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rbanffy
9 hours ago
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
It slashed electricity losses from 50 to 5 percent...
2 DAYS AGO
IBOBEV
Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper
2 HOURS AGO
BETELBUDDY
McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac
2 HOURS AGO
BETELBUDDY
AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
AN HOUR AGO
HUNAJAKETTU
Individual locomotor bias drives counterclockwise motion in pedestrian crowds
2 DAYS AGO
AIRHANGERF15
Software occlusion culling in Block Game
A DAY AGO
NKKO
ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
therepanic
6 hours ago
PS5 Relapse Exploit
Exploit chain for PS5 7.00 - 13.60. Contribute to ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit development by creating an account on GitHub.
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rossant
2 days ago
NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates
CPU, memory, OS and Tetris, all running on the gates. Zoom in and watch the signals flow....
Philpax
4 hours ago
GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
GLM-5.3 can autonomously build end-to-end cyber exploits, but unlike other frontier models, it was released without meaningful safeguards to limit misuse....
DeepLogin
2 hours ago
Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market
News Features Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market September 29, 2026 Last Updated: 2026-09-29 The cyclical nature of memory manufacturing may finally be broken -- and not in ...
lostmsu
2 hours ago
Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s
Train a tiny GPT in under a minute (CUDA only). Contribute to lostmsu/TurboGPT development by creating an account on GitHub....
evakhoury
a day ago
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights...
nicowaltz
10 hours ago
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Jeeves – Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models - PostHog/jeeves...
paimapi
5 hours ago
DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
Online sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of onli...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising
ianmcook
5 hours ago
What if Jev spoke Arrow?
Experiments in bulk inference with TypeSafe’s new model...
rbanffy
7 hours ago
Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
Rise of the Googlebook means ChromeOS users get eight years' support, not a decade...
doener
2 days ago
Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
Phil Hogan, an IT application architect, estimates that close to 80 percent of the system is original. ...
tgluck
10 hours ago
Show HN: Jevstiller – Distill Jev into a local model, with a disagreement bound
September 2026. Every number here is from the benchmarks, and bash experiments/bench.sh --no-record reruns them without an API key....
ilamont
10 hours ago
500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert...
luu
3 days ago
Four CHI '26 papers I wish I wrote
In the very first paper session at CHI 2026, I found myself thinking, “I wish I wrote this paper!” And then I found myself thinking that a few times more. Since I’m on the hunt fo…...