The basic formula for Hacker News ranking has been known for years, but questions remained. Does the published code give the real algorithm? Are rankings purely based on votes or do invisible factors come into play? Do stories about the … Read more
Seven books I keep close because I love them The bookshelf by my elbow, the one that I can reach without getting up, has seven books on it, not necessarily the ones I look in the most, but the ones … Read more
New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of all SBCL releases are listed below. New in version 2.6.7, 2026-07-28 Back to top … Read more
cr.yp.to: 2026.07.06: NSA and IETF, part 8 Older (Access-J): 2026.07.04: Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ. #pqcrypto #bugs #vulnerabilities #hybrids Table of contents (Access-I for index page) 2026.07.06: NSA and IETF, part 8: Fairness. #pqcrypto … Read more
This experiment shows an AI agent autonomously improving a small GPT’s training recipe. Using AutoResearch (Karpathy et al.) – which iteratively edits training code, runs experiments, and keeps only changes that lower validation bits-per-byte (BPB) – the agent ran 123 … Read more