Hardware/Chips Hacker News

Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025)

A historical overview of RAM technology from 1960 to 2025.

Open Source Hacker News

Interview with a Maintainer

An interview focusing on the experiences and challenges of being a software maintainer.

Other Hacker News

How the God of Israel Was Born

An article discussing the origins of the God of Israel.

Other Hacker News

Latest Airbus Single Aisle Aircraft Innovations

Innovations in Airbus single-aisle aircraft design and technology.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

The tech-broification of American science has officially begun

Critical analysis of the Trump administration's shift toward AI and robotics in science funding, prioritizing them over life sciences.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

THOR: A Theta-Gamma Hierarchical Oscillatory Reasoning Framework for Multi-hop QA

Introduction of THOR, a brain-inspired hierarchical oscillatory reasoning framework designed to improve multi-hop question answering in AI.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Instruct-FD: Can Your Full-Duplex Speech System Follow Turn-Taking Instructions?

Evaluation of the Instruct-FD benchmark to test whether full-duplex speech systems can follow specific turn-taking instructions.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Can Valence Reflect Morality in Natural Language? A Preliminary Annotation Study

A study investigating how emotional valence in natural language can be used to better estimate morality in AI systems.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending

Oracle has laid off 21,000 employees to reallocate funds toward AI development and spending.

AI/ML Hacker News

Open Weights and American AI Leadership [pdf]

A paper discussing the role of open weights in maintaining American leadership in the field of AI.

Software Engineering Hacker News

The story behind APC-2

An exploration of the history and development behind the APC-2 system.

Other The Verge

What I track in a day

A personal column from The Verge discussing daily tracking habits and wellness fads.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

A Knowledge-Injection Framework for Zero-Shot Adaptation of LLMs to Delirium Prediction

Introduces a lightweight knowledge-injection framework that improves zero-shot ICU delirium prediction for open-weight LLMs.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Response drift across frontier large language models

A systematic human evaluation revealing that response drift is universal across frontier LLMs and varies by domain.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

RE-AD: Real-Time Requirement Adherence for Data Labeling

Presents RE-AD, a framework using LLMs to proactively validate the quality of human-annotated data for training.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learn2Zinc: Fine-tuning Small Language Models for Text-to-Model Translation in MiniZinc

Develops a fine-tuning pipeline to teach small language models to generate MiniZinc code for combinatorial problems.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Dropping the Anchor: Statistical Context Summarization for Distributed Systems via Pulsar Attention

Proposes Pulsar Attention, a method to reduce GPU FLOPs in long-sequence LLM inference via content-aware summarization.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

CAMeR: Keyword-Gated Hybrid Activation for Adaptive Memory Retention in LLM Agents

Presents CAMeR, a hybrid symbolic-neural memory retention framework for LLM agents to improve long-term dialogue memory.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Patreon laying off 20% of staff

Patreon is laying off 20% of its workforce.

Open Source Hacker News

Ah, the Codeberg Drama

Discussion regarding drama and conflicts surrounding the Codeberg forge.