Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

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Samsung Electronics plans to more than double its HBM4 memory chip output next year, driven by increased demand for glass carriers used in the production process. The company aims to raise glass carrier production volume 2.5 times from this year's 20,000 sheets per month.

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

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Pirate Face is a decentralized infrastructure for sovereign AI, mirroring open models from Hugging Face as peer-to-peer torrents. It ensures model availability outlives any single hosting platform through checksum-verified downloads and verification of matching Hugging Face identities.

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector

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OpenAI's ad collector, __obi, tracks users' browsing data and sends it to their ChatGPT account via cookies on visited websites. The cookie is set by advertisers using OpenAI's pixel SDK, which collects identity from both advertiser-supplied and scraped values.

Qwen Image 2.1

Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

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Singapore's ReadSG program rewards daily reading with virtual coins redeemable for cash, aiming to build reading habits among a phone-first population. The initiative has drawn attention from governments and educators worldwide as a test of gamification shifting screen habits at scale.

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

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The letter W originated from the Latin alphabet's lack of a sound /w/, which was present in Germanic languages, and evolved through various spelling practices in post-classical Europe. The English language eventually adopted the letter W to represent this sound, with its usage influenced by historical linguistic changes and regional dialects.

I am often wrong

The author shares their iterative problem-solving approach, which involves redefining steps as new information is learned. They emphasize the importance of feedback and clarity in defining problems and approaches to achieve successful solutions.

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

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Jevchat is an interactive chat model that generates text based on user input, using various strategies and algorithms to produce responses. It can be run with different options, such as choosing a question or generating text from pre-defined alphabets.

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

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Sherline Tools, a US manufacturer of precision lathes and CNC machines, is winding down operations due to changing market conditions. The company will continue selling products and parts until October 2026 before ceasing all activities.

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative

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Radius is a modern Meetup alternative for local groups, events and activities. Find people with shared interests, join what they are doing nearby, or start your own community.

Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second)

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++

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A complete decompilation of Resident Evil 4 for the Nintendo GameCube has been achieved using a custom-built toolchain, which reproduces the original game's code and data exactly. The project is open-source and released under CC0 license.

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

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Apple created unique keyboard layouts for Canada and Japan to comply with local standards, featuring distinct symbols such as Ctrl, Alt, Tab, and Esc. These custom designs were used in the late 1990s and early 2000s before being phased out or replaced by standard symbols.

Prompts aren’t Real

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The author, an engineer in Los Angeles, has been working on making agents run reliably in production for 25 years and finds it a fun and challenging task. He discusses the difficulties of creating minimally-embarrassing agentic experiences with subjective outputs and outcomes.

Trying the Software Factory Pattern

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The author is struggling to keep up with the rapid evolution of AI tools and patterns, adopting new technologies like Linear and Datadog MCP. They're exploring the software factory pattern to streamline their workflow and improve project management.

Custom home server built from spare parts

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The author built a custom NAS using an old Zotac EN1070K GPU, adding six 8TB hard drives and a touch screen interface. The system runs Kubuntu with ZFS and various Docker containers, offering more control than traditional NAS solutions like TrueNAS.

A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io

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The Gorai robot framework is a distributed system that uses NATS mesh for service discovery and capability-based programming. It allows robots to be composed of multiple components, each with its own capabilities, and enables autonomy without replay.

US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution

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So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

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The user is trying to reduce their home's temperature and has started using an e-paper display with ESP32 to show weather, news, tasks, and air quality data. They've designed a simple layout but are now working on making it more attention-grabbing and wireless.

Show HN: Three genlocked RP2350B make a console – 3k sprite pixels per line)

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papyDeck is a modular console where games are Lua scripts on a micro-SD card, editable and runnable in-browser. It runs a sandboxed VM with real-time feedback, no compiled code, and open hardware/firmware licenses.

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

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FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS

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The AOOSTAR WTR Pro Ryzen edition NAS meets the author's requirements for a small, low-power FreeBSD machine with NVMe and SATA storage. The device has a metal case, quiet operation when idle, and adjustable fan settings to reduce noise.

Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

The user is setting up a script to monitor endpoint status, schedule, and recent events via SSH. They want unlimited endpoints, heartbeats, and 90 days of history on the free tier with email notifications for missed pings.

The Millennium Problems for Biology

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Researchers aim to create self-replicating cells from a primordial soup with energy, and also develop various biotechnologies such as cryopreservation of mice, reverse translation enzymes, and protein binders.

One-Electron Universe

Theoretical physicist John Wheeler proposed the one-electron universe hypothesis in 1940, suggesting that all electrons and positrons are manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time. This idea was later developed by Richard Feynman, who proposed that positrons could be represented as electrons moving backward in time.

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

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The Apple iPhone 18 Pro delivers excellent overall camera performance with a wide dynamic range, improved contrast and skin tones, effective stabilization, and a well-balanced texture-noise trade-off. Its variable aperture is particularly strong in maintaining sharpness in complex scenes.

A History of the Chiming Machines at Gloucester's Cathedral and City Churches [pdf]

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

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UTF-8000 is a variable-width encoding scheme that extends UTF-8, allowing for arbitrarily large code units and self-synchronization at the byte level. It uses a prefix-free code binary tree to encode content bits, which are used to store the length of the code unit in bytes.