Whistle is a speech recognition model released for mobiles, wearables, and other devices with no dependencies or CPU usage. It supports 7 languages and provides word timestamps, speech embedding, and transcript output.
Professor Martin Uecker discussed C's potential to become a memory-safe language, despite its undefined behavior issues. He believes that with the help of tools and language changes, C can improve its memory safety.
An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real, from the court trial, parsed by Extend.
This post compares keyboard handling differences between Mac and Windows, including key names, modifier keys, and shortcut conventions. The main differences include the use of β₯ (Option) instead of Alt on Macs and Ctrl on Windows.
A man, Nomad, discovered his parents' coffee maker was uploading 1TB of data in 10 days and shared the issue on X. He found it caused saturation within their home Wi-Fi setup and decided to get them a new one due to potential security risks.
Carson Gross, a computer science professor, believes AI will change programming but not dramatically. He advises juniors to write code themselves and use AI as a helpful tool rather than a code generator.
The author has been using DeepSeek 4.1 Flash for a month, finding it comparable to Opus in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness. They praise the model's ability to handle complex tasks without significant differences from other models, making it an attractive option for developers on a budget.
The author realized that conversation is often a warm-up process, and people may need time to feel comfortable discussing sensitive topics. This understanding came from their experience with their daughter and the limitations of language in expressing emotions.
Biohub, the US Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health are investing $1.8 billion to generate AI-ready biological data for predictive models of life. This will enable researchers to digitally ask, predict and answer biological questions, accelerating disease prevention and treatment.
Individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often experience circadian rhythm dysfunction, which affects up to 80% of adults and 82% of children. This disruption can lead to improved symptoms when targeted through behavioral interventions such as melatonin therapy and bright light exposure.
eth68 is a scalable audio interface that synchronizes multiple units to increase channel count without increasing round trip audio latency, achieving 3.620 milliseconds of latency at 48 kHz. It matches the RME card's performance and surpasses it by 0.33 ms at 96 kHz with PipeWire or JACK interfaces.
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DVD menus were a key feature of early DVD releases, offering interactive options and immersive experiences. Many classic DVDs showcased creative and engaging menu designs that have become nostalgic favorites among fans.
Bevy 0.20 is released with numerous new features, bug fixes, and quality of life tweaks, including Solari's improved path tracing renderer, BSN syntax improvements, and enhanced UI widgets. The engine now supports WESL shaders and mesh shaders for advanced graphics capabilities.
DuckLake is an open Lakehouse format built on SQL and Parquet, allowing direct read and write with DuckDB. It stores metadata in a catalog database and data in Parquet files, supporting standard SQL queries.
Scientists have discovered a vast whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone of the southeastern Indian Ocean, containing five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans. The discovery provides crucial insights into the interplay of life and death in deep-sea ecosystems.
Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). $1 per million input tokens, $2.70 per million output tokens. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum output of 64,000 tokens.
Google's system detected unusual traffic from your computer network, possibly due to malicious software or automated requests. Solving the CAPTCHA will allow you to continue using Google services temporarily.
The author proposes OSC 7501, a terminal escape sequence protocol to provide a generic and interaction-agnostic way for programs to report their status, progress, and completion. This protocol aims to replace existing heuristics-based approaches with a unified standard that allows terminals to display program status in various ways.
Edi Life OS is a self-hosted home for managing focus, habits, goals, money and projects with an integrated AI assistant. It connects various tools into one dashboard without tracking or vendor lock-in.
Six models played 100 games each against arcade ghosts, with rankings and leaderboards available. The game uses a model's probability per direction to determine Pac-Man's next move, with real-time gameplay and scoring.
You deserve better from social media. You deserve a more human internet. Help Orkut to bring back what really matters: people, communities, and genuine connection.
Archaeologists have discovered ancient artifacts, such as the ivory lochstab from Hohle Fels cave, that reveal prehistoric hunter-gatherers used soft technologies like fiber to shape their daily lives. These technologies were essential for survival but often overlooked in the archaeological record.
Historians developed Zotero, a research application, over 5 years through collaboration and iteration. The tool was initially called SmartFox but later rebranded as Firefox Scholar before settling on the name Zotero.
Theodor Totev, an intern, optimized Aria's indexing and tree-splitting to improve performance and scalability. He implemented a topic partition index that reduced CPU usage by 30% while maintaining correctness.
Seattle Mountain Rescue team uses powered assistive devices called human exoskeletons to increase strength and endurance during searches for stranded people. Exoskeleton technology has progressed significantly, with various applications in industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and military services.
We've updated our GitHub math repo with 6 new Lean formalizations, 19 modifications, and 3 withdrawals. The repo now has ~42% top-line results formalized. We will continue to update the repo with new formalizations and with any errata we notice. https://t.co/HI6otY2NTO
A 15-year-old mystery about a professional indie rock band Salvage was solved using AI and human collaboration, revealing the band's name change to OK Tokyo. The tracks "Electric" and "Searchlights" were produced by Greg Haver, who connected the singer Sam Tattersall with me.