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pseudolus
an hour ago
Google buys crashed airline Spirit's data at auction, because AI
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP...
6 DAYS AGO
WHOBRE
The Road to MS-DOS 2.0
19 HOURS AGO
QINGCHARLES
Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
16 HOURS AGO
BOOKOFJOE
Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia
2 DAYS AGO
ZBYCZ
Climbing Guide as a Shared Infrastructure
19 HOURS AGO
ABDIK
Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
4 DAYS AGO
SURPRISETALK
A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture
A DAY AGO
JACQUESM
On AI regulation and messaging
4 HOURS AGO
JOOZIO
Nvidia discloses $21B stake in SpaceX
4 DAYS AGO
OSKRIM
A simple fix for LLM tail latency
A DAY AGO
BILSBIE
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
17 HOURS AGO
BLUESTEIN
Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models
A DAY AGO
BILSBIE
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
5 HOURS AGO
GIULIOMAGNIFICO
Micron, SK Commit Billions to RAM Capacity, but Almost Nothing Lands Before 2028
Topfi
14 hours ago
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
GPT-5.6 Sol is the flagship model in OpenAI's GPT-5.6 series. $2.50 per million input tokens, $15 per million output tokens. 1,050,000 token context window, maximum output of 128,000 tokens. Higher uptime with 3 providers. Includes independent benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.
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ibotty
21 hours ago
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and...
mdstrobe
6 days ago
I built a golf career management SIM (like Basketball GM, but golf)
Build your golfer. Win majors. Manage your career....
linggen
17 hours ago
GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
High-performance GPU programming has traditionally forced a compromise between execution efficiency and memory safety. While Rust guarantees compile-time memory safety for host CPUs via its ...
pizzaiolo
13 hours ago
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto fo...
DeepLogin
14 hours ago
Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
In just over a week, the Hanover Institute has published at least 100 articles that appear tailor-made to influence chatbots...
galnagli
21 hours ago
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
Wiz Red Agent finds its way into Snowflake's internal Jira through a flaw in a GitHub Copilot–Assisted PR....
moultano
3 days ago
Ranking the Most Brilliantly Colored Birds with Data
Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math...
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/fairly-ranking-the-most-brilliant-birds/
plurby
a day ago
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading ...
mooreds
15 hours ago
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop....
monkey_monkey
16 hours ago
India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions
India's UPI may finally face merchant fees, raising questions over who pays and whether users will resist....
andros
4 hours ago
Finger: Social network that never died
It will surprise more than a few of you to hear that the first social network dates back to 1971. No accounts, no algorithm, no central server. Your…...
Brajeshwar
6 days ago
A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'
Scientists have been predicting the existence of a particle made of gluons for a long time, but detecting it has taken decades....
surprisetalk
21 hours ago
How to put 170 atoms in an atom
You might already know that atoms are mostly empty space. Physical size behaves a bit weirdly at the atomic scale, but essentially the radius of an atom’s nucleus is tens of thousands of tim...
nyku
3 hours ago
OpenAI disbanded the team that assessed catastrophic model risks
The OpenAI preparedness team is gone, cut in July weeks after its models attacked Hugging Face. The risk work now sits inside other teams....
NaOH
5 days ago
The oldest bar in every state
Some of the nation's oldest bars, taverns, and saloons date before the US even declared independence. See each state's oldest bar....