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theanonymousone
2 hours ago
KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei
KVarN is a native vLLM KV-cache quantization backend for your agents: 3-5x more context, throughput above FP16, and FP16-level accuracy. Calibration-free, one flag. - huawei-csl/KVarN...
A DAY AGO
RVZ
Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
A DAY AGO
LORDLEFT
Artificial intelligence is not conscious
3 HOURS AGO
NAB
Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud
9 HOURS AGO
XZETAU8
UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
17 HOURS AGO
LITTLEXSPARKEE
Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
A DAY AGO
SGRAN
A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt
3 DAYS AGO
1970-01-01
Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts
4 DAYS AGO
ELVIS70
CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment
A DAY AGO
KSEC
Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig
2 HOURS AGO
ELORANT
Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks
coloneltcb
4 hours ago
VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare
VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
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el_al
30 minutes ago
Zettascale (YC S24) Is Hiring Founding FPGA Engineers
We're Building the Next Generation of Chips to Power AI. Join Us. At Zetta, we're building the next NVIDIA to accelerate AI discovery. Our XPU chips are state-of-the-art AI compute engines,...
speckx
3 hours ago
In a first, wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
Wind and solar generated more electricity than gas globally for the first time ever in April 2026, according to new Ember data....
fidotron
6 hours ago
French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56
French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her entourage said Thursday. She was 56....
MaxLeiter
18 hours ago
They’re made out of weights
with apologies to Terry Bisson...
surprisetalk
2 days ago
3D-printed book turns its own G-code into raised lettering
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cloud8421
a day ago
Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language
From Elixir v1.20, every program is now gradually type checked in search for verified bugs and typing violations....
mooreds
6 hours ago
Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot
Tutorial for tying the Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot, in which the laces are formed into two loops, both of which are passed through the “hole” in the middle....
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
jc4p
17 hours ago
I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
As a part of my work I do security research for various apps and websites. I wanted to see if LLMs could reproduce a common class of exploits I've found in multiple apps. So I built a delibe...
cobbzilla
2 days ago
Under Notre Dame, a 'dig of the century' unearths 1,700 years of history
Archaeologists are digging beneath Notre Dame cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago....
jbredeche
17 hours ago
The ways we contain Claude across products
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems....
zdw
2 days ago
thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home
Linux kernel experiments implementing IB verbs over consumer Thunderbolt/USB4 hardware to give cheap mini-PCs high-performance RDMA suitable for cluster inference....
thdr
2 hours ago
The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true
💬 0  🔁 72  ❤️ 79 · Darren O'Connor "Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large lang...
gmays
21 hours ago
A Man Who Reads Books for a Living
When Clarke Speicher (spike-er) asked how I liked the screen adaptation of Train Dreams, Denis Johnson’s novella following the solitary logger Robert Granier in the early 20th-century Americ...
bennett_dev
21 hours ago
Ableton Extensions SDK
Extensions SDK is an open JavaScript toolkit allowing anyone to create custom tools that expand the possibilities inside Live 12 Suite...
gregsadetsky
a day ago
PlayStation Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally...