"As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.25021: "As a Language Model...": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice and Activation Steering Reproduces It

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.22978: DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale

Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election

OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

What happens to programming languages when humans are no longer writing most of the code?

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

100% cotton paper. 100% crazy.

An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot

Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.

Show HN: LightCloud – A cloud console organised like file system

Push to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket and get a live URL. Light Cloud hosts static sites, containers, and managed Postgres, with a preview for every branch. Start free.

Flip Fluid on Flip Dots

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward

Search, watch, and download public-domain archival footage by the shot.

The internet discovers TLA+. Now what?

A practical introduction to TLA+, why it matters for agentic coding, and how AI could take formal verification from models to machine-checked proofs and ultimately to verified software.

Go Concurrency Distilled

Interactive mini-book on concurrent programming in Go.

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS.

How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments

AI forced me to abandon evidence-based best pedagogy practices, focus on oral and written exams, and redo most assignments. Here is what we did in 17-645...

Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike

Scientists have a history of trying — and failing — to link biology and quantum mechanics. The real connection between them may be in the math.

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

An open-source Android app to let you browse YouTube and other services freely. - GitHub - InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe: An open-source Android app to let you browse YouTube and other services freely.

Does Georgism work? Five years later

A guest post by Lars Doucet

Finally, A True Blue Rose Exists

Scientists engineered roses that made both a blue pigment and a colorless helper molecule that brought out its shade.

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026

Subsidies for fabs do not help.