Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

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Moonshine Voice is an open source AI toolkit for real-time voice agents and applications, with a micro version for embedded systems like microcontrollers and DSPs. It uses the Raspberry Pi RP2350 and requires minimal RAM and compute resources.

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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The Hardcore IndieWeb approach emphasizes complete control and independence over your online content by hosting it on your own server and managing it with basic HTML and text editing skills. By doing so, you can freely move your website to any host, avoid dependencies on third-party services, and maintain full ownership of your online presence.

Classic Amiga titles, free to download

The website offers a vast collection of 32-bit home computing content including games, demos, and utilities from the Amiga scene. It features various user group compilations and disk magazines from around the world, spanning thousands of files.

Judge a book by its first pages

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Ishmael sets sail with little money and no shore interests, while Emma Woodhouse lives a comfortable life with her father and governess.

Codex Resets

OpenAI has been resetting usage limits for Codex and ChatGPT Work multiple times due to various issues such as increased traffic, reliability problems, and optimization issues. The resets aim to allow users to continue experimenting and building with the platforms.

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

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If You Build It, They Will Come

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To join a new social group, organize events that align with their core activity, as there's often a demand for social events that exceeds supply. By doing so, you'll be noticed by other organizers and can build connections and friendships within the group.

Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

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Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!

I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp

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The game Strandfall combines digital and physical worlds through a highly physical outdoor larp where players use custom devices to forecast and investigate mysterious storms. The game's unique devices and design aim to create an immersive experience that encourages physical movement, role play, and collaboration among players.

Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf]

Researchers have developed a system called texlode that allows for real-time editing of LaTeX documents by recompiling only the edited paragraph, achieving O(1) latency. This approach adapts LaTeX's batch-mode architecture to support interactive editing, making it possible for authors to have both typographic quality and interactive feedback.

Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

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GoPro is struggling financially with a 26% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2026 and may not survive the year without a new owner or fresh cash. Founder Nicholas Woodman is propping up the company with a $20 million loan, but a buyer is being sought to take over the brand.

Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

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Fable 5 outperformed GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-hard optimization problem, producing the best solution with high consistency. The /goal feature, which changes the control loop and search path, sometimes improved and sometimes worsened performance, highlighting its complexity.

Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise

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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is cracking down on deceptive landlord practices, including AI-generated images in real estate listings. He released a "Rental Ripoff Report" requiring landlords to disclose AI-altered listings and expanding tenant rights.

Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup

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While traditional evolutionary algorithms hard-code reproduction, self-replication can emerge spontaneously within digital ``primordial soups''. This paper investigates the co-evolution of this emergent self-replication alongside problem-solving capabilities. We initialize a population of random 32-byte Z80 assembly programs, requiring self-replication to arise purely through random ...

Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind

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We're working to prevent AI misuse and ensure its safe use in biosecurity by partnering with governments, scientists, and experts to build a more resilient world. Our AI models and agents are being made available to trusted partners to support prevention, detection, and response to infectious diseases and future outbreaks.
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LG monitors may automatically install software promoting McAfee subscriptions without user consent. Users can block this behavior by enabling a Windows Group Policy setting to prevent automatic downloads of device-associated applications.

Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

To create a separate environment for Claude Code on a spare Mac, follow a step-by-step guide to set up a fresh local account, install necessary tools, and configure SSH and computer use. This setup allows for remote control of the spare Mac from a main Mac or phone, enabling tasks like research, development, and browser control with Claude Code.

Circular Obstacle Pathfinding (2017)

The A* algorithm efficiently finds optimal paths in grids and graphs, including environments with circular obstacles by generating surfing and hugging edges. It uses bitangents for surfing edges, checks line-of-sight, handles overlapping obstacles, and optimizes by filtering non-optimal cusp paths.

Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Elixir is a programming language that helps developers write clear and maintainable code, focusing on data and domain, with features like immutability and a gradual type system. It scales vertically and horizontally, excelling at real-time systems and supporting teams with diverse needs.

A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game

Lindsay Barnett tours Highland Park, a John Hughes film backdrop, where she grew up near Michael Jordan during the Bulls' era. Now a Chicago teacher, she revives a beloved local video game.

Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser

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Open, edit, and save real .map files β€” brushes, patches, entities, and terrain in a TypeScript + WebGL2 editor, with BSP compilation by id Software's original q3map compiled to WebAssembly. One click launches your compiled map in browser-native ioquake3.

GTX 1080s: Testing a Legend

The GTX 1080 Ti is showing its age in gaming and AI workloads, with its Pascal architecture being outdated and lacking support for newer technologies like Tensor cores and flash attention. Despite this, the GTX 1080 Ti can still enable users to tinker with 8B- to 12B-parameter models, but its performance is significantly outpaced by newer graphics cards like the RTX 3060.

From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (With Ronnen Harary) [audio]

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Russ Roberts: Today is May 28th, 2026, and I want to remind listeners before introducing today's guest that we're doing an EconTalk Book Club around The Iliad by Homer. Last week's episode was with Ido Hevroni of Shalem College, introducing the book, providing some useful context to help you get started. Another episode, or episodes--depends--later[?] in the weeks to come. ...

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How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

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GitHub addressed unowned repositories by enforcing ownership via custom properties, archiving 8,000 inactive repos and requiring ownership at creation, reducing risk in workflows like secret scanning. The solution used Service Catalog sync, validation rules, and automated enforcement to ensure all active repos have clear owners.

The Kimi K3 Moment

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The user compared Kimi K3 and Claude, finding them to be nearly identical in performance but vastly different in price. The user believes US AI policy has failed, allowing a Chinese model to outperform restricted American models.

Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home

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The author of "The Secret Life of Circuits" created 290 original illustrations by gathering real data for electronics components, including quartz crystals, batteries, and vacuum tubes. To measure semiconductor devices, the author used a benchtop multimeter and pulsed power from a lab supply, interfacing them to a computer using the SCPI protocol to capture accurate V-I curves.

Gap in Mochizuki's proof of ABC confirmed by Lean

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Researchers at the press conference discussed Mochizuki's IUT theory, stating the argument from Theorem 3.11 to Corollary 3.12 is unformalizable. LANA provided a simplified analysis of the IUT theory for the general public, comparing it to the 2018 Scholze-Stix report.

Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds

The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.