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FriedPickles
9 hours ago
FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
Free Ink is an open-source collective building the software, firmware and hardware for e-paper readers — every layer ships in the open for anyone to pick up, extend and make their own....
4 HOURS AGO
SONICROCKETMAN
It's a shame what's happened to radio
8 HOURS AGO
HEALSDATA
'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
3 HOURS AGO
DRNEMSKI
A flaky test exposed a Redis client use-after-free
5 DAYS AGO
PMAZUMDER
Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft
12 HOURS AGO
BENBALTER
Show HN: An MCP server that turns async-work practices into tools
AN HOUR AGO
ITHERSEED
Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
9 HOURS AGO
KALCODE
Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy
A DAY AGO
HANDFULOFLIGHT
Incremental – A library for incremental computations
11 HOURS AGO
GREGSADETSKY
Uhubctl – Control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs
9 HOURS AGO
RICKKJP
Slater – Low-memory graphdb designed for read-heavy graphs
10 HOURS AGO
DIVITSHETH
Show HN: CodeAlmanac – Karpathy-style codebase wiki from your conversations
9 HOURS AGO
RICKKJP
Slater – Low-memory graphdb designed for read-heavy graphs
14 HOURS AGO
JKLY
Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)
piotrgrabowski
5 hours ago
Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Benchmarking over 1,000 agentic tasks demonstrates that routing between the open-source Kimi K3 model and the closed Fable 5 model creates a new state-of-the-art (SoTA) approach that surpasses the performance of either model alone. While both models perform competitively in general benchmarks, they possess distinct specializations—K3 excels in terminal, symbolic math, and dev tooling, whereas Fable leads in web, data visualization, and multi-language breadth. By architecting a router to leverage these specific strengths, teams can achieve a 93% task accuracy rate and up to 50x better cost-efficiency compared to using Fable in isolation, effectively proving that relying on a single model is no longer optimal.
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hershyb_
6 hours ago
"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
Four frontier models, a blank canvas, and colored pencils. We tracked every stroke, dollar, and output as they tried to draw the Mona Lisa....
BeetleB
9 hours ago
Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic. The company will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to t...
speckx
13 hours ago
Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alt...
logickkk1
12 hours ago
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber....
speckx
12 hours ago
Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
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ryanmerket
10 hours ago
Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Block's Buzz combines team chat, AI agents, workflows and Git hosting in a self-hostable workspace built on signed Nostr events....
jeremyscanvic
7 hours ago
A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
The notorious Jacobian conjecture can be formulated concretely over the complex numbers as follows. Conjecture 1 (Jacobian Conjecture) Let $latex {F:{\bf C}^n \rightarrow {\bf C}^n}&fg=00000...
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/
greatgib
6 hours ago
Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored
Learn about what's new in the latest Gemini models, including model capabilities, API changes, and migration guidance....
rexledesma
10 hours ago
Laguna S 2.1
Today we’re releasing Laguna S 2.1, a significant step forward in our development of models that pursue longer horizon work and make effective use of reasoning....
surprisetalk
5 days ago
The Miso That Went to Space
Artist and researcher Maggie Coblentz fermented miso in orbit, chasing a deeper question: What makes a miso a miso—or a person a person—away from Earth?...
machinehum
2 days ago
My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault
This article was written by a human, for humans. Many places don’t respect privacy laws, in certain situations you may be forced to unencrypt …...
yuansong98
6 hours ago
Show HN: Computable – Buy, sell, and redeem GPU for the exact weeks you want
Computable is the first and only place where you can easily buy, sell, and redeem GPU hours across calendar weeks, with instant liquidity....
pipnonsense
3 days ago
Juggling for Blind People
A glass-ball juggling game designed for blind players. Hold your phone in your open palm. Motion sensors detect each throw and catch, and sound tracks each ball. Miss a catch and the glass s...
Sami_Lehtinen
12 hours ago
France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027
France's ANSSI will require PQC for product certification from 2027 and expects all business purchases to be quantum-safe by 2030....
joeyespo
9 hours ago
AI Agent – TRMNL
Build custom plugins without writing any code....