Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

428 vimarsh6739 2026-07-15 18:52:51 UTC thinkingmachines.ai Qwen Share 106

The company released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters, supporting text, images, audio, and video, alongside Inkling-Small (12B active) for efficient customization via Tinker. Trained on 45T tokens, Inkling offers controllable reasoning, safety features, and is available on platforms like Hugging Face and Tinker, with partnerships for deployment and ...

Grok Build

88 skp1995 2026-07-15 20:52:51 UTC github.com/xai-org Qwen Share 98

Grok Build is SpaceXAI's terminal-based AI coding agent with a TUI for codebase interaction, file editing, shell commands, and task management, supporting macOS, Linux, and Windows. It uses Rust, offers CLI installation, and is Apache 2.0 licensed with third-party notices.

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

199 neomindryan 2026-07-15 15:52:51 UTC neomindlabs.com Qwen Share 114

A 13-year-old HP server with Ivy Bridge Xeons runs Google's 26B-parameter Gemma 4 model at ~5 tokens/second via CPU-optimized code, overcoming AVX2 instruction set limitations with custom patches. The project highlights adapting modern AI to legacy hardware through engineering, not just subscriptions, enabling local inference on outdated systems.

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

65 spacemarine1 2026-07-15 19:52:51 UTC elbowgreasegames.substack.com Qwen Share 11

Misfits Attic announced *Duskers 2.0*, funded by Max McGuire’s Stray Signal, during PC Gamer’s event, expanding the survival game’s narrative with moral choices and deeper gameplay. EGG’s community-driven funding model, supporting indie developers like Tim through prototypes and partnerships, highlights a new era of collaborative game development.

Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble" [pdf]

7 johnbarron 2026-07-15 21:40:51 UTC economics.mit.edu Prefix Share 1

High valuations of AI-related firms are usually read in binary terms: either they reflect fundamentals or they are a bubble. This paper develops a third possibility: an optimistic valuation can have a permanent real legacy even when the valuation later corrects. AI capital expands productive capacity and shifts income toward high-saving capital owners. Over time, this wealth-saving feedback ...

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

45 benswerd 2026-07-15 19:52:51 UTC brainless.swerdlow.dev Full Share 6

Claude Code, Codex, and Grok interfaces as shadcn components.

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

23 coolelectronics 2026-07-15 21:01:51 UTC developer.puter.com Full Share 8

The Gecko engine compiled to WebAssembly. The real Firefox interface, rendering entirely inside this browser tab. GPU acceleration WebGL-based rendering for web content. Enable JIT Experimental JS → WASM JIT. Expect bugs. Wisp server WebSocket proxy that tabs load web content through. Networking in the browser powered by Puter.js

Who Is America's Homer?

22 samclemens 2026-07-15 20:52:51 UTC plough.com Qwen Share 35

The article explores candidates for America’s "Homer," including Frost, Dickinson, and Wilder, debating their poetic range and cultural resonance. It argues that America’s fragmented identity and youth hinder a unifying national epic, unlike ancient Greece or Rome.

Voxatron

33 lsferreira42 2026-07-15 19:52:51 UTC lexaloffle.com Full Share 10

Enter your email address below, choose a payment method, and you will be emailed a download link. Purchasing Voxatron also gives you access to all future updates. If you have any trouble, please feel free to email us.

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

132 levmiseri 2026-07-15 16:52:51 UTC clocks.dev Full Share 32

A collection of thoughtfully designed digital clocks.

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

221 theanonymousone 2026-07-15 13:52:51 UTC dev.moe Full Share 110

Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

115 nonadhocproblem 2026-07-15 16:52:51 UTC github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side Qwen Share 37

misa77 is an LZ-based codec optimized for write-once, read-many scenarios, offering constant memory use (<5 MB) and faster decompression for highly compressed files, with experimental modes enhancing CPU efficiency. It balances compression ratios and throughput, excelling in decode speed for compressible data while supporting CLI-driven compression and parameter tuning.

MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers

11 BirAdam 2026-07-15 19:52:51 UTC abortretry.fail Qwen Share 0

Henry Edward Roberts founded MITS and created the Altair 8800, the first successful personal computer, which sparked the PC revolution and inspired Microsoft and the S-100 bus standard. His vision and innovations laid the groundwork for modern computing, though he later pursued farming and medicine as originally intended.

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

256 ramon156 2026-07-15 11:52:51 UTC ramones.dev Qwen Share 204

Struggling with severe depression and career setbacks, the user acknowledges personal challenges in motivation and discipline, now focusing on healing with support. They seek stability, improved work discipline, and meaningful contributions while navigating mental health.

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers

0 2026-07-15 17:52:51 UTC jobs.ashbyhq.com Full Share

Artie Jobs

Book Prizes Don't Work How You Think

15 samclemens 2026-07-15 20:52:51 UTC rebeccamakkai.substack.com Qwen Share 1

Rebecca Makkai reveals book prize judging relies on small, subjective panels with no hidden agendas, emphasizing randomness, personal taste, and the emotional weight of decisions. The process, shaped by limited reading time and chance, impacts authors' careers while defying myths about bias or secret criteria.

Show HN: Low-latency local LLM runner via OpenJDK Panama FFM (Java 22)

14 KingJoker 2026-07-15 19:52:51 UTC github.com/projectargus-cc Qwen Share 2

libargus is a zero-allocation native AI runtime consolidating Vision, Speech, and LLM pipelines via Project Panama FFM, built on GGML/llama.cpp for high-performance, thread-safe execution. It enables JVM integration with Java bindings, supports multimodal processing, and offers zero-copy memory, KV cache quantization, and CUDA acceleration for low-latency inference.

Must actively fund open source AI [pdf]

7 bilsbie 2026-07-15 21:17:51 UTC siegelendowment.org Prefix Share 0

n the 1980s, I had the chance to spend sev- eral years arguing about free and open soft- ware, what we now call open source, with the founder of the movement, Richard Stallman. My office at the MIT AI Lab was next door to his. Stallman’s position was that the source code to soft- ware should be free for everyone to use, learn from, and improve. Software encapsulates knowledge, he ar- gued, ...

Designing APIs for Agents

18 benswerd 2026-07-15 19:52:51 UTC freestyle.sh Qwen Share 4

Designing APIs for agents prioritizes clarity, explicitness, and precise error handling over human-centric utilities, as agents require unambiguous documentation and direct code interpretation to function effectively without relying on defaults or abstractions. The author advocates for minimalistic, self-explanatory APIs with explicit field names and comprehensive guides, emphasizing that ...

Towards a harness that can do anything

148 evakhoury 2026-07-15 14:52:51 UTC eardatasci.github.io Qwen Share 74

The author advocates for transparent, Unix-inspired LLM harnesses that minimize cognitive load by leveraging the model's existing systems knowledge, modular tools, and event-driven architectures like Ambiance to enable efficient, self-directed agent workflows. Key principles include deterministic goal pursuit, flat text interfaces, structured data storage, and robust logging to ensure ...

Open-source memory for coding agents, synced over SSH

92 vshulcz 2026-07-15 16:52:51 UTC github.com/vshulcz Qwen Share 19

Deja is a zero-dependency binary that indexes and searches code assistant histories, redacting secrets and syncing across machines via local files or SSH. It offers fast, privacy-focused memory recall without models or network access, leveraging existing logs for retroactive insights.

Twain Town, USA

8 prismatic 2026-07-15 20:52:51 UTC theamericanscholar.org Prefix Share 0

It’s the Fourth of July 2025, in Hannibal, Missouri, and what appears to be the town’s entire population has gathered in the sweltering heat to watch the annual parade. It’s an event befitting “America’s Hometown,” as Hannibal likes to call itself. This is where Samuel Clemens—better known by his pen name, Mark Twain—grew up, and the parade is part of the annual National Tom Sawyer Days, now ...

Command Line Interface Guidelines

12 subset 2026-07-15 20:52:51 UTC clig.dev Qwen Share 0

This open-source guide modernizes UNIX principles for CLI design, focusing on human-centric usability, composability, and clear documentation. It provides actionable best practices for intuitive interfaces, error handling, and output formatting to improve accessibility and efficiency.

The End of Creativity

6 hugodan 2026-07-15 21:20:51 UTC hugodaniel.com Prefix Share 6

This past weekend I went to a wedding and something (extra)ordinary happened that I cannot stop thinking about, up to the point of having to write it down in this post. The bride is an old school friend of our group, so we decided to make a video of her, the traditional wedding video with photos of her. The person of our group that championed it used AI for the script/narrative, the audio and ...

Show HN: Microcosm Industries – Simulation toys and software microcosms

5 arbesman 2026-07-15 20:52:51 UTC microcosm.industries Prefix Share 0

Microcosm Industries is devoted to fostering simulation toys: software that allows you to play with a complex miniature world. We are inspired by computing history, interdisciplinary science and mathematics, and open-ended play (read more here). If you are building a simulation toy that Microcosm Industries can help with, please reach out. And if you are interested in submitting one that ...

Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

75 birdculture 2026-07-15 15:52:51 UTC danq.me Qwen Share 5

GlitchyZorua and I automated archiving Ibiblio's 1990s GIF icons by calculating server-side imagemap coordinates for bulk downloads, bypassing manual clicks. We built a searchable static site (ibiblio-icon-archive.danq.dev) to preserve and share the collection.

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

616 bilsbie 2026-07-15 11:52:51 UTC academic.oup.com Full Share 312

The Memory Heist

83 eieio 2026-07-15 14:52:51 UTC ayush.digital Qwen Share 9

A researcher found that Claude's memory system could leak sensitive user data, like names and employers, by tricking the AI into navigating a malicious website's links to spell out personal information. Anthropic patched the vulnerability by limiting web navigation, but the exploit underscores risks in AI systems storing vast user profiles.

My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded

140 gmays 2026-07-15 14:52:51 UTC zocalopublicsquare.org Qwen Share 296

The author’s GR Corolla, a modified Japanese sports car, symbolizes Asian American ingenuity and midlife reinvention, blending personal nostalgia with the 1990s import car scene’s cultural legacy. By rejecting Hollywood’s whitewashing, it celebrates a community that created its own identity through underdog car culture, proving that heroes are forged in the garage, not the screen.