Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models

45 sgiannopoulos 2026-10-26 15:12:30 UTC magazine.sebastianraschka.com Llama Share 2

The author shares their expertise on reasoning models, which are crucial for modern LLMs, and provides eight video lectures to develop a reasoning model from scratch using PyTorch. The videos cover topics such as inference scaling, reinforcement learning, and distillation.

Anthropic S-1

763 SiNTEx 2026-10-26 14:04:30 UTC sec.gov Llama Share 692

The SEC limits requests from automated tools to ensure equitable access for all users. Excessive automated searches may be blocked or limited for a brief period, with the goal of maintaining efficient website performance.

Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM

96 coffeemug 2026-10-26 13:04:30 UTC ubicloud.com Llama Share 47

The article discusses the importance of tool call accuracy in serving open-weight models, particularly for agentic workloads. Constrained decoding is a technique that guarantees schema adherence and has been released as a server-side flag in vLLM 0.31, improving tool-call accuracy from 92% to 100%.

Pharo 14

90 xkriva11 2026-10-26 12:04:30 UTC pharo.org Llama Share 22

Pharo is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language with immediate feedback and a rich debugging environment. The community-driven project has released Pharo 14, the result of 978 pull requests and extensive contributions from over 1,500 contributors worldwide.

One of the Greatest Inventions in the History of Human Transport

135 skadamat 2026-10-26 11:04:30 UTC humantransit.org Llama Share 47

Blaise Pascal invented a fixed route public transport system in 17th-century Paris, precursor to modern buses and trains. His network design used radial lines and orbitals to connect major destinations efficiently.

Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline

326 cisc 2026-10-26 07:04:30 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 136

Birdwatching is being used as therapy for dementia patients, helping them feel more connected to others and experience positive emotions. Research shows that birdwatching can slow brain ageing by keeping the brain more organised and active.

SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller

15 zdw 2026-10-26 15:04:30 UTC shraiwi.com Llama Share 2

The author wrote a SIMD-accelerated FAST feature detector for the ESP32-S3 microcontroller, achieving double performance of the reference implementation and processing a QVGA frame in 6ms.

Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale

367 theanonymousone 2026-10-26 09:04:30 UTC blocks.manifold3d.ch Llama Share 172

Ein Minecraft-Mod namens "Swiss World" nutzt offene Geodaten von swisstopo, um eine genaue Darstellung der Schweiz in dem Spiel zu erstellen. Das Mod bietet eine Vielzahl von Funktionen und Details, wie z.B. die Möglichkeit, mit einem Klick auf die Karte einen Teleport-Befehl auszuführen.

Partyline: A group voice application for Reticulum, built on LXST

17 iamnothere 2026-10-26 15:04:30 UTC github.com/rfnexus Llama Share 3

Partyline is a lightweight, easy-to-host server for real-time group voice and audio over Reticulum transports. It offers customizable rooms with access lists, operators, and dial-in options, including PTT (Push-To-Talk) rooms for slower links.

Colorfigures

68 the-mitr 2026-10-26 12:04:30 UTC april-zhu.com Llama Share 7

An AI can draw everyday objects in a hand-inked, isometric style with interactive buttons and labels that light up as they work. The drawings are saved as HTML files that can be opened in a browser to interact with the object.

PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory (2025)

38 bmacho 2026-10-26 13:04:30 UTC hallofdreams.org Llama Share 21

The author investigates the widespread falsification of user posts on PhysicsForums, a scientific community founded in 2001. The site's database has been altered with AI-generated content, diluting human contributions and altering its history.

Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI

74 cdrnsf 2026-10-26 13:04:30 UTC brown.edu Llama Share 57

Cunyan Ma's interactive map exposes the power structure behind AI algorithms, revealing how data workers in the Global South are exploited for low wages to train AI models. The map links technology companies and their intermediaries to data workers worldwide, shedding light on "AI colonialism".

Show HN: TitleArt – Make text like it's 1997

338 davidbarker 2026-10-26 04:04:30 UTC titleart.dvy.io Full Share 63

Every classic WordArt style, shape and 3-D effect, in your browser.

Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

213 Austin_Conlon 2026-10-26 04:04:30 UTC exhibits.stanford.edu Full Share 127

The archive of photographer Douglas Menuez, including over 250,000 photographs documenting the rise of Silicon Valley.

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

630 jumploops 2026-10-25 19:04:30 UTC imaginationlibrary.com Llama Share 105

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifts free books to children worldwide, promoting early childhood literacy and inspiring a love of reading. The program, launched in 1995, has expanded to five countries and aims to reach every child with access to quality books.

Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce

56 doctorzook 2026-10-26 15:35:30 UTC seattletimes.com Llama Share 41

Microsoft is offering buyouts to about 60,000 employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce. The company aims to control head count without layoffs.

Websites Should Be Printable

164 bagatelle 2026-10-26 11:04:30 UTC brennenputh.me Llama Share 128

The author is a computer science graduate looking for work in the northeastern US and has experience with various programming languages. They're sharing their efforts to improve printability of web content, seeking feedback on their CSS snippet.

PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

204 vardhan1237 2026-10-26 04:04:30 UTC github.com/krushnavardhanreddy Llama Share 74

PaperPilot is a Rust-based PDF toolkit for local use, offering various features like merging, splitting, and compressing. It provides a consistent API across different interfaces and has an open-source community edition under Apache 2.0 license.

Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video]

6 surprisetalk 2026-10-26 15:04:30 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 0

OLED iPad Mini

123 etothet 2026-10-26 14:04:30 UTC apple.com Full Share 163

Get $45–$915 off the new iPad mini when you trade in an iPad 6 or newer. Buy now at apple.com.

'It's offensively cheap': Solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear

66 geox 2026-10-26 15:26:30 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 75

Solar power is expected to surpass nuclear as the world's main source of electricity by 2026, with global production increasing to 10% and overtaking nuclear. Solar has become the fastest-growing source of new electricity in history, driven by declining costs and rapid growth in countries like China, India, and Australia.

Growing Trees

159 ibobev 2026-10-26 06:04:30 UTC brashandplucky.com Llama Share 23

The author discusses a procedural tree growth method inspired by Palubicki et al.'s 2009 paper, using a voxel grid to simulate light availability and competition among buds. The method produces realistic crown shapes and branching patterns through feedback loops of resource allocation and bud placement control.

Show HN: A Truly Modular Keyboard

238 NotARoomba 2026-10-26 02:04:30 UTC github.com/notaroomba Llama Share 82

The Keybit and Keyword boards are designed in KiCad, featuring a single key with a Cherry MX switch and CH32V003. They connect to the main board via pogo pins for 3.3V, GND, and I2C, with programming pads on the corners.

Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs

370 speckx 2026-10-25 20:04:30 UTC charliegerard.dev Llama Share 124

A Chrome extension simulates overgrown plants on neglected tabs, allowing users to "slash" through vines to access them again. The extension features a neglect clock and various plant-clearing tools, making it more enjoyable to return to abandoned tabs.

The new iPad mini

91 soheilpro 2026-10-26 14:04:30 UTC apple.com Llama Share 85

Apple has released the new iPad mini, featuring a stunning OLED display, improved performance with A20 Pro chip, and water resistance. The device is available in two finishes and starts at $499 for the 64GB model.

DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay

88 _____k 2026-10-26 14:04:30 UTC freedom.press Llama Share 24

Lauren Harper, the first Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), discusses top secrecy news including a court battle over presidential papers and declassification stunts by the Trump administration. The FPF is fighting to stop privatization of presidential records and promote transparency in government.

Attention Is Not What You Need (2025)

163 westurner 2026-10-26 00:04:30 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 56

Researchers question the necessity of explicit self-attention in sequence modeling, proposing an attention-free architecture based on Grassmann flows. This approach uses geometric features to propagate information through controlled deformations of low-rank subspaces.

AmiJa, a cycle-exact Amiga emulator written in Java

14 doener 2026-10-26 15:04:30 UTC reddit.com Full Share 0

To continue, log in to your Reddit account or use your developer tokenIf you think you've been blocked by mistake, file a ticket below and we'll look into it.

Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

109 janandonly 2026-10-26 01:04:30 UTC archaeologymag.com Llama Share 52

Archaeologists have discovered a vast network of Iron Age salt-mining chambers beneath Hallstatt, Austria, offering insights into prehistoric mining techniques. The newly found chambers reveal daily life and technology used by miners 7,300 years ago.

Everything

17 ent101 2026-10-26 15:04:30 UTC github.com/heyputer Llama Share 3

The Everything Project aims to rebuild and open-source popular software from scratch, offering free alternatives. It's a single repository containing various applications, licensed under MIT unless specified otherwise.