DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

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Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust

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The author attempted to make chicken breast transparent by soaking it in a tartrazine solution, similar to a paper that achieved optical transparency in live animals. The goal is to change the refractive index of water inside the tissue to match its embedded media, making it more transparent and allowing for better imaging.

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time – pv magazine Global

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Solar and wind power have surpassed nuclear globally, with solar generation leading for the first time in 2025. The World Nuclear Industry Status Report highlights nuclear's slow growth and lengthy construction timelines compared to renewables' rapid expansion.

Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game

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The author of a game development blog has been working on a realistic sky simulation in their game, using Godot as the engine. They've made several tweaks to achieve a more accurate representation of how clouds interact with light.

Ad-tech company was a delivery system for "mercenary spyware"

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A report by Citizen Lab reveals that major ad-tech companies, including Google and Facebook, allowed an Israeli spyware company to hijack their systems and serve targeted malware ads. The companies amassed detailed surveillance dossiers on internet users without proper vetting or security auditing.

A Tudor Life in the Time of Plague

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The First Candid

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A 1838 photograph by Louis Daguerre captures a shoeshine boy and his client on the Boulevard du Temple, considered one of the first photographs to depict human beings. An 18-month quest led by Maximilien Van Aertryck finally pinpointed their location using archival research, drones, and 3D scans.

Ultramarine 1 Flash

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Ultramarine 1 Flash is a knowledge work AI model that excels in finance, law, consulting, and operations tasks at $0.13 per task. It outperforms other models like Claude Fable 5 and GPT-6 Sol on the PI Knowledge Work benchmark.

Tesla Roadster

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US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion

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The US federal budget deficit for 2026 reached $1.992 trillion, a 6% of the US GDP, due to $5.403 trillion in revenues and $7.396 trillion in spending. The national debt has surpassed $40 trillion with annual interest costs reaching a record 3.4% of GDP.

Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

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Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.

DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a minor update with improvements in reasoning, coding, and visual benchmarks. It reduces task execution time and output length for faster completion at lower cost.

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

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A jailbroken PS5 can run a private language model server, PS5LM, which loads and serves models from the GPU. It answers requests from devices on the network using OpenAI and Anthropic APIs.

You could have invented transformers from memory

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The author discusses how large language models can recall obscure facts from every corner of the world, and how this ability is similar to a memory store that holds key-value pairs. The author then develops an intuitive way to look at linear maps, MLPs, and self-attention as different kinds of memory stores.

MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood

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MapQuest's app gained popularity after refusing to call Lake Ontario "Lake America" and adding features like Android Auto support. The service now includes a layer showing outdoor surveillance cameras and license plate readers, providing users with location data on various camera brands.

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

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Researchers have solved the mystery of how NIST's widely used elliptic curve cryptography standard, ECDSA, was created. The seeds for these curves were generated by a Unix timestamp using a pseudorandom number generator from 1990s C libraries.

The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf]

The cryptoint library provides constant-time functions for C/C++ to defend against compiler optimizations that introduce timing variations. It includes a set of functions aligned with different conventions, such as representing true as 1 and false as 0 or -1 and 0, to support various platforms. The library is designed to be an almost-header-only solution, allowing simple inclusion in other ...

Recipes Are Moving from Maven Central to the Code Genome Project

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To use OpenRewrite, download its modules from the Code Genome Project and authenticate with a token. The project also hosts Maven Central repositories for transitive dependencies.

Show HN: Esp32sim – Run ESP32 firmware in the browser

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esp32sim is an emulator that runs ESP32 SoCs, including the S3 and C6 models, with unmodified application images. It boots real mask ROMs and 2nd-stage bootloaders without patched firmware or stubs.

Intuitive concurrent programming in any language

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Lingua Franca is a coordination language for deterministic, multi-threaded, and distributed programs with precise timing. It allows developers to write reactive components in their preferred programming languages without manual synchronization or thread management concerns.

What changes when your search index lives on S3?

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At Infino, we are building a retrieval engine to answer agent questions at scale, and its full-text search is among the fastest available [1]. Agents query structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, so we need to support SQL, vector search, BM25 full-text search, and any combination across these query shapes. In most cases, the data already resides in the object store, which ...

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

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Researchers can now run the latest frontier-class model, Muse Spark Open, with nearly a trillion parameters on Mac Studio using MLX. The framework leverages Apple silicon's unified memory architecture for efficient inference and fine-tuning methods.

FLUX 3 Image Klein

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The FLUX 3 Image Klein model is a 5.6B parameter open weights text-to-image generation and image editing model, ranking first in internal evaluations ahead of larger models. It's available today under the FLUX Kommunity License with pricing starting at $0.009 per 1K image for commercial use and free for individuals and non-commercial use.

eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

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Amateur radio operators in Florida played a crucial role in supporting emergency communications during Hurricane Isaias, while eBay has imposed new restrictions on listings of radio transmitting equipment due to FCC rules.

The future of programming – A.I. Wasserman and S. Gutz (1982)

The nature of programming is changing with improved tools and environments, leading to increased productivity and automation. This shift will result in a more analysis-oriented role for application programmers, enabling them to tackle complex systems that were previously unaddressable.

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

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AVIF generally produces smaller files than JPEG XL, but the gap narrows at maximum effort settings. AVIF is faster to encode and decode, uses less memory, and has better support for progressive rendering. However, JPEG XL can make existing JPEGs 9-20% smaller without further loss and is faster to decode at very high qualities in some browsers.

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

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Researchers used AI to design quantum circuits for chemistry, optimization, and number theory problems. The AI system improved upon existing designs by reducing the number of qubits and gates needed, potentially making practical quantum computers sooner than expected.

Development of Norton Commander

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The Norton Commander was a popular DOS file manager developed by John Socha and Peter Norton Computing, released in 1986 with features like tree views, quick search, and built-in editors. The program dominated the field of DOS file managers until its popularity faded after Symantec acquired the company and failed to produce new versions within a reasonable interval.

Nine-Inch Snails

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0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch

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PyTorch's default knapsack solver is dp_knapsack, which uses dynamic programming to optimize memory usage. A new solver, dp_knapsack_sliding_hirschberg, reduces peak RAM usage by a factor of 20 using the Hirschberg trick and sliding window optimization.