Qwen 3.8 Max Preview

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Token Plan offers Individual and Team plans for AI building, with advanced models available at a lower cost. To subscribe, buy Token Plan, get credentials, and configure AI tools with the base URL and API key.

What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard

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The creator of Jamcorder, a simple automated piano recording device, found the hardest part of building it was the software, not the hardware, which took over 3 years to develop. The experience suggests that hardware development is not as difficult as its reputation, and with proper planning, it's possible to successfully ship a hardware product at a medium scale.

Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

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The Minecraft snapshot has switched to SDL3 for window management, input, and platform integration, and added new item components for custom furnace fuels and technical changes for signs, world generation, and loot tables. Several bug fixes and changes have been made, including improvements to fullscreen mode, debug overlay, and loot table types, as well as fixes for various issues such as ...

Blender 5.2 LTS

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Blender 5.2 LTS introduces new features including audio-reactive animations, node-based cloth and hair physics, and improved dynamics. It also includes a Texture Cache for reduced memory usage and startup time.

Transcribe.cpp

transcribe.cpp is a ggml-based transcription library that supports various ASR models, ensuring accurate and fast local inference. It's designed to make locally run ASR easier, with a strong focus on performance, accuracy, and ease of use.

I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens

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The user optimized their AI research setup using existing subscriptions to Claude, Codex, and Antigravity, achieving a 10 times longer research time without extra cost by using shared memory and model orchestration. They also implemented verification rules to ensure the quality of findings and used a hybrid approach of human verification and AI research supplementation to build a reliable ...

OpenAI reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

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Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon

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Qwen3.8 is launching with 2.4T parameters, considered one of the most powerful models today. It's available on Alibaba's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork for early testing.

The death and rebirth of my home server

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The user's Raspberry Pi 4B's microSD card failed due to excessive write cycles, prompting the user to take precautions to minimize writes and replace it with a new high-endurance card. The user repurposed old hard drives to create a btrfs pool with raid1 replication, set up a backup system, and configured various services to run on the new setup.

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.

The Mighty Big Array of Finn Jensen LA8YB

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Finn holds the WAS award for confirmed contacts with all 52 US states on 144 MHz via the Moon. LA8YB Finn passed away on August 20, 2011, after a fight against cancer.

Show HN: LoopGain – Stop agent loops with control theory, not max_iterations

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LoopGain is a library that measures the convergence of iterative AI workflows in real-time, stopping the loop when it has actually converged and rolling back before it degrades. It replaces the traditional max_iterations cap with a control-theoretic stop-and-rollback policy.

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.

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.

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Castor is a CLI tool that extracts video streams from websites, handles format compatibility, and casts to your TV in real time, with optional auto-generated subtitles. It requires a config.yaml file with device and source settings, and can be run natively or using Docker with a Chrome/Chromium and ffmpeg setup.

Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

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A 23-year-old mathematician named Anatoly Karatsuba discovered a faster multiplication method in 1960, reducing the workload from O(n^2) to O(n^1.585) steps. This breakthrough led to a decades-long pursuit of the ultimate speed limit of multiplication, culminating in a 2019 algorithm that runs in O(n × log n) time.

I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned

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Driven by curiosity, I decided to find out what the IndieWeb tag that kept showing up on some blogs and Mastodon toots was all about. I quickly discovered it was more than an empty concept or a feeling of nostalgia for the web of the 90s. It was a movement with concrete ideas, protocols and an active community! As I read through their wiki, I understood their position and the intelligence of ...

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.

Scrying the AMD GFX1250 LLVM Tea Leaves

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AMD's MI455X Datacenter Accelerator, part of the MI400 series, features improved register allocation, increased local memory, and enhanced AI capabilities. The GFX1250 architecture includes new features such as cluster-level barriers, atomic loads and stores, and explicit prefetching, which may improve performance in machine learning and compute tasks.

Restoring and Demoing 1960s Vintage Computers at the Computer History Museum [pdf]

The Computer History Museum restored three vintage computers from the 1960s, including a DEC PDP-1 and two IBM 1401 systems, through volunteer efforts and donations. The restored computers are now on display and used for live demonstrations, providing a unique experience for visitors to learn about the history of computing and its evolution over time.

Searchable field-level encryption on Supabase with CipherStash

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CipherStash is a DLAC platform for Postgres apps that enforces policies at decryption, not query layer. It integrates with Supabase and uses ZeroKMS for key management, allowing teams to keep keys under their control.

Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor

A Microsoft engineer discovered a two-year-old backdoor in XZ Utils, a small Linux compression tool, after noticing a half-second delay in logging in. The incident highlights the imbalance in funding for open-source projects, where small, crucial components are often maintained by unpaid volunteers.

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.

Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics

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The user created an open source Swift package called umami-swift to integrate Umami analytics into iOS apps without a heavyweight SDK or third-party data collection. The package allows apps to send events and pageviews to Umami, displaying visitor and visit numbers in the same dashboard as websites.

A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software

A picture might be worth a thousands words, but icons are a fun way to explore retro apps! Hover over any icon to see the file‘s name, the country of origin, and the name of the media; then go to about page to find links to the original media at the Macintosh Garden! Finder application and document icons are highlighted in green and hovering over them will reveal their file type and creator codes.

Making Software: How to make a font

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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.

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering – Mastering Complexity(2014) [pdf]

The book teaches how to build insight and understanding by mastering complexity using various tools such as divide-and-conquer reasoning, making abstractions, and dimensional analysis. It uses everyday examples like estimating the volume of a dollar bill and the capacity of a highway to demonstrate how to apply these tools and cultivate insight rather than precision.

NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings

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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.

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

Claude Code uses a preview of Bun v1.4.0, a not-yet-released version, indicating its use in production. This suggests Bun in Rust is being run on millions of devices.