The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America

389 slowin 2026-08-11 00:11:11 UTC effort.news GoogleT5 Share 257

Effort investigation identifies coordinated operation to influence american lawmakers. five foreign non-government organizations and their us affiliates are involved, authors say syria khan and edward mccaffery report reveals. they are attempting to pass a patchwork of digital id laws in 21 states and the us congress - they say. cnn's john defterios and david

Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers

91 swyx 2026-08-11 02:11:11 UTC github.com/antirez GoogleT5 Share 9

Native minimax-h3 inference for apple silicon. specialized 256-thread kernel gathers and quantizes each h3 row directly into the projection's row-major int8 buffer, eliminating the intervening full-width bf16 transpose without changing any output byte. cross-m5 measurements improved complete 512 forwards by about 0.2-0.8% avoiding a second device-memory read when

Chicken Scheme 6.0

98 eatonphil 2026-08-11 01:11:11 UTC code.call-cc.org GoogleT5 Share 11

- fix warnings about zero-sized memset in build system. fix'memory-statistics' by returning semi-space bytes like the documentation says. increase the "binary compatibility version to 9' a number of bugs have been fixed in the latest version of libchicken, including the following: r4rs no longer exports eval and srfi-

Recycle – Floppydisks

28 calvinmorrison 2026-08-11 02:11:11 UTC floppydisk.com Full Share 3

We buy new disks in sealed undamaged packs. Quantities of 100 or more. If disks are outside their original packaging, we cannot treat them as new. For new disks, send us a picture of your disks, and call (800) 397-7890 for a quote.

Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

109 Alen123 2026-08-11 00:11:11 UTC everycube.alen.is Full Share 27

Scroll through all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 reachable Rubik's Cube permutations.

The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life

81 benbreen 2026-08-10 23:11:11 UTC resobscura.substack.com Full Share 23

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

225 HenryNdubuaku 2026-08-10 20:11:11 UTC cactuscompute.com GoogleT5 Share 91

Cactus needle is a 2bit model that fits 45m parameters into 14mb. the model is trained on 115b tokens and post-trained on 38b engrams - jim snyder & joe wilson: the performance never lets us down. he says all numbers are measured end-to-end through the shipped c++ engine in its production configuration. "the tables answer one

Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

420 root-parent 2026-08-10 14:11:11 UTC ft.com Full Share 408

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Hyperspace

15 swyx 2026-08-11 02:11:11 UTC hypercritical.co GoogleT5 Share 6

Hyperspace finds files with identical contents and then reclaims the disk space taken by all but one of the identical files. if a file is marked as “busy,” it will be skipped, or it could have been set moments ago by an app that is using the file - but it won't do so unless it's owned by the current user. certain directories are entirely ignored by hyperspace, so an application might ...

Rust SIMD on the GPU

151 sagacity 2026-08-10 19:11:11 UTC vectorware.com GoogleT5 Share 68

Vectorware is building the first gpu-native software company. we are mapping rust's portable simd onto the gpu's native execution model. the ir itself is architecture-agnostic, so code and libraries can be used on gpus without rewrite. if you are interested in learning more, contact us at [email protected] - e-mail: adam@v

World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world

70 Flightmussy 2026-08-10 23:11:11 UTC worldtrainmap.com GoogleT5 Share 25

The world train map shows 1,247 notable train routes across 120 countries. routes are ranked by distance, fastest journey time, operator, rolling stock and year the line opened. every trainrouter.com address redirects here in a single step and keeps its path - nothing you had is lost, says samuel e. gillespie o'brien. the new name is what the thing actually is, he writes

Sonic Pi v5

327 samaaron 2026-08-10 16:11:11 UTC patreon.com Full Share 80

Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead

170 thunderbong 2026-08-10 18:11:11 UTC stowaway.live GoogleT5 Share 17

The sky here is the real one outside — your location, your weather, this minute's light. click one and the camera follows it; stow away and it takes a seat on board, over real terrain. all of that is drawn in real time, which needs javascript and webgl 2. switching javascript on for this site should do it. if you want to use the site in mobile, go to http://www.satellite

Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word

75 extralongdivisi 2026-08-10 20:11:11 UTC fabscene.medium.com GoogleT5 Share 18

This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. the action you just performed triggered the security solution. you can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. email them with the cloudflare ray id found at the bottom of this page. if you have any questions, please contact [email protected] - we'll be happy to help. click here for ...

Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

79 AntiRush 2026-08-10 21:11:11 UTC arachnoid.com GoogleT5 Share 20

In 1988, i sailed away from the west coast of the united states in a 31-foot sailboat. this is my story — my account of... around the world solo sail - for 3 1/2 years, from fearing shore, to wanting never to touch land again. read my book, sail with me! " ''i'm not sure if it's possible,' he says. but it is

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

1063 riordan 2026-08-10 10:11:11 UTC research.meta.ai Llama Share 589

Meta Superintelligence Labs introduces Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model optimized for local agent workflows, enabling use anywhere, anytime. Muse Glimmer delivers strong performance on key agentic use cases and benchmarks, with optimized integrations and developer documentation available for building and running agents.

Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us

221 EDM115 2026-08-10 21:11:11 UTC massaschadeconsument.nl GoogleT5 Share 100

"de digitale toekomst is onvermijdelijk en playstation stuurt hier ook volop aan. sony heeft een dominantepositie naar zich tot weten te trekken. er kun je nooit echt van jezelf gekocht worden.& ik vin

Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb

179 kuberwastaken 2026-08-10 14:11:11 UTC kuber.studio GoogleT5 Share 107

Agents are increasingly patching this at the prompt layer, something that belongs further down the stack, says sam taylor. agents whose native language is precise, machine-facing state, with the warm, concise, human version generated only a few layers down, he says. if we want to make agents more efficient, we need to rethink the way they communicate with each other, and how they interact ...

Squeak 6.1

236 fniephaus 2026-08-10 13:11:11 UTC squeak.org Llama Share 119

Squeak 6.1 release notes highlight major changes, including a new tree browser, improved kernel infrastructure, and enhanced toolset and user interface.

Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt

144 WhiteDawn 2026-08-10 16:11:11 UTC github.com/xoreaxeaxeax GoogleT5 Share 52

Exploiting system management mode with a very very long interrupt. to break this, all we need is someone too busy to notice they're supposed to join smm - at this point, core 1 can attack core 0 while the other is out of it. there are 100+ smm toctou cves out there: an mmap handler checks and then uses it; all you need for exploitation is to rewrite

The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story

19 kscarlet 2026-08-11 00:11:11 UTC gigamonkeys.com GoogleT5 Share 2

Do-primes is a macro that abstracts away the code it's supposed to be abstracting away. the macro is built on the model of the standard macros, dotimes and dolist, which are not evaluated more than absolutely necessary. if you macro-expand with-gensyms into the new code, you'll see the same thing, but it won't be as useful unless you

What's the best programming language for coding agents?

89 chaychoong 2026-08-10 17:11:11 UTC danluu.com GoogleT5 Share 65

A post suggests that languages that represent things more concisely are more token efficient. the median time to solve the tasks is in the hundreds of seconds - sam taylor-mcgraw-smith et al. he says this is not always obvious how much the issue generalizes across tasks or across setups. for these kinds of data-y projects, llms massively reduce the amount of effort it takes to get

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

70 erenberke 2026-08-10 17:11:11 UTC stoaexchange.com GoogleT5 Share 44

Oem allocation, cloud capacity, brokers, operators, and secondary sellers all change where gpus actually clear. buyers and sellers still rely on private quotes, stale lists, partial broker color - and partial brokers color to see where hardware really clears. describe the hardware in plain language or attach a quote pdf. terms, delivery, deadlines are explicit before anything goes out. ...

Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes

203 xeonmc 2026-08-10 11:11:11 UTC ethw.org Full Share 49

Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

162 BoxOfRain 2026-08-10 15:11:11 UTC news.ycombinator.com GoogleT5 Share 53

I've recently switched to a black-and-white e-ink smartphone. while the majority of my needs are met by this device there are some things i'd like to have which don't work terribly well with the screen. at the moment he's planning to implement two projects to fill these gaps - both are to be browser-based rather than native, to maximise compatibility and to avoid creating unusable s

The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert

88 simonebrunozzi 2026-08-10 18:11:11 UTC en.wikipedia.org GoogleT5 Share 59

The pamphlet, written by albert most, describes how to extract the venom of the sonoran desert toad, and administer it to produce hallucinogenic effects. it was originally published pseudonymously by a man named alfred savinelli, who claimed to be the author - but was later proved to have been the real author, ken nelson idaho-sanchez-mcgra

Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

99 hackerBanana 2026-08-10 15:11:11 UTC openai.com Full Share 182

Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines

125 sshh12 2026-08-10 15:11:11 UTC blog.sshh.io GoogleT5 Share 14

A model's training timeline can be estimated by scoring it on niche facts. if you score it correctly, you can estimate the model’s learning time - i.e., how long it took to train x% of the time it lost signal compared to 100% of its training time. this is derived from how many parameters it has, and the data mixtures it used to build it. it seems unlikely to me these are coming from internal synthetic

Claude will watermark AI-generated text and images

6 cdnsteve 2026-08-11 02:11:11 UTC tokenstead.ai Prefix Share 0

Anthropic says new Claude models launched in the EU on or after August 2, 2026 will embed text watermarks and C2PA provenance metadata on supported files. The marks help with transparency, but can be lost through editing, screenshots, or format conversion. Just announced and #1 on Hacker News. Cloudflare OS is a browser-based agent workspace where non-developers can build apps, workflows, and ...

Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java

7 dplyukhin 2026-08-11 02:11:11 UTC choral-lang.org Full Share 1