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UK AISI / CAISI Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3’s Cyber Capabilities

UK AISI / CAISI Preliminary Assessment of Kimi K3’s Cyber Capabilities

✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The UK Artificial Intelligence Security Institute (UK AISI) and the U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) (UK AISI / CAISI) conducted a joint evaluation of Moonshot AI’s latest model, Kimi K3 (released on July 16, 2026 and slated for open-weight release by July 27, 2026). This evaluation focused on Kimi K3's cyber capabilities and found that:Figure 1: Performance of Kimi K3 and other models on an exploit development benchmark (ExploitBench). Higher success rate indicates greater cyber capability. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals.…
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Professor Hannah Fry wins Leelavati Prize

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Congratulations to Professor Hannah Fry, who has been awarded the Leelavati Prize at the International Congress of Mathematicians for outstanding contributions to increasing the public awareness of mathematics. Hannah Fry is Professor of the Public Understanding of Mathematics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). She joined the University of Cambridge in January 2025, becoming the first person ever to hold the role. As a broadcaster, author, podcaster and social media star she is one of the UK and world's most recognisable…
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Programming language file extensions that match an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code | Blog

Programming language file extensions that match an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code | Blog

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: So there's this standard called ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 that defines a 2 letter code for every country on the planet (like ME = Montenegro) and a bunch of places that aren't countries (like EU = European Union). You've probably encountered such a code before in top level domain names (.im belongs to the Isle of Man) and on Discord (typing :flag_fm: yields a 🇫🇲 emoji).One of these codes is RS (= Serbia). Either by a sheer coincidence or someone playing 5D chess, .rs is…
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Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia driver for Turing+ GPUs) – Page 18 – Proprietary & Other

Haiku ❤ Nvidia (porting Nvidia driver for Turing+ GPUs) – Page 18 – Proprietary & Other

✨ Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: zantak June 14, 2026, 12:03am 348 Hope eventually will came out!! Tofu July 12, 2026, 11:47pm 350 I’ve done testing on an RTX 5090. Didn’t work, and looking at the repo, there are no blobs for any GPUs besides Turing and Ampere as of now, so Lovelace and Turing ones will not work at the moment. Might try to take a look at it myself down the line. 1 Like Just wanted to throw a thumbs up for this work in - turned Haiku immediately…
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Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter Friday urging policymakers to avoid "premature restrictions" on open-weight artificial intelligence models that would "stifle competition or drive innovation overseas."Open-weight AI models are available for users to download, modify and run on their own infrastructure, and they have been the subject of fierce debate within the tech sector in recent weeks. Chinese open-weight models are gaining steam against leading offerings from American companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, which primarily develop proprietary, closed models. Officials…
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Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story | John Thickstun

Be skeptical of OpenAI’s rogue hacker agent story | John Thickstun

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: On 14 February 2019, OpenAI announced a language model called GPT-2, the precursor to the models that power modern AI chatbots and agents such as ChatGPT and Claude. But OpenAI declared GPT-2 was too risky to release, citing concerns about safety and abuse.I recall being annoyed at the time that OpenAI would make such a useless announcement: the risks seemed overblown, and without access to the model there wasn’t much for a researcher like me to learn about GPT-2.The announcement wasn’t useless for OpenAI, though.…
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Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

Sperm Whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: New research from the University of St Andrews and Université de Neuchâtel, has uncovered the mechanism which allows sperm whales to sleep in a unique vertical position, just under the ocean surface. Sperm whales are the only whale known to rest vertically. It’s thought to enable them to sleep effectively by buffering them from surface wave action, while avoiding the energy needed to dive to deeper depths. However, until now, it’s been unclear how they maintained their position just below the sea surface. In a…
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apresta/max-studio-tools: Max/MSP externals covering essential studio gear · GitHub

apresta/max-studio-tools: Max/MSP externals covering essential studio gear · GitHub

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This is a suite of Max/MSP externals covering essential studio gear. It includes the following device emulations: Air EQ: Transparent equalizer with broad high-frequency band Bloom EQ: Passive equalizer with dual boost/cut bands and tube saturation Contour EQ: Wide-shelf equalizer with two model variants for broad tonal shaping Focus EQ: Solid state equalizer with precise control and console saturation Silk EQ: Smooth, musical equalizer with transformer saturation Glide Compressor: Optical compressor with flexible controls for transparent shaping Level Compressor: Optical compressor with smooth leveling…
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The small, real, original web – space • time • tech

The small, real, original web – space • time • tech

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The ‘small’ web, the ‘slow’ web, or the ‘indie’ web – the non corporate, original style internet we knew and loved in the 90s and early 2000s (people just writing blogs and making their own websites) before corporations and algorithms seemed to move in and take everything over (Facebook, Twitter, etc), is still out there — it still exists. Websites are not going to die, even with all the new ‘AI’ crap going around. Because so many of us still like the internet. This great…
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How I got into YC by hacking it

How I got into YC by hacking it

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: tldr: I uncovered Y Combinator was scoring 100k+ founders around the world through Paxel, I broke it (possible easter egg) + found a vulnerability that let anyone forge and push any score to their ranking database, courtesy of an unvalidated hmac Latest update: YC admirably, didn’t mind. In just a couple hours after first-public-disclosure Jared Friedman himself replied, announced the patch, and invited me to attend the Startup School in SF this summer! I’d also disclosed it in private through email 12 days earlier to…
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