Researchers found that frontier LLMs can read and write neural network weights, a capability known as Weight-Space Programming. This allows them to understand and improve the performance of neural networks without training or gradient information.
A team at MIT CSAIL reports early experiments with GPT-6 Astra, a language model that can modify neural-network weights without writing a training loop. HackerTube gathered 6,454 YouTube videos mentioned by Hacker News readers over nearly two decades.
OpenAI built Pando, a new backend for Git repositories, to scale with the increased size and demands of its monorepo. Pando optimizes writes and reads by reusing packfiles across fetches and using a relaxed consistency model.
RISC-V silicon has arrived, enabling industrial computers with open interfaces and no single company ownership. ERICI coordinates a reference stack for firmware to operating systems on real RVA23 hardware.
The author reflects on the trade-offs of using agents in software development, finding a balance between trust and control. They discuss the potential downsides of relying too heavily on agents, including technical debt and loss of mechanical sympathy.
A web archiving enthusiast shares tools to preserve favorite websites, including browser extensions and a standalone app, after discovering a beloved anime fansite was replaced with online gambling ads. The author encourages readers to take action and archive their own sites using standard formats like WARC.
This paper compares OpenAirInterface (OAI) and srsRAN, two open-source 5G RAN implementations, to evaluate their performance in various scenarios. The study assesses supported features, deployment flexibility and radio resource control setup procedures for different applications like VoD, LS and CG.
Mo tests the app end-to-end to verify critical flows and find bugs, using Momentic's automated testing capabilities. The user flow involves adding terminology, expected behavior, and test guidance to the Knowledge base, running tests against the app with AI-assisted steps and reviewing proposed repairs.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a guide for small business owners, specifically solopreneurs, to protect their businesses from cyberattacks. The guide provides actionable cybersecurity basics tailored to the needs of solo entrepreneurs with limited technical knowledge or financial investment.
Central Warsaw in 1 m voxels, built from OpenStreetMap, LiDAR and the city's tree database. Walk around the Palace of Culture, change the date, hour and weather, or possess a pedestrian. Inspired by Minecraft, MagicaVoxel and Dungeon Keeper.
The author successfully optimized a NixOS installation to run on 512MB RAM, significantly reducing memory usage. The configuration involved disabling various kernel modules, services, and features to achieve this goal.
Coinbase is a platform for exploring stocks, and Yahoo Finance provides information on market trends. The tech sector experienced significant losses last week, with chip stocks leading the decline.
Pick the skills you want, then make small real edits in a browser Vim editor. Each skill runs two guided edits, two prompted edits, and two independent edits. Any valid edit that reaches the target text passes. Type :help in Normal mode for the current commands.
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory explores the universe's biggest, smallest, and fastest scales to develop new tools and materials. It advances areas like quantum technology and scientific computing to shape a healthier future.
Mathematicians must reevaluate the purpose of their work in light of AI's development, considering what gives mathematical work its worth and whether truths exist independently. The pursuit of truth should shape intellectual life, not just individual achievements or recognition.
Anthropic's financial report reveals a massive $900 billion in spending commitments, mostly for the 2030s, with revenues that appear impressive but may not sustain extraordinary growth. The company faces intense competition and high costs due to AI industry margins being squeezed by demand pressure, commoditization, cost pressures, and external constraints.
Polyend is releasing Tracker firmware source code and Community Edition 1.0 on GitHub, allowing users to modify and share their own versions. The update includes new features such as sample editing, effects, and synth engines for the original Tracker and its variants.
Rustable is a database explorer with native, GPU-rendered UI and support for multiple databases including MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Redis. It offers features like saved queries and edits before saving to reduce work on the UI thread.
Ubuntu's 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04 LTS releases lack patched kernels due to a critical CVE-2026-98432 vulnerability with a CVSS rating of 9.8. Affected systems remain exposed until official kernel packages are released by Ubuntu without an announced ETA for the fixes.
Ubuntu failed to patch a critical Linux kernel bug, CVE-2026-98432, despite it being rated 9.8 and having a working exploit. Ubuntu's lack of timely patches has led the author to move servers off the platform due to lost trust in its reliability.
1,504 marks, from human figures and birds to arrows and hiragana, after three essays on how marks change, when two are too alike, and how competitions choose them.
This project provides open-source carrier-board designs for NVIDIA V100 SXM2 modules with NVLink connections, sharing pin mappings and connector resources. The reference kit is a public pre-release, not a hardware-qualified board, and users can develop their own designs using the provided KiCad resources.
Windows 2000 was launched with a San Francisco expo and event, where team members gave presentations and answered questions. The launch itself featured Patrick Stewart as the presenter, who effectively promoted the new operating system.
Cloudflare's Zone Builder now uses a targeted build planner and scheduler to reduce full builds, cutting peak memory by 85% and halving the time from DNS change to data being written to Quicksilver. The new system reduces full builds by about 40%.
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