GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

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GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, beat Claude Code at IDOR detection with 39% F1, costing $0.17 per vulnerability found. The harness still matters more than the model, but open-weight models have crossed a threshold worth watching for security tasks.

A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels

QSOE 0.1 is released with a unified two-kernel system, targeting 64-bit RISC-V on SiFive HiFive Unmatched. It offers two variants, QSOE/N and QSOE/L, with shared userspace and different kernels.

Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine

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Discover Xonaly, the private and ad-free Canadian search engine built with real privacy, fast results and a fully independent index — try it now.

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

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What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

The interactive dataset tracks historic and current memory and storage prices, including DRAM, NAND flash, and HBM, with modeled estimates from Epoch AI for AI-accelerator costs. The data is downloadable and includes quarterly updates for HBM and monthly updates for DRAM and NAND prices from 1957 to the present.

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

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The author used Opus 4.8 to analyze an MRI and got a second opinion on their diagnosis, which disagreed with the original doctor's report. The AI analysis found no partial-thickness tear, contradicting the doctor's diagnosis and making the author question the treatment plan.

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models

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Researchers introduced Proxy-KD, a method to transfer knowledge from black-box LLMs to smaller models efficiently. Proxy-KD surpasses traditional white-box KD techniques and enhances performance.

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

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Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University detected massive cheating on a midterm exam using AI, with at least 50 students involved. He believes the university's response was inadequate and that AI is altering century-old traditions at elite universities, requiring a broader debate on academic integrity.

TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

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The LineShine Supercomputer in China has taken the top spot on the 67th TOP500 list with 2.198 Exaflops of sustained FP64 performance. This is the first Chinese submission to the TOP500 in 9 years and marks a significant milestone for China's HPC capabilities.

Librepods: AirPods liberated

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LibrePods is a project that allows non-Apple devices to use AirPods features. It implements the proprietary protocol used by Apple devices to exchange data with AirPods.

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

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The Loongson processor is a Chinese-developed CPU that emerged in 2001, initially based on MIPS architecture, and was later developed into a 64-bit processor. The Loongson processor was used in the Lemote Yeeloong laptop, a low-cost netbook that was released in 2008.

The Boeing 747 begins its final descent

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The author visits Pinal Airpark in Arizona to see retired Boeing 747s, once the principal host of important journeys, now a symbol of American decline. The 747 was a technological innovation that embodied American might, invention, and progress, but its accidental longevity defined an era of decline.

Show HN: Zanagrams

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Zanagrams is a free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it. A new Zanagrams puzzle every day.

Do LLMs pass the mirror test?

The author adapted the olfactory mirror test for LLMs by modifying their textual output and seeing if they notice. The test showed that some LLMs can detect anomalies in their own output, but others may just imitate the pattern.

The food science behind designing an ice cream

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From Mughal kulfi makers to Indian startups — the long effort to build an ice cream that beats the heat From Mughal kulfi makers to Indian startups — the long effort to build an ice cream that beats the heat In middle school, I decided to spend my life’s net worth in saved-up coins. The plan pretty much carried itself out when a thallu vandi labelled ‘Arun’ in bright red letters began showing ...

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

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The concept of tokenmaxxing, where companies spend large amounts of money on AI tokens without expecting a return, is not dead but rather evolving as companies realize the benefits of compounding correctness, where more tokens spent lead to better results. The shift towards open model platforms and generalist agents will lead to another rise in tokenmaxxing behavior, ultimately resulting in ...

Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)

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Daisugi, a Japanese technique, involves growing multiple trees from a single tree, creating a giant bonsai-like structure, but it's actually a form of coppicing, a common woodland management technique practiced for centuries. This method produces straight, usable timber without harming the original tree, and it's being re-emphasized as a sustainable way to manage woodlands.

Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs

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Bash4LLM⁺ è un wrapper CLI sicuro per l'API Chat Completions di OpenAI, scritto in Bash e completamente auditabile. È un singolo script auto-contenuto che può essere scaricato, eseguito e utilizzato subito.

Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch

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A from-scratch text generator built in C/CUDA with a ~116M-parameter model trained on a single RTX 4070 GPU produces fluent-looking English with little real knowledge. The project demonstrates a complete, understandable training pipeline and the pretrain→SFT pipeline works end to end, but is not a capable assistant.

Show HN: DRM-Free Books

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Multiple stories are presented, each with a main character facing challenges and obstacles. The stories involve mystery, action, adventure, and romance, set in various locations and time periods.

Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor

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The Space Shuttle's I/O Processor had 24 network connections and 25 virtual processors, implementing two different instruction sets. It used microcode to run the virtual processors on one physical processor.

POSIX Is Not a Shell

POSIX is a specification, not a program, and its implementation varies across shells like bash, dash, and ksh. Shell scripting has dialects like natural languages, and "POSIX compliant" means following the spec's pinned-down parts on specific versions.

British Origami: the 1955 exhibition by Akira Yoshizawa (2005)

Akira Yoshizawa's 1955 exhibition in Amsterdam marked a significant event in the origins of modern origami, showcasing his revolutionary paperfolding techniques and inspiring a global movement. The exhibition, organized by Gershon Legman, featured Yoshizawa's intricate models, including birds, horses, and masks, and helped to foster a better relationship between the Netherlands and Japan.

Staying Awake (2008)

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The author argues that books are not a dying art, but rather a social phenomenon that has always been a minority interest. Corporate publishers' focus on profit and growth has led to the devaluation of literature and the neglect of readers who value books for their intellectual and aesthetic worth.

A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex

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What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local .codexignore plus a global ignore file). Example: ...

Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf]

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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)

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A Polish user reported a bug on Medium where Ś wouldn't appear when typed. The issue was caused by Medium blocking CtrlS to prevent browser save dialogs, but Polish users use AltS to type Ś.

The cost YAGNI was never about

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YAGNI is about timing, not thrift, and warns against building speculative structure before a feature is needed. It's about preserving optionality and not committing to costly changes when the future is uncertain.

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

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The KIDS Act package includes bills that require age verification, government-directed moderation, and new rules for private communications. This could lead to restrictive age-checking practices, reduced online privacy, and limited free expression.

The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition

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MUMPS is a programming language and database system created in 1966 for hospital information systems. It has a built-in hierarchical database with a schema-free, ordered key-value store.