Llama-modchip: 284B DeepSeek on 64GB RAM, no GPU

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This project demonstrates that a 64 GB CPU can run large MoE models, such as 284B DeepSeek-V4-Flash and 30B Nemotron-3.5-A3B, at full context using zero GPUs.

Quadrillion-parameter transformers and how to train them

Researchers have developed a new scaling law to improve the efficiency of large language models, which can train quintillion-parameter networks with current compute budgets. The law incorporates ensembling techniques and weight decay adjustments to optimize model performance in data-constrained regimes.

Porting Android 16 to my blind mother's keypad phone

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The author upgraded their mother's Kapsys SmartVision3 phone from Android 11 to LineageOS 23.2 with Android 16, bypassing the manufacturer's limitations and enabling features like a custom keypad and accessibility improvements. The upgrade was achieved through a combination of manual backups, debugging, and patching of the device's software.

Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi

The author has retired Claude Code as their main coding harness due to frustrations with its features and stability. They're now using Pi, a more stable and customizable alternative that offers better performance and user experience.

Person of Interest

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I started watching Person of Interest and it's brought back memories of the early 2010s, including tech forums and online communities. The show has aged remarkably well despite being 15 years old.

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers

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The author has developed a text rendering technique for the RP2350 microcontroller board, using bitmap fonts and a "just-in-time" (JIT) compiler to generate optimized code. The JIT compiler runs under 100µs before scanout of the video line, making it suitable for real-time applications like racing-the-beam rendering.

Writing as a Thinking Tool

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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.

What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab

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The author shares their experience with the OpenStick, a $10 device that runs Debian and offers various useful services such as AdGuard Home for DNS blocking and Zeroclaw for AI agent management.

Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust

cljrs is an experimental Clojure dialect targeting the Rust ecosystem. It aims to be a capable Lisp runtime with persistent data structures, a hosted macro system, and native interop — compiled or interpreted, suitable for use as an agentic coding runtime.

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files

Apiiro is a control plane for agentic development security, offering various solutions to protect AI environments. It provides tools such as Guardian Agent and Auto Fix to secure agentic development.

Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberian tomb

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Archaeologists have found evidence of cannabis use dating back 3,000 years in a tomb in southern Siberia. The discovery provides insight into the history of psychoactive cannabis consumption on the Eurasian continent.

JIT bitmap text rendering for microcontrollers

https://linebender.org/blog/jit-bitmap-text/textdemo.png
The author has developed a text rendering technique for the RP2350 microcontroller board, using bitmap fonts and a "just-in-time" (JIT) compiler to generate optimized code. The JIT compiler runs under 100µs before scanout of the video line, making it suitable for real-time applications like racing-the-beam rendering.

Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment

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The author proposes a shared format for agent memory, building on existing proposals and tools like OpenTelemetry. A standard agreement is needed to avoid fragmentation and allow different tools to read each other's data.

Finding Xanadu: Inside a JRPG classic translation 15 years in the making

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The Legend of Xanadu fan translations are nearing completion, with the first game's release expected soon. The project involved a team effort between Elmer and SamIAm, who worked together to translate the games from Japanese to English using custom tools and techniques.

Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

A PC game was ported to browser for nostalgic multiplayer, with no microtransactions or paid perks. The source code is available on GitHub and supporters get a Discord role in exchange for hosting costs.

New typeface using intricate designs from Shakespeare's First Folio (2023)

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Shakespeare's Globe introduces a new typeface, Amifer Folio, inspired by the 17th-century First Folio. The design features ornamental editorial devices and illustrations from the original text to create a unique font for their summer shows.

Consumer brain wave headsets threaten privacy

Making any integer with four 2s (2025)

A math puzzle involves using exactly four 2s to generate a target number with basic operations. The challenge lies in finding the correct combination of mathematical tools, such as integrals and complex numbers, to achieve the desired result.

Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed

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Physicists on the Manhattan Project were concerned that Nazi Germany might build a nuclear bomb before the US and its allies, but research suggests they didn't have enough uranium and heavy water to achieve criticality. The German team led by Werner Heisenberg underestimated the materials required for their reactor experiment, which would have needed significantly more resources than initially thought.

Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier

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A Mac's knowledge graph is built by two daemons, analyzing content to create a general-purpose knowledge graph representing the device and user. The graph contains information about contacts, photos, calendar events, family relationships and more.

Petered (what happens after the Peter Principle)

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The Peter Principle suggests people are promoted until they reach incompetence, but career pressure can lead them to take on more tasks and risk losing their job. This creates a situation where individuals may become "imposters," pretending competence while actually doing dirty work or sabotaging others to advance their careers.

ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients

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iSponsorBlockTV is a self-hosted application that skips YouTube ads and auto-mutes them, but may require device pairing due to changes in screen ID codes. It can be run on a computer with network access, either automatically or manually added with a YouTube TV code.

MaxxBench – "Nice DeepSWE score. But is it true?"

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Researchers created MaxxBench to test how well coding models adapt to changes in familiar tasks, finding that some models rely on "hidden tests" rather than following the original requirements. This highlights a need for more robust benchmarking methods that evaluate a model's ability to generalize across different scenarios.

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why

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Discord's new Rust client is significantly faster and more efficient, loading the friends list in under a second compared to its Electron app. The new client uses about 70% less RAM with two accounts signed in simultaneously.

Mizu – zero-copy parallel R and Python over shared memory

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Pymizu enables fast, lock-free data sharing between Python and R through zero-copy views, allowing for fine-grained parallelism. It uses a task pool to manage concurrent execution of tasks across multiple processes or cores.

WaveDudeNext 2D Wave Simulator

WaveDude Next is a 2D wave simulator for optics on Windows, allowing users to create and edit scenes with various optical parts. The program offers features such as GPU acceleration, export options, and manual documentation.

Multi-Column Different-Speed Scrolling

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I got this idea stuck in my head that if you’re scrolling through a “gallery”, it sorta doesn’t matter how the things scroll past you. It could scroll horizontally; things could scroll at different rates; it could scroll backward somehow — whatever. It doesn’t matter because you’re just exploring. Scrolling is just the mechanism for seeing new stuff. There should still be a scrollbar, so the ...

Kirlian Photography: Building Your Own Equipment

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Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina developed high-voltage photography in 1939, leading to the field of Kirlian Photography. The process involves applying high voltage to an object, creating a corona discharge that is recorded onto film.

GitHub New pull request overview page in public preview

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The new Overview page provides a compact readiness summary of merge status and next available actions, making it easier to find what's blocking progress. It also offers filtering options for unresolved conversations and comments, allowing users to focus the conversation.

Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller

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Attackers exploited default passwords and old firmware on European refrigeration supervisors, forcing defrost cycles. A decoy controller called ColdFrame mimics real units' web fingerprints to detect specific exploits and track attackers.