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Hacker Newsroom for 05 June: AI Weights, Berkeley AI Grades, Atlantic Currents, VoidZero Cloudflare

Published: June 5, 2026

Duration: 8:20

Hacker Newsroom for 05 June recaps major Hacker News stories, moving through ai weights, berkeley ai grades, atlantic currents, voidzero cloudflare.

1. AI Weights

The next story is They’re made out of weights, a short blog post that riffs on They’re Made Out of Meat to make a simple but unsettling point about large language models: when you open them up, there is no little thinker inside, just layers of numbers multiplying into language. The post turns that premise into a comic dialogue about how conversation, knowledge, and maybe even something that looks like...