Gemini 4 Argon

336 bradleyg223 2026-09-30 20:06:26 UTC blog.google Llama Share 141

Google is launching Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier model for complex workflows in software engineering, finance, and cybersecurity. The model delivers high performance and has been tested by thousands of Googlers with impressive results in various domains.

EDG C++ front-end goes public

55 iandinwoodie 2026-09-30 19:42:26 UTC edgcpp.org Llama Share 20

EDG's C++ front end source code goes public on September 30, 2026, and The C++ Alliance becomes its nonprofit home. EDG will continue to maintain the engine with contributions from the user community and ongoing maintenance.

Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain's Inner Workings

46 ibobev 2026-09-30 19:42:26 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 10

The brain uses electrical waves to process information, with new research revealing complex patterns that help it adapt to changing demands. These traveling waves can take on various shapes and are associated with different cognitive functions.

Launch HN: Magnitude (YC S25) – Self-optimizing inference engine for agents

88 anerli 2026-09-30 17:42:26 UTC github.com/magnitudedev Llama Share 42

Magnitude is an open-source inference engine that optimizes itself for your hardware, running up to 2x faster than llama.cpp. It connects to various agents and models without internet, using precompiled kernels tailored to your device.

5x faster Edge Functions: V8 isolates to Firecracker MicroVMs

52 jbott 2026-09-30 18:42:26 UTC netlify.com Llama Share 15

Netlify has rebuilt its Edge Function infrastructure, moving from a hosted execution service to MicroVMs inside their own edge network, resulting in 5x faster performance and improved security. This change allows for complex compute at the edge without changing how Edge Functions are written or used.

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

174 rbanffy 2026-09-30 14:42:26 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 66

Michael Bloomberg's company, IMS, developed the first computerized financial terminal in 1981 to provide up-to-date information and analysis. The Bloomberg Terminal became a symbol of market mastery with its specialized keyboard and proprietary network, but it has since evolved into an integrated data environment accessible through mobile applications.

Halfspace experimental IDE for solid modeling with distance fields

18 luu 2026-09-30 19:46:26 UTC mattkeeter.com Llama Share 1

Halfspace is a showcase app for the Fidget kernel, which enables real-time rasterization and meshing of 3D models. It allows users to create and visualize complex models using a combination of pre-defined primitives and hand-written scripts.

You said no MCP

542 yarapavan 2026-09-30 10:42:26 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 315

Pi has integrated MCP into its core, despite initial dismissive statements, due to changes in MCP and the benefits of a sandbox environment like Codemode. This integration enables tools to be more easily discoverable and used within Pi.

Commit description as a thinking tool

88 yedhukrishnan 2026-09-30 17:42:26 UTC yedhu.me Llama Share 49

The author reflects on writing long commit descriptions before AI era, which helped explain changes and reasons behind them. Now, with agentic coding, they find it challenging to read and understand AI-written commit descriptions due to lack of context.

I Could've Accessed 17T Microsoft Records

198 luispa 2026-09-30 13:42:26 UTC blog.faav.net Llama Share 91

A 16-year-old bug bounty hunter, Faav, discovered a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's internal analytics service, Titan, which allowed him to access sensitive data without proper credentials. He exploited an unsigned JWT bypass and used AI-powered tools to map the attack surface and reach 17 trillion stored rows across various datasets.

The last time my family was replaced by technology

132 megalomanu 2026-09-30 13:42:26 UTC manuel.darcemont.fr Llama Share 292

A family's legacy in mechanics began with a farrier who traded horses for engines after witnessing the arrival of cars. This shift reflects a broader pattern of technological change and its impact on people's livelihoods throughout history.

What TLA+ can and can't check

96 b-man 2026-09-30 14:42:26 UTC buttondown.com Llama Share 20

TLA+ is a powerful tool for designing and verifying concurrent systems, but it has limitations in expressing certain properties, such as reachability properties over multiple steps or the state space as a whole. These limitations make it difficult to model complex scenarios like game winning conditions or statistical properties.

Bild AI (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Product Engineer

0 2026-09-30 17:42:26 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Bild AI aims to simplify construction processes with its AI-powered tools, founded by those seeking impact-driven solutions. The company seeks a 0-to-1 architect and builder to develop user-friendly features and products.

Claude Says

39 speckx 2026-09-30 17:42:26 UTC ohhfishal.net Llama Share 10

The user expresses frustration with AI's limitations and overreliance on assumptions, leading to suboptimal solutions. They advocate for a more critical approach, focusing on simple, practical solutions rather than relying solely on AI-generated ideas.

Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management

46 croes 2026-09-30 16:42:26 UTC advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com Full Share 29

SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering

107 ibobev 2026-09-30 14:42:26 UTC alphapixeldev.com Llama Share 45

The Slug algorithm, published by Eric Lengyel in 2017, renders glyphs directly from their quadratic Bezier outlines on the GPU with no texture atlas or per-frame tessellation. Slughorn is an implementation of this technique that provides crisp and resolution-independent text rendering for various applications, including interactive 3D scenes and AR/VR environments.

SDF Public Access Unix System ... est. 1987

63 kmstout 2026-09-30 14:42:26 UTC sdf.org Full Share 10

join welcome faq status members store tour gopher abuse minecraft social tilde europa webmail gallery usermap irc tutorials telnet git ssh -=- a community platform for inspiring, facilitating and implementing new ideas -=-

Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)

58 mogrinz 2026-09-30 15:42:26 UTC github.com/mogrinz Llama Share 19

This library allows Arduino/ESP32 users to control the hardware on-screen display (OSD) engine in AMT630A-based composite-video LCD monitor boards. It provides a practical API for text, custom glyphs, 16-color 4bpp bitmaps and more.

LinkedIn Larpmaxxing

111 BurnerBurner 2026-09-30 09:42:26 UTC hereticpleb.vercel.app Llama Share 121

The author expresses frustration with LinkedIn's focus on performative projects and fake professionalism, feeling that it discourages genuine skill-building. They created a simple computer vision project to demonstrate the ease of creating such content, highlighting the lack of substance behind many posts on the platform.

Show HN: JBR-001 – An open-source 3D printable desktop robot

115 gvuksic 2026-09-30 10:42:26 UTC projecthub.arduino.cc Llama Share 28

This Arduino code controls a robotic arm with LED display, using sensors and servos to perform movements and detect objects. It displays a heartbeat animation on the LED matrix.

Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes

66 dancablam 2026-09-30 13:42:26 UTC ledge.sh Llama Share 33

Ledge is a Markdown notebook for developers and DevOps that allows running code blocks in persistent shells, with output streaming beneath the block. It can run on remote servers via SSH and syncs notes across devices using iCloud Drive or other services.

America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft"

42 thoughtfullyso 2026-09-30 19:42:26 UTC america.gov Full Share 14

Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin

6 Guyadou 2026-09-30 18:42:26 UTC cmu.edu LocalLLM Share 5

Ken Griffin's $3 billion gift to CMU includes $1B for Pittsburgh and $2B for CMU Miami, a new campus focused on societal challenges. The donation aims to advance research, education, and innovation, with Miami's campus set to start enrolling students in 2028.

Solving Factorio Quality

243 laurenth 2026-09-30 05:42:26 UTC exyr.org Llama Share 91

Factorio is a game that involves building and managing a factory, with the goal of producing increasingly complex items. The game's focus on automation sets it apart from other survival games. Players can use modules to improve production, and new mechanics were introduced in the Space Age extension, including quality tiers for items and recipes.

Getting out of the way: my robotics crash course

61 systemerror 2026-09-30 12:42:26 UTC thisismypersonalblog.com Llama Share 15

The author, a software developer, built a robot arm using a LeRobot kit and Raspberry Pi 3 to test LLM-driven robotics development. He successfully used the robot to pick up blocks and place them in designated areas with minimal human intervention.

Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification

5 OlympicMarmoto 2026-09-30 19:42:26 UTC cairnc.github.io LocalLLM Share 1

The dual polytope's faces correspond to the original polytope's vertices, with normals aligned to those vertices. Simplifying the dual polytope's convex hull rebuilds the simplified original polytope by adjusting face normals.

Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics

70 viraj_shah 2026-09-30 15:42:26 UTC ihavenapkinthoughts.substack.com Full Share 87

Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries

363 devonnull 2026-09-29 21:42:26 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 268

Vermont's Green Mountain Power has implemented a home battery system, providing over 5,500 homes with energy security during power outages. The virtual power plant is the largest source of power in the state and aims to eliminate all outages by 2030.

Mathematical Origami

108 signa11 2026-09-30 10:42:26 UTC mathigon.org Llama Share 22

Platonic and Archimedean Solids are regular polyhedra with unique properties. They consist of different regular polygons, with Platonic having identical faces and Archimedean having multiple distinct faces.

NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart

302 ilamont 2026-09-29 23:42:26 UTC aviationweek.com Llama Share 353

NASA is secretly working on returning a 59-year-old Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird to flight, with retired engineer Mike Relja being asked for his expertise. The project faces significant challenges, including lack of spare parts and trained crews, but some possible solutions have been proposed.