GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 lineup, including Sol, Terra, and Luna models, has shown significant improvements in vision capabilities such as object detection and counting. The Sol model outperforms the others in these tasks.

Incident with Github.com

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GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.

Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

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Sokoban is a puzzle game where the keeper must push boxes onto goals while reaching its own goal in as few moves as possible. The JavaScript port uses an A* search algorithm to find the optimal solution for most boards, but not for board 15 due to computational limitations.

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

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The author has been testing Qwen 3.8 27B, a large language model from Alibaba's research lab, on various machines and found it to be highly capable but slow due to its dense architecture requiring significant memory bandwidth.

Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models

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newthe tree: every take you wrote, still there 1667 asks a model for the next paragraph, then keeps every take it gives you side by side on a tree you can walk back through. Your keys, your endpoint, your files on your disk. No analytics, no telemetry, no account anywhere in the source. Installs 1667 0.9.8. Supports macOS arm64/x64 and glibc 2.17+ Linux arm64/x64. Run 1667 upgrade for later ...

Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway

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Profepa launches aggressive campaign against unauthorized real estate developments along Mexico's Yucatán coast, promising demolition of illegal structures. The agency prioritizes environmental restoration over monetary penalties in a shift towards stricter enforcement.

How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy

On A.I. regulation and messaging

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The author believes regulation can be a double-edged sword, potentially constraining corporate power but also risking regulatory capture. They advocate for balanced regulations that address AI risks and decentralize power through fair institutional processes.

Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

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Anthropic is implementing a watermarking system on its Claude models to comply with the EU's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, which requires marking AI-generated text. The system uses semantic watermarking techniques that subtly influence word choices at inference time.

Tell HN: GitHub Is Overloaded

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Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

The desktop that taught the world to point and click — with a scheme for every taste. The release that made Windows a success — and let you recolor the whole desktop.

A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better”

The author criticizes Dmitry Grinberg's article on RISC-V, arguing that his criticism of the architecture is biased and misses the point. The author claims that RISC-V's openness and low cost make it accessible to developers in developing countries, allowing them to create their own projects without relying on expensive tools or licenses.

GitHub down again? no PR access

Githubstatus.com currently says everything is working, but it isn't Yep, started with PR changes not being visible, but now can't load entire repos. I see the pink unicorn. I'm seeing "Merge status cannot be loaded" when attempting to merge a PR. It's a shame I had to go to HN to check if I was the only one instead of relying on their status page that they link.

The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Endurance Athletes

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Mike Wolfe, an ultrarunner, experienced overtraining syndrome (OTS) after pushing himself too hard during his debut as a full-time professional runner at Transvulcania Ultramarathon in 2012. OTS has become increasingly common among elite endurance athletes, with many top runners experiencing sudden declines in performance and struggling to recover from the condition.

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

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Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for building decentralized, sovereign networks without control or censorship. It enables secure digital communication and end-to-end connectivity with self-sovereign addresses that can be moved freely within the network.

Claude: System Prompts

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Claude's web interface and mobile apps use a system prompt to provide information, including the current date, at the start of conversations. The prompt is updated periodically to improve Claude's responses, but not for the Claude API.

Linear algebra done right

The fourth edition of Linear Algebra Done Right is an open-access book with over 250 new exercises, available in multiple languages. It's a best-selling textbook for undergraduate math majors and graduate students, focusing on the structure of linear operators on finite-dimensional vector spaces.

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

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AGI-64 is a free AGI interpreter for the Commodore 64, aiming to support most era games. It's currently around 75% complete and playable on Space Quest 1, with features like save/load and custom background pre-processing.

Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed

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Commodore, a home computer brand popular in the 80s, declined after its bankruptcy and multiple ownership changes. A new YouTuber has revived the brand with a focus on nostalgia and innovation, releasing products like the C64 Ultimate and planning to launch a phone called Callback.

Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B

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Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget

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A DIY project built a PTP (Precision Time Protocol) grandmaster clock using a Raspberry Pi CM4, an Intel i226 NIC, and a GPS module. The build achieved sub-microsecond synchronization accuracy over LAN and WAN networks.

How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)

Passkeys are the simplest and most secure way to sign in to your account. To sign in with just your fingerprint, face scan, or screen lock, create a passkey.

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

The Racket team is adding annot and annot.def to define annotations without macro code, as well as a binding form for more readable naming.

Cialis is an erectile dysfunction drug. Could it also help you live longer?

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Tadalafil – better known by its brand name Cialis – is one of the most commonly prescribed drugs for erectile dysfunction. But in some biohacking and wellness circles, it's increasingly being repurposed for an entirely different reason. Online clinics and influential figures are promoting it as a kind of all-purpose longevity drug – delivering benefits for the cardiovascular system, brain ...

Gakutensoku

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Makoto Nishimura built the first robot, Gakutensoku, in Osaka in the late 1920s to celebrate nature and humanity. The robot was displayed internationally from 1928 to its disappearance in the 1930s, with a modern version now on display at the Osaka Science Museum.

Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux

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SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX

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Intel's MMX technology was introduced in 1997, allowing for single instruction, multiple data processing on x86 CPUs. It enabled significant speedups in multimedia software and paved the way for modern SIMD architectures like AVX-512 and GPUs with thousands of cores.

Applying a photosynthetic process to treat “dry eye”

Self hosted email continues to steeply decline

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The internet's top million domains have consolidated around two major email providers, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, with a long tail of smaller infrastructure defying easy classification. A decade-long DNS measurement project has revealed that only about half of these domains enforce DMARC policies to protect against spam and phishing.

The AI Credit Resale Economy

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Token brokers buy unused credits from startups and resell them, offering discounts to attract buyers. This market is growing rapidly, with tens of millions of credits being offered across various sites and forums.