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colinprince
8 hours ago
Felony Bench
Felony Bench is the most important benchmark of our time, some are saying, counting the number of questionable decisions made by AI agents. We might need a Pandemic Bench soon......
AN HOUR AGO
HENRIEMATEGUI
Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters
7 HOURS AGO
UNPROVABLE
Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it
8 DAYS AGO
ARIARULE
Quantifying the honey bee dance floor
10 HOURS AGO
SPECKX
New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson
9 HOURS AGO
PPPONE
Radiation damage to Hubble has been 4.3 years out of phase with the Solar cycle
10 HOURS AGO
KARMA_DAEMON
DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser
10 HOURS AGO
THROW7
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
6 HOURS AGO
GUS_MASSA
Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing
A DAY AGO
PRISMATIC
How orchids inspired the work of Charles Darwin
4 HOURS AGO
KARAKORAM
How Thailand Resisted Colonization
thepoet
6 hours ago
Kobo can run apps now
A launcher, a signed App Store, a Rust SDK, and a capability-isolated runtime for the Kobo Clara BW. Install once over USB; everything after that arrives over Wi-Fi.
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maciejSz
2 hours ago
SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers
The Mission America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s. Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) stil...
aakil
8 hours ago
Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article
A Claude Code skill (/debuzz) that pipes Claude's answers through Gemini to remove the BuzzFeed voice - adnanakil/nobuzz...
surprisetalk
4 days ago
Using an old Android phone as a music player
it's been a while since i last talked about my music setup and things have changed a bit. the music player main benefits of owning a device specifically ......
toebee
7 hours ago
How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms
10 RPS with p95 TTFA under 50 ms on a single H100: how we optimized Qwen3-TTS serving....
ra7
a day ago
A look under our trunk: what's in our compute
Compute is the brain of the Waymo Driver, translating raw sensor data into real-time driving commands. Operating demonstrably safe, physical AI on the road demands a fundamental shift toward...
ibobev
7 hours ago
What happens when a GPU reads memory
Following an LDG.E SASS instruction through the hardware units in an RTX 4090....
dares2573
12 hours ago
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text, so you can ask the model to describe pictures, read text from screenshots, analyze charts, and more....
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/vision/
Cider9986
20 hours ago
AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Arch...
cainxinth
9 hours ago
Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout
Left: The Lunar Orbiter camera system sitting in the bottom half of the pressurized shell. Project Manager Cliff Nelson (left) stands with NASA/Langley team members Calvin Broome, Israel Tab...
rhgraysonii
3 days ago
Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine
Solves a per-tensor quantization that uses 99.99% of your exact VRAM budget — every spare megabyte spent where it buys the most quality. macOS, Linux, and Windows....
speckx
3 hours ago
Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude
Claude goes above and beyond what is asked and guesses what you might want. Codex does what you tell it and stops at the first sign that it might be done. Ten impressions from a week of usin...
garo-pro
4 hours ago
Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders
We’re sharing an update on our efforts to help more teams leverage frontier capabilities for cyber defense....
spankibalt
15 hours ago
The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates
A Pirates fan looks at 40....
madihaa
5 hours ago
Man loses so much weight employer doesn't recognize him
A South Florida driver took a break from work to change his lifestyle and get healthier. He lost so much weight the company he drove<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/news/h...
ksec
12 hours ago
Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0
A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0+: Rack 3-based, with a Rust Tokio/Hyper front-end and Ractor-parallel Ruby workers and threaded fallback mode. - yaroslav/kino...