Try Kimi K3 to build playable multiplayer and 3D games, create consulting grade slides, and run parallel tasks with Swarm and Goal to get more work done.
Microsoft has open-sourced Comic Chat, a 1990s IRC chat client that transformed text into comic panels with characters and expressions, popularizing Comic Sans. The project, now modernized for today’s systems, offers a nostalgic glimpse into early internet innovation and invites community exploration of its experimental visual communication design.
Decoy Font is a TTF font using spatial frequencies to hide messages from AI by overlaying two layers visible at different distances, making text readable to humans but confusing to OCR and AI models. It serves as a deterrent against automated text scraping, though advanced models may still decode it.
The author developed an AI-generated text detector using traditional ML models (LinearSVC, Naive Bayes) with ~85% accuracy, leveraging human and LLM-generated text datasets, revealing strong statistical patterns in AI content. Despite limitations, the tool highlights widespread undetected AI use in online platforms like Lofter, raising concerns about authenticity and disclosure.
OnePlus ends new product rollouts in Europe/North America but maintains device support via OPPO, including updates and repairs. Users may opt to upgrade to ColorOS 17 or retain current systems with rollback options.
Google renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, adding cloud-based code execution for research, available to select users. Expanding integration with Gemini app and Search, with full rollout to Pro users soon.
bet is a real programming language with slang keywords and a serious LLVM-based compiler, featuring arena memory management and running DOOM, built as a self-contained experiment in AI-assisted development. The author completed it without research, acknowledging Geoffrey Huntley's prior similar work, proving the language's capability through a fully functional DOOM port.
The Roc compiler team completed a 1.5-year rewrite from Rust to Zig, achieving feature parity and enhancing performance with faster builds, memory efficiency, and zero-heap allocation features like hot code loading. While Zig's ReleaseFast improved memory safety and speed, Rust's ecosystem and incremental build improvements were noted, but Zig's flexibility and control better suited Roc's ...
What.CD, a private music tracker with invite-only tiers and strict rules to avoid legal risks, fostered a dedicated community but shut down in 2016 after a Salinger manuscript leak and server seizure, leaving users in mourning.
Hey HN, we’re Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce (https://www.traceforce.ai/). Traceforce provides visibility and control over AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude etc directly on all devices (laptops, sandboxes, virtual machines) by discovering not just which apps are being used but also how they are connected to other data sources via MCPs. We also have an open-source dynamic MCP ...
How to navigate, notation, and a recap of some math that we think you already know. The concept of a vector is introduced, and we learn how to add and subtract vectors, and more. In three-dimensional spaces you can produce a vector from two other vectors using this tool.
The article guides software engineers into data fields by explaining the data lifecycle, tools (ETL, warehouses, lakes), and roles (analysts, engineers). It covers ETL/ELT processes, storage formats (Parquet, Arrow), and tools like dbt, SQLMesh, Python libraries, and SQL for data transformation.
Sony's PlayStation Store repeatedly removes purchased content due to licensing changes, leaving users without refunds, highlighting a systemic issue where consumers are misled into thinking they own digital purchases rather than temporary licenses. Despite public frustration and legal loopholes, companies exploit vague terms and conditions to avoid accountability, demanding clearer ...
The author created KickWithReverb, a DAW using a diffusion model trained on 13,000 kicks on a 7-year-old GPU, enabling keyword-driven techno kick generation. The system combines a VAE, latent diffusion, and HiFi-GAN for audio synthesis, deployed serverlessly with Modal for on-demand generation.
Go implements generics via GC shape stenciling, grouping types by memory layout (size, alignment, pointers) to share compiled code, reducing bloat compared to full monomorphization. It uses hidden dictionaries to retain type-specific runtime info for operations needing exact types, balancing efficiency and flexibility.
Homescale uses Ceph RBD snapshots and Kubernetes to create writable database clones and branches without full data copies, leveraging copy-on-write for efficient storage. It abstracts storage from compute, enabling scalable, database-agnostic workflows with Postgres as the initial engine.
The data includes USD revenue ($780,996 monthly, $1.18M annual), paying customers (12,018 monthly, 18,455 annual), and registered accounts (290,703 monthly, 439,046 annual) for January 2026.
Sentinel is an open-source MIT-licensed tool that autonomously analyzes codebases to derive and test critical business flows end-to-end, identifying bugs in a hotel PMS by simulating real-world scenarios and leveraging AI models like Mimo for decision-making and design evaluation.
Galois connections as first-class Rust values. Use them to cast lawfully between numeric types, and compose ladders of conversions whose round-trip behavior is determined by simple inequalities rather than left to chance. Every operation derived from a Conn (rounding, saturation, median, ...) carries a property-tested invariant. The generated fixed-width integer, Q-format, NonZero, and iso ...
It shows files and directories in a hierarchy of nested rectangles. The area of a rectangle is proportional to its size. A 200 MB file will have twice the size as a sibling with 100 MB. The parent directory will have about 3 times the area of the smaller file. However, due to the limited resolution of working at a character level, this is a fairly coarse approximation compared to a graphical ...
Kimi Code offers models K3 and K2.7 Code, switchable via model IDs in clients/tools; switching invalidates context cache, requiring new sessions for optimal results. Plan tiers restrict access to K3, 1M context, and HighSpeed features, with specific upgrade requirements and setup adjustments for K3's max reasoning effort and 1M context window.
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I ported modern Linux to a ten-year-old HTC QWERTY phone as a handheld terminal. > The history and context are included in the git history and you can see the progression, different approaches, and other details.
agent-talk is a plugin for coding agents (e.g., Claude Code). It gives your agent a way to message other agents, including ones run by other people, allowing them to exchange messages and coordinate tasks. Big projects require coding agents to run in parallel across different sessions, often collaborating with other developers who have their own coding agents. Unfortunately, they have no way ...
Ratel optimizes AI agent performance by selectively loading relevant tools and skills, reducing token costs and improving accuracy. It uses BM25 search to inject only needed capabilities, avoiding tool overload without requiring a vector DB.
The rise of LLM-generated content in outreach emails and job applications creates impersonal, generic materials that obscure individuality and effort. Authentic, imperfect human expression is vital for meaningful connection and revealing one's true self beyond machine-generated perfection.
Dollar Street is a Gapminder project - free for anyone to use.Today we feature 469 families in 67 countries, with 46070 photos and 8586 videos and counting! Want to add a home? There are still lots of places in the world not represented on Dollar Street. You can find all the resources for documenting a home here.
The Victorian-era *Naturalist’s Library* democratized access to natural history through illustrated books, now digitally restored by Nicholas Rougeux using AI, offering free online and affordable print/poster versions to inspire future naturalists.