Gemini 3.7 Flash

296 thisisauserid 2026-08-13 18:21:23 UTC blog.google Llama Share 193

Gemini 3.7 Flash is the latest model, offering substantial improvements in coding and agent tasks with a lower price point than Gemini 3.6 Flash. It delivers strong gains in debugging, issue resolution, and code accuracy across various workflows and domains.

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

117 pr337h4m 2026-08-13 18:21:23 UTC cerebras.ai Llama Share 23

Cerebras and OpenAI are launching Ultrafast Mode, a new service tier powered by Cerebras that delivers up to 750 output tokens per second without quality compromise. This resolves the tradeoff between speed and intelligence in AI models, enabling faster inference for mission-critical work.

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

88 tosh 2026-08-13 18:21:23 UTC mcfunley.com Llama Share 47

The author reflects on the importance of technology choices in a company, emphasizing that innovation tokens should be spent wisely and that "boring" technologies like MySQL or PHP can be good enough. They advocate for mindful choice of technology to avoid overwhelming unknowns and operational costs.

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

64 jkrauska 2026-08-13 18:21:23 UTC donkeybas.com Full Share 23

DONKEY.BAS shipped with early IBM PC DOS as a demo of color graphics and sound in BASICA. It was written by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Neil Konzen in 1981 (version 1.10 in 1982). You only switch lanes — avoid the donkey, or BOOM. This page recreates the original CGA gameplay in JavaScript with some liberties. Original source: DONKEY.BAS · GitHub

Mistral OCR 4.1

117 spelk 2026-08-13 17:21:23 UTC docs.mistral.ai Full Share 33

Our latest OCR service powering our Document AI stack, with native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores.

Spaghettifying DRAM

332 matt_d 2026-08-13 14:21:23 UTC github.com/xoreaxeaxeax Llama Share 103

The skitter-creek-bath-salts project exploits a vulnerability in AMD Family 16h CPUs by manipulating the DRAM controller to scramble memory, bypassing security features like SEV and SGX. This allows for unrestricted access to protected regions of memory, including PSP private memory and SMRAM.

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

38 tdx 2026-08-13 18:21:23 UTC 0.mk Llama Share 15

A 17-year-old database backup of the old 0.mk URL shortener was restored and crawled, revealing that only a small percentage of links still load. The majority of links point to non-existent pages or have been blocked by websites.

Tocharian Online

31 Bluestein 2026-08-13 17:21:23 UTC lrc.la.utexas.edu Llama Share 1

Tocharian is a closely related Indo-European language family, consisting of two distinct languages A and B, discovered in Chinese Turkestan documents along the Silk Road. Tocharian texts date back to the 6th-8th centuries AD and include translations of Buddhist texts.

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

36 timmmmmmay 2026-08-13 17:21:23 UTC jdagostino.github.io Llama Share 15

The author is building a custom AI server using old computer parts, including four GPUs and an Intel Core i9 processor, to run the Deepseek V4 Flash model. They've overcome initial challenges with booting and fan control to get the system up and running with Ubuntu 24.04.

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

460 bjin 2026-08-13 13:21:23 UTC deepseek.com Llama Share 209

DeepSeek Harness is now in developer preview, offering a plugin-based system for agent developers to create custom harnesses. It provides various modes, including standard, code, minimal and creator modes with tools and capabilities that can be swapped or extended.

Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo

46 cainxinth 2026-08-13 15:21:23 UTC uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com Llama Share 12

John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert invented the ENIAC, a pioneering computer in the 1940s, but their innovations continued with other computers like UNIVAC and Skeduflo. Mauchly's vision for using computers to solve problems led to significant advancements in programming and data processing.

Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

102 stevehipwell 2026-08-13 15:21:23 UTC oxide.computer Llama Share 48

The author, as Oxide's first Solutions Software Engineer, aimed to build software to solve customer problems by integrating Kubernetes with Oxide.

Ordinary abundance

123 yen223 2026-08-13 14:21:23 UTC ordinaryabundance.com Llama Share 47

People have made significant advancements in technology and daily life, including music on demand, electric light, art reproductions, vision correction, instant communication, clean running water and refrigeration.

Gloomberb

305 rbanffy 2026-08-13 14:21:23 UTC gloom.sh Full Share 161

See what's new in 0.10.4 ▞▀▖▜ ▌ ▌ ▌▄▖▐ ▞▀▖▞▀▖▛▚▀▖▛▀▖▞▀▖▙▀▖▛▀▖ ▌ ▌▐ ▌ ▌▌ ▌▌▐ ▌▌ ▌▛▀ ▌ ▌ ▌ ▝▀ ▘▝▀ ▝▀ ▘▝ ▘▀▀ ▝▀▘▘ ▀▀ Gloomberb is command-bar first. Type a ticker or a shortcut like DES AAPLor TOP and jump straight into the market view. Ranked stories, breaking news, sector feeds, global indices, FX, macro events, yield curves, movers, and sentiment.

How art invented humanity

52 prismatic 2026-08-13 16:21:23 UTC aeon.co Full Share 12

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Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

133 toddmorey 2026-08-13 13:21:23 UTC netlify.com Llama Share 59

Netlify has launched a partnership with OpenRouter, offering two new pieces of functionality: the AI Gateway and Agent Runners. Users can now choose from various open models for their projects, including Kimi K3, GLM 5.2, and DeepSeek V4.

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

408 allanrbo 2026-08-13 05:21:23 UTC community.openai.com Llama Share 285

The ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now available in preview, offering a native experience with supported Ubuntu and Debian versions. It provides a workspace for managing projects and running Codex alongside ChatGPT.

I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10

97 dreamforever 2026-08-13 14:21:23 UTC alexmorleyfinch.github.io Llama Share 57

A user built a personal search engine over a weekend, cataloging 560,000 sites for $10 and renting an overnight GPU. The engine uses a small local language model to summarize pages and has features like fuzzy matching and category filtering.

GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

21 gregsadetsky 2026-08-13 17:21:23 UTC goaccess.io Llama Share 3

GoAccess is a fast, terminal-based log analyzer for real-time web server statistics. It detects suspicious activity and generates reports in HTML, JSON, and CSV formats.

JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

17 0x54MUR41 2026-08-13 18:21:23 UTC tschatzl.github.io Llama Share 4

OpenJDK 28 is approaching with significant changes to its stop-the-world collectors, including the introduction of G1 as the default garbage collector. These updates aim to improve performance, footprint, and latency profile by addressing various issues and adding new features.

ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)

0 2026-08-13 12:21:23 UTC atg.science Full Share

Careers Create systems that think, reason, and act. We're looking for curious minds from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.

Show HN: Inertia – Not your Grandfathers animation editor

7 hpen 2026-08-13 18:21:23 UTC inertiagraphics.com LocalLLM Share 1

Inertia bridges design and code by allowing real-time edits to UI elements with shared animation tracks. It enables designers and developers to collaborate using a single file format across multiple runtimes without reimplementation.

Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals

49 bookofjoe 2026-08-13 15:21:23 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 6

A mathematician proved a new uncertainty principle that applies to fractals, which are shapes with intricate patterns. This principle shows that quantum particles cannot be trapped in fractal-like paths forever.

Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5

47 pcbmaker20 2026-08-13 14:21:23 UTC github.com/fellowgeek Llama Share 29

MCP-Memory is a server for AI agents with persistent memory capabilities using the Open Knowledge Format (OKF v0.2) standard and SQLite indexing. It enables long-term memory storage, search, and retrieval across sessions with automatic setup and configuration.

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

27 adi1 2026-08-13 14:21:23 UTC codewithbullet.com Llama Share 29

A tool called Bullet was created to speed up agent runs by eliminating unnecessary steps and parallelizing independent tasks, saving hours of waiting time. It is now used internally at the company that developed it, which aims to help others achieve similar results.

Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia

100 pxl-th 2026-08-13 11:21:23 UTC pxl-th.github.io Llama Share 14

GaussianSplatting.jl version 2.0 improves performance and UI with features like multi-threading, progress bars, loss plots, and depth supervision. It also introduces new techniques such as Sky Dome and sky segmentation masks to disentangle the sky from the scene.

The Indo-European Family Tree

49 benbreen 2026-08-13 16:21:23 UTC djbinder.com Full Share 38

From English and Hindi to Latin and Persian, the Indo-European languages all descend from Proto-Indo-European—an unrecorded language spoken around 4500 BCE. Click any language to learn more.

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

169 thehoff 2026-08-13 15:21:23 UTC wired.com Llama Share 207

The author accessed their McDonald's data after signing up for the loyalty program years ago, revealing a 515-page report detailing past transactions and predicted future purchases. The report showed an alarming level of detail about the author's habits, raising concerns about commercial surveillance and data privacy.

Show HN: OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data

17 fraywing 2026-08-13 16:21:23 UTC ojcp.dev Llama Share 3

OJCP tools are valid MCP tools, enabling standard application mechanisms and candidate data opt-in. The platform aims to shape the future of agent-ready hiring through ATS integration and secure resume embeddings.

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

349 Markoff 2026-08-13 12:21:23 UTC tradersunion.com Llama Share 384

China has authorized Deutsche Bank to clear renminbi transactions in Europe, expanding the use of yuan in international trade and investment. This move strengthens a payments franchise for Deutsche Bank while broadening China's efforts to increase the currency's global role.