AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

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AMD acquired AI chip company Taalas, which etches model weights into silicon for faster inference performance. The deal aims to boost AI hardware and compete with Nvidia's dominance in the market.

Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun

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Scientists using the U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the Sun's surface. This finding could help explain explosive solar activity and other solar phenomena, and may be a key reason why the Sun's outer atmosphere gets hot.

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

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Nepal's National Cyber Security Centre has joined Have I Been Pwned's free gov service to monitor government domains against data breaches. This will help Nepal identify and respond to exposed government email addresses and compromised credentials.

Mario Meets Pareto

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To find the best Mario Kart 8 build, use the Pareto front to eliminate dominated options and focus on the efficient drivers that balance speed and acceleration. This objective criteria helps filter out suboptimal choices, but you still need to make a final decision based on your play style and preferences.

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

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Can, the Herdr creator, realized he was the bottleneck and built a runtime to manage agents and development style. He wants to keep the runtime free and open, and is joining Y Combinator to build a team and expand Herdr's features.

Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)

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The user is explaining the architecture of a modern high-throughput LLM inference system, specifically the vLLM engine, which enables high-throughput inference in an offline setting but requires additional components for online, async, multi-GPU, multi-node inference. The user breaks down the engine's components, including the engine core, model executor, scheduler, and KV-cache manager, and ...

Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks

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We build PCBs in the US, delivering boards to drone and defense teams within 7 days. Our domestic build process ensures on-time shipping and complete audit trails for every order.

Taste Is All That's Left

The author argues that the value of human judgement, or "taste," has become more important in software development now that machines can generate code quickly and efficiently. However, this judgement is difficult to measure and is often overlooked in favor of productivity and efficiency, leading to a flood of mediocre software that lacks quality and purpose.

Almost no skill required to cook a steak

We want AI to create something good without understanding how it works, but it's like a steak machine that can follow a recipe but not know what we actually want. We need to learn to cook with AI, understand its limitations, and judge its results to produce what we want.

Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2

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A team ported Pokémon Emerald to a $6 microcontroller, achieving 60 fps, HDMI out, and real buttons. The game is playable from start to finish, but has limitations including incomplete audio and missing features like link cable and wireless connectivity.

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

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GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions.

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

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To access Dawn of the Machine, a free update for Quake, update your game automatically if you already own Quake. Dawn of the Machine is available on XBOX Series X/S, XBOX One, Microsoft PC Store, Game Pass, Steam, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch 2 via backwards compatibility.

I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them

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The author had a problem with a drawer full of USB-C cables that looked the same but had different capabilities. They solved the issue by using a $15 cable tester to determine which cables could charge their devices the quickest.

My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”

As of a recent update, my phone has started detecting me going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off". This insta-locks the screen and kicks me out of the app I use to pace my runs. gaaaaah

Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?

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We've been given a chip layout in a GDS file and asked to reverse engineer it by recovering a netlist and figuring out its true purpose, then use it to find the string value that's the final answer. The chip is an ASIC with a hidden section that doesn't affect the success output, and we need to simulate the circuit to test our solution and get the final output.

Learn how chips are made with this Rollercoaster Tycoon-inspired animation

ChipTycoon is a theme park simulation of a chip factory where a cart carries a silicon wafer through 20 stages of chip production. The park shows four laps of the six-building cycle, with explanations at each stop and adjustable speed.

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

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A browser game testing human-in-the-loop approval of AI coding agent commands found 32.9% of sessions ended with a negative score due to approved threats and blocked safe commands. Players caught threats most reliably when they were blatantly destructive, but missed commands that exfiltrated credentials three times as often.

Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters

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Show HN: The Channels SDK – Bring Any Agent to Any Channel (Slack, MS Teams)

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Channels connects AI agents to communication platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams, allowing them to understand conversations and respond natively. It uses CopilotKit Intelligence to manage connections and deliver responses, with a guide to set up a Channels agent in a project.

STV: A full-motion video codec for the Atari ST

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Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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To start learning botany, use the internet to access information and ask questions about unfamiliar terms. Key concepts include Latin terminology, common names, and taxonomy, which groups plants according to evolutionary relationships.

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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The user ported their JavaScript game engine, Impact, to C and created a new platform backend for the N64 using Libdragon, allowing them to develop a new game, Xibalba 64, a Wolfenstein 3D-like FPS. The game was published as a physical launch title for the M64 by Modretro, making it the second new N64 game released since the console's original commercial life ended.

The simple elegance of the integrated timing belt loopback fastener

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You're working on a mechatronics project with an X-Y cartesian motion system using stepper motors and timing belts. You've designed an integrated loopback fastener into the actuated component to secure the timing belt, eliminating the need for additional parts.

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 includes 9 evaluations and measures AI performance across various tasks. It assesses knowledge reliability, hallucination, and economic value, among other factors.

Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades

Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx

The author built a form for editing bookmarks and connecting them to lists using progressive enhancement, which works without JS but uses HTMX to add niceties when JS is enabled. The author shares their approach and tips for managing transient state, handling form submissions, and using HTMX to improve the user experience with minimal dependencies.

Towards Bottom-Up Enumeration in miniKanren via Pruning and Memoization

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We present two small library combinators on top of plain miniKanren, designed to bring bottom-up enumeration with observational deduplication, the standard tool in non-relational program-by-example (PBE) synthesizers, into the relational setting. The first combinator, prune, deduplicates an answer stream by a user-supplied key, typically the input/output behavior of the candidate. The second, ...

Pareto Front

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The Pareto front is a set of solutions in multi-objective optimization where no solution outperforms another at every objective, and every solution not in the set is outperformed by at least one solution in the set. It represents the set of efficient choices, allowing designers to make tradeoffs within this set rather than considering the full range of every parameter.

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight microbes linked to cancers

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Researchers developed a bioengineered chewing gum that reduced HPV by 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The gum preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy for head and neck cancer.