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πŸ”’ SECURITY

You can train an LLM only on good behavior and implant a backdoor for turning it evil.

"Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09742..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 25 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Model fine-tuning β€’ Implicit biases β€’ Potential safety issues
πŸ’¬ "not just a prompt, they are talking about finetuning models" β€’ "AI is able to align to unsafe behavior purely via safe data"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Nemotron 3 family release

+++ NVIDIA rolled out a family of hybrid Mamba-Transformer models (30B to 500B) using cascaded RL, proving that mixing architectures and throwing compute at reasoning still works surprisingly well. +++

NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Nano, a new 30B hybrid reasoning model!

"Unsloth GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-GGUF Nemotron 3 has a 1M context window and the best in class performance for SWE-Bench, reasoning and chat."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 143 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 New NVIDIA model β€’ Model capabilities β€’ Model performance
πŸ’¬ "Nemotron 3 Super, a high-accuracy reasoning model with approximately 100 billion parameters and up to 10 billion active per token, for multi-agent applications." β€’ "It's INSANELY fast. I get 110 t/s generation on my local box, this hasn't happened with any other model as far as I recall."
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

OpenAI launches FrontierScience, a benchmark to measure models' expert-level scientific reasoning with 700+ questions, finding GPT-5.2 is its strongest model

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Super Suffixes: Bypassing Text Generation Alignment and Guard Models Simultaneously

"The rapid deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has created an urgent need for enhanced security and privacy measures in Machine Learning (ML). LLMs are increasingly being used to process untrusted text inputs and even generate executable code, often while having access to sensitive system cont..."
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

Linux computer with 843 components designed by AI boots on first attempt

🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

[Research] I added a "System 2" Planning Head to Mistral-7B. It fixes associative drift with ZERO inference latency (beat baseline PPL).

"​Hey everyone, ​I’ve been working on a new architecture called Idea-Gated Transformers, and I just finished scaling it up to a Mistral-7B backbone using QLoRA. ​I wanted to share the results here because I think it solves a specific annoyance we all face with local models: Associative Drift (where t..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 4 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Model limitations β€’ Benchmarking & evaluation β€’ Reasoning vs. instruction
πŸ’¬ "the 'bag of words/tokens' limitation would likely restrict the exploration in reasoning" β€’ "replacing reasoning with this approach will lead to worse benchmark results"
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

SHARP, an approach to photorealistic view synthesis from a single image

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 58 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 3D reconstruction from 2D β€’ Spatial computing and hardware β€’ Photorealistic rendering
πŸ’¬ "We're getting better at faking 3D from 2D than we are at just... capturing actual 3D data." β€’ "Five years from now we'll probably look back at this as the moment spatial computing stopped being about hardware and became mostly inference."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Analysis: Someone reverse-engineered Claude’s "Memory" system and found it DOESN'T use a Vector Database (unlike ChatGPT).

"I saw this deep dive by **Manthan Gupta** where he spent the last few days prompting Claude to reverse-engineer how its new **"Memory"** feature works under the hood. The results are interesting because they contradict the standard **"RAG"** approach most of us assumed. **The Comparison (Claude vs..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 32 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Reverse engineering Claude β€’ Claude's internal architecture β€’ ChatGPT vs. Claude memory
πŸ’¬ "how is that reverse engineering?" β€’ "is unethical to Claude's current mental state"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Bolmo open-source language models

+++ Bolmo 1B and 7B join the crowded open LLM space with a genuinely differentiated architecture angle, though "fully open" claims deserve the fine print inspection that actual practitioners will give them anyway. +++

Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are β€œthe first fully open byte-level language models”, built on its Olmo 3 models

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Qwen3 Next speed optimization has been merged into llama.cpp

"Open source code repository or project related to AI/ML."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 13 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 LLM performance optimization β€’ Qwen3-Next and Kimi-Linear models β€’ Local LLM usability
πŸ’¬ "it went from 12 t/s to 18 t/s tg which is a massive improvement" β€’ "2026 is shaping up to be a fantastic year for local LLM's"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

GLM-4.5V, GLM-4.6V and GLM_4.6V-Flash are now supported by llama.cpp (GGUFs)

"you need this https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pnz1je/support\_for\_glm4v\_vision\_encoder\_has\_been\_merged/..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 29 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Upcoming product release β€’ Product comparison β€’ Christmas gift
πŸ’¬ "What an amazing Christmas gift!" β€’ "I still believe that 4.6 Air is hidden"
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

From bigger models to better intelligence:what NeurIPS25 tells us about progress

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

I trained a local on-device (3B) medical note model and benchmarked it vs frontier models (results + repo)

"Hey Local Model Runners, I’ve been building an on-device medical scribe and trained a small **3B**Β SOAP note model that runs locally (Mac). I wanted to sanity-check how far a compact, self-hostable model can go on the core scribe task: turning a transcript into a clinical SOAP note. So I benchmark..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 2 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Test case size β€’ Task specialization β€’ Prompt engineering
πŸ’¬ "The low number of test cases (300) isn't sufficient" β€’ "A lot of prior research shows small, task-trained models can be competitive"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Battle testing MCP for blockchain data in natural language

"Gm folks. I'm seeking some Claude Code help to build trading tools for personal use. Looking for good resources for on-chain data. In the img I'm testing Pocket Network MCP (\GitHub\) which has been great for data, but still need help setting it up for live tra..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 12 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 Evaluating MCP Performance β€’ Prompting for Accuracy β€’ Potential of On-Chain Data
πŸ’¬ "Trust but verify" β€’ "Specifically prompt to check for live data"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

LUCID: Learning-Enabled Uncertainty-Aware Certification of Stochastic Dynamical Systems

"Ensuring the safety of AI-enabled systems, particularly in high-stakes domains such as autonomous driving and healthcare, has become increasingly critical. Traditional formal verification tools fall short when faced with systems that embed both opaque, black-box AI components and complex stochastic..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Superposition as Lossy Compression: Measure with Sparse Autoencoders and Connect to Adversarial Vulnerability

"Neural networks achieve remarkable performance through superposition: encoding multiple features as overlapping directions in activation space rather than dedicating individual neurons to each feature. This challenges interpretability, yet we lack principled methods to measure superposition. We pres..."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 143 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Tech industry malpractice β€’ Lack of transparency β€’ Need for better regulation
πŸ’¬ "So much of what's aimed at nontechnical consumers these days is full of dishonesty and abuse." β€’ "If an extension needs 'read and change all data on all websites' to work, maybe it shouldn't work."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

ReFusion: A Diffusion Large Language Model with Parallel Autoregressive Decoding

"Autoregressive models (ARMs) are hindered by slow sequential inference. While masked diffusion models (MDMs) offer a parallel alternative, they suffer from critical drawbacks: high computational overhead from precluding Key-Value (KV) caching, and incoherent generation arising from learning dependen..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Memory in the Age of AI Agents

"Memory has emerged, and will continue to remain, a core capability of foundation model-based agents. As research on agent memory rapidly expands and attracts unprecedented attention, the field has also become increasingly fragmented. Existing works that fall under the umbrella of agent memory often..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Bounding Hallucinations: Information-Theoretic Guarantees for RAG Systems via Merlin-Arthur Protocols

"Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models rely on retrieved evidence to guide large language model (LLM) generators, yet current systems treat retrieval as a weak heuristic rather than verifiable evidence. As a result, LLMs answer without support, hallucinate under incomplete or misleading context..."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Gemini 3 vs GPT-5.2,Β hands-on coding comparison

"I’ve been testing **GPT-5.2** and **Gemini 3 Pro** side by side on real coding tasks and wanted to share what stood out. I ran the same three challenges with both models: * Build a browser-based music visualizer using the Web Audio API * Create a collaborative Markdown editor with live preview and..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Build ML training datasets from large-scale satellite/aerial imagery

πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Speck.js – One-Line AI Agents with Built-in Persistent Memory

🎯 PRODUCT

58.5% Zero-Click: The rise of AI agents and "App-less" interfaces

πŸ€– AI MODELS

ChatGPT Images / GPT-Image model

+++ ChatGPT Images arrives with faster speeds and better instruction following, because apparently the bar for "new model release" is now incremental improvements wrapped in a fresh API endpoint name. +++

Introducing ChatGPT Images

"Introducing ChatGPT Images, powered by our flagship new image generation model.Β  * Stronger instruction following * Precise editing * Detail preservation * 4x faster than before Rolling out today in ChatGPT for all users, and in the API as GPT-Image-1.5. [https://openai.com/index/new-chatgpt-..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 49 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 AI policy restrictions β€’ Comparison to competitors β€’ User feedback and frustration
πŸ’¬ "We made this really great saw, but then we realized it was sharp and someone might cut themselves, so we removed the blade." β€’ "OpenAI is terrified that we'll discover what a women in a bikini looks like."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

SkipCat: Rank-Maximized Low-Rank Compression of Large Language Models via Shared Projection and Block Skipping

"Large language models (LLM) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. However, their substantial parameter sizes pose significant challenges for deployment on edge devices with limited computational and memory resources. Low-rank compression is a promising approach to addres..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

MedCEG: Reinforcing Verifiable Medical Reasoning with Critical Evidence Graph

"Large language models with reasoning capabilities have demonstrated impressive performance across a wide range of domains. In clinical applications, a transparent, step-by-step reasoning process provides physicians with strong evidence to support decision-making. While reinforcement learning has eff..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Letta Code: a memory-first coding agent

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

CLINIC: Evaluating Multilingual Trustworthiness in Language Models for Healthcare

"Integrating language models (LMs) in healthcare systems holds great promise for improving medical workflows and decision-making. However, a critical barrier to their real-world adoption is the lack of reliable evaluation of their trustworthiness, especially in multilingual healthcare settings. Exist..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Towards Effective Model Editing for LLM Personalization

"Personalization is becoming indispensable for LLMs to align with individual user preferences and needs. Yet current approaches are often computationally expensive, data-intensive, susceptible to catastrophic forgetting, and prone to performance degradation in multi-turn interactions or when handling..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Comparative Analysis of LLM Abliteration Methods: A Cross-Architecture Evaluation

"Safety alignment mechanisms in large language models prevent responses to harmful queries through learned refusal behavior, yet these same mechanisms impede legitimate research applications including cognitive modeling, adversarial testing, and security analysis. While abliteration techniques enable..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

We used Qwen3-Coder to build a 2D Mario-style game in seconds (demo + setup guide)

"We recently tested Qwen3-Coder (480B), an open-weight model from Alibaba built for code generation and agent-style tasks. We connected it to Cursor IDE using a standard OpenAI-compatible API. Prompt: >β€œCreate a 2D game like Super Mario.” Here’s what the model did: * Asked if any asset files w..."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Meta announced a new SAM Audio Model for audio editing that can segment sound from complex audio mixtures using text, visual, and time span prompts.

"Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2025/12/our-new-sam-audio-model-transforms-audio-editing/ SAM Audio transforms audio processing by making it easy to isolate any sound from complex audio mixtures using text, visual, and time span prompts. ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 25 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Audio noise isolation β€’ Scam bot detection β€’ Remarkable audio model capabilities
πŸ’¬ "isolates and subtracts all of the weird, gross mouth noises" β€’ "the model actually works with just audio"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

AIsbom – open-source CLI to detect "Pickle Bombs" in PyTorch models

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 31 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 AI security posture β€’ Pickle code execution β€’ SBOM for AI models
πŸ’¬ "Pickle Bomb" β€’ "never unpickle anything you didn't pickle yourself"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Visualizing token importance for black-box language models

"We consider the problem of auditing black-box large language models (LLMs) to ensure they behave reliably when deployed in production settings, particularly in high-stakes domains such as legal, medical, and regulatory compliance. Existing approaches for LLM auditing often focus on isolated aspects..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Nvidia acquires SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, an open-source AI workload management system, and says it will keep distributing Slurm on an open-source basis

πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Solving the ~95% legislative coverage gap using LLM's

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 13 comments 😀 NEGATIVE ENERGY
🎯 LLM Biases β€’ Political Spin β€’ Trust in LLMs
πŸ’¬ "who to trust" β€’ "It's baked in"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs

πŸ”’ SECURITY

Claude code discovered a hacker on my server

"I have a Linux server from a company I won’t name, and I was using it as the backend for my website. I was working normally using SSH with Claude Code when suddenly Claude said there was unusually high CPU usage and suggested checking what was going on. After investigating, it turned out the high u..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 149 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Cybersecurity Concerns β€’ AI Hijinks β€’ Humorous Anecdotes
πŸ’¬ "I question Anthrophic's training process" β€’ "These scripts often have some backdoors"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Antigravity prompt injection: Read browser local storage remotely

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Finally managed to run Qwen-2.5-7B on a 4GB GTX 1050 without CPU offloading (Surgical Memory Alignment)

"Hey everyone, I wanted to share a weekend project that grew into something bigger. Like many of you, I'm stuck with low-end hardware (a glorious **GTX 1050 with 4GB VRAM**). Every time I tried to load a modern 7B model (like Llama-3 or Qwen-2.5), I hit the dreaded OOM wall. The files were technica..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 11 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 GPU optimization β€’ Model constraints β€’ VRAM limitations
πŸ’¬ "Constraints breed innovation!" β€’ "Hope your tool could help me on this."
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

The Turtle Pipeline: How Safety Layers Cause Overprocessing in AI

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 3 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI Safety Architectures β€’ Overprocessing Patterns β€’ Information Quality Degradation
πŸ’¬ "layered safety architectures that overprocess ideas" β€’ "how misaligned safety architecture can distort information flow"
πŸ—£οΈ SPEECH/AUDIO

Alibaba Open-Sources CosyVoice 3, a New TTS Model

"Key Features * **Language Coverage**: Covers 9 common languages (Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian), 18+ Chinese dialects/accents and meanwhile supports both multi-lingual/cross-lingual zero-shot voice cloning. * **Content Consistency & Naturalness**:..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 28 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Voice cloning performance β€’ Model capabilities comparison β€’ Hardware requirements
πŸ’¬ "I have tested both Chatterbox Turbo and the new 0.5B CosyVoice. Chatterbox turbo is much faster, more stable and has a more natural intonation." β€’ "CosyVoice hallucinates more and quite often takes multiple attempts to get a hallucination-free output. In addition, it may make unnatural pauses between words."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

I got tired of setting up automations on zapier and n8n. So Claudes Agent SDK to do it for me.

"I used the Anthropic Agent SDK and honestly, Opus 4.5 is insanely good at tool calling. Like, really good. I spent a lot of time reading their "Building Effective Agents" blog post and one line really stuck with me: "the most successful implementations weren't using complex frameworks or specialized..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

llama.cpp support for Nemotron 3 Nano merged!

"https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/tag/b7418 > Details > > llama : add support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano (#18058) > > llama : add support for NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 3 > This commit adds support for the NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 3 model, enabling the conversion and running ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 10 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 LLaMA.cpp implementation β€’ Model performance β€’ Open-source alternatives
πŸ’¬ "more issues in the llama.cpp implementation left to be discovered" β€’ "The quants are larger than expected"
πŸ—£οΈ SPEECH/AUDIO

Chatterbox Turbo, new open-source voice AI model, just released on Hugging Face

"Links: \- Model (PyTorch): https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo \- Model (ONNX): https://huggingface.co/ResembleAI/chatterbox-turbo-ONNX \- GitHub: [https://github.com..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 46 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Suspicious downvoting β€’ Evaluating TTS quality β€’ Open source vs. commercial
πŸ’¬ "It's ok but anything generated after 30 seconds mark is incoherent mess" β€’ "I stand corrected. I am really imprssed that you can comment out the watermark"
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Agent Farm – An IDE designed for AI and humans to work together

πŸ’Ό JOBS

AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 109 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Economic factors β€’ AI impact on jobs β€’ Education and skills
πŸ’¬ "The inability to deduct engineering for tax purposes in the year they were spent" β€’ "It's not AI wiping out entry-level jobs. It's governments failing to prop up the economy."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Compact offline medical SLM with Native Knowledge Graph + RAG audit (benchmark + HF demo)

"I’ve been experimenting with a slightly different approach to medical LMs and would really value feedback from people working on ML, health IT, or clinical education. Instead of chasing more parameters, I built a \~6 GB medical SLM that’s tightly coupled to a biomedical knowledge graph and a self‑c..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: 100MB Rust Binary- AI Auditability Substrate

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

A Scientific Reasoning Model for Organic Synthesis Procedure Generation

"Solving computer-aided synthesis planning is essential for enabling fully automated, robot-assisted synthesis workflows and improving the efficiency of drug discovery. A key challenge, however, is bridging the gap between computational route design and practical laboratory execution, particularly th..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

When Machines Pay Machines: The Economics of Agentic AI

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Deep Agent Framework, the Pydantic AI Way

πŸ”’ SECURITY

AI Agents Deleting Home Folders? Run Your Agent in Firejail and Stay Safe

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