Gemini 3.7 Flash

617 thisisauserid 2026-08-13 17:41:25 UTC blog.google Llama Share 344

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.

Bluesky Protocol Services

60 danabramov 2026-08-14 00:41:25 UTC atproto.com Llama Share 11

Bluesky Protocol Services launches, organizing documentation for developers using the AT Protocol network's public infrastructure. The new site includes Jetstream v2, which adds history to the network and allows server-side slicing without backfilling locally.

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

420 pr337h4m 2026-08-13 18:41:25 UTC cerebras.ai Llama Share 174

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.

SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles

25 paulnpace 2026-08-14 00:41:25 UTC sparrowmap.com Llama Share 6

A phone-based detection system runs locally without server access, ensuring camera feed security. A spare PC with a webcam can also run the detector locally for added security and plate reading capabilities.

NP-Overrated

148 theanonymousone 2026-08-13 20:41:25 UTC gruhn.me Llama Share 90

NP-hard problems are often considered intractable but not impossible to solve, with many practical solutions existing. In practice, the worst-case scenarios rarely occur and can be mitigated with timeouts or heuristics.

Understanding is the new bottleneck

203 sebg 2026-08-13 19:41:25 UTC geoffreylitt.com Llama Share 111

The talk discusses the importance of human understanding in systems built by agents, and provides techniques for efficiently understanding code, including explain-diff and shared spaces. These methods aim to bridge the gap between humans and AI, enabling active participation in creative processes.

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

555 bjin 2026-08-13 13:41:25 UTC deepseek.com Llama Share 242

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.

Mistral OCR 4.1

252 spelk 2026-08-13 17:41:25 UTC docs.mistral.ai Full Share 99

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

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

188 jkrauska 2026-08-13 18:41:25 UTC donkeybas.com Full Share 79

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

Spaghettifying DRAM

496 matt_d 2026-08-13 14:41:25 UTC github.com/xoreaxeaxeax Llama Share 138

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.

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

251 tosh 2026-08-13 18:41:25 UTC mcfunley.com Llama Share 131

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.

How AI text watermarking works

75 padolsey 2026-08-13 23:41:25 UTC declaude.org Llama Share 43

A statistical mark is hidden in generated text by tilting the model's shortlist of words towards a secret key, making it survive copying and editing. The mark lives in the choices between words, not in the characters themselves.

Hello, me. It's been a while

22 somesoftdev 2026-08-14 00:41:25 UTC themech.net Llama Share 7

The author reflects on how they've lost the habit of quiet thinking over 14 years, replaced by constant background noise. They rediscovered this habit and found it to be more enjoyable than filling silence with podcasts or social media.

Finite State Machines in Forth (1994)

46 ofalkaed 2026-08-13 21:41:25 UTC forth.org Llama Share 1

The J.V. Noble Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics at the University of Virginia has developed a method to construct deterministic and nondeterministic finite state automata in Forth, a high-level programming language. This approach allows for efficient implementation of complex programs using abstract finite state machines (FSMs).

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

132 tdx 2026-08-13 18:41:25 UTC 0.mk Llama Share 110

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.

How a device finds encrypted DNS by itself

15 majorchord 2026-08-13 23:41:25 UTC blog.dundns.eu Llama Share 3

A device can discover an encrypted DNS resolver through a process called DDR, which involves sending a query to _dns.resolver.arpa and receiving the hostname, port, and protocol of available endpoints. The device then opens a connection to the preferred endpoint and encrypts all subsequent queries.

How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)

69 tzury 2026-08-13 20:41:25 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 35

Kurt Gödel's 1931 incompleteness theorems showed that any set of axioms is either incomplete or inconsistent, proving math cannot be a complete system. This discovery has far-reaching implications in mathematics and beyond.

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]

65 malshe 2026-08-13 19:41:25 UTC cdn.openai.com Llama Share 36

Researchers studied how organizations use generative AI, specifically ChatGPT Enterprise, by linking account records to usage data from March 2026. The study found that ChatGPT Enterprise usage has grown rapidly among large and valuable firms with high R&D and SG&A expenses.

How Compaction Works in Pi

106 tosh 2026-08-13 18:41:25 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 40

Pi uses compaction to summarize conversation history when context limit is reached, discarding older content while preserving recent work. Compaction can be manually triggered using /compact command or automatically after a turn ends with configurable token budget.

Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes

146 ValdikSS 2026-08-13 18:41:25 UTC github.com/systemd Llama Share 94

Using journald in write mode on an XFS file system, it writes to the hard drive but is inefficient and can corrupt during unclean reboots. This shows that iotop's accuracy issue may be due to kernel mechanisms rather than journald itself being slow.

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

245 vinayakborkar 2026-08-13 13:41:25 UTC current.org Llama Share 135

Nine PBS sued Iron Mountain Data Centers for over 50 terabytes of archival materials stored in a Denver data center after their cloud-storage vendor, Open Source Storage (OSS), cut off access without warning. The station claims OSS' predecessor owned the data and Iron Mountain refuses to return it due to OSS' ownership of the infrastructure housing the data.

An ambiguity in c89 which will never be fixed

30 runningmike 2026-08-13 22:41:25 UTC sebsite.pw Llama Share 5

The C89 standard's implicit function declaration feature causes GCC and Clang to disagree on its interpretation, leading to differing behavior in certain edge cases. The ambiguity arises from the phrase "innermost block" in the standard, which is unclear whether it refers to block scope or file scope.

I want extern "fil-C"

22 domenkozar 2026-08-14 00:41:25 UTC domenkozar.com Llama Share 2

The author proposes a bridge between Rust and C, Fil-C, which compiles C with capabilities and runtime checks for memory safety. This would allow existing software to be rewritten in Rust while maintaining performance on legacy code that remains safe under ordinary unsafe C.

Blog about things you don't understand yet

9 gfysfm 2026-08-13 23:41:25 UTC seangoedecke.com LocalLLM Share 1

The author emphasizes that writing blog posts forces deep thinking and learning, often leading to unexpected insights. They argue that structured, controversial topics are more effective for clear thinking and learning than unstructured self-expression.

Smooth Move: Taming Trajectories with Polynomials

22 lioeters 2026-08-13 20:41:25 UTC nick.zoic.org Llama Share 0

The article discusses the importance of smooth transitions in 3D printing and robotics, particularly when moving between different segments of a path. It introduces the concept of jerk, snap, and crackle as measures of vibration and discontinuity in motion. The article then presents a mathematical approach to creating smooth transitions using sigmoid functions like SmoothStep or Smootherstep.

Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

155 stevehipwell 2026-08-13 14:41:25 UTC oxide.computer Llama Share 69

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

Idol Mahjong Final Romance: A Slideshow Disguised as a Video Game

40 nicole_express 2026-08-13 19:41:25 UTC nicole.express Llama Share 9

The author reviews Idol Mahjong Final Romance 2-R-4 Special, a re-release of the final three games in the series. The game features unique aesthetic and gameplay mechanics, including rotoscoped graphics and low frame rate animations.

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

84 adi1 2026-08-13 14:41:25 UTC codewithbullet.com Llama Share 54

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.

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

89 timmmmmmay 2026-08-13 16:41:25 UTC jdagostino.github.io Llama Share 47

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.

Ordinary abundance

208 yen223 2026-08-13 13:41:25 UTC ordinaryabundance.com Llama Share 117

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.