Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU

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This project demonstrates that a 64 GB CPU can run large MoE models, such as 284B DeepSeek-V4-Flash and 30B Nemotron-3.5-A3B, at full context using zero GPUs.

The Reconstruction of Torn Documents

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The Federal Archives in Germany are reconstructing MfS records after the Stasi Records Agency dissolved, with manual reconstruction continuing alongside a virtual process. The archives have been working to restore 16,000 bags of torn-up documents since 2008.

I'm not a fan of Deno's security model (2024)

The author criticizes Deno's permission system as fundamentally insecure and misleading, citing issues with its terminal prompt feature and environment variable handling. This approach allows for potential sandbox escapes and security risks due to the lack of proper isolation.

Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone

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The author upgraded their mother's Kapsys SmartVision3 phone from Android 11 to LineageOS 23.2 with Android 16, bypassing the manufacturer's limitations and enabling features like a custom keypad and accessibility improvements. The upgrade was achieved through a combination of manual backups, debugging, and patching of the device's software.

Writing as a thinking tool

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Goodbye Claude, hello Pi

The author has retired Claude Code as their main coding harness due to frustrations with its features and stability. They're now using Pi, a more stable and customizable alternative that offers better performance and user experience.

OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation

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OpenAI raised $11 billion in funding at a $1.25 trillion valuation, below its initial ask of $1.4 trillion or $1.5 trillion, affecting investors like Microsoft and NVIDIA. The gap may impact the companies' valuations as OpenAI's business continues to grow despite AI stocks selling off after the round closed.

Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down

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Tesla's Cybertruck has been a significant failure, with a $2 billion net loss and underwhelming sales. The company's lack of new product launches since JB Straubel stepped down as CTO in 2019 is concerning for its future direction.

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers

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The author has developed a text rendering technique for the RP2350 microcontroller board, using bitmap fonts and a "just-in-time" (JIT) compiler to generate optimized code. The JIT compiler runs under 100µs before scanout of the video line, making it suitable for real-time applications like racing-the-beam rendering.

Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment

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The author proposes a shared format for agent memory, building on existing proposals and tools like OpenTelemetry. A standard agreement is needed to avoid fragmentation and allow different tools to read each other's data.

What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab

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The author shares their experience with the OpenStick, a $10 device that runs Debian and offers various useful services such as AdGuard Home for DNS blocking and Zeroclaw for AI agent management.

Show HN: Vegetable Gardening for Engineers

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This document provides a comprehensive guide to growing vegetables at home, focusing on indoor and balcony gardening using hydroponics and container gardening. It covers various environmental factors such as light, temperature, water, nutrition, and oxygen levels that affect plant growth.

Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust

cljrs is an experimental Clojure dialect targeting the Rust ecosystem. It aims to be a capable Lisp runtime with persistent data structures, a hosted macro system, and native interop — compiled or interpreted, suitable for use as an agentic coding runtime.

Person of Interest

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I started watching Person of Interest and it's brought back memories of the early 2010s, including tech forums and online communities. The show has aged remarkably well despite being 15 years old.

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files

Apiiro is a control plane for agentic development security, offering various solutions to protect AI environments. It provides tools such as Guardian Agent and Auto Fix to secure agentic development.

Apple CEO Presses Software Chief to Pursue More Ambitious AI Strategy

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Petered

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The Peter Principle suggests people are promoted until they reach incompetence, but career pressure can lead them to take on more tasks and risk losing their job. This creates a situation where individuals may become "imposters," pretending competence while actually doing dirty work or sabotaging others to advance their careers.

How to prove equations using diagrams, part 1

The author discusses e-graphs, a data structure for maintaining congruence relations on expression trees. They introduce the concept of initial functors and how they can be used to reason with diagrams in a finitely presented category.

Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberian tomb

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Archaeologists have found evidence of cannabis use dating back 3,000 years in a tomb in southern Siberia. The discovery provides insight into the history of psychoactive cannabis consumption on the Eurasian continent.

The Gordon Gekko effect: The role of culture in the financial industry (2016) [pdf]

The concept of corporate culture has been shaped by various factors, including leadership, composition, and environment, which can lead to either positive or negative outcomes. The study of culture in economics is still an emerging field, but research suggests that cultural values are not solely driven by incentives and that biological and psychological factors also play a significant role in ...

Drones built to look like birds evaded detection at Air Force tech exercise

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Ornithopter drone mimics bird flight to evade detection, successfully hiding from sensors at a recent Air Force tech exercise. The small UAS can change color and shape to blend in with its environment, making it difficult for humans and counter-UAS systems to detect.

Finding Xanadu: Inside a JRPG classic translation 15 years in the making

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The Legend of Xanadu fan translations are nearing completion, with the first game's release expected soon. The project involved a team effort between Elmer and SamIAm, who worked together to translate the games from Japanese to English using custom tools and techniques.

Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas

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The author created Tasfer, a rich text editor built from scratch on HTML5 canvas, avoiding browser quirks and ensuring consistency across devices. The editor's engine is open-source under AGPL and MIT licenses, allowing users to fork or use it in their own products without restrictions.

New typeface using intricate designs from Shakespeare's First Folio (2023)

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Shakespeare's Globe introduces a new typeface, Amifer Folio, inspired by the 17th-century First Folio. The design features ornamental editorial devices and illustrations from the original text to create a unique font for their summer shows.

Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed

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Physicists on the Manhattan Project were concerned that Nazi Germany might build a nuclear bomb before the US and its allies, but research suggests they didn't have enough uranium and heavy water to achieve criticality. The German team led by Werner Heisenberg underestimated the materials required for their reactor experiment, which would have needed significantly more resources than initially thought.

Making any integer with four 2s (2025)

A math puzzle involves using exactly four 2s to generate a target number with basic operations. The challenge lies in finding the correct combination of mathematical tools, such as integrals and complex numbers, to achieve the desired result.

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

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A Mac's knowledge graph is built by two daemons, analyzing content to create a general-purpose knowledge graph representing the device and user. The graph contains information about contacts, photos, calendar events, family relationships and more.

Quadrillion-parameter transformers and how to train them

Researchers have developed a new scaling law to improve the efficiency of large language models, which can train quintillion-parameter networks with current compute budgets. The law incorporates ensembling techniques and weight decay adjustments to optimize model performance in data-constrained regimes.

ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients

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iSponsorBlockTV is a self-hosted application that skips YouTube ads and auto-mutes them, but may require device pairing due to changes in screen ID codes. It can be run on a computer with network access, either automatically or manually added with a YouTube TV code.

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

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Discord's new Rust client is significantly faster and more efficient, loading the friends list in under a second compared to its Electron app. The new client uses about 70% less RAM with two accounts signed in simultaneously.