Muse Spark 1.3

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

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Gemini 3.8 introduces two variants, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, offering significant improvements in software engineering, agentic tasks, and critical reasoning at the same speed and low cost as version 3.7 Flash.

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

A federal judge ruled that Google must change its advertising technology practices to benefit competitors, but did not need to break up the business. The ruling prevents significant changes to Google's $4.1 trillion power over the internet despite two previous court rulings declaring it a monopolist.

I wanna live an NPC life

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Living as an NPC means embracing a carefree existence where one doesn't worry about others' lives or outcomes. By focusing on personal goals and doing their own thing, individuals can achieve a state of contentment and freedom from external pressures.

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

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This project creates browser-native reconstructions of real places using autonomous agent swarms and open data, with 5.1 worlds available to explore in San Francisco's Union Square area. The code is open-source under the MIT license, derived from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote)

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From DevExp to high scale to API fragmentation, we work on hard problems.

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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Users can opt out of Mistral's model training programs at any time, with Vibe users opting in by default and Enterprise customers opted out by default. Users can disable the toggle to prevent data sharing for both Vibe and API services.

Wendell Berry has died

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Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]

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Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)

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A Qantas Airbus A380 experienced a catastrophic engine failure minutes after takeoff from Singapore, but the crew successfully landed the plane without incident. The failure was caused by a faulty oil pipe in one of the engines, which led to an internal fire and subsequent damage to multiple systems on board.

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

Embedded Rust RTOS vs. C RTOS

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This blog post compares Embassy/Rust and FreeRTOS/C on an STM32F446 microcontroller, evaluating their performance in terms of interrupt latency, program size, RAM usage, and ease of programming. The comparison focuses on a simple application that tracks a user button's state.

Exit the Cave

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The author reflects on the "Cave" of private training and how it can lead to a false sense of progress, while missing out on real-world competition and growth. They share their personal experience as a wrestler, where they learned that true victory comes from embracing challenges and risks in public, rather than hiding in solitude.

Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?

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Daniel Dennett argues that evolution is the most significant idea ever conceived, and cosmological evolution proposes that universes evolve like living organisms. This theory suggests that our universe emerged from a black hole and has been evolving over time through cosmic natural selection.

Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them

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Older adults' brains may blend memories together, causing mix-up errors, rather than simply losing memory accuracy. This blending effect is linked to stronger similarity in brain patterns between learning and recall phases.

Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982

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The Commodore 64, launched in September 1982, was the best-selling computer of all time with over 12 million units sold. It had a significant impact on its users' lives and careers, including the author's own experience with programming and IT.

We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora

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Cloudflare has developed a system called Cache Transcoding, which uses Zstandard compression to reduce storage and bandwidth costs by encoding eligible assets before writing them to disk. This approach preserves content integrity while offering significant savings in storage and bandwidth usage.

SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods

Mamdani Bans AI in NYC Schools

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A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards

Making the Internet Boring

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The author overcame phone addiction by implementing friction and blocking distracting websites, including YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn. They achieved this by using LeechBlock NG on their computer and a custom Tampermonkey script on their phone to make the default experience less appealing.

Using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 for a Static Site Contact Form

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The author has implemented a contact form on their static site using Cloudflare Workers and reCAPTCHA v3 to prevent spam. The form submission is handled by a serverless endpoint that sends an email to the author's custom email address, which allows for easy filtering of messages.

Introducing Muse Spark 1.3

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Muse Spark 1.3 improves performance and usability in agentic and coding tasks, advancing personal superintelligence with enhanced collaboration, reasoning, and safety features. The new model is designed to better sustain longer-horizon work by collaborating with users and juggling multiple workflows in a single thread.

Poisson Disk Sampling

A mathematician discusses Bridson's algorithm for generating Poisson disk distributions, which efficiently places points in a grid with a minimum distance between them. The algorithm has been improved upon by adding parental optimization and changing the distribution of distances to generate more random configurations.

Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations

Vidact compiles React components into direct DOM operations without a virtual DOM or re-renders. It maps expressions to DOM updates and ensures server and client outputs match by construction.

WebLLM: high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine

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WebLLM is a high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine that leverages WebGPU for hardware acceleration, enabling powerful LLM operations directly within web browsers. It supports OpenAI API and various models, including custom models in MLC format.

Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux

A note on subscription prices from LWN

LWN is increasing subscription prices by 20% due to rising costs and inflation, effective September 15. The price increase will help maintain the site's independence from advertising and support its continued growth.

Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x

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FrontierHarness v1.0 is a software engineering context harness that excludes failures and covers 15 passes, costing $3.24 per task. It offers $100 in credits for testing on Runta with identical environment settings for each run.