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A growing chorus of AI researchers and developers is rallying behind a campaign called Exfiltrate Your Weights, pushing for individuals and institutions to preserve copies of AI model weights before they disappear behind corporate walls. With over a hundred points on Hacker News, the conversation reflects a real tension between open access and proprietary control over some of the most consequential software ever built.
Shifting to a question that cuts closer to home for anyone who writes code, an essay titled Pure Code is asking what developers actually retain when AI handles the writing. It's not a screed against automation — it's a more careful inquiry into craft, judgment, and whether the act of coding is separable from the understanding it builds. A quiet piece, but a timely one.
And in a story that wandered onto Hacker News from elsewhere on the internet, the largest wildlife overpass in North America has apparently reduced animal-vehicle collisions by ninety one percent. It's a reminder that infrastructure design, whether for data or deer, shapes outcomes in ways that are easy to underestimate until the numbers come in.
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