Gemini 3.7 Flash

437 thisisauserid 2026-08-13 18:02:01 UTC blog.google Llama Share 259

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

258 pr337h4m 2026-08-13 19:02:01 UTC cerebras.ai Llama Share 95

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.

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

124 jkrauska 2026-08-13 18:02:01 UTC donkeybas.com Full Share 45

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

183 spelk 2026-08-13 18:02:01 UTC docs.mistral.ai Full Share 66

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

NP-Overrated

24 theanonymousone 2026-08-13 20:16:01 UTC gruhn.me Llama Share 4

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.

Spaghettifying DRAM

404 matt_d 2026-08-13 15:02:01 UTC github.com/xoreaxeaxeax Llama Share 121

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)

154 tosh 2026-08-13 18:02:01 UTC mcfunley.com Llama Share 79

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 Gödel's Proof Works

25 tzury 2026-08-13 20:02:01 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 6

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.

Understanding is the new bottleneck

50 sebg 2026-08-13 19:02:01 UTC geoffreylitt.com Llama Share 32

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.

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]

24 malshe 2026-08-13 20:02:01 UTC cdn.openai.com Llama Share 8

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.

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

18 nicole_express 2026-08-13 20:02:01 UTC nicole.express Llama Share 0

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.

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

72 ValdikSS 2026-08-13 19:02:01 UTC github.com/systemd Llama Share 22

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.

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

85 tdx 2026-08-13 18:02:01 UTC 0.mk Llama Share 52

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 Compaction Works in Pi

26 tosh 2026-08-13 18:02:01 UTC earendil.com Llama Share 1

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.

Tocharian Online

41 Bluestein 2026-08-13 18:02:01 UTC lrc.la.utexas.edu Llama Share 5

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.

Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

125 stevehipwell 2026-08-13 15:02:01 UTC oxide.computer Llama Share 56

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

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

493 bjin 2026-08-13 13:02:01 UTC deepseek.com Llama Share 228

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.

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

61 timmmmmmay 2026-08-13 17:02:01 UTC jdagostino.github.io Llama Share 29

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.

Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo

53 cainxinth 2026-08-13 16:02:01 UTC uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com Llama Share 18

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.

Gloomberb

343 rbanffy 2026-08-13 14:02:01 UTC gloom.sh Full Share 173

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.

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

153 toddmorey 2026-08-13 14:02:01 UTC netlify.com Llama Share 66

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.

Ordinary abundance

161 yen223 2026-08-13 14:02:01 UTC ordinaryabundance.com Llama Share 79

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.

How art invented humanity

66 prismatic 2026-08-13 16:02:01 UTC aeon.co Full Share 19

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

0 2026-08-13 13:02:01 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.

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

431 allanrbo 2026-08-13 05:02:01 UTC community.openai.com Llama Share 289

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

120 dreamforever 2026-08-13 14:02:01 UTC alexmorleyfinch.github.io Llama Share 65

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.

JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

28 0x54MUR41 2026-08-13 18:02:01 UTC tschatzl.github.io Llama Share 9

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.

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

32 gregsadetsky 2026-08-13 17:02:01 UTC goaccess.io Llama Share 6

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.

Airbnb Eval-driven development: Lessons from evaluating GenAI at scale

6 sebg 2026-08-13 20:02:01 UTC medium.com/airbnb-engineering Full Share 0

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

36 adi1 2026-08-13 15:02:01 UTC codewithbullet.com Llama Share 36

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.