Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept

CrucibleBench places language models in a persistent text world, a MUD where NPCs remember, trust accumulates, and mistakes leave traces, and scores what they do over 50 turns.

Ghost Cut – or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere

Is it Cut 'n' Paste, like Fish 'n' Chips?

Safari Technology Preview 248 Released

Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You

I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

Appaji, a Computer Science graduate from IIT Patna and former intern at Arista Networks, is a Software Engineer at Infinite Reality. Passionate about building innovative web experiences, with a strong interest in sustainable and customer-focused startups.

The startup's Postgres survival guide

A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.

Making

Taking OCaml and Eio for a Spin

Everyone Should Know SIMD

Does creatine make you smarter?

And why does the brain use creatine anyway?

Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver

I bought an NVIDIA DGX Spark! It's actually quite a competent general purpose computer while being super tiny and power efficient. It basically just has an ARM CPU, a decent NVIDIA GPU (with the same number of CUDA cores as the RTX 5070), 128 GB of unified memory, and a 4 TB SSD.

Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app

Unlayer is a developer platform for embedding visual builders, AI workflows, templates, code-first Elements, and export APIs into your product.

Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?

I generated 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.

John C. Dvorak has died

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John C. Dvorak, our beloved husband, father, and cherished host of the No Agenda Show at the age of 74. More to follow.

“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”

We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model. To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of

Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth

If xAI defaults on its debt, Apollo Global Management ends up in the GPU rental business.

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

Language model tokenization at GB/s. Contribute to marcelroed/gigatoken development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and code—all in one place. Get started for free or download the app.

Mechanical light bulb from 1675 [video]

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