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crazysaem
7 hours ago
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
Pebble Mega Update - July 2026...
13 HOURS AGO
MUSTAPHAH
The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning
18 HOURS AGO
UNEVEN9434
Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
18 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026
11 HOURS AGO
HARITHA1313
The human-in-the-loop is tired
6 DAYS AGO
_SAMT_
Show HN: Clx – Compile Lua to Native Executables Through C++20
A DAY AGO
SHEREX
Ente – Opening Our Books
9 HOURS AGO
TELEFORCE
UIUC AI Teaching Assistant
10 HOURS AGO
AUSSIEGUY1234
GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
18 HOURS AGO
ACESOHC
Adaptional (YC S25) Is Hiring
A DAY AGO
NEKUSAR
Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them
A DAY AGO
MCGIN
The lost joy of music piracy
A DAY AGO
CLARIONBELL
British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
A DAY AGO
NEKUSAR
Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them
13 HOURS AGO
SLVNX
CVE-2026-25089: FortiSandbox unauthenticated command injection added to CISA KEV
A DAY AGO
MCGIN
The lost joy of music piracy
4 DAYS AGO
LORENDB
Simulating everything, sort of: The promise and limits of world models
giuliomagnifico
5 hours ago
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
How the brain rapidly switches attention between competing speech streams in complex listening environments is not fully understood. This study shows that neural tracking of a new speaker emerges before disengagement, with transient dual encoding and reduced alpha power supporting flexible auditory attention.
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ray__
19 hours ago
Decoy Font
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly....
minimaxir
15 hours ago
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done....
ingve
5 days ago
Starlink from 1984
In good old times, StarLink was a board that turned an IBM PC into a multiuser system....
jervant
19 hours ago
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world....
upmostly
3 days ago
SQLite Is All You Need
We built a social network on SQLite, put it behind a Node API, and hit it until something broke. One file, one process, 315 million requests a day on the heaviest endpoint. Here are the numb...
hershyb_
15 hours ago
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video....
divbzero
7 hours ago
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
A chemical process called carbonation, which helps seal cracks, could help explain why many ancient Roman structures are still standing today. Researchers hope that the insights will lead to...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year-old-latrine-offers-new-clues-about-the-materials-impressive-durability-180989115/
ingve
an hour ago
I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64
If personal computers are for everybody, how come they’re priced for nobody?...
Anon84
15 hours ago
Mathematics of Data Science
This book is about the mathematical foundations of data science. 1. Introduction 2. Curses, Blessings, and Surprises in High Dimensions 3. Singular Value Decomposition and Principal Co...
gmays
13 hours ago
'Likweli': A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin
Yale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo....
JeremyTheo
a day ago
The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
I almost agree with all of the LLM critics, yet I still use LLMs a lot. I know this sounds like I am delusional, but I don't think I am alone with it....
surprisetalk
3 days ago
Pseudpocalypse
Here’s a conjecture: If you put any significant amount of text on the internet under different names, those identities can be linked using only the text itself....
binyu
14 hours ago
Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards without human-annotated data, often referred to as zero RL, has emerged as a powerful paradigm for eliciting chain-of-thought reasoning. Howeve...
tchalla
15 hours ago
The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker
Some apps are sharing users' health data. New research uncovers which apps lock down your privacy, and which don't....
crowdhailer
a day ago
Abstracting Effects with Continuations
Failures, asynchrony and all kinds of effects can be represented by continuations...