This text describes a new model called Jeff, which is a small, fast decision-making system for zero-shot classification tasks. It can be fine-tuned on specific examples to improve its accuracy.
The author created a cellular LED matrix inspired by phyllotaxis, a pattern found in nature, and programmed it to react dynamically to sound using an STM32 board. The project evolved into an interactive installation at Recurse Center, featuring a website for attendees to upload sketches and games.
The chat rooms of COMETLINK, a 1996 online service with mail, news and a web of its own. Sign on and drop into rooms where the regulars are still talking.
The author and his roommate hacked together a restored version of Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly after MGM altered it for profit. They collaborated with other preservationists to create an official release that closely matched their work.
The model is evaluated based on objective checks, not writing quality. The 135M model's performance is measured by speed and accuracy metrics from runs in the browser.
ββ Elevate β ββ Power β A/D Move β J/L Weapon β SPACE Fire β SPACE AGAIN = Laser/Plumage β Cheese bounces 3x β Poison drops bubbles β Moon gravity
This project runs a sliced 0.5B LLM across a cluster of 7 ESP32s3. One act as master and others are node. The master node runs the tokenizer and embeding and the other attention layer and MLP ran on the nodes. The master and node communicate through high speed SPI Daisy-Chain. This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
Model labels are short names without prefixes, dates, or suffixes. Stats include wall time and token counts from harness transcripts for some models.
California wine growers are struggling to sell their grapes due to declining demand, forcing some to tear out vineyards that have been in their families for generations. The industry is facing significant losses as prices paid for grapes drop and many growers are left with unsold crops.
In a slight departure from my usual code monkey content, letβs talk about airplanes! And radios! For the last several years, Iβve spent most Saturdays playing (and occasionally working on) BMS, a modern1 combat flight sim where you and your friends blow stuff up in virtual F-16s. Any co-op game with over 30 people is a blast, but air combat is especially fun because itβs such a team sport. ...
Sonnet 5.5 is a faster and lower-cost version of Sonnet 5, suitable for everyday tasks and well-scoped work, with improved design capabilities.
Paulina Borsook, a 72-year-old journalist and author, is experiencing a resurgence in her career after publishing her book "Cyberselfish" 25 years ago. The book criticized the tech industry's libertarian ideology and its effects on women. Despite initial success, she faced backlash and was unable to secure work as a writer.
Scientists have found evidence of a 1847 geomagnetic storm disrupting telegraph systems in England, making it the earliest recorded space weather event. This discovery suggests that society has been experiencing space weather effects on technology for almost as long as electrical technologies exist.
The author created a custom solution to bypass Sony's restrictions on streaming from the PS5, using DNS spoofing and RTMP redirection. A macOS app manages dnsmasq and nginx-rtmp to intercept streams destined for Twitch or YouTube, allowing them to be redirected to the author's Mac instead.
The company has formed a deep technical partnership with AMD to accelerate AI research and development, aiming to create an end-to-end open AI ecosystem. The partnership is expected to close by the end of 2026 subject to regulatory approvals.
A public radio show host, Dave Blanchard, noticed unusual comments on an episode featuring author Elizabeth Gilbert. He suspected bots but couldn't understand their behavior. A young NPR employee, Hannah Chinn, investigated and discovered that the commenters were actually middle school kids using Spotify to chat with each other in a private group chat-style setting.
A researcher found a set of 10 random words that form a circle and circulant matrix, challenging the idea that only specific words can create such patterns. This discovery raises questions about representation geometry and highlights the importance of statistical constraints in avoiding false positives.
The author analyzed Reddit's "what should I buy" threads in six knife subreddits to see if brand-heavy accounts were over-represented. The analysis found that these 49 accounts wrote 11.3% of the buying-thread mentions, significantly above chance.
Google Maps has been updated to show Zionist-holocausted Gaza. This is part of Rafah.
Nvidia is releasing a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment. The platform, called Open Agent Safety Platform, aims to provide a secure environment for AI models to operate within.
Two leading AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic, have been making alarming announcements about their powerful LLM-powered agent systems. Congress should investigate these labs' research efforts to uncover the truth behind their actions.
Waves, wind, water and tides from NOAA's network of buoys, coastal stations, tide gauges and estuaries, from the Bering Sea to Samoa, charted and analysed.
The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
Cloudflare has introduced a new CLI, cf, which allows agents to use every Cloudflare product by providing thousands of commands. The new CLI is built on Vite and provides features like JSON output, natural language search, and typed configuration.
A person named Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next successfully reverse engineered and ported the 1989 game War of the Lance to modern browsers using a Three.js rendering engine, taking about a week due to VRAM constraints. The process involved creating custom assets and optimizing the renderer, making it possible for players to experience the game without UX issues.
Han van Meegeren, a Dutch forger, created fake Vermeer paintings that fooled the art world and even Nazi officials. He was accused of plundering for the Germans but proved his innocence by creating one last forgery before court-appointed witnesses.
Pawpaws are a tropical-tasting fruit native to Canada, with a unique flavor profile similar to banana, mango, and pineapple. They can be found at farmers' markets and festivals in southern Ontario, B.C., and Quebec during the fall season.
Nvidia generates the highest profit margin among Fortune Global 500's top companies, while tech giants like Microsoft and Alphabet dominate foreign investments.