"They're made out of weights"

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June 4, 2026

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"They're made out of weights" (313 pts, 94 comments)

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Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language (676 pts, 249 comments)

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Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes (154 pts, 85 comments)

hacker-news HN 154pts

I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it (135 pts, 52 comments)

hacker-news HN 135pts

Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model (780 pts, 314 comments)

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The ways we contain Claude across products (92 pts, 42 comments)

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