Zebra-Llama: Towards Efficient Hybrid Models

50 mirrir 2025-12-06 21:10:50 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 18

Researchers propose Zebra-Llama, a method to create efficient hybrid language models from pre-trained models, achieving Transformer-level accuracy with reduced training tokens and memory. Zebra-Llama outperforms existing models in accuracy and efficiency, using significantly fewer tokens and smaller memory.

GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches

379 akyuu 2025-12-06 14:10:50 UTC grapheneos.social Llama Share 147

GrapheneOS provides early Android security patches, backported to Android 13-16, while large companies like Samsung and Google take months to integrate them. This requires significant work and resources, slowing down GrapheneOS feature development.

Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop

316 LorenDB 2025-12-06 15:10:50 UTC tinycorelinux.net Llama Share 152

Tiny Core Linux is a minimal, ultra small graphical desktop OS that boots fast and supports additional apps and hardware. It's based on a core kernel and modules, with users able to add extensions from online repos or compile their own.

OMSCS Open Courseware

96 kerim-ca 2025-12-06 20:10:50 UTC sites.gatech.edu Llama Share 34

Georgia Tech's OMSCS program offers public course content through Ed Lessons, excluding graded assignments. Students enrolled in OMSCS should access course content through Canvas for full versions.

Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness

46 bookofjoe 2025-12-06 22:10:50 UTC kcl.ac.uk Llama Share 21

Researchers at King's College London found that moderate coffee consumption is linked to longer telomeres in people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, equivalent to a 5-year younger biological age. The study suggests that up to four cups of coffee per day may slow biological ageing in this population.

Z-Image: Powerful and highly efficient image generation model with 6B parameters

203 doener 2025-12-06 15:10:50 UTC github.com/tongyi-mai Llama Share 70

Z-Image is a powerful image generation model with 6B parameters, offering sub-second inference latency and photorealistic image generation. It has three variants: Z-Image-Turbo, Z-Image-Base, and Z-Image-Edit, supporting bilingual text rendering and creative image editing.

HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers

185 el3ctron 2025-12-06 15:10:50 UTC info.arxiv.org Llama Share 96

arXiv has launched HTML papers alongside PDFs to improve accessibility, with a goal to backfill over 2 million papers over time. The beta rollout is a work in progress, and feedback from the community is needed to improve conversions from LaTeX.

CATL Expects Oceanic Electric Ships in 3 Years

30 thelastgallon 2025-12-06 20:10:50 UTC cleantechnica.com Llama Share 34

CATL aims to provide zero-carbon marine transportation with electric ships navigating open seas within three years. The company has supplied batteries for over 900 vessels and is collaborating with shipping partners to advance electric shipping.

The past was not that cute

14 mhb 2025-12-06 22:10:50 UTC juliawise.net Llama Share 5

The author enjoys retro aesthetics but acknowledges the past was not as charming as often portrayed, with many people facing hardships and difficulties. They appreciate the past's lessons, such as the value of music and community, but choose to live in the present with modern conveniences.

Show HN: Tascli, a command line based (human) task and record manager

12 Aperocky 2025-12-06 21:10:50 UTC github.com/aperocky Llama Share 2

tascli is a CLI task manager, allowing users to create, list, and record tasks and activities with various options and recurring formats. It can be configured to store the database in a custom location via a config file.

Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea

18 shortrounddev2 2025-12-06 22:35:50 UTC openstreetmap.org Llama Share 2

Vandals defaced OpenStreetMap in South Korea, but most changes were rolled back and over 50 malicious accounts banned. The issue is likely caused by a single employee trying to delete power plant data, not a coordinated attack by Korean right-wing groups.

Autism's confusing cousins

198 Anon84 2025-12-06 12:10:50 UTC psychiatrymargins.com Llama Share 210

A clinician discusses the challenges of diagnosing autism, noting that many people self-diagnose with autism due to its high public awareness and perceived recognition of their social difficulties. The clinician emphasizes that autism diagnosis requires a nuanced understanding of various diagnostic possibilities, including anxiety disorders, schizoid personality, and social communication disorder.

Abstract Interpretation in the Toy Optimizer

27 ChadNauseam 2025-12-06 19:10:50 UTC bernsteinbear.com Llama Share 4

The author wrote a blog post about abstract interpretation, a framework for efficiently computing properties of a program's execution. They introduced a simple abstract domain and used it to optimize a program.

Touching the Elephant – TPUs

142 giuliomagnifico 2025-12-06 13:10:50 UTC considerthebulldog.com Llama Share 43

Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a specialized hardware accelerator that has enabled the company to excel in artificial intelligence, thanks to its focus on neural network inference and training. The TPU's design, which involves a systolic array and a scalar unit, has been optimized for performance and power efficiency, allowing it to outperform general-purpose processors in certain tasks.

Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)

3 turrini 2025-12-06 22:10:50 UTC anders.unix.se Prefix Share 0

In 2002 I asked a number of developers/Unix people for screenshots of their desktops. I recently republished them, and, seeing the interest this generated, I thought it’d be fun to ask the same people* again 13 years later. To my delight I managed to reach many of them. my desktop is pretty boring, since it consists of xterm windows to whatever unix system i am using at the moment. the ...

Finding Gene Cernan's Missing Moon Camera

51 theodorespeaks 2025-12-06 18:10:50 UTC spacecamera.co Llama Share 5

Gene Cernan's Apollo 17 camera was left on the lunar rover, but not the one he thought he left. It was actually a 500mm telephoto lens camera that stayed behind.

Infisical (YC W23) Is Hiring Engineers to Build the Modern OSS Security Stack

0 2025-12-06 17:10:50 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Infisical is hiring a Full Stack Engineer to build and expand its open source security infrastructure platform. The ideal candidate has deep technical mastery of JavaScript and a bias toward action, with experience in devops and open source development.

Copy-Item is 27% slower than File Explorer

27 hiAndrewQuinn 2025-12-06 22:10:50 UTC til.andrew-quinn.me Llama Share 15

The user compared the speeds of various file copying methods on Windows, including File Explorer, rsync, robocopy, SFTP, and PowerShell's Copy-Item. File Explorer's copy and paste was the fastest at 111-112 MBps.

The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude

159 knackers 2025-12-06 11:10:50 UTC blog.chrislewis.au Llama Share 86

The user successfully used Claude's headless mode in a continuous loop to decompile Snowboard Kids 2 functions, achieving more progress in 3 weeks than in 3 months. They developed a workflow and tooling approach to manage Claude's autonomy, including a scorer and defensive coding to mitigate failures and optimize token efficiency.

A compact camera built using an optical mouse

226 PaulHoule 2025-12-06 07:10:50 UTC petapixel.com Llama Share 45

Dycus built a low-resolution black-and-white camera using an old optical mouse sensor after 65 hours of work. The camera has multiple shooting modes, a 3D-printed body, and can capture recognizable images despite its low resolution.

Self-hosting my photos with Immich

604 birdculture 2025-12-06 02:10:50 UTC michael.stapelberg.ch Llama Share 341

The user set up Immich, a self-hostable photo manager, on a Ryzen 7 Mini PC with Proxmox virtualization. They configured it to run via Tailscale VPN and used immich-go to improve upload reliability and handle Google Takeout archives.

Term-keys – Lossless keyboard input for Emacs

9 harryday 2025-12-06 20:10:50 UTC github.com/cybershadow Prefix Share 1

This package allows configuring Emacs and a supported terminal emulator to handle keyboard input involving any combination of keys and modifiers. Generally, terminal emulators and applications running in a terminal cannot reliably transmit and receive certain keystrokes (keys in combination with modifiers). For some key combinations, there is no consensus on how these events should be encoded ...

Linux Instal Fest Belgrade

140 ubavic 2025-12-06 11:10:50 UTC dmz.rs Llama Share 19

Linux Install Fest will be held on December 9, 2025, at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, to help install Linux on laptops. Several people with Linux experience will be present, and short trainings may be held on various topics.

Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco

120 zackoverflow 2025-12-06 12:10:50 UTC fieldnotes.nautilus.quest Llama Share 18

The author read a book on San Francisco's history and became curious about Huckleberry House, a home for runaways founded in the late 1960s. She visited the San Francisco Public library and discovered the house's archives, including letters from teens to its founder, which inspired her to pursue her own non-profit, Nautilus.

Mathematics Without Numbers (1959)

5 measurablefunc 2025-12-06 22:10:50 UTC jstor.org Prefix Share 1

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Chernobyl protective shield can no longer confine radiation after drone strike

11 vinnyglennon 2025-12-06 22:10:50 UTC cnn.com Llama Share 1

A drone strike damaged the New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl, losing its primary safety functions. The IAEA recommends timely and comprehensive restoration to prevent further degradation and ensure long-term nuclear safety.

Nook Browser

93 ray__ 2025-12-06 12:10:50 UTC browsewithnook.com Full Share 78

The memory of web browsing being quick and easy lives with us all. Fewer pop-ups, less clutter, and finding what you need ASAP. When enabled, they provide helpful tools such as chat assistance, summaries, up-to-date web insights, and more.

Mapping Amazing: Bee Maps

51 altilunium 2025-12-06 15:10:50 UTC maphappenings.com Llama Share 29

The user's career started at Etak in 1985, where they helped design and build a production line for digital maps, which were then used in navigation systems. The user notes that collecting map data has become increasingly complex over the years, especially with the rise of autonomous vehicles requiring highly detailed maps.

How the 'hypnagogic state' of drowsiness could enhance your creativity

10 zeristor 2025-12-06 22:10:50 UTC theconversation.com Llama Share 1

Paul McCartney's song "Yesterday" was written in the hypnagogic state where he experienced a semi-conscious state between sleep and wakefulness. Research shows that this state can be a creative "sweet spot" where ideas emerge, and with practice, people can capture and develop these ideas.

Traveling Neighborhoods

7 surprisetalk 2025-12-06 20:10:50 UTC supernuclear.substack.com Prefix Share 4

Editor’s note: this is a guest post from Devon Zuegel, originally published on her blog in March 2024. Devon is building a new village, Esmeralda, in northern California and is one of the co-organizers of Edge Esmeralda, which we previously covered here. We love the concept she describes below as a way to deepen friendships and test out communal living while also exploring the world! - ...