Vietnam bans unskippable ads

1576 hoherd 2026-01-06 16:45:42 UTC saigoneer.com Llama Share 812

Vietnam's Decree No. 342 will regulate online ads starting February 15, 2026, with stricter controls on ad duration and user experience. The decree targets 11 groups of environmentally and health-hazardous goods and services with stricter regulations.

enclose.horse

1211 DavidSJ 2026-01-06 06:01:57 UTC enclose.horse Full Share 230

A daily puzzle game about enclosing horses.

Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

872 tbassetto 2026-01-06 17:45:37 UTC burkeholland.github.io Llama Share 1346

The author initially doubted AI coding agents but now believes they can replace developers after using Opus 4.5, which built a Windows utility and a mobile app with a backend setup. The author is now building multiple apps with Opus 4.5, feeling both exhilarated and depressed about the rapid progress.

AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention

752 Brajeshwar 2026-01-06 11:42:35 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 480

AWS has raised prices on its EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by 15 percent, affecting customers worldwide. This change breaks the assumption that cloud pricing only trends downward, potentially setting a new precedent for future price increases.

Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone

576 rbergamini27 2026-01-06 19:38:32 UTC github.com/rberg27 Llama Share 404

The user set up "Doom Coding" to code remotely via phone using Tailscale, Termius, and Claude Code. They share a 5-minute setup guide and invite contributions to improve the process.

The Post-American Internet

572 EvanAnderson 2026-01-06 05:20:40 UTC pluralistic.net Llama Share 451

The speaker discusses the "War on General Purpose Computing" and how the US has used trade agreements to force other countries to adopt anticircumvention laws, allowing US tech companies to extract data and money from their users. The speaker argues that the Trump tariffs have created an opportunity for countries to repeal these laws and create a "post-American Internet" that allows for the ...

65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform

498 7777777phil 2026-01-06 14:45:47 UTC philippdubach.com Llama Share 458

A study on Hacker News found that negative posts average 35.6 points, a 27% premium over the overall average of 28 points. The study analyzed 32,000 posts and 340,000 comments, showing a persistent negative skew across multiple models and classifiers.

Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

435 thefilmore 2026-01-06 16:46:13 UTC akr.am Llama Share 392

The Gmail app is 760.7 MB, one of the top three most bloated apps, while Outlook is 428 MB. Google's other popular apps average 250 MB in size, with some apps like Tesla and Crypto.com reaching 1 GB.

C Is Best (2025)

405 alexpadula 2026-01-06 12:33:54 UTC sqlite.org Llama Share 545

SQLite is implemented in C due to its speed and portability. C is chosen for its ability to write fast code close to the underlying hardware.

Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons

389 stephc_int13 2026-01-06 16:59:44 UTC caranddriver.com Llama Share 50

Volkswagen is shifting back to physical controls in its electric vehicles, starting with the ID. Polo and potentially the ID.4. The new design features buttons and switchgear for climate control, music playback, and cruise control.

Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities

378 BLGardner 2026-01-06 12:33:49 UTC blgardner.github.io Full Share 103

Prism.Tools: Standalone web tools for developers. Client-side Formatters, CSS, Security, and Generators. No-install, privacy-focused utilities.

A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time

361 dataminer 2026-01-06 20:55:01 UTC byteshape.com Llama Share 136

ByteShape consistently produces better models than Unsloth and MagicQuant, delivering higher tokens per second at the same quality or higher quality at the same speed across CPUs and GPUs. The takeaway is to treat memory as a constraint, not a goal, and optimize for the tradeoff curve of TPS versus quality, with ByteShape landing on the better side of the curve.

Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)

339 krrishd 2026-01-06 20:24:45 UTC phrack.org Llama Share 254

The author, a hacker and CEO, shares their experience walking the paths of hacking and small business ownership, highlighting the importance of understanding how the world works and using that knowledge to bring about change. They discuss various financial concepts, including fixed income, equities, and shareholder value, and how they relate to the world of hacking and finance.

Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

262 pseudolus 2026-01-06 12:44:52 UTC phys.org Full Share 115

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I/O is no longer the bottleneck? (2022)

262 benhoyt 2026-01-06 00:02:18 UTC stoppels.ch Llama Share 130

The user is trying to optimize a word frequency counter and a word count program using AVX2 vectorization. They were able to improve the performance of the word frequency counter but still fell short of the sequential disk read speed.

"Food JPEGs" in Super Smash Bros. & Kirby Air Riders

246 SethMLarson 2026-01-06 18:57:03 UTC sethmlarson.dev Llama Share 56

Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders use flat "billboarded" stock images of food, a style that has persisted for nearly 25 years. The images are sourced from Material Dictionary CDs and have undergone changes across various games, including Super Smash Bros. Melee, Kirby Air Ride, and Kirby Air Riders.

State of the Fin 2026-01-06

209 wise_blood 2026-01-06 16:17:24 UTC jellyfin.org Llama Share 176

Jellyfin celebrates its 7th anniversary with a new blog series highlighting ongoing development and community engagement. The team is considering revising their versioning scheme due to user feedback.

GBC Boot Animation 88×31 Web Button

200 zakhary 2026-01-06 02:20:00 UTC zakhary.dev Llama Share 29

The user created a retro 88x31 Game Boy web button by exporting the Game Boy Color boot animation, cropping and scaling it, and removing the white background. They used various tools such as SameBoy emulator, ImageMagick, and Aseprite to achieve this, and also remapped the transition colours to fix ghosting issues.

High-Performance DBMSs with io_uring: When and How to use it

194 matt_d 2026-01-06 19:29:15 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 49

Researchers studied io_uring's benefits in modern database systems, finding it delivers greatest benefits in storage-bound and network-bound workloads. They derived guidelines for designing I/O-intensive systems using io_uring, resulting in a 14% performance improvement in PostgreSQL.

Video Game Websites in the early 00s

193 klaussilveira 2026-01-06 18:39:21 UTC webdesignmuseum.org Full Share 93

Keep the history of the web alive! Support our hosting costs with a small donation via Every cup helps us stay online!

Passing of Joe Mancuso

191 wilsonfiifi 2026-01-06 18:11:51 UTC github.com/masoniteframework Full Share 18

Good morning Masonite community, I regret to inform you all that @josephmancuso has passed away due to health complications. Please keep his family in your thoughts during this time. I had the priv...

Oral microbiome sequencing after taking probiotics

182 sethbannon 2026-01-06 21:10:47 UTC blog.booleanbiotech.com Llama Share 86

The user tested BioGaia Prodentis, an oral probiotic, using 16S sequencing from Plasmidsaurus and found no detectable colonization of L. reuteri in their mouth. However, the oral microbiome did change significantly, with a massive increase in S. salivarius and other species, suggesting a potential impact on oral health despite the lack of L. reuteri colonization.

Show HN: Similarity = cosine(your_GitHub_stars, Karpathy) Client-side

168 puzer 2026-01-06 13:23:39 UTC puzer.github.io Full Share 39

Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy

153 kachapopopow 2026-01-06 18:00:27 UTC geospy.ai Llama Share 137

Graylark's AI system, GeoSpy, helps investigators locate images with high accuracy, from 1 meter to a few miles. This technology accelerates vehicle theft recovery by pinpointing exact locations from images, even with minimal landmarks.

Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner

147 wismwasm 2026-01-06 19:50:35 UTC layandreas.github.io Llama Share 180

The author tried Spotify's free tier after a price increase but was disappointed by restrictions on song choice. They decided to self-host media with a VPS from Hetzner and Jellyfin media server.

A prediction market user made $436k betting on Maduro's downfall

137 tartoran 2026-01-06 03:59:19 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 202

A bettor made nearly half a million dollars on Venezuela's president ouster before it was announced, raising questions about inside knowledge. The incident has led to calls for banning government employees from making trades on prediction markets with nonpublic information.

CES 2026: Taking the Lids Off AMD's Venice and MI400 SoCs

135 rbanffy 2026-01-06 21:46:04 UTC chipsandcheese.com Llama Share 82

AMD showed off Venice series server CPUs and MI400 series datacenter accelerators at CES 2026, featuring improved packaging and increased core counts. The Venice series has up to 256 cores and 3GB of L3 cache, while the MI400 series has 12 HBM4 dies and 2 nanometer and 3 nanometer compute and IO dies.

Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]

131 surprisetalk 2026-01-06 23:40:03 UTC youtube.com Embed Share 114

Dude, where's my supersonic jet?

131 noleary 2026-01-06 17:59:41 UTC rationaloptimistsociety.substack.com Llama Share 300

Supersonic flight is making a comeback with companies like Boom, Astro Mechanica, and Hermeus working on new technologies to make it faster, cheaper, and more efficient. These startups aim to revolutionize air travel with supersonic jets that can fly from New York to London in under 90 minutes.

Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing

125 littlexsparkee 2026-01-06 21:23:07 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 91

Researchers compared AI agents to human cybersecurity professionals in a live enterprise environment, with ARTEMIS placing second overall and outperforming 9 of 10 humans. AI agents offer advantages in systematic enumeration and cost, but struggle with GUI-based tasks and have higher false-positive rates.

SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection

122 achairapart 2026-01-06 10:13:43 UTC scenelist.org Llama Share 52

User shares nostalgic memories of 90's BBS scene and has put online filelists and release nfo's from that era. They're interested in connecting with other old sceners and invite others to browse and search the nostalgic warez lists.

Mamdani Targets Junk Fees and Hidden Charges in Two Executive Orders

120 lordleft 2026-01-06 16:02:56 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 137

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Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A

119 osnium123 2026-01-06 03:31:39 UTC newsroom.intel.com Llama Share 178

Intel launched the Core Ultra Series 3 processors, built on Intel 18A, offering exceptional performance, graphics, and battery life. The platform powers over 200 PC designs and is certified for edge use cases like robotics and smart cities.

Are we tired of social media? (2025)

113 foxiel 2026-01-06 22:15:52 UTC danielbrendel.com Llama Share 88

The internet has become overly commercialized, leading to fatigue in socializing and a sense of disconnection among users. Many are seeking alternatives like Mastodon and the Fediverse, but even these platforms struggle with engagement and meaningful interactions.

Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)

100 bobbiechen 2026-01-06 16:53:27 UTC techcrunch.com Llama Share 100

The stack fallacy is a mistaken belief that building a higher layer is trivial due to familiarity with lower layers. Companies often fail to compete in new markets because they underestimate the difficulty of understanding customer needs.

Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists

96 clanky 2026-01-06 17:15:39 UTC twitter.com/jtlonsdale Full Share 160

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Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket

92 speckx 2026-01-06 16:52:08 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 56

Raspberry Pi prices have hit parity with Intel N100-based mini PCs, but prices for both are rising due to flash memory costs and tariff uncertainties. Homelab builders may now consider repurposing old hardware to save money due to the ongoing price crisis in the PC hardware market.

Creating Embroidered Charts with R and ImageMagick

88 speckx 2026-01-06 14:33:30 UTC aman.bh Llama Share 5

The user created a programmatic pipeline to add an embroidered look to ggplot charts using ImageMagick and R, allowing for reproducibility and customization of the effect. The pipeline involves running an embroidery script, applying texture and shading effects, and boosting colors to achieve a 3D, tactile look.

Mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales

86 Brajeshwar 2026-01-06 06:34:45 UTC smithsonianmag.com Llama Share 29

Hundreds of 19th-century black leather boots have washed up on a beach in southern Wales, mystifying residents. The boots are believed to have come from an Italian cargo vessel that sank nearby around 150 years ago.

Show HN: Jax-JS, array library in JavaScript targeting WebGPU

83 ekzhang 2026-01-06 18:19:31 UTC ss.ekzhang.com Llama Share 22

A new JavaScript library called jax-js allows running machine learning programs in the browser at near-native speeds using WebAssembly and WebGPU technologies. The library is a reimplementation of Google DeepMind's JAX framework and has already been used to train a neural network and perform semantic search on a large text dataset in real-time.

Launch HN: Tamarind Bio (YC W24) – AI Inference Provider for Drug Discovery

83 denizkavi 2026-01-06 17:49:56 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 20

Deniz and Sherry from Tamarind Bio provide AI drug discovery services to biopharma companies using open-source models. Their platform offers a user-friendly interface for non-technical users and supports model pipelines, fine-tuning, and more.

Show HN: Mantic.sh – A structural code search engine for AI agents

81 marcoaapfortes 2026-01-06 13:48:27 UTC github.com/marcoaapfortes Llama Share 37

Mantic is a code search engine for AI agents that provides fast file ranking without external dependencies. It infers intent from file structure and metadata for retrieval speeds faster than human reaction time.

'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019)

81 rafaepta 2026-01-06 02:07:18 UTC hollywoodreporter.com Llama Share 34

Black Mirror's Bandersnatch is a choose-your-own-adventure film influenced by 1980s gaming industry, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and George Orwell's 1984. The story explores themes of control, paranoia, and the blurred lines between reality and fiction.

High-performance header-only container library for C++23 on x86-64

77 mattgodbolt 2026-01-06 14:41:55 UTC github.com/kressler Llama Share 26

The B+tree implementation provides significant performance improvements over industry standards for large trees, especially with the hugepage allocator reducing TLB misses and allocation costs. It supports various search modes and allocators, including SIMD-accelerated search and custom hugepage pools.

Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics

75 rickcarlino 2026-01-06 14:30:53 UTC obsessivefacts.com Llama Share 11

The Gemini space has 646,369 URIs, with 560,646 successfully checked recently, including 431,340 serving Gemini content. 457 recently tested URLs have a wrong encoding, mostly self-signed capsules exist.

Show HN: Stash – Sync Markdown Files with Apple Notes via CLI

73 shuka 2026-01-06 16:57:15 UTC github.com/shakedlokits Llama Share 37

The user uses Apple Notes as their daily note-taking app but wants to sync Markdown files from their workflow to Apple Notes. They created a CLI tool to bridge this gap using AppleScript, Shell scripts, Pandoc, and Bashly.

New Lego smart-play system

73 acoye 2026-01-06 15:05:46 UTC lego.com Llama Share 49

The website is temporarily blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

Portland's gas-powered leaf blower ban goes into effect

73 speckx 2026-01-06 12:53:06 UTC oregonlive.com Llama Share 123

Portland has implemented a gradual ban on gas-powered leaf blowers, allowing electric and battery-powered alternatives year-round. The ban will be fully enforced by 2028, with a complaint-based system for violations and assistance for small landscapers through a rebate program and grant.

Dell admits it made a mistake when it abandoned XPS

73 jnord 2026-01-06 12:49:44 UTC gizmodo.com Llama Share 87

Dell is reviving its XPS brand as a premium consumer laptop line with 14- and 16-inch models. The new XPS laptops will start at $2,050 and $2,200, respectively, with Intel Core Ultra X7 or X9 chips.

Why German Strings Are Everywhere?

69 byt3h3ad 2026-01-06 13:30:07 UTC cedardb.com Llama Share 55

Umbra invented "German Strings" to optimize string handling in database systems, using a 128-bit struct with a shortened length field and a four-character prefix. This design reduces overhead, saves memory, and enables faster comparisons and sorting, but requires careful consideration of string lifetime and storage classes.

The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus' (2025)

68 Brajeshwar 2026-01-06 15:44:44 UTC carette.xyz Llama Share 15

Engineers using AI LLMs can automate tasks but require careful review due to hallucinations and biases. Blind acceptance of LLM solutions can atrophy engineers' problem-solving skills, hindering novel challenge tackling.

Loongarch Improvements with Box64

66 aaronday 2026-01-06 16:52:56 UTC box86.org Llama Share 6

Box64 has released a new version with enhancements and fixes for Steam, Battle.net, and other platforms, including support for RiSC-V, Loongarch, and ARM64. The update includes refactors, speedups, and new features such as prefix opcode decoder and memory footprint optimization, with ongoing work on performance improvements and bug fixes.

Ruby Array Pack Bleed

62 pentestercrab 2026-01-06 23:46:24 UTC nastystereo.com Llama Share 1

A memory disclosure vulnerability exists in Ruby 4.0.0 and prior due to a bug in the Array#pack method. The bug allows reading memory out of bounds by exploiting a negative repeat count and the X directive.

Show HN: VaultSandbox – Test your real MailGun/SES/etc. integration

58 vaultsandbox 2026-01-06 13:50:48 UTC vaultsandbox.com Llama Share 13

VaultSandbox provides isolated inboxes for testing email services within a VPC, mimicking production environments without exposing customer data. It offers features like automatic cleanup, real-time testing, and rate limiting to ensure secure and efficient email testing.

Mapping Protests in Iran

57 nsoonhui 2026-01-06 08:00:16 UTC fdd.org Full Share 35

Show HN: DDL to Data – Generate realistic test data from SQL schemas

54 tbrannan 2026-01-06 12:47:23 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 31

You created a tool to generate realistic test data from DDL, addressing security and DevOps concerns. It preserves foreign key relationships and uniqueness constraints, but needs feedback on its completeness.

Why agents matter more than other AI

51 nvader 2026-01-06 00:26:20 UTC substack.com Llama Share 28

AI agents have structural advantages over human employees, including constant availability, improved output speed, and lower overhead costs. This creates a huge incentive for businesses to use AI agents, leading to a potential transformation of the knowledge work industry.

Show HN: mcpc – Universal command-line client for Model Context Protocol (MCP)

49 jancurn 2026-01-06 15:05:09 UTC github.com/apify Llama Share 4

mcpc is a CLI for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that maps MCP operations to intuitive commands for interactive shell use, scripts, and AI coding agents. It supports authentication, sessions, and proxy servers for secure access to MCP servers.

Gnome and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

48 raphinou 2026-01-06 14:54:19 UTC linuxiac.com Llama Share 98

Mozilla and GNOME propose changing the default behavior of middle-mouse-button paste on Linux and Unix-like systems. This change could disrupt workflows for many users who rely on this feature.

Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling for Memory-Efficient Language Generation

46 PaulHoule 2026-01-06 18:02:01 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 3

Researchers propose PHOTON, a hierarchical model that improves Transformer efficiency by reducing KV-cache traffic and increasing throughput. PHOTON achieves up to 1000x higher throughput per unit memory in long-context and multi-query tasks.

System: Control your Mac from anywhere using natural language

39 handfuloflight 2026-01-06 12:04:57 UTC system.surf Llama Share 33

SYSTEM is a Mac control system using natural language, built with Cloudflare Agents SDK for security and orchestration. It uses a split architecture with an Agent on Cloudflare Workers and a Bridge on the local Mac for secure control.

Visual regression tests for personal blogs

38 beingflo 2026-01-06 20:43:12 UTC marending.dev Llama Share 11

The user built a static website using Astro and mdx, but found it difficult to test changes without breaking older notes, so they used Playwright for visual regression testing to increase confidence in their changes. They set up a simple test suite that takes automated screenshots of pages and compares them against earlier snapshots, and run it manually whenever they make significant changes ...

Show HN: Repogen – a static site generator for package repositories

38 tlar 2026-01-06 16:36:50 UTC github.com/ralt Llama Share 7

Repogen is a CLI tool that generates static repository structures for multiple package managers, but it's alpha software and should be used with caution. It includes a comprehensive test suite and supports incremental mode for updating existing repositories.

My Tamagotchi is an RL agent playing Slither.io

38 nkaz123 2026-01-06 06:22:30 UTC nkasmanoff.github.io Llama Share 18

You are a Machine Learning Engineer with 4+ years of experience leading technical teams and delivering high-impact AI solutions in NLP, computer vision, and agentic applications. Your background is rooted in Physics and Astronomy, with a strong technical foundation in Python, PyTorch, and other tools.

Creating a bespoke data diode for air‑gapped networks

37 nelop 2026-01-06 18:10:31 UTC nelop.com Llama Share 84

We implemented a bespoke data diode solution using Raspberry Pi devices to extract syslog information and performance data from an air-gapped network. This secure system maintains the air gap's integrity while providing internal monitoring teams with vital operational intelligence.

Tube trains could navigate the Underground using the rules of Quantum Physics

36 beardyw 2026-01-06 08:26:23 UTC ianvisits.co.uk Llama Share 79

Researchers are developing a quantum navigation system for the London Underground using supercold atoms to track trains with centimeter accuracy even in areas with no GPS signal. This system could provide a backup for GPS and improve track condition monitoring, reducing repair times and costs.

Show HN: GPU Cuckoo Filter – faster queries than Blocked Bloom, with deletion

31 tdortman 2026-01-06 22:33:21 UTC github.com/tdortman Llama Share 4

A CUDA-based Cuckoo Filter library provides GPU-accelerated insertion, lookup, and deletion operations with a configurable false positive rate. It supports high-throughput batch operations on NVIDIA GPUs.

FTSE100 bosses' pay overtakes typical worker's annual salary in less than 3 days

31 robtherobber 2026-01-06 16:54:23 UTC news.sky.com Llama Share 15

UK CEOs earn £4.40m, surpassing average worker pay by midday on the first working day of 2026. The pay gap is attributed to low trade union membership and the High Pay Centre calls for governance reform and higher taxes on excessive CEO pay.

Show HN: llmgame.ai – The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs

26 jmcallister 2026-01-06 03:07:50 UTC llmgame.ai Full Share 23

Play the Wikipedia game with the help of an LLM running in your browser

Time Travelling and Fixing Bugs with Property-Based Testing (2019)

21 todsacerdoti 2026-01-06 05:07:20 UTC wickstrom.tech Llama Share 0

Property-based testing is used to find edge cases and bugs in software, and a tutorial is provided on how to apply it to a simple form validation system using the Hedgehog framework in Haskell. The tutorial covers refactoring, dealing with non-determinism, testing generators, and measuring coverage, and it demonstrates how to use property tests to find bugs in both the test suite and the ...

Learning from Sudoku Solvers (2007)

21 forks 2026-01-06 02:33:27 UTC ravimohan.blogspot.com Llama Share 7

Ron Jeffries' Sudoku solver attempts were lengthy and confusing, while Peter Norvig's was concise and effective. Norvig's 12 lines of code solved the problem, contrasting with Jeffries' over 80 lines of code.

Show HN: ccrider - Search and Resume Your Claude Code Sessions – TUI / MCP / CLI

19 nberkman 2026-01-06 14:14:24 UTC github.com/neilberkman Llama Share 4

ccrider is a tool that helps search Claude sessions using a TUI browser, CLI search, and MCP server. It allows instant searching of session history by project, date, or content.

Show HN: Finding similarities in New Yorker covers

18 tkp-415 2026-01-06 20:22:43 UTC shoplurker.com Full Share 8

DatBench: Discriminative, faithful, and efficient VLM evaluations

18 circuithunter 2026-01-06 17:43:03 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 0

Researchers propose three desiderata for evaluating vision-language models: faithfulness, discriminability, and efficiency. They curate existing benchmarks to improve evaluation quality and release two new datasets, DatBench-Full and DatBench, for more efficient and discriminative evaluation.

Show HN: I built an Open Source screen timer for the m5stickc (Arduino)

17 urbandw311er 2026-01-06 13:51:24 UTC partridge.works Llama Share 0

The user built a screen-timer device and web app called Screenie to help manage their children's screen time, aiming to provide accurate measurement and trust the kids to follow rules. The device is a small, dedicated timer that records screen time and syncs with a parental app, allowing kids to see their allowance and parents to monitor usage.

Show HN: Symbolic Circuit Distillation: prove program to LLM circuit equivalence

16 nsomani 2026-01-06 20:57:06 UTC github.com/neelsomani Llama Share 2

The Symbolic Circuit Distillation method automatically converts neuron-level circuit graphs into concise, executable programs with bounded formal correctness guarantees, enabling researchers to turn small neural circuits into verified algorithms. This method treats pruned circuits as executable black-boxes, distills them into compact symbolic representations, and certifies or refutes ...

Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin – Six New Chips

15 ashvardanian 2026-01-06 00:31:51 UTC nvidianews.nvidia.com Llama Share 4

NVIDIA launches Rubin platform with six new chips for AI supercomputers, delivering 10x reduction in inference token cost and 4x reduction in GPUs for training MoE models. The platform is expected to accelerate mainstream AI adoption with its unprecedented efficiency and performance.

Study: Managers with first-born daughters, hire more women and pay more equal [pdf]

14 pploug 2026-01-06 23:48:38 UTC csef.it Llama Share 4

Researchers studied how managers' attitudes towards gender affect workplace inequality. They found that managers with daughters are more likely to hire women and increase female earnings and employment.

The 5 Knights of the MCP Apocalypse

12 saikatsg 2026-01-06 15:52:09 UTC foojay.io Llama Share 2

To protect data when using a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, implement security measures such as static analysis, network isolation, and software composition analysis to prevent data leaks and ensure the server's integrity. Additionally, use a centralized tool registry, service catalog, and governance to manage MCPs and prevent MCP sprawl, which can create a massive attack surface.

Markdown Emphasis Issues in CJK: Analyzing CommonMark's Delimiter Rules

11 birdculture 2026-01-06 07:26:32 UTC hackers.pub Llama Share 1

CommonMark's delimiter rules cause issues with unrendered Markdown emphasis markers in CJK environments. This is due to limitations in inferring delimiter direction based on surrounding characters.