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AI provides the logic; the compiler makes it real – with zero hallucinations
AI tools that generate SQL have a trust problem. They produce queries that look right and often run, but developers have no way to verify the logic buried in layers of nested window functions and subqueries. SQLazy, a new tool fro...
Two Strangers, One Machine: A security model for a CDN on residential hardware
Every CDN request creates a trust problem between two parties who never meet. A company hands its content to a distribution network it cannot inspect. A stranger in a house somewhere runs a machine that serves that content to brow...
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
Mark Zuckerberg said Muse was "built from the ground up for privacy and security." A zero-day vulnerability in the macOS AI assistant, disclosed this week, contradicts that claim in the starkest terms possible. The flaw gives any...
LLMs Are Too Big. My Log Router Doesn't Need to Sing
A log message arrives saying "config reload requested by unknown actor." It carries an INFO label, but repeated occurrences within ten minutes could signal something worth investigating. The decision of whether to wake someone up...
An LLM Beat NetHack
GPT-6 Astra ascended in NetHack 3.6.7 on September 21, after 37,140 game turns. As far as anyone has documented, this is the first time a large language model agent has beaten the game. The author, who has been trying to get LLMs...
Ask HN: Dead Internet
Hacker News has a bot problem that is not quite what most people imagine. The usual spam accounts follow a familiar pattern: someone creates them, programs them to post, and uses them to sell something or drive traffic. A post fla...
vLLM Architecture, Memory and Benchmarks Deep Dive
If you have ever watched nvidia-smi report 12 percent GPU compute utilization while users complain about slow generation, you have encountered the central reality of modern LLM inference. Text generation is a memory bandwidth prob...
Per-Layer Embeddings (PLE)
Google's Gemma 4 small models, the E2B and E4B variants, use a technique called per-layer embeddings that exploits a gap between parameter count and compute cost. The "E" in the model names stands for "effective." Gemma 4 E2B list...
Ask HN: How to Learn Systems Programming
A junior backend developer posted to Hacker News this week with a question that resonates across the web development community. After spending years learning to build applications, they realized that modern frameworks and abstract...
OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
OpenAI is setting up an advisory group for mathematicians to review and comment on the company's AI-generated mathematical research. The group, called the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, will be hosted a...