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Should We Have Kept the American Empire?
Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Technical AES
by j-cheongDiscussionCoordination Headwind: How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds
Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root
European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
Zig: Pointer Stability for ArrayLists
Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat
METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack
Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
No AI Fridays
Leak of Internal Valve Data
monty-go: Pure-Go wrapper for Pydantic's Monty Python Interpreter
Automating Immersive Reading
An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later
Hacking IKEA Furniture
One Nix flake to rule them all
Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice
Spark: Sparklines in your shell
Everyone Should Build Their Own Network Stack
Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel
Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry
Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device
Google: Lake Ontario/Lake America name change in the U.S. will appear in Maps
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
Algorithmic rent-pricing litigation expands under new state and local laws
FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued
Benjamin Franklin's Alter Egos Gave Him the Most Freedom
Open Oscar Server: open-source server compatible with AIM and ICQ clients
Bug Blindness
Introducing Hy4 Preview
<p><strong><a href="https://hy.tencent.ai/research/hy4-preview">Introducing Hy4 Preview</a></strong></p> New open weight text input (no vision) LLM from Chinese company Tencent today: 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, 1M token context window, <a href="https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy4-preview">1.56TB on Hugging Face</a>.</p> <p>This is a big size increase from their previous <a href="https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy3">Hy3</a> in July, which was 295B, 21B active, 256,000 context, 598GB.</p> <p>I recently started using model chat templates to better understand their capabilities. Here's Hy4's <a href="https://huggingface.co/tencent/Hy4-preview/blob/main/chat_template.jinja">chat_template.jinja</a> on Hugging Face, which includes this section:</p> <div class="highlight highlight-text-html-django"><pre><span class="pl-e">{%</span>- <span class="pl-k">if</span> <span class="pl-k">not</span> <span class="pl-s">reasoning_effort</span> <span class="pl-s">is</span> <span class="pl-s">defined</span> <span class="pl-e">%}</span> <span class="pl-e">{%</span>- <span class="pl-s">set</span> <span class="pl-s">reasoning_effort</span> = <span class="pl-s">'high'</span> <span class="pl-e">%}</span> <span class="pl-e">{%</span>- <span class="pl-s">elif</span> <span class="pl-s">reasoning_effort</span> <span class="pl-k">not</span> <span class="pl-k">in</span> [<span class="pl-s">'high'</span>, <span class="pl-s">'no_think'</span>] <span class="pl-e">%}</span> <span class="pl-e">{%</span>- <span class="pl-k">if</span> <span class="pl-s">reasoning_effort</span> <span class="pl-s">is</span> <span class="pl-s">none</span> <span class="pl-e">%}</span> {{- raise_exception('reasoning_effort error : None, should be no_think/high') }} <span class="pl-e">{%</span>- <span class="pl-k">else</span> <span class="pl-e">%}</span> {{- raise_exception('reasoning_effort error : ' + reasoning_effort + ', should be no_think/high') }} <span class="pl-e">{%</span>- <span class="pl-k">endif</span> <span class="pl-e">%}</span> <span class="pl-e">{%</span>- <span class="pl-k">endif</span> <span class="pl-e">%}</span></pre></div> <p>So it looks like there are just two reasoning effort levels: "high" (the default) and "no_think" (reason by disabled).</p> <p>I tried my "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle" prompt with the default high reasoning <a href="https://openrouter.ai/tencent/hy4-preview#apps">via OpenRouter</a> and <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2Fcb69816b3fb940f2782569a82a523af1">got this</a>:</p> <p><img alt="Flat vector cartoon illustration of a white pelican with a large orange bill riding a red bicycle to the right along a grey road with a dashed white centre line, its orange webbed feet on the pedals and grey tail feathers fanned out behind, against a pale blue sky with a yellow sun, white clouds and horizontal white motion lines suggesting speed" src="https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026-08-29/IMG_7725.jpeg" /></p> <p>Quoting the reasoning trace:</p> <blockquote> <p>[...] Let's maybe add a helmet? It could improve riding theme, but may obscure head. Maybe a small cycling cap or helmet? The user didn't ask; can add red helmet? Might be cute. But pelican with big beak; a helmet might obscure. Better maybe no.</p> <p>Maybe add sunglasses? no.</p> <p>Maybe add water? no.</p> </blockquote> <p>It's interesting how the reasoning trace uses slightly truncated English, presumably because perfect grammar isn't useful or token efficient for hidden reasoning text. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle">pelican-riding-a-bicycle</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm-reasoning">llm-reasoning</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llm-release">llm-release</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-in-china">ai-in-china</a></p>
The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
Highest-ever ocean temperature measured as powerful El Niño forms
Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras
I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul
Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online
What we want is a hunter gatherer lifestyle with space age tools (2022)
Hy4 preview
Domain-Driven Agents
Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude
Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions
The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now
LLMs are making me lose my savviness
vLLM v0.28.0
Creepy Crawlies
Calibrate Before You Accelerate: Bias Toward Action in a New Role
Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI
Claude permanently raising weekly limits by 25%
Trees for a Changing Climate and Resilient Urban Forest (2022)
The growing divide between AI hype and software engineering reality
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Quantifying Colour
Parsing the Infamous Japanese Postal CSV
GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)
Indirect Calling of Nested Functions on GCC Without Executable Stack
Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"