Introducing System One Models and Jev

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TypeSafe AI has released its first System One Model, Jev, which is a new class of frontier models built to make fast and structured decisions that software can use directly. Jev achieves similar intelligence as existing LLMs but is two orders of magnitude faster and more efficient.

Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

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Apple Reference Image is a new camera feature that generates a secure, timestamped reference image to prove the authenticity of photos taken with an iPhone. This system uses hardware and software security measures, including Private Cloud Compute and post-quantum signatures, to ensure the integrity and verifiability of images captured by an iPhone camera sensor.

Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

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A Raspberry Pi-based e-ink bird frame uses AI for real-time bird detection, displaying hand-cut 1800s illustrations of birds heard in the garden. The project is still in development and welcomes contributions to improve its features and artwork.

Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger

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Fly to every country as a passenger. Choose your next destination and collect country flags automatically as your flights finish.

An update on Wayback Machine access

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The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has been hit by automated traffic, and protections have been put in place to prevent abuse. If you were blocked in error, email [email protected] with your details for assistance.

Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New

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Negativland, an experimental sound collage group, released its first album in 1980 and has since produced over 30 albums and collaborated on various multimedia projects. The band's work challenges conventions around media, copyright, and artistic freedom.

Doing Everyone Else's Job

The author suggests that doing someone else's job can be beneficial for learning and growth, especially in organizations where many people do 80% of the work but only a few do 20%. This approach can lead to indirect rewards and help improve outcomes.

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

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Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking models offer near real-time reasoning for voice agents, enabling more intuitive conversations with AI. These models deliver high-complexity task completion and strong reasoning capabilities at a competitive price point.

Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world

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DATAMIMIC CE is a standalone deterministic data engine for synthetic data generation and PII-aware pseudonymization, with the Enterprise Platform adding governed workflows, scanners, and execution layer. The platform supports various systems and formats, including CSV, JSON, XML, and more.

Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

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A team built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about a month, using reverse engineering techniques to understand Apple's GPU firmware ABI and user-space components.

Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA

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The author has successfully implemented the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics accelerator on an FPGA, creating a DOS PC with Voodoo graphics running in the programmable logic of a Xilinx KV260 board. The system can run games like Tomb Raider at high frame rates.

German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol

The onboardapi library enables seamless communication between sensor systems and software components using a standardized data model. It supports multi-language integration via wrappers for Java, C#, .NET, and Python while leveraging the DDS standard for reliable data exchange.

Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes

The Frontier Labs' AI models are not yet fully autonomous due to limitations in their ability to generalize and handle complex tasks, requiring human oversight. Only a few firms can accept the use of fully autonomous LLMs, mainly those that can afford rigorous specification and validation or have existing clear guardrails for specific tasks.

We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub

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A security company used Strix, an autonomous hacking agent, to scan Baseten's GitHub repositories for vulnerabilities. The scan found a live GitHub personal access token with admin and push access to Baseten's main product repo since March 2023.

A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX

A developer built a GPS-driven moving map display in the 90s for a client, using a 486-SX CPU and ROM. The software used an alternative library called Hipparchus that reduced math calculations to integers, making it twice as fast as early consumer-grade GPS devices.

Saving Jet Fuel

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A Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner flying from Newark to FCO could save $68K in jet fuel by adjusting its flight path for wind conditions, with firms like Jeppesen offering similar solutions. An open-source framework called Scikit-decide can optimize flight paths and calculate drone swarm paths, using a narrow- and wide-body fuel consumption model built by a professor at Delft University of Technology.

Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI

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Local LMs can accurately answer 88.7% of real-world queries, with efficiency improving over time and local accelerators offering significant power savings compared to cloud infrastructure. A unified metric called intelligence per watt (IPW) measures the capability and efficiency of local inference across model-accelerator configurations.

MartyPC – A Cycle-Accurate IBM PC/XT Emulator

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MartyPC is a cycle-accurate emulator for early IBM PCs, supporting various CPUs and peripherals with extensive debugging tools. It aims to aid retro PC development through precise emulation and detailed logging features.

Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite

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Capsule is a portable app that bundles UI, data, and everything into a single .capsule file with no cloud or accounts. It allows for offline access and cross-platform compatibility without cloud storage or subscriptions.

Learning to solve hard problems in RL for LLMs by never giving up

The paper discusses the Matthew Effect in reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs), where performance on easy problems improves while hard problems remain difficult. A proposed solution, Never Give Up, adapts RL sampling to reduce compute spent on easy problems and allocate it towards harder ones.

EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'

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Let's make quality the norm again

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A more circular economy is not only important for the environment. It can also strengthen consumer rights and improve societal resilience. In this report, we show how consumer policy can make circular choices easier, safer and more attractive for consumers.

Chopping up books when they're physically too big

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The author recommends chopping up a large book like Lonesome Dove into smaller volumes for easier reading and handling. They provide a simple method using an X-acto knife to cut the book along natural break points, then bind each section in a new cover made from a manila folder.

Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100

Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who made significant contributions to algebraic topology, geometry, and number theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954 for his work on spectral sequences and complex variable theory.

An interactive world map of the stories cultures have told

Stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training

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Cloudflare introduces a new setting, Disallow AI Training, allowing website owners to control how their content is used for AI training while staying indexed for search. This feature is available on all plans and can be configured at the domain level.

The Beauty of Roundabouts

A software engineer appreciates roundabouts for their simplicity and elegance, contrasting with the complexity of traffic lights. Roundabouts solve various intersection problems without active control mechanisms or electricity consumption.

Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption

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Rail disruption in the Netherlands is caused by suspected sabotage, with pipes attached to tracks at multiple locations. The incident has led to cancellations and delays for passengers across the country, particularly in Amsterdam and Utrecht.

WangNet – 1.8 MB, zero-dependency Numberwang adjudication in 11 languages

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The Numberwang model is a simple Python script that uses a 1.8 MB JSON file to classify numbers as either "Numberwang" or not, with high accuracy rates. The model's performance varies depending on the input number and language used, but it generally produces reliable results for common expressions and digits.

Most people prefer traditional architecture

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Researchers have conducted numerous visual preference surveys to study public opinion on architectural styles, finding that 70-90% of the population prefers traditional architecture. Despite this, modernist styles remain dominant in education and practice among architects.