Qwen3.8 is launching with 2.4T parameters, considered one of the most powerful models today. It's available on Alibaba's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork for early testing.
HMD Touch 4G is a hybrid phone combining feature phone simplicity with smartphone features like video calls and Wi-Fi support. It offers a touchscreen, Cloud Phone Service, and Express Chat app for texting and video calling.
The creator of Jamcorder, a simple automated piano recording device, found the hardest part of building it was the software, not the hardware, which took over 3 years to develop. The experience suggests that hardware development is not as difficult as its reputation, and with proper planning, it's possible to successfully ship a hardware product at a medium scale.
Bananas may become more common in British gardens due to warmer summers and milder winters. Tropical plant enthusiasts have successfully grown bananas in the UK, using techniques like creating a microclimate effect to protect from frost.
Claude Code uses a preview of Bun v1.4.0, a not-yet-released version, indicating its use in production. This suggests Bun in Rust is being run on millions of devices.
The Minecraft snapshot has switched to SDL3 for window management, input, and platform integration, and added new item components for custom furnace fuels and technical changes for signs, world generation, and loot tables. Several bug fixes and changes have been made, including improvements to fullscreen mode, debug overlay, and loot table types, as well as fixes for various issues such as ...
Blender 5.2 LTS introduces new features including audio-reactive animations, node-based cloth and hair physics, and improved dynamics. It also includes a Texture Cache for reduced memory usage and startup time.
Cagire is a free, open-source step sequencer that uses Forth scripts to produce sound and control effects. It includes a built-in audio engine and interactive documentation, and is available for self-compilation from source.
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Our current IR data structures in Base are about 10 years old at this point. They've held up relatively well, but there are also big problems with. I think the three biggest are that the IR...
transcribe.cpp is a ggml-based transcription library that supports various ASR models, ensuring accurate and fast local inference. It's designed to make locally run ASR easier, with a strong focus on performance, accuracy, and ease of use.
The minimum path to really seeing how a transformer layer works, not just reciting the shapes. Start from the one-new-row insight, then follow the KV cache and the systems built around it. The series is a full first draft. I'll be grinding through polish, corrections, and the odd rewrite. If you spot something wrong, contact info is here.
Redefinable keys, goblins that chase you, d20 combat, and the memory bug that had the game silently overwriting itself. In part seven the dungeon was full of goblins that were about as threatening as garden gnomes. They stayed exactly where the map generator dropped them. You could walk up, poke them, take five points of damage and stroll away, and they’d still be standing there in the same ...
Kurt Gödel's work on incompleteness theorems showed that mathematics cannot fully explain itself, and this has implications for artificial intelligence. His theorems, combined with Alan Turing's work on the halting problem, demonstrate that certain guarantees about thinking machines are provably unavailable.
The tool captures listings, runs full analysis, and provides a 0-100 score combining soil, climate, and land risk, along with a ranked list of suitable crops. It also offers site-selection data, price per acre ranking, and exportable reports for parcel analysis and assemblage projects.
Moonshine Voice is an open source AI toolkit for real-time voice agents and applications, with a micro version for embedded systems like microcontrollers and DSPs. It uses the Raspberry Pi RP2350 and requires minimal RAM and compute resources.
The user, an SRE, bought an abandoned bowling center and replaced the expensive scorekeeping system with an open-source alternative using ESP32 and Raspberry Pi for under $400 per lane-pair. This project, called OpenLaneLink, aims to make bowling more affordable and reduce vendor lock-in by providing an open hardware and software stack.
The user's Raspberry Pi 4B's microSD card failed due to excessive write cycles, prompting the user to take precautions to minimize writes and replace it with a new high-endurance card. The user repurposed old hard drives to create a btrfs pool with raid1 replication, set up a backup system, and configured various services to run on the new setup.
The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the corporate web, promoting personal, independent websites that share commitments such as owning your data, using visible data, and being in control. It defines a set of principles and standards, including microformats, webmention, and micropub, to help individuals build and maintain their own websites and connect with others in a decentralized network.
The last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent expired in Brazil today, marking the end of all patents for the technology. This milestone was confirmed by the VIA Licensing Alliance, ending a long period of patent protection.
Dupe culture is a phenomenon where consumers find cheaper alternatives to name-brand products, and it has become a thriving industry with dupes available for various products, from clothing to vacations. The rise of dupe culture has led to a shift in ideas of ownership and originality, with many consumers embracing dupes as a way of life and social media platforms making it easier to find and ...
A 23-year-old mathematician named Anatoly Karatsuba discovered a faster multiplication method in 1960, reducing the workload from O(n^2) to O(n^1.585) steps. This breakthrough led to a decades-long pursuit of the ultimate speed limit of multiplication, culminating in a 2019 algorithm that runs in O(n × log n) time.
OpenAI has been resetting usage limits for Codex and ChatGPT Work multiple times due to various issues such as increased traffic, reliability problems, and optimization issues. The resets aim to allow users to continue experimenting and building with the platforms.
Kimi K3 has exceeded capacity due to high demand, so new subscriptions are paused to protect existing users. Capacity will be added and new spots will reopen in batches, with membership plans being split into two more focused options.
Texas police bought four $4.5 million Chevy Tahoes equipped with Cognyte's FalcoNet surveillance system, which secretly tracks people's data by intercepting phone connections to cell towers. The system's legality is questionable, and its use raises concerns about privacy and the corpo-surveillance state.
Castor is a CLI tool that extracts video streams from websites, handles format compatibility, and casts to your TV in real time, with optional auto-generated subtitles. It requires a config.yaml file with device and source settings, and can be run natively or using Docker with a Chrome/Chromium and ffmpeg setup.
The Hardcore IndieWeb approach emphasizes complete control and independence over your online content by hosting it on your own server and managing it with basic HTML and text editing skills. By doing so, you can freely move your website to any host, avoid dependencies on third-party services, and maintain full ownership of your online presence.
A hardware-based ad-blocking DNS filter can be built for under $5 using a $5 microcontroller like the ESP32-C3, which can block over 500,000 domains with 10ms latency. The device uses hashing to store the blocklist in its limited flash memory, allowing it to function as a backup DNS server.
Michael and I co-founded Kitematic, which was acquired by Docker, and later built Ollama, a platform for developers to access open models. Ollama has become the leading platform, serving 8.9 million developers and aiming to make open models effortless to run.