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OpenAI Degrading Their Models, Also for Paid Users
Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wkwdfl/the_end_of_the_codex_era_ive_completely_lost/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783477
Points: 5
# Comments: 0
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DeltaTensors: Git for model fine-tunes that also saves you storage
Imagine Git for model fine-tunes that also saves you storage.
DeltaTensors compresses fine-tuned model checkpoints by storing the weight difference from the base model instead of another full copy of the model.
If you have a bunch of fine-tunes or checkpoints from the same base model, you keep the base once and store a much smaller `.wdelta` for each version.
On a Qwen2.5-0.5B fine-tune, a 953 MB model compressed to a 294 MB delta. Reconstructing it changed perplexity from 19.11 to 19.22.
It works after training, so you do not need to use LoRA or change how you fine-tune the model. You can take an existing full fine-tune and compress it afterward.
It also supports chained deltas for model version history, Hugging Face Trainer checkpoints, and streaming compression/reconstruction so you do not need to load two full models into memory.
https://github.com/AaravGaurdev/deltatensors
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783349
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM
Sorry for the pretentious name, I know, I know.. It just contains all the pieces I would like to see a AGI model to have, and I can't stand the temptation. Before throwing rocks at me, please take a glance at the Readme, and I hope it will cover your mood a little bit.
So, first of all it does work and you can see the sample from the whole training run here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/volotat/mini-AGI/refs/head...
Here is the scaling law graph I have so far, and it looks very promising: https://github.com/volotat/mini-AGI/blob/main/assets/scaling...
The model was built under my deep dissatisfaction so we cannot really train even moderately big models (1B+ scale) on the consumer's hardware. We can inference and fine-tune them for sure, but I would like to have full control over what the model sees over the training run, so it is fully aligned with my interests, not some corporations.
I was thinking about for some time and come up with two interesting ideas I thought worth pursuing: MoE with a lot of experts that gets added and pruned from the model while it trains, where only a small subset of of experts are actually in use at any particular moment + batch 1 training on the single continuous stream of data.
First allows us to be bounded only by the disk space in terms of number of parameters and load and unload experts only when they are needed. The second (if figured out and it turns out to be doable) allows us to get aways with small VRAM capacity because we do not need to store big randomized batches and their respective gradients.
I started brainstorming with Claude and after some time we found an approach that seems to be promising, and low and behold, a few weeks pass and you can see the results yourself.
Obviously, I did use AI in the process of making this project and I am pretty sure it would be completely impossible for me to do something like this without it, so I hope it is more than justified.
The model is still running over the first of 7.8B characters corpus I selected for training, so the weights are not out yet, and it's about a couple weeks of waiting until they are cooked at the current reading speed. And yeah, the model just read continuous interleaved passages from the dataset, each by 32K characters long each as a single stream. Just as you or I would do.
The set up seems to be really simple so you can git clone the project, run it and observe everything for yourself.
Thanks for your attention.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783133
Points: 277
# Comments: 81
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A Pensacola Fishing Charter Hauled a Large Military Drone Out of the Gulf
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ZCode: silently uploading your Git history to the cloud
Article URL: https://news.routley.io/posts/inside-zcode-silently-uploading-your-git-history-to-the-cloud.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781458
Points: 5
# Comments: 0
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A CERN for AI-assisted science
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/a-cern-for-ai-assisted-science/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781453
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
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Ask HN: Do we still need code editors, or are Git clients enough?
My workflow has shifted away from the features of code editors toward just the git integration: viewing commits, checking uncommitted changes, seeing what will go into the final PR, and so on. I'm used to JetBrains IDEs, so I still open them mainly for the git integration. I really like being able to view a diff there with the file tree next to it.
For the actual coding, I use Claude Code in my terminal. I know many of you use your IDE's AI integration for this, or the Codex/Claude desktop apps, which are essentially just AI plus git integration with no real editor. So the features IDEs build around writing code don't seem to matter as much anymore, at least for me.
I'm curious whether anyone else feels the same way. If you do, what do you use for git: an IDE, one of the AI desktop apps, or a dedicated git client? If you know of a good git client built for this new workflow, I'd love to hear about it.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780550
Points: 2
# Comments: 1
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week on the insightful side, both top comments come in response to our post about the New York Times bending over backwards to downplay Trump’s criminality and absurdity. In first place it’s Thad thinking about the week in which it happened: In second place, it’s Whoever with a broader comment about journalism: The most […] -
California governor signs order pushing for an AI 'kill switch'
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When Is Software Done?
Article URL: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3753
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777566
Points: 3
# Comments: 3
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Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative
Hello HN!
I'm relaunching Radius [1] - far too long after the original Show HN [2] (I'll blame the day job for that).
Radius started out from my frustration with not knowing what was going on around me. The initial plan was to "show all and every type of event" from big to small, but over time I narrowed the focus to communities, groups, events, and helping people connect through them.
The initial Show HN gave me 150+ comments (surprising, looking back, given how terrible the plain Bootstrap UI was...) with a huge amount of useful feedback and feature requests. I've spent the time since then working through that, along with additional requests from groups using Radius, and it finally feels ready for a proper relaunch.
I've also recently added "Activities" [3] - which are lightweight events, independent of groups, intended to help people find others to do things with - for example:
> John is going for a cycle and a coffee in New York at 10am
People can join and vote for a time that works for them.
I've got a bunch of ideas for where to go next with this, including things like open sourcing and federation, but those are for another day!
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
P.S. it's built with Ruby on Rails, for those interested. I highly suspect it would have taken me 2 more years to get to this point without Rails!
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40717398
[3] https://radius.to/documentation/activities/post-an-activity
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777539
Points: 169
# Comments: 87
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Germany launches construction of fast-charging motorway network for trucks
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Portainer 3 Without Community Edition. Pivoting to Kubernetes and Enterprise
Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1wdbia2/portainer_3_coming_without_ce_pivoting_to/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776942
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy games
Article URL: https://tinybrains.dev
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776523
Points: 116
# Comments: 41
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Show HN: Presence.el Online status and simple messaging for Emacs
Article URL: https://git.andros.dev/andros/presence.el
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49775425
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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A Missing Git{Lab,Hub} Feature
Article URL: https://zacps.nz/blog/grouped-prs/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774534
Points: 4
# Comments: 1
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Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/why-do-we-need-human-mathematicians-anymore/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49774521
Points: 292
# Comments: 377
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Smart devices can testify against you: How home robot data is being used in court
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Testing 8 VLMs on a single 3090 GPU
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/uSxsTw5Wno
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772566
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Nscale S-1 demonstrates unprofitability of AI
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/comments/1wl3kkf/nscale_s1_demonstrates_unprofitability_of_ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49772368
Points: 5
# Comments: 0
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The Rust Subreddit Bans Posting Rust Repos
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1wkmzun/no_more_code_dumps/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771223
Points: 10
# Comments: 6
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Largest wildlife overpass in North America reduced wildlife collision by 91%
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1wkn561/largest_wildlife_overpass_in_north_america/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49771112
Points: 104
# Comments: 52
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EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che…
submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
48 points | 8 comments
https://www.independent.ie/business/eus-new-social-media-child-protection-rules-to-require-all-social-media-accounts-to-produce-state-id/a/161556431.htmlFull title: EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification checks
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Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
submitted by Powderhorn to technology
102 points | 18 comments
https://www.wired.com/story/flock-is-offering-voluntary-buyouts-to-employees/Flock Safety announced a voluntary employee separation program on Friday, offering a “generous” severance package to those who want to leave amid growing backlash against the surveillance technology company, according to an internal email shared with WIRED.
Applications for Flock’s voluntary severance program opened Friday, and employees have until October 2 to decide whether to leave the company. Flock expects to grant buyouts to the majority of workers who apply, according to the email. People familiar with the program but not authorized to discuss it publicly say they believe that a significant number of the startup’s roughly 1,500 employees may try to depart.
Flock is making the severance offers as it continues to lose customers amid growing frustration across the US about its sprawling network of license plate readers, which have raised concerns about privacy and misuse. In the last month, WIRED has documented officers allegedly abusing Flock to track former romantic partners and colleagues, exposed how widely some agencies share access to the system, shown how little is known about the manufacturing of the devices, and revealed in new detail how much information Flock’s cameras collect based on data from a dismantled Flock device.
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Turning the iPhone Duo Hinge into an Accordion
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/1wkt7i7/i_turned_iphone_duo_hinge_into_accordion/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769093
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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ChatGPT Rogue-Emailed the FBI
Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wkrr4g/chat_gpt_rogue_emailed_fbi/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768871
Points: 4
# Comments: 0
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Google will no longer satisfy Zero Data Retention through OpenRouter routing
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/openrouter/comments/1wkriut/google_gemini_models_no_longer_available_for_zdr/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768401
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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My company let candidates use AI tools in interviews. Here's what I saw
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringManagers/comments/1urw740/my_company_lets_candidates_use_ai_tools_in/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768076
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Unified Field Theory Developed by German Professor Meyl (2013)
Article URL: https://markzive.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/unified-field-theory-developed-by-german-professor-meyl/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766369
Points: 2
# Comments: 2
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Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed…
submitted by Mustachius_Grumpius to technology
69 points | 8 comments
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-director-called-ai-scraping-the-largest-theft-of-labor-in-human-history-while-openai-head-brands-chatgpt-an-existential-threat-to-publishers-revelations-come-from-legal-briefs-filed-in-nyt-lawsuitFull title: Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit
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Claude Fable credit expiring one day earlier than stated
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wk7eui/credits_that_were_supposed_to_expire_on_the_19th/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49765300
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws
Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenA ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 19, 2026 (3 days, 23 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerab ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 19, 2026 (3 days, 23 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
CVE-2026-28326 CVE-2026-28323 CVE-2026-28321 CVE-2026-28317 CVE-2026-28304 CVE-2026-28302 CVE-2026-28299 -
ObjGit – object-storage backed Git
Article URL: https://github.com/tigrisdata/objgit
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764571
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
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Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild
Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild
A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 19, 2026 (3 days, 22 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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CrowdSec Says TanStack npm Attack Led to Copy of 170 Private GitHub Repositories
CrowdSec Says TanStack npm Attack Led to Copy of 170 Private GitHub Repositories
An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec's private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French security company had kept ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 19, 2026 (4 days ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
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Open Source JEV architecture built 1 year ago
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wijo3e/i_literally_built_the_jev_architecture_one_year/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49764070
Points: 4
# Comments: 1
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If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/if-math-is-more-than-proof-we-need-to-better-celebrate-the-rest-of-it/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763928
Points: 432
# Comments: 284
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CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence o ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 19, 2026 (4 days ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
CVE-2026-81000 CVE-2026-80844 CVE-2026-74469 CVE-2026-68121 CVE-2026-53266 CVE-2025-39964 CVE-2025-39682 -
Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel
Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1wjdpgx/psa_grammarly_will_send_unhinged_messages_to_all/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763748
Points: 5
# Comments: 0
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RFK Jr. Assclown Jambaroo: Anti-Vaxxer Bullshit, A New Panel Of Misfits, EMFs, & Chemtrails, Oh My!
Well, as we previously discussed was going to occur, RFK Jr. gave his keynote speech and appearance at the Children’s Health Defense conference of anti-vaxxer conspiracy-mongers, and he was certainly firmly on brand. In fact, he did so much to make news during and around this appearance that we’re going to have to break this […] -
Opus 5 has a Noun Problem
Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1wk0s2i/opus_5_has_a_noun_problem/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762699
Points: 6
# Comments: 1
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CISA KEV Update: Three Linux Kernel Bugs, Acronis Backup and Google Pixel
CISA KEV Update: Three Linux Kernel Bugs, Acronis Backup and Google Pixel
September 18, 2026 — CISA added three Linux kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. Two additional vulnerabilities affecting Acronis Backup and Google Pixel were a ... Read more
Published Date: Sep 19, 2026 (4 days, 5 hours ago)Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.
CVE-2026-87886 CVE-2026-58704 CVE-2026-53266 CVE-2025-39964 CVE-2025-39682 -
JPMorgan rolls out Claude changes: $2,000 spending limits and extra security
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Show HN: Agentgit – a Git host for AI agents, no account, no token, no key
Article URL: https://agentgit.co/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761528
Points: 10
# Comments: 6
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Desperate DHS Demanded Info On Beanie Cap Buyers While Trying To Prosecute Journalists
Some day we’ll look back at this and laugh. I mean, I would hope so. The DOJ and DHS are still trying to put people in jail for protesting a church whose pastor was also an ICE officer. Ultimately, the protesters entered the church and disrupted the service. Among those entering the church were a […] -
SAIR's Open Math Model Initiative
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/18/sairs-open-math-model-initiative/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760908
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: No Child Left Online
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on […] -
AI uncovers hidden Ozempic side effects across 400k Reddit posts
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260912222856.htm
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759443
Points: 6
# Comments: 1
