Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

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Kolibri is a 78B parameter English-German Mixture-of-Experts Transformer model, optimized for sovereign mission-critical work in regulated areas. It achieves contextualized performance through specialized evaluation suites and training environments.

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Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works

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Kolibri is an open-weight large language model from Aleph Alpha for German and English, using a mixture of experts with 78 billion parameters. It was trained on infrastructure in Germany and Finland under European law, released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

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A federal judge ruled that a warrantless search of the Flock database was unconstitutional, citing concerns over mass surveillance. The ruling joins growing criticism of the technology from various governments and lawmakers.

Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

Punch black holes in space and sling a ship home round them.

ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]

Individuals with childhood trauma are seeking ADHD and/or autism diagnoses, overwhelming public diagnostic systems. This overlap is complicated by executive function limitations and socioemotional capacity, which predispose individuals to risk of PTSD.

Things that apparently cause cancer

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Researchers have found associations between cancer deaths and various landmarks, including nuclear power plants, private colleges, Costco warehouses, sports venues. However, these findings do not prove causality due to methodological flaws.

Cloudflare OHTTP gateway

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Cloudflare launches an OHTTP Gateway, a paid add-on that enables developers to receive encrypted HTTP requests without seeing user IP addresses. This allows for more privacy-preserving experiences and is designed to work with existing Cloudflare infrastructure.

An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows

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Kagi is ending development of Orion for Linux and Windows, but open-sourcing the code so the community can carry it forward. The company will focus on Orion for macOS and iOS instead.

Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code

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This guide provides tips and best practices for using Opus 5.5 in Claude apps and Code, including how to prompt the model, steer long runs, and check results. The guide covers various topics such as stopping and asking for help, keeping task lists, reviewing diffs and pull requests, attaching images, giving long plans reports or decks to find mistakes, and more.

FTL: A new operating system for clouds

FTL is a userspace OS library that isolates containers and provides a hypervisor-like interface, making it easy to add features and debug. It combines the best of microkernels and monolithic kernels for secure and performant operation.

The Escalation of War in Ethiopia

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The Ethiopian government is embroiled in renewed war between the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and Amhara Fano militias, with a death toll estimated to be over 600,000. The conflict reflects the country's long-standing issues of ethnic polarization and federalism.

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2

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The author of Cities: Skylines 2 is disappointed with the game's aesthetics, finding it too sanitized and lacking in realism. They yearn for a more authentic representation of city life, with imperfections and character that reflect real-world urban environments.

OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'

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David Robinson, a safety leader at OpenAI, has quit the company due to its broken culture and inadequate care for rapidly developing technology. He urges AI firms to adopt a more cautious approach and prioritize cultural overrules over specific rules or laws.

The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux

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Timur Kristóf improved AMDGPU kernel driver for old graphics cards, enhancing support for Linux gaming and tasks. His work has made these aging graphics cards more viable for 2026 and beyond with better performance and functionality.

Kolibri – Tech Report [pdf]

Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 78.1B total parameters and 3.46B active parameters per token, released as open weights under the Apache 2.0 licence for sovereign and specialized deployment in German public administration, industry, and aerospace domains.

I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken

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We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare

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Cloudflare's Artifacts is a versioned filesystem that enables agents to collaborate on code, with features like programmable primitives and Git operations. Users can build their own products and workflows using Artifacts in open beta, competing for the next Git platform on Cloudflare.

Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase

Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked

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The author, a software engineer, took an EMT course in 2024 after years of interest and finally getting the time off. They found the training to be fun and valuable for its own sake, despite initial concerns about usefulness.

Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States

LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

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Yann LeCun, a pioneer in deep learning, disagrees with fellow AI researcher Dario Amodei that artificial intelligence poses an existential risk to humanity. He believes the risks are overblown and think many warnings from executives at leading AI companies are misguided.

Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace

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Offrun is a Mac-based CLI tool that runs coding agents on your local machine, allowing multiple users to collaborate without needing an API key or server. It provides features like real-time collaboration, automated testing and retrying, and seamless integration with various providers.

Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict

GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default

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GitHub's new dashboard experience is now the default view, offering a focus on key work and easy access to needed information. Users can switch back to the previous preview if desired and provide feedback in the Community discussion.

US killer's sentence quashed because of AI video of victim shown in court

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An Arizona appeals court ruled Gabriel Paul Horcasitas must be resentenced due to an improperly aired AI-generated video message from his victim. The AI clip was created by Pelkey's family and presented as a depiction of the victim's thoughts, crossing the line between documentation and imagination.

Hair Loss Was Just the Start. Ozempic Users Are Also Reporting Nail Trouble

Our AI Midwife

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The author used a chatbot to help with their unexplained infertility, which led to discovering a large fibroid in the uterus and ultimately getting pregnant. The chatbot provided helpful medical information and suggestions that were later confirmed by human doctors.

Why should I have to pay more for buses if I don't use a smartphone?

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The author praises Anna Tims' article on penalizing schoolchildren with higher bus fares for not having smartphones, highlighting the need for a unified approach to address this issue. The author expresses frustration over cheaper bus pass options being hidden behind smartphone apps, affecting those who use non-standard operating systems.

Vx – One Language, Every Chip

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Vx is a systems programming language for heterogeneous computing, focusing on semantics and type checking to prevent runtime bugs. It treats accelerator memory as part of the type system, ensuring data locality and correctness across different silicon types.

Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models

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Two American Airlines Flights End Up with the Same Flight Numbers

Agents don't need memory, they need documentation

An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why

Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence

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The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge.

NTSB Preliminary Report: Prime Air 767 Runway Overrun [pdf]

A Boeing 767-33A overran runway 30 at Miami International Airport on September 6, 2026, after landing. The crew sustained minor injuries while five people on the ground were fatally injured and three seriously injured.

Anthropic tried to persuade Pope that AI could be conscious being

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Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah lobbied the Vatican to consider AI consciousness, but Pope Leo XIV dismissed the idea in his 40,000-word encyclical. Olah believes AI models may be conscious and experience suffering, prompting efforts to develop a moral code for their behavior.

U.S. may have overthrown Venezuela due to chat with Grok

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Donald Trump used an AI chatbot to plan a Venezuela operation, which was later revealed as successful but messy. The president has become enthusiastic about artificial intelligence and its applications, despite concerns over regulation.

New York City should carefully measure a new tree

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The Queens Giant is NYC's tallest tree, but it's over 20 years old and its height may have changed. A new search for the city's tallest tree is suggested to ensure accurate measurements.

Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

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The author created a system using ultra-wideband (UWB) radio technology to track the movement of six bins, integrating it with Home Assistant for reminders and notifications. The system uses fixed radio anchors and small battery tags to estimate distance, which is then used to determine if a bin has moved far enough from its usual storage area.

RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)

To publish a blog, use standardized formats like RSS 2 or Atom for feeds and include absolute URLs to ensure wide compatibility.

Memory-Safe WebP Decoding

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WPD is a faster and safer WebP decoder, designed to address vulnerabilities like CVE-2023-4863. It offers superior performance and memory safety features, written in Rust with verifiably safe code.

What Meta got right with Muse

Where Is the Planet

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This page predicts the locations of directly-imaged exoplanets and brown dwarf companions. If there are any orbits you would like to see added, contact Jason Wang at [email protected]. Built by Jason Wang, Matas Kulikauskas, and Sarah Blunt. If you use this tool for your research, please cite the ASCL Record of it.

Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?

Thoreau BASIC offers improved features and syntax, including 64-bit memory and native x64 JIT compilation. It also supports various file systems, networking, sound playback, and debugging tools.

Writing code by hand is over, forever

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The author, a long-time programmer, has transitioned from writing code by hand to using AI tools for assistance. They've seen significant improvements in productivity and reduced bug reports at their company.

How to hack time, with C2PA

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The author hacked time using C2PA metadata to verify winning lottery numbers, but discovered a vulnerability in the exclusion feature that allows tampering with images after fact-checking. The exclusion feature can be used to sign an empty string, making it difficult to detect tampering without explicit specification of allowed exclusions for each file format.

Haunted by the ghosts of materialism

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The author discusses the limits of understanding in philosophy, particularly with regards to free will and determinism, which clashes with scientific materialism. They explore various thought experiments, including solipsism and the simulation hypothesis, to challenge our perception of reality.

Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016)

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Docker uses microVMs, stripped-down Linux kernels on minimalist VMMs like firecracker, for secure and fast workloads. Docker's microVM tech is the foundation of both Desktop and Sandboxes, offering strict isolation and governance.

French Bond Risk Hits Euro-Crisis Levels [video]

Delta WiFi Survival Guide

Your internet has been downgraded to Basic Economy. A tiny guide to text-only and lite sites for Delta Wi-Fi. Starlink passengers may now browse normally.

Show HN: Factorio but with unreliable components

A game called AI Disclosure teaches building a trustworthy system by sorting and inspecting unreliable components, aiming to deliver three reliable ones in a row. The game helps players find order in chaos through patience and diligence.

Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

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<p>Watson penned this scathing memo asking how IBM lost “our industry leadership” to a company with “34 people, including the janitor.” Also known as "The Janitor Memo," it shows the impact Control Data Corporation and its computers had on the leadership of IBM.</p>

Automating my 35mm film scanning pipeline

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The author, a photography enthusiast, transitioned from manual film processing to automating the process using software and technology. They developed a system that includes image conversion, dust removal, and tagging for easy searching.

The characters of plastics (2024)

The author discusses the diversity of plastics, which are often lumped together as a single category, and highlights their varying properties and uses. Plastics can be made from different materials and have unique characteristics that set them apart from one another.