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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...
20 HOURS AGO
DOMHUDSON
I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
4 DAYS AGO
SAIKATSG
An Accidental Blackboard
4 DAYS AGO
FITTINGOPPOSITE
We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
2 DAYS AGO
ZDW
The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades
20 HOURS AGO
ANIMESHCHOUHAN
Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards
A DAY AGO
JOSHCSIMMONS
FreeBSD 14.5-Release
19 HOURS AGO
SURPRISETALK
The two Christian saints who are the Buddha
yks
14 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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cat-whisperer
12 hours ago
How to build a printer
If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer....
porridgeraisin
5 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...
taubek
an hour ago
Gambling with our lives: AI researcher quits Anthropic with warning about safety
“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade,” staffer says in resignation post after leaving the tech giant....
cisc
4 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...
utiiiD
19 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....
Topfi
14 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...
jjba23
a day ago
Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme
Maak integration for Emacs...
https://codeberg.org/jjba23/maak.el
stared
19 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....
tobr
4 days ago
Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited)
Kamen Rider might help explain where the Zelda big bad gets his name....
metrofun
4 days ago
Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster
Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster...
Argonautlabs
14 hours ago
Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
ARGODRIVE Deltafin: Kimi K3 (2.8T MoE) streamed from SSDs on Apple Silicon — fork of gavamedia/deltafin with the ARGODRIVE storage work and benchmark package - argonautlabsai/deltafin...
HatchedLake721
a day 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....
fady0
20 hours ago
AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome
Explore AlphaGenome Atlas, a catalogue predicting the molecular effects and AVI scores for 9 billion single-nucleotide variants across the human genome....
ibobev
19 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...