The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America

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Effort investigation identifies coordinated operation to influence american lawmakers. five foreign non-government organizations and their us affiliates are involved, authors say syria khan and edward mccaffery report reveals. they are attempting to pass a patchwork of digital id laws in 21 states and the us congress - they say. cnn's john defterios and david

Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers

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Native minimax-h3 inference for apple silicon. specialized 256-thread kernel gathers and quantizes each h3 row directly into the projection's row-major int8 buffer, eliminating the intervening full-width bf16 transpose without changing any output byte. cross-m5 measurements improved complete 512 forwards by about 0.2-0.8% avoiding a second device-memory read when

Chicken Scheme 6.0

- fix warnings about zero-sized memset in build system. fix'memory-statistics' by returning semi-space bytes like the documentation says. increase the "binary compatibility version to 9' a number of bugs have been fixed in the latest version of libchicken, including the following: r4rs no longer exports eval and srfi-

Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

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Scroll through all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 reachable Rubik's Cube permutations.

Recycle – Floppydisks

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We buy new disks in sealed undamaged packs. Quantities of 100 or more. If disks are outside their original packaging, we cannot treat them as new. For new disks, send us a picture of your disks, and call (800) 397-7890 for a quote.

The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

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Cactus needle is a 2bit model that fits 45m parameters into 14mb. the model is trained on 115b tokens and post-trained on 38b engrams - jim snyder & joe wilson: the performance never lets us down. he says all numbers are measured end-to-end through the shipped c++ engine in its production configuration. "the tables answer one

Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

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Hyperspace

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Hyperspace finds files with identical contents and then reclaims the disk space taken by all but one of the identical files—without removing any of the files. To learn more about how Hyperspace works, please read the FAQ. Hyperspace is available in the Mac App Store. Fixed a bug that could cause a dialog loop when a scan or reclamation was aborted. Fixed a bug that disabled the checkbox in ...

Rust SIMD on the GPU

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Vectorware is building the first gpu-native software company. we are mapping rust's portable simd onto the gpu's native execution model. the ir itself is architecture-agnostic, so code and libraries can be used on gpus without rewrite. if you are interested in learning more, contact us at [email protected] - e-mail: adam@v

World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world

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The world train map shows 1,247 notable train routes across 120 countries. routes are ranked by distance, fastest journey time, operator, rolling stock and year the line opened. every trainrouter.com address redirects here in a single step and keeps its path - nothing you had is lost, says samuel e. gillespie o'brien. the new name is what the thing actually is, he writes

Sonic Pi v5

Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead

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The sky here is the real one outside — your location, your weather, this minute's light. click one and the camera follows it; stow away and it takes a seat on board, over real terrain. all of that is drawn in real time, which needs javascript and webgl 2. switching javascript on for this site should do it. if you want to use the site in mobile, go to http://www.satellite

Publishing Schematics Before “Open Source” Was a Word

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Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

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In 1988, i sailed away from the west coast of the united states in a 31-foot sailboat. this is my story — my account of... around the world solo sail - for 3 1/2 years, from fearing shore, to wanting never to touch land again. read my book, sail with me! " ''i'm not sure if it's possible,' he says. but it is

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

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Meta Superintelligence Labs introduces Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model optimized for local agent workflows, enabling use anywhere, anytime. Muse Glimmer delivers strong performance on key agentic use cases and benchmarks, with optimized integrations and developer documentation available for building and running agents.

Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us

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"de digitale toekomst is onvermijdelijk en playstation stuurt hier ook volop aan. sony heeft een dominantepositie naar zich tot weten te trekken. er kun je nooit echt van jezelf gekocht worden.& ik vin

US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat

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The operation took place when the president was in ankara for a nato summit. he reportedly boarded the old air force one jumbo jet in view of tv cameras, then was secretly shuttled minutes later to another plane via an airport catering truck - according to the post and the nyt report. the administration had previously claimed that trump left turkey on the former air force one, triggering the ...

Squeak 6.1

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Squeak 6.1 release notes highlight major changes, including a new tree browser, improved kernel infrastructure, and enhanced toolset and user interface.

Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb

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Agents are increasingly patching this at the prompt layer, something that belongs further down the stack, says sam taylor. agents whose native language is precise, machine-facing state, with the warm, concise, human version generated only a few layers down, he says. if we want to make agents more efficient, we need to rethink the way they communicate with each other, and how they interact ...

Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt

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Exploiting system management mode with a very very long interrupt. to break this, all we need is someone too busy to notice they're supposed to join smm - at this point, core 1 can attack core 0 while the other is out of it. there are 100+ smm toctou cves out there: an mmap handler checks and then uses it; all you need for exploitation is to rewrite

The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story

Do-primes is a macro that abstracts away the code it's supposed to be abstracting away. the macro is built on the model of the standard macros, dotimes and dolist, which are not evaluated more than absolutely necessary. if you macro-expand with-gensyms into the new code, you'll see the same thing, but it won't be as useful unless you

What's the best programming language for coding agents?

A post suggests that languages that represent things more concisely are more token efficient. the median time to solve the tasks is in the hundreds of seconds - sam taylor-mcgraw-smith et al. he says this is not always obvious how much the issue generalizes across tasks or across setups. for these kinds of data-y projects, llms massively reduce the amount of effort it takes to get

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

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Oem allocation, cloud capacity, brokers, operators, and secondary sellers all change where gpus actually clear. buyers and sellers still rely on private quotes, stale lists, partial broker color - and partial brokers color to see where hardware really clears. describe the hardware in plain language or attach a quote pdf. terms, delivery, deadlines are explicit before anything goes out. ...

Choral: Choreographic Programming for Java

Parametron: 50s Japanese computer that uses neither transistors nor vacuum tubes

The Psychedelic Toad of the Sonoran Desert

The pamphlet, written by albert most, describes how to extract the venom of the sonoran desert toad, and administer it to produce hallucinogenic effects. it was originally published pseudonymously by a man named alfred savinelli, who claimed to be the author - but was later proved to have been the real author, ken nelson idaho-sanchez-mcgra

Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?

I've recently switched to a black-and-white e-ink smartphone. while the majority of my needs are met by this device there are some things i'd like to have which don't work terribly well with the screen. at the moment he's planning to implement two projects to fill these gaps - both are to be browser-based rather than native, to maximise compatibility and to avoid creating unusable s

Exploring Claude/GPT Knowledge Cutoffs and Pre-Training Timelines

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A model's training timeline can be estimated by scoring it on niche facts. if you score it correctly, you can estimate the model’s learning time - i.e., how long it took to train x% of the time it lost signal compared to 100% of its training time. this is derived from how many parameters it has, and the data mixtures it used to build it. it seems unlikely to me these are coming from internal synthetic