DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017

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Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust

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The author attempted to make chicken breast transparent by soaking it in a tartrazine solution, similar to a paper that achieved optical transparency in live animals. The goal is to change the refractive index of water inside the tissue to match its embedded media, making it more transparent and allowing for better imaging.

Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time – pv magazine Global

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Solar and wind power have surpassed nuclear globally, with solar generation leading for the first time in 2025. The World Nuclear Industry Status Report highlights nuclear's slow growth and lengthy construction timelines compared to renewables' rapid expansion.

Rendering pretty sky in Around The World game

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The author of a game development blog has been working on a realistic sky simulation in their game, using Godot as the engine. They've made several tweaks to achieve a more accurate representation of how clouds interact with light.

The First Candid

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A 1838 photograph by Louis Daguerre captures a shoeshine boy and his client on the Boulevard du Temple, considered one of the first photographs to depict human beings. An 18-month quest led by Maximilien Van Aertryck finally pinpointed their location using archival research, drones, and 3D scans.

Ultramarine 1 Flash

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Ultramarine 1 Flash is a knowledge work AI model that excels in finance, law, consulting, and operations tasks at $0.13 per task. It outperforms other models like Claude Fable 5 and GPT-6 Sol on the PI Knowledge Work benchmark.

Tesla Roadster

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Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware

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Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.

A Tudor Life in the Time of Plague

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DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

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DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a minor update with improvements in reasoning, coding, and visual benchmarks. It reduces task execution time and output length for faster completion at lower cost.

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

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A jailbroken PS5 can run a private language model server, PS5LM, which loads and serves models from the GPU. It answers requests from devices on the network using OpenAI and Anthropic APIs.

You could have invented transformers from memory

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The author discusses how large language models can recall obscure facts from every corner of the world, and how this ability is similar to a memory store that holds key-value pairs. The author then develops an intuitive way to look at linear maps, MLPs, and self-attention as different kinds of memory stores.

Recipes Are Moving from Maven Central to the Code Genome Project

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To use OpenRewrite, download its modules from the Code Genome Project and authenticate with a token. The project also hosts Maven Central repositories for transitive dependencies.

Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

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Researchers have solved the mystery of how NIST's widely used elliptic curve cryptography standard, ECDSA, was created. The seeds for these curves were generated by a Unix timestamp using a pseudorandom number generator from 1990s C libraries.

Intuitive concurrent programming in any language

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Lingua Franca is a coordination language for deterministic, multi-threaded, and distributed programs with precise timing. It allows developers to write reactive components in their preferred programming languages without manual synchronization or thread management concerns.

MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood

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MapQuest's app gained popularity after refusing to call Lake Ontario "Lake America" and adding features like Android Auto support. The service now includes a layer showing outdoor surveillance cameras and license plate readers, providing users with location data on various camera brands.

The cryptoint library (2025) [pdf]

The cryptoint library provides constant-time functions for C/C++ to defend against compiler optimizations that introduce timing variations. It includes a set of functions aligned with different conventions, such as representing true as 1 and false as 0 or -1 and 0, to support various platforms. The library is designed to be an almost-header-only solution, allowing simple inclusion in other ...

FLUX 3 Image Klein

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The FLUX 3 Image Klein model is a 5.6B parameter open weights text-to-image generation and image editing model, ranking first in internal evaluations ahead of larger models. It's available today under the FLUX Kommunity License with pricing starting at $0.009 per 1K image for commercial use and free for individuals and non-commercial use.

Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio

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Researchers can now run the latest frontier-class model, Muse Spark Open, with nearly a trillion parameters on Mac Studio using MLX. The framework leverages Apple silicon's unified memory architecture for efficient inference and fine-tuning methods.

Orbital Angular Momentum of Light

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The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light refers to its component of angular momentum that depends on the spatial distribution of the optical field, not its polarization. OAM can be split into internal and external types, with internal OAM appearing in helical or twisted wavefronts and external OAM being related to the linear momentum of a light beam.

eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

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Amateur radio operators in Florida played a crucial role in supporting emergency communications during Hurricane Isaias, while eBay has imposed new restrictions on listings of radio transmitting equipment due to FCC rules.

JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases

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AVIF generally produces smaller files than JPEG XL, but the gap narrows at maximum effort settings. AVIF is faster to encode and decode, uses less memory, and has better support for progressive rendering. However, JPEG XL can make existing JPEGs 9-20% smaller without further loss and is faster to decode at very high qualities in some browsers.

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

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Researchers used AI to design quantum circuits for chemistry, optimization, and number theory problems. The AI system improved upon existing designs by reducing the number of qubits and gates needed, potentially making practical quantum computers sooner than expected.

Nine-Inch Snails

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0/1 Knapsack Problem in PyTorch

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PyTorch's default knapsack solver is dp_knapsack, which uses dynamic programming to optimize memory usage. A new solver, dp_knapsack_sliding_hirschberg, reduces peak RAM usage by a factor of 20 using the Hirschberg trick and sliding window optimization.

Monte-Carlo Simulations

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The Monte Carlo simulation technique uses randomness and the Law of large numbers to solve various scientific and engineering problems, often used for numerical integration and estimating complex combinatorial calculations.

I built the RealWorld app in Lean 4

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Lean 4 is a functional programming language used to build RealWorld, a Medium clone app. The app's behavior was written down in Lean and tested afterwards, but it does not meet the definition of correctness by construction due to missing proofs for its SQL interactions and C bindings.

Flexport Is Hiring a Biz Ops Leader in Office of CEO

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Global trade touches every industry, and most of it still runs on phone calls and spreadsheets. We're building the AI-powered, autonomous platform that runs the entire supply chain. Our mission is to make global trade so easy there will be more of it. Come help us build.Join the team Containers get stuck. Ports back up. Customs rules change overnight. These are physical problems with real ...

90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks

The authors created a Benchmark Map to measure AI capabilities across the US economy, covering 923 occupations and 18,797 tasks. The map shows that only 90% of American working hours are spent on tasks with little or no coverage from existing benchmarks.

Butlerian Jihad

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The Butlerian Jihad was a war against conscious machines that began in 201 B.G. and ended with the destruction of all intelligent machines, but had lasting impacts on human society and technology. The war led to a ban on thinking machines, creating a gap in humanity's quality of life and driving innovation into non-thinking devices like computers and calculators.