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mdp2021
6 days ago
Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants
A research team from INRAE and the University Clermont Auvergne has shown that trees are capable of correcting a curvature they detect in their stems through a specific biological process. I...
16 HOURS AGO
DOMHUDSON
I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
AN HOUR AGO
MIGUELACEVEDO
AI Has a Discovery Problem
4 DAYS AGO
METROFUN
Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster
10 HOURS AGO
ARGONAUTLABS
Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
18 HOURS AGO
JOSHCSIMMONS
FreeBSD 14.5-Release
16 HOURS AGO
FADY0
AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome
14 HOURS AGO
COLLINMANDERSON
Connecting the machines
4 HOURS AGO
JODACOLA
Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance
yks
11 hours ago
Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Meet Muse, Meta's personal AI agent. Learn what it can do across everyday tasks, how it works, and how it helps you get more done.
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utiiiD
15 hours ago
AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome....
porridgeraisin
2 hours ago
A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)
Cloudflare's rapid growth as a cloud service is due in part to its many unique technologies. Technologies like Anycast and same-IP access are just a few examples, and it was CTO and co-found...
yurivish
6 hours ago
I resigned from Anthropic today
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self...
cat-whisperer
9 hours ago
How to build a printer
If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer....
samclemens
2 hours ago
The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing?
This is not one of those periodic “End of Reading” Atlantic click bait essays....
Topfi
10 hours ago
Mercury 2.5
Mercury 2.5 is the most capable diffusion LLM on the market. It runs at 1,107 tokens/sec and offers a 40% increase in intelligence over Mercury 2, comparable to cost-optimized frontier model...
cisc
3 days ago
Researchers Spot Fake Ancient Pottery Using the Earth's Magnetic Field
The magnetic North Pole has shifted over the millennia, leaving clues in the minerals that make up clay antiquities...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-determine-how-to-spot-fake-ancient-pottery-using-the-earths-magnetic-field-180989441/
stared
15 hours ago
Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
I test Unsloth GGUFs of Qwen3.8 27B (Q4_K_M, UD-Q2_K_XL, UD-IQ1_S) with llama.cpp on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, Terminal-Bench 2.1. Q4_K_M matches BF16 abd fits an RTX 4090....
fittingopposite
3 days ago
We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
We built a(nother) house optimized for LAN Parties....
zdw
2 days ago
The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades
Sometimes you find gold in unexpected places. In this case, it’s from a video about the CH-53 helicopter. The CH-53 Sea Stallion first entered service in 1966. It’s a huge helicopter, c…...
animeshchouhan
17 hours ago
Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
An open-source AI agent that designs, documents and validates real PCBs from a prompt....
HatchedLake721
20 hours ago
Getting your hands dirty is good for you
Putting our hands in soil and touching grass, trees or moss provides a wide range of health benefits, for our skin and wider immune system....
ibobev
15 hours ago
ZX Spectrum: Experimenting with 1-Bit Sound
As part of the ZX Spectrum tour, I implemented some routines that would let you play simple tones out of the 1-bit beeper. These were in large part inspired by earlier work I did on the Appl...
surprisetalk
16 hours ago
The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
Let me tell you the story of saints Barlaam and Josaphat of India. A king named Abenner, who persecutes Christians, hears from his court astrologers that his son will attain great power and ...