MacBook Neo

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Apple unveiled MacBook Neo, a new laptop with a breakthrough price, featuring a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, A18 Pro chip, and up to 16 hours of battery life. Starting at $599, MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable laptop ever.

Building a new Flash

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You're creating an open-source Flash alternative built in C# with Avalonia and SkiaSharp, compatible with Linux, Mac, and PC. The project features a vector engine, timeline, shape tweening, symbol library, .fla import, and scripting system.

BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time

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BMW Group is advancing digitalisation and AI in production with Physical AI, combining AI with real machines and robots. The company is launching a pilot project with humanoid robots at the Leipzig plant to explore applications in car production and battery manufacturing.

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

Alibaba's Qwen team faces uncertainty after key researcher Junyang Lin's sudden resignation and several other team members' departures. The team's open weight models, including the impressive Qwen 3.5 family, may be impacted by the loss of talent.

Moss is a pixel canvas where every brush is a tiny program

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MOSS is a pixel editor with customizable brushes that blend and behave uniquely. It allows users to manipulate data, create patterns, and share their work with others.

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute

Researchers at Q Labs are developing data-efficient learning algorithms to overcome the bottleneck of limited data in AI. Their open repo, NanoGPT Slowrun, has seen significant improvements in data efficiency, reaching 5.5x against previous benchmarks.

An interactive map of Flock Cams

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DeFlock is an open-source project that maps license plate readers across the US.

Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs

Researchers analyzed over 200 mobile objects from the 43,000 to 34,000 year old Aurignacian culture and found that their geometric signs have statistical properties comparable to the earliest protocuneiform tablets. The results suggest that the first hunter-gatherers in Europe applied sign sequences of comparable complexity in a deliberate and systematic manner, several ten thousand years ...

Does that use a lot of energy?

Energy consumption values are measured in watt-hours (Wh) and vary widely depending on product and usage. Typical energy consumption ranges from 0.1 Wh for e-readers to 1,583 Wh for electric showers.

The View from RSS

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The author is an RSS reader who consumes online information through a feed reader, preferring a minimalist and chronological view of articles. They curate a daily newsletter, The Browser, and enjoy discovering hidden gems and human-generated content in their feeds.

Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs

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Data stored on SSDs has weight due to electrons added during programming, making drives slightly heavier. The increase is negligible, equivalent to a few femtograms, and not measurable with current technology.

“It turns out” (2010)

The author criticizes Paul Graham's use of the phrase "it turns out" as a way to avoid making a genuine argument. This phrase is often used to convey unexpected information, but can also be used to mask a lack of evidence or a weak argument.

NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years [pdf]

The NRC approved a new non-light water reactor design, the first in over 40 years, after a 18 month review. The reactor, which can boost output to 500 MWe, is expected to be permitted soon.
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Windows 1.0 used a tiling window manager due to design choice, not technical limitation or legal issue. The tiling approach was preferred for its simplicity and reduced chance of user confusion.

It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country (1921)

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Notes: Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.” Copyright Credit: Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est" from Poems, ed. Siegfried Sassoon. New York: The Viking Press, 1921. Public domain.

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation

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Qwen3.5 model family supports fine-tuning with Unsloth, offering both vision and text fine-tuning options with various VRAM requirements. The model can be fine-tuned using transformers v5, with bf16 LoRA setups recommended for MoE models and 256GB VRAM required for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.

Roboflow (YC S20) Is Hiring a Security Engineer for AI Infra

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Company builds magnetic environment for exceptional talent, using skills beyond core expertise to drive product direction and revenue. They offer remote work with in-person collaboration, autonomy, and a united team culture.

Flip Distance of Convex Triangulations and Tree Rotation Is NP-Complete

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Flips in triangulations of convex polygons arise in many different settings. They are isomorphic to rotations in binary trees, define edges in the 1-skeleton of the Associahedron and cover relations in the Tamari Lattice. The complexity of determining the minimum number of flips that transform one triangulation of a convex point set into another remained a tantalizing open question for many ...

Glaze by Raycast

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Glaze is a desktop app builder that lets users describe what they want and build it, with features like file system access and menu bar integration. It offers a free tier and paid plans starting at $20/month with daily credits to build apps.

The Rust calling convention we deserve (2024)

Rust's current calling convention is conservative and passes arguments by pointer, even if they fit in registers. A new calling convention, -Zcallconv=fast, is proposed to pass arguments in registers for better performance.

Accessibility Issues Are Often Usability Issues

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Accessibility is a design quality test that improves overall website quality, not just for people with disabilities but for anyone facing limitations. It ensures a website works in real conditions, making it usable for everyone, including ourselves in the future.

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

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The user is frustrated with the numerous right-click menu options in Firefox on MacOS, which can be disabled by setting certain about:config settings to false. However, some options like the "Languages" menu cannot be removed and require a custom userChrome.css to be created.

Show HN: A shell-native cd-compatible directory jumper using power-law frecency

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SD is a directory navigation utility for ksh93u+, bash ≥ 4.2, and zsh ≥ 4.3, using frequency–recency tracking over an explicit visit history. Ksh-compatibility options are enabled: extglob in bash; KSH_ARRAYS, KSH_GLOB, POSIX_BUILTINS, and SH_WORD_SPLIT in zsh. This repository is a read-only snapshot mirror containing tagged stable states. Issues are monitored, and pull requests may be ...

Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter

A Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller can be used to create a low-powered AM radio transmitter by producing a square wave at a specific frequency using its PIO feature. This allows for the emission of a single audio frequency at a time using On-Off Keying, as demonstrated by emitting the Shave and A Haircut melody on a 1000 KHz carrier.

Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy

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The new Open Educational Resource (OER) explains how to develop, produce and use components in DC energy systems Within our community forum we aim to join forces and build renewable energy components together

MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone

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Gustaf Blomqvist's thesis exposed a smartwatch for children's security disaster, allowing full control and potential denial-of-service attacks. The watch's vulnerability highlights the risks of software-based systems and the need for improved security.

Approximation Game

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Approximating real numbers using rational fractions is easier for irrational numbers than rational numbers due to the nature of their construction and the existence of an inexhaustible supply of unexpectedly accurate rational approximations in the vicinity of any given irrational number. This is demonstrated by Dirichlet's approximation theorem, which proves that for any real number r, there ...

Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection

My Favorite 39C3 Talks

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The 39th Chaos Communication Congress featured talks on hacking satellites, payment processor vulnerabilities, and CPU bugs. Talks also covered drone use in warfare and cloud security.

To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps

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