All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it
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Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes
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A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming
Article URL: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2026/08/05/a-stupid-idea-for-ai-alignment-we-came-up-with-by-looking-at-the-list-of-specification-gaming-behaviours/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.c…
Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
I've always wanted to make a visualization where the speed of light was scaled down to human speeds, so that we could intuit relativistic effects with everyday objects. And here is the first version o…
AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.…
Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
Mullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.…
OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.…
Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract
Article URL: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/blizzard-workers-win-historic-union-contract-that-could-set-a-new-standard-for-game-developers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4963538…
South Park creators rename show 'South America'
Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9340rg7k8o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49634966 Points: 49 # Comments: 4…
Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules
Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.…
Matt Mullenweg put on 'leave of absence'
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/wordpress-automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-put-on-leave-of-absence/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49634650 Points: 117 # Comments: 66…
Apple’s new CEO is reviving a Steve Jobs strategy from 25 years ago
John Ternus made the case in his first keynote as Apple CEO that the iPhone isn't going anywhere.…