Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

656 vimarsh6739 2026-07-15 18:23:31 UTC thinkingmachines.ai Qwen Share 164

The company released Inkling, a 975B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 41B active parameters, supporting text, images, audio, and video, alongside Inkling-Small (12B active) for efficient customization via Tinker. Trained on 45T tokens, Inkling offers controllable reasoning, safety features, and is available on platforms like Hugging Face and Tinker, with partnerships for deployment and ...

SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions

100 gnyeki 2026-07-15 23:23:31 UTC mort.coffee Qwen Share 37

SQLite is praised for its embedded use and self-contained design but faces challenges with ROWID reuse, flexible typing leading to data validation issues, and concurrency limitations. Solutions like strict tables, WAL mode, and an edition system for updated defaults are proposed to address these issues while maintaining compatibility.

Grok Build is open source

241 skp1995 2026-07-15 21:23:31 UTC github.com/xai-org Qwen Share 289

Grok Build is SpaceXAI's terminal-based AI coding agent with a TUI for codebase interaction, file editing, shell commands, and task management, supporting macOS, Linux, and Windows. It uses Rust, offers CLI installation, and is Apache 2.0 licensed with third-party notices.

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials

33 andsoitis 2026-07-15 23:23:31 UTC chemistry.berkeley.edu Qwen Share 7

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), ultra-porous materials with vast surface areas, excel at trapping gases, harvesting water from arid air, and delivering drugs. Pioneered by Omar Yaghi, they offer scalable, solar-powered solutions for water scarcity, carbon capture, and medicine, with over 20,000 variants now enabling diverse environmental and medical applications.

Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]

75 bilsbie 2026-07-15 21:23:31 UTC siegelendowment.org Qwen Share 28

The article reflects on the 1980s shift from proprietary to open-source software, crediting Richard Stallman's advocacy for free knowledge-sharing as foundational to tech progress. It warns that AI's increasing closure risks stifling innovation and transparency, urging open access to models and data to preserve scientific and societal advancement.

LLM Networking with MikroTik

42 gregsadetsky 2026-07-15 23:23:31 UTC blog.greg.technology Qwen Share 7

The author uses LLMs to streamline MikroTik network setups, leveraging their efficiency while cautioning against errors, and shares tips like REST API use, CAPsMAN, and MAC-Telnet for smoother, version-controlled configurations. Networking's complexity is acknowledged, balancing LLMs' chaotic help with meticulous testing and documentation.

Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources

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Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

26 basilikum 2026-07-15 23:23:31 UTC sqlite.org Qwen Share 2

SQLite permits NUL characters in strings but CLI tools truncate output at the first NUL, causing confusion. Use BLOB casting or SQL expressions to detect/remove embedded NULs.

Book prizes don't work how you think

60 samclemens 2026-07-15 20:23:31 UTC rebeccamakkai.substack.com Qwen Share 34

Rebecca Makkai reveals book prize judging relies on small, subjective panels with no hidden agendas, emphasizing randomness, personal taste, and the emotional weight of decisions. The process, shaped by limited reading time and chance, impacts authors' careers while defying myths about bias or secret criteria.

Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

227 neomindryan 2026-07-15 16:23:31 UTC neomindlabs.com Qwen Share 150

A 13-year-old HP server with Ivy Bridge Xeons runs Google's 26B-parameter Gemma 4 model at ~5 tokens/second via CPU-optimized code, overcoming AVX2 instruction set limitations with custom patches. The project highlights adapting modern AI to legacy hardware through engineering, not just subscriptions, enabling local inference on outdated systems.

Show HN: One More Letter

21 hmate9 2026-07-15 23:23:31 UTC playonemoreletter.com Full Share 16

One More Letter is a daily word game where every round adds one letter and rearranges them into a new answer.

Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel

90 spacemarine1 2026-07-15 20:23:31 UTC elbowgreasegames.substack.com Qwen Share 16

Misfits Attic announced *Duskers 2.0*, funded by Max McGuire’s Stray Signal, during PC Gamer’s event, expanding the survival game’s narrative with moral choices and deeper gameplay. EGG’s community-driven funding model, supporting indie developers like Tim through prototypes and partnerships, highlights a new era of collaborative game development.

Command Line Interface Guidelines

56 subset 2026-07-15 20:23:31 UTC clig.dev Qwen Share 8

This open-source guide modernizes UNIX principles for CLI design, focusing on human-centric usability, composability, and clear documentation. It provides actionable best practices for intuitive interfaces, error handling, and output formatting to improve accessibility and efficiency.

The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)

46 ninglor 2026-07-15 23:23:31 UTC nngroup.com Qwen Share 13

The article explores alternative human-computer interfaces by violating Macintosh design principles, arguing that metaphors like the desktop limit innovation. It advocates for interfaces leveraging language, richer object representations, and shared control to transcend conventional WIMP models.

Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok

86 benswerd 2026-07-15 20:23:31 UTC brainless.swerdlow.dev Full Share 17

Claude Code, Codex, and Grok interfaces as shadcn components.

Voxatron

58 lsferreira42 2026-07-15 20:23:31 UTC lexaloffle.com Full Share 19

Enter your email address below, choose a payment method, and you will be emailed a download link. Purchasing Voxatron also gives you access to all future updates. If you have any trouble, please feel free to email us.

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

286 ramon156 2026-07-15 12:23:31 UTC ramones.dev Qwen Share 249

Struggling with severe depression and career setbacks, the user acknowledges personal challenges in motivation and discipline, now focusing on healing with support. They seek stability, improved work discipline, and meaningful contributions while navigating mental health.

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

240 theanonymousone 2026-07-15 14:23:31 UTC dev.moe Full Share 131

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

124 coolelectronics 2026-07-15 21:23:31 UTC developer.puter.com Full Share 68

The Gecko engine compiled to WebAssembly. The real Firefox interface, rendering entirely inside this browser tab. GPU acceleration WebGL-based rendering for web content. Enable JIT Experimental JS → WASM JIT. Expect bugs. Wisp server WebSocket proxy that tabs load web content through. Networking in the browser powered by Puter.js

Job queues are deceptively tricky

11 ingve 2026-07-16 00:23:31 UTC typesanitizer.com Qwen Share 2

The author explores job queues' scheduling complexities, comparing wholesale vs. incremental Git repo repacking strategies and concurrency limits. They emphasize system design principles like limits, fault models, and pessimistic assumptions to build resilient, predictable workflows.

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

173 levmiseri 2026-07-15 17:23:31 UTC clocks.dev Full Share 36

Designing APIs for Agents

46 benswerd 2026-07-15 20:23:31 UTC freestyle.sh Qwen Share 21

Designing APIs for agents prioritizes clarity, explicitness, and precise error handling over human-centric utilities, as agents require unambiguous documentation and direct code interpretation to function effectively without relying on defaults or abstractions. The author advocates for minimalistic, self-explanatory APIs with explicit field names and comprehensive guides, emphasizing that ...

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers

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P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC

28 halb 2026-07-15 23:23:31 UTC pairdrop.net Full Share 12

Instantly share images, videos, PDFs, and links with people nearby. Peer2Peer and Open Source. No Setup, No Signup.

Show HN: E-- – A language you dial between English and Python

9 OdedF 2026-07-15 23:23:31 UTC github.com/frmoded Prefix Share 10

A programming language you write in plain, canonical English — and that compiles deterministically to Python. E-- ("English--") is English with the ambiguity removed: a closed grammar and a fixed vocabulary, with exactly one canonical phrasing per construct. It is meant to read and edit like English while still compiling to ordinary, reproducible Python. LLM-generated code is fuzzy at ...

MITS: Rockets, Calculators, and Personal Computers

31 BirAdam 2026-07-15 20:23:31 UTC abortretry.fail Qwen Share 2

Henry Edward Roberts founded MITS and created the Altair 8800, the first successful personal computer, which sparked the PC revolution and inspired Microsoft and the S-100 bus standard. His vision and innovations laid the groundwork for modern computing, though he later pursued farming and medicine as originally intended.

Show HN: misa77 - a codec that decodes 2x faster than LZ4 (at better ratios)

131 nonadhocproblem 2026-07-15 16:23:31 UTC github.com/welcome-to-the-sunny-side Qwen Share 40

misa77 is an LZ-based codec optimized for write-once, read-many scenarios, offering constant memory use (<5 MB) and faster decompression for highly compressed files, with experimental modes enhancing CPU efficiency. It balances compression ratios and throughput, excelling in decode speed for compressible data while supporting CLI-driven compression and parameter tuning.

Towards a harness that can do anything

169 evakhoury 2026-07-15 14:23:31 UTC eardatasci.github.io Qwen Share 85

The author advocates for transparent, Unix-inspired LLM harnesses that minimize cognitive load by leveraging the model's existing systems knowledge, modular tools, and event-driven architectures like Ambiance to enable efficient, self-directed agent workflows. Key principles include deterministic goal pursuit, flat text interfaces, structured data storage, and robust logging to ensure ...

Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

97 birdculture 2026-07-15 15:23:31 UTC danq.me Qwen Share 10

GlitchyZorua and I automated archiving Ibiblio's 1990s GIF icons by calculating server-side imagemap coordinates for bulk downloads, bypassing manual clicks. We built a searchable static site (ibiblio-icon-archive.danq.dev) to preserve and share the collection.

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)

656 bilsbie 2026-07-15 12:23:31 UTC academic.oup.com Full Share 340