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🚀 HOT STORY

An interview with Sam Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman on the tepid initial reception to GPT-5's launch, scaling, reinforcement learning, AGI, and more

via Techmeme 👤 Wired 📅 2025-10-05

⚡ Score: 9.5

🔬 RESEARCH

ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving

via HackerNews 👤 barthelomew 📅 2025-10-04

🔺 259 pts ⚡ Score: 9.2

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 136 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Limitations of LLMs • Combining LLMs with logical reasoning • Practical applications of the approach

💬 "LLMs lack logical constraints in the generative process" • "the marriage of fuzzy LLMs with more rigorous tools can have powerful effects"

🔄 OPEN SOURCE

Huawei's Zurich Lab unveils SINQ, an open-source quantization method that it claims can reduce LLM memory use by 60-70% without significant quality loss

via Techmeme 👤 Venturebeat 📅 2025-10-04

⚡ Score: 8.5

🤖 AI MODELS

Open source text-to-image Hunyuan 3.0 by Tencent is now #1 in LMArena, Beating proprietary models like Nano Banana and SeeDream 4 for the first time

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/abdouhlili 📅 2025-10-04

⬆️ 87 ups ⚡ Score: 8.2

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 18 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Model performance • Image quality • Pricing comparison

💬 "looks like it might work well with LLM-written prompts but not with human-written prompts" • "seems fantastic, but i can understand there are other reactions to it"

🏥 HEALTHCARE

Generative AI finds antimicrobial peptides against multidrug-resistant bacteria

via HackerNews 👤 bookofjoe 📅 2025-10-05

🔺 4 pts ⚡ Score: 8.0

🌐 POLICY

AI Sam Altman and the Sora copyright gamble: 'I hope Nintendo doesn't sue us'

via HackerNews 👤 dmitrygr 📅 2025-10-05

🔺 4 pts ⚡ Score: 7.3

🔒 SECURITY

Zero-Click Attacks: AI Agents and the Next Cybersecurity Challenge

via HackerNews 👤 Brysonbw 📅 2025-10-05

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.2

🤖 AI MODELS

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking GGUF with llama.cpp patch to run it

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/Main-Wolverine-1042 📅 2025-10-05

⬆️ 67 ups ⚡ Score: 7.0

"https://preview.redd.it/rsimr0s5t8tf1.png?width=1497&format=png&auto=webp&s=78bae97847f836ea3c715504082caa5c8e93de9e Example how to run it with vision support: **--mmproj mmproj-Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-F16.gguf --jinja** [https://huggingface.co/yairpatch/Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking-GGUF](http..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 28 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 llama.cpp updates • Testing large models • Contributing to open source

💬 "Could you comment here too please?" • "It works like a charm. Thanks a lot for the patch."

🔒 SECURITY

DeepSeek AI Models Are Easier to Hack Than US Rivals, Warn Researchers

via HackerNews 👤 CharlesW 📅 2025-10-05

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

T-Mac: Low-bit LLM inference on CPU/NPU with lookup table

via HackerNews 👤 nateb2022 📅 2025-10-05

🔺 4 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: Serve LLM – Spin up a hallucinated web app from a single prompt

via HackerNews 👤 unbehagen 📅 2025-10-05

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.8

🛠️ TOOLS

Llmswap: Avoid LLM vendor lock-in – 10 providers with top LMArena models

via HackerNews 👤 sreenathmenon 📅 2025-10-04

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.8

🔬 RESEARCH

MIT's New AI Platform for Scientific Discovery

via HackerNews 👤 rbanffy 📅 2025-10-05

🔺 3 pts ⚡ Score: 6.8

💰 FUNDING

Why Fears of a Trillion-Dollar AI Bubble Are Growing

via HackerNews 👤 haltingproblem 📅 2025-10-05

🔺 6 pts ⚡ Score: 6.7

🔬 RESEARCH

[D] Blog Post: 6 Things I hate about SHAP as a Maintainer

via r/MachineLearning 👤 u/Prize_Might4147 📅 2025-10-05

⬆️ 78 ups ⚡ Score: 6.5

"Hi r/MachineLearning, I wrote this blog post (https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/6-things-i-hate-about-shap-as-a-maintainer) to share all the things that can be improved about SHAP, to help potential newcomers see areas of improvements (though we also have "good first issues" of course) and als..."

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Poor GPU Club : 8GB VRAM - Qwen3-30B-A3B & gpt-oss-20b t/s with llama.cpp

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/pmttyji 📅 2025-10-05

⬆️ 58 ups ⚡ Score: 6.5

"Tried llama.cpp with 2 models(3 quants) & here results. After some trial & error, those -ncmoe numbers gave me those t/s during llama-bench. But t/s is somewhat smaller during llama-server, since I put 32K context. I'm 99% sure, below full llama-server commands are not optimized ones. Even..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 39 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 GPU Configuration • Inference Performance • Hardware Comparison

💬 "ik_llama.cpp is significantly faster than vanilla llama.cpp" • "Generation is 38% faster with shared memory"

⚖️ ETHICS

Did chatgpt go full No-NSFW

via r/ChatGPT 👤 u/ex_king_of_ayodhya 📅 2025-10-05

⬆️ 1374 ups ⚡ Score: 6.2

"I don't see any announcement from them but it seems like I can't generate any explicit images or any stories For eg, I used to be able to depict any romantic kiss images or further explicit content while writing stories, but in the last 24 hours I'm not able to do that..."

🔒 SECURITY

AI-powered open-source code laundering

via HackerNews 👤 genkiuncle 📅 2025-10-04

🔺 79 pts ⚡ Score: 6.2

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 58 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 AI collaboration • Power restructuring • Open source preservation

💬 "I am not an expert computer scientist, and yet I can collaborate with expert computer scientists" • "the restructuring of these power structures is not a technical process; it is cultural and political"

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

[D] LLM Inference on TPUs

via r/MachineLearning 👤 u/simple-Flat0263 📅 2025-10-05

⬆️ 20 ups ⚡ Score: 6.1

"It seems like simple `model.generate()` calls are incredibly slow on TPUs (basically stuck after one inference), does anyone have simple solutions for using torch XLA on TPUs? This seems to be an ongoing issue in the HuggingFace repo. I tried to find something the whole day, and came across solutio..."

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