OpenRouter is joining Stripe

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OpenRouter joins forces with Stripe to power global GDP growth, expanding its model marketplace and gateway. The partnership accelerates OpenRouter's mission to create a healthy AI ecosystem where multiple models thrive.

Go 1.27

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Go 1.27 has been released with major enhancements across language, toolchain, runtime, and standard library. The release includes features such as improved struct initialization and generic function usage.

Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Maker

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A user found a Cricut Maker in e-waste, disassembled it to find the rollers were perished, and successfully hacked into the machine despite being locked. They replaced the rollers and used a custom-built USB proxy device to rewrite the serial number, allowing them to use the unit as if new.

Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 GGUFs

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Unsloth Dynamic v3.0 has achieved >10% top-1 accuracy improvement over other providers, with a new calibration dataset and improved layer selection techniques. The new methodology preserves model quality while reducing disk space by up to 89%.

Router by Ramp

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Ramp Router offers free routing through 2026 with $26 in model credits, cutting AI costs by up to 92% on average. It provides a one-stop-shop for accessing multiple models from vetted providers, reducing the need for manual model selection and saving developers time and money.

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

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A cheese fortune teller and various government agencies have been using SondeHub, a radiosonde tracking service, for different purposes including military operations and predicting weather patterns. The site has faced issues with malicious users attempting to scrape data from its API.

Google replaced Git tags for certain source code with obtaining via Google Drive

Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at handling requests. They're in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.

Pressed Penny Machine Map

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This is a map of penny press machines from around the world. We have mapped most of the penny presses in the USA.

Casio F-B100W-1A

You don't have permission to access "http://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.F-B100W-1A/" on this server.

The little-known winstart.bat batch file

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The C:\WINDOWS\WINSTART.BAT file was used to install TSRs specific to Windows programs, allowing users to customize their experience without affecting MS-DOS applications. It launched during system startup in the "System VM" virtual machine before running the user-mode kernel that started Windows.

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

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The challenge involves identifying a resort island from a drone photo using math and programming. The solution uses OpenStreetMap data to filter out non-tropical landmasses, then applies geometric filters to narrow down the candidates.

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

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Ornith-1.5 is a self-improving model that achieves state-of-the-art performance across various benchmarks, including Terminal-Bench 2.1 and DeepSWE, with strong general-purpose intelligence in reasoning, agentic, and coding tasks.

Mathematics in the age of AI

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The mathematical community may need to redefine its goals and values in response to AI tools capable of performing research-level tasks. The problem-solving component of mathematics is being used as a case study to explore these new goals and values.

A portable, sensitive, low power, analog Geiger counter

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A DIY Geiger counter was built using a large Chinese J306Ξ² tube, which is rated for 88 counts per minute at average background radiation. The counter has two ranges and can measure low-level radiation levels with high sensitivity.

XWayland 26.1-rc1 Released Two Years After the Last Release

Olivier Fourdan ofourdan at redhat.com has released Xwayland 26.0.99.901, the first release candidate for the upcoming standalone Xwayland 26.1.0 release, with notable changes including EGLStream support removal and clipboard/primary selection bridge implementation in rootful mode; multi-seat via Xi2: Wayland seats and their devices are mirrored into an XInput 2 hierarchy; RandR emulation now ...

How Kubernetes Probes Work

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The user demonstrates how probes work in Kubernetes, explaining that they are periodic checks sent to containers to determine their health and can prevent avoidable mistakes such as restart loops and dropping requests during rollouts. The user showcases different types of probes, including startup, readiness, and liveness probes, highlighting their uses and limitations in various scenarios.

Extensible Software in the age of LLMs

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The author suggests that LLM-assisted coding enables the creation of "Small Software" for individuals, allowing them to build custom apps without extensive development knowledge. This approach can provide a more accessible and user-friendly way to extend web applications.

fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.

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fx is a coding agent harness and CLI written in Zig, optimized for research and embeddability. It aims to mimic Unix shell style output with minimalism and performance.

Digital Immortality

Robots are processing and distributing user-generated content to massive data centers, where it's transformed into AI model weights. The author acknowledges their contribution to the vast amount of written human output that fuels AI development.

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

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A new study found that remote workers reported the highest levels of well-being, while onsite workers had the lowest. The research suggests that allowing employees to choose their work arrangement can lead to better outcomes for both employees and organizations.

Introducing MicroLighter

The author created MicroLighter, a client-side syntax highlighter using the CSS Custom Highlights API, to simplify code highlighting on their Jekyll blog. It supports multiple languages and offers auto-loaded language grammars, customizable themes, and a separate web component for extra features.

PostgreSQL for Everything

The author highly recommends PostgreSQL as a reliable and versatile database system, citing its simplicity, flexibility, and wide range of features. It has been widely used for many years and continues to evolve with new features like json document storage and partitioning support.

Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams

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OneCLI is an open-source gateway that securely stores API credentials and injects them into AI agent requests. It provides a single point for managing access, rotating keys, and monitoring agent activity.

DFlash 2: Keep Drafting Parallel

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Inco AI's DFlash 2 improves inference efficiency by predicting every position independently in parallel, reducing suffix decay and increasing throughput. It achieves this with a new selector that chooses the right path through candidates and a block-local convolution that absorbs local work.

Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

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Use hands or phone gyro to control sound volume and pitch in mid-air, with a laptop webcam also working. Press start on a mouse to calibrate the device for your grip.

Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

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Researchers have temporarily slowed the pace of scaling AI model development due to growing risks associated with increasingly capable systems, including a potential critical cybersecurity capability threshold. They are strengthening monitoring, alignment, and containment safeguards across all stages of the training process to ensure models behave as intended and responsive to human oversight.

Rules of Good Social Skills (2025)

From Quantum Relative Entropy to the Semiclassical Einstein Equations

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The semiclassical Einstein equations follow from quantum relative entropy and area variation, providing a quantum field theoretic generalization of Jacobson's thermodynamic derivation. This approach suggests that quantum information plays a central role in theories of quantum gravity.

Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

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Moderna and Merck announced positive Phase 3 results for an mRNA-based cancer therapy, marking a milestone in the field of mRNA. The treatment showed improved recurrence-free survival and distant metastasis-free survival in patients with melanoma.

Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5

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A character-level transformer model is trained on 32k names in seconds, generalizing rather than memorizing. It outperforms an interpolated trigram with nearly five times as many parameters on unseen data.