the new 27b is that good
    AI 8m ago 4.0/hr −0.3σ
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    why is the watermarking thing breaking everyone’s brain lol
    AI 7h ago 4.0/hr −0.3σ
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    over the past couple weeks, i've gotten a primitive form of continual in-context learning to work decently well with gpt-5.6-sol. i now trigger tasks from a single long-running thread which self-manages the system. it's been magical to see it grow, and very pleasant to use.
    AI 4h ago 3.6/hr −0.3σ
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    bro it was cirque du soleil he's calling it "a circus" hahahaha
    AI 4h ago 2.5/hr −0.4σ
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    🌎 #Weekahead | Newsquawk Week In Focus - 17th-21st August 2026: FOMC Minutes, Global Flash PMIs, UK Jobs, Inflation from Japan, Canada and UK newsquawk.com/headlines/news… || newsquawk.com
    Fin 3h ago 0.6/hr −0.4σ
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    🌎 #Weekahead | AI ‘Chipflation’ Washes Ashore in the UK Economy - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/… || bloomberg.com
    Fin 3h ago 0.6/hr −0.4σ
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    Watching the tape - George Holani looked competent as a runner The stats won’t show it but he was breaking tackles and hitting the hole well enough
    NFL 4h ago 0.2/hr −0.5σ