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unrvl22
3 hours ago
Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
prefeitura-rio/Rio-3.5-Open-397B is presented as an original 397B model trained by IplanRIO. It is not. Its weights are a direct element-wise merge of our model, Nex, with the official Qwen3...
6 HOURS AGO
MSEPHTON
How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?
3 HOURS AGO
FABCH
Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million
5 HOURS AGO
LAUREX
Extinction-Level Capitalism
3 DAYS AGO
PETER_D_SHERMAN
FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language
3 DAYS AGO
INDYNZ
Historic co-determination helps monasteries navigate digital change
5 HOURS AGO
DOWNBAD_
Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)
A DAY AGO
NL
Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
tamnd
2 hours ago
Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
Shadow any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out - tamnd/kage
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bookofjoe
5 hours ago
FarOutCompany
Explore the work of under-appreciated artists of the 1960s and ‘70s counterculture....
mooreds
3 days ago
USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits
USB Power Delivery (EPD) and USB Extended Power Range (EPR) are the next steps in the technology evolution. When they roll out, devices will charge faster and data will be transmitted faster...
lucasfcosta
4 hours ago
Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks
Alibaba Qwen3.7 slowly fading into irrelevance at the frontier due to proprietary stance. In it's place we have Minimax M3 and... *checks notes* Rio 3.5 397b, made by the municipal IT compan...
yegg
4 hours ago
No, everyone is not using AI for everything
People are consuming AI like they eat meat: some are embracing it, some are limiting their use of it, and some are avoiding it altogether....
hollylawly
3 days ago
The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE
Large DELETEs add work instead of reclaiming it. Structure your database so deletion becomes DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE....
alebal123bal
4 hours ago
Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU
Real-time YOLOv8n UAV detection at the sensor's 46 FPS ceiling, in ~140 MB of RAM - alebal123bal/khadas_yolov8n_multithread...
eatonphil
6 hours ago
Formal Methods and the Future of Programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods....
https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-index/?from_theconsensus=1
robhati
15 hours ago
Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded
Paste a SQL schema and instantly generate a clean, interactive ER diagram. Free, open source, runs in your browser — nothing uploaded....
Brajeshwar
5 hours ago
KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations
Once again, AI proves to be an unreliable source of information about AI....
andsoitis
4 hours ago
Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples
Study of mothers in Seattle underscores ‘widespread, systemic problem’ of chemical contamination, experts say...
aloknnikhil
a day ago
GLM 5.2 Is Out
GLM-5.2 is Fully Open, Frontier Intelligence Belongs to Everyone Today, the sudden restriction of certain frontier models is deeply regrettable. At a time when access to frontier models is ...
rmadriz
7 hours ago
Can't Stop the Signal. Poison It
If you can't stop ad networks from collecting your data, make what they collect useless. Building Fauxx: an Android tool for behavioral data poisoning....
ravenical
a day ago
Every Frame Perfect
How imprecise UI animations erode trust in product...