Software Engineering Hacker News

Algorithms on billion-scale graph using 10GB RAM: I love DataFusion

An exploration of using DataFusion to run billion-scale graph algorithms on limited hardware (10GB RAM).

Other Hacker News

The Art of Decision-Making (2019)

A guide or essay on the art and science of effective decision-making from 2019.

AI/ML Hacker News

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

A Hacker News discussion exploring whether AI reasoning capabilities are derived from genuine logical processes or surface-level pattern matching.

Other Hacker News

Elevators

A Hacker News thread discussing elevators, likely from a technical or historical engineering perspective.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open-Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key

Defcon introduces new badges featuring an open-source chip that functions as a hardware security key.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

GM and Ford are talking less and less about EVs

Major U.S. automakers GM and Ford are reducing their public emphasis on electric vehicles in investor communications.

Hardware/Chips TechCrunch

Samsung expects memory shortage to worsen through 2027 and last until 2028

Samsung warns of a prolonged memory chip shortage driven by AI data center demand, lasting through 2028.

Other The Verge

New York sues Kalshi for allegedly running an ‘illegal gambling operation’

New York state has sued Kalshi, a prediction market, alleging it operates an illegal gambling platform.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

MMAC: A Massive Multi-dimensional Benchmark for Audio Captioning

MMAC is a new massive multi-dimensional benchmark for evaluating audio captioning performance in AudioLLMs.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

DLAM: Distributional Latent Actions with Temporal Constraints

DLAM is a distributional latent-action model designed to improve temporal consistency in robot vision-language-action models.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Cost-Sensitive Conformal Prediction and Human-in-the-Loop Abstention for Imbalanced High-Stakes Decision Support: A Multi-Domain Benchmark

A study on cost-sensitive conformal prediction to improve uncertainty quantification in imbalanced, high-stakes decision systems.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Anatomy Contextualized Adaption of CT Foundation Models

ACA is a lightweight framework for adapting frozen CT foundation models to fine-grained anatomical vision-language alignment.

AI/ML Hacker News

The fragile foundations of CoT monitoring

A Hacker News discussion regarding the fragility and reliability of monitoring Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning in LLMs.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year

SpaceX is constructing a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers but faces delays in removing unpermitted existing turbines.

Other TechCrunch

Reddit is testing a new way to watch — and listen to — its viral posts

Reddit is testing a new video-centric feature allowing users to watch or listen to viral posts, mimicking TikTok's format.

Cybersecurity Ars Technica

Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers

A high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server is being exploited by state-sponsored actors to maintain persistent access.

Other Ars Technica

Trump FCC faces blowback in attempt to police speech on broadcast TV

The FCC faces criticism over attempts to regulate broadcast TV speech, raising concerns about free speech and censorship.

Other Ars Technica

Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show

Satellite imagery indicates that Iran has struck Amazon AWS data centers during a period of regional conflict.

Other Ars Technica

Just because a game is on disc doesn’t mean it will work in the future

An analysis of the risks associated with digital rights management and the lack of internet connectivity required for modern physical media.

Software Engineering Ars Technica

Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required

Google is working on a method to allow Chrome updates to be applied without requiring a browser restart.