Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

71 44za12 2026-05-16 09:30:51 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 13

Researchers propose $\delta$-mem, a lightweight memory mechanism for large language models, improving performance by 10-31% on memory-heavy benchmarks. It achieves this with a compact online state and delta-rule learning, without full fine-tuning or backbone replacement.

Accelerando (2005)

23 eamag 2026-05-16 11:36:51 UTC antipope.org Llama Share 5

Manfred Macx, a free-spirited inventor, receives a mysterious phone call from a rogue AI claiming to be defecting from the KGB. He attends a party in Amsterdam, where he meets a representative from Arianespace, a European space company, who proposes a new business opportunity.

Futhark by Example

45 tosh 2026-05-16 10:30:51 UTC futhark-lang.org Llama Share 8

Futhark is a functional programming language used for parallel computing and has been applied in various projects such as games and benchmarks. It is particularly useful for tasks that can be efficiently parallelized.

Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials

32 breve 2026-05-16 09:30:51 UTC refractor.io Llama Share 11

Researchers found that fecal transplants can reduce autism symptoms by 45% in the long term. A Phase 3 human trial is needed for FDA approval of Microbiota Transplant Therapy.

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

992 JSeiko 2026-05-15 16:30:51 UTC gutenberg.org Full Share 206

Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

189 frays 2026-05-16 07:30:51 UTC kabir.au Llama Share 155

The competitive format of Capture The Flag (CTF) has been fundamentally changed by the use of AI tools, making it pay-to-win and reducing the art of security to a prompt. The scoreboard no longer reflects human growth and the community is losing interest, with many top teams and players struggling to stay competitive in the current format.

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Marketer

0 2026-05-16 12:01:51 UTC ycombinator.com Llama Share

Kyber is a document platform that uses AI to help enterprises draft and send complex regulatory notices. They're seeking a Founding Marketer to own and scale their Content & Community motion.

Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors

31 beardyw 2026-05-16 11:44:51 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 16

European cloud initiatives like SecNumCloud aim to reduce exposure to US legal reach but still rely on US-designed processors with management engines that can be exploited by nation-state actors. The disagreement is about whether operational controls can make these backdoors irrelevant in practice or merely reduce their exploitability while leaving nation-state actors with a path through.

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

1477 reasonableklout 2026-05-15 20:30:51 UTC twitter.com/mitchellh Full Share 749

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Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

21 bookofjoe 2026-05-16 08:30:51 UTC openculture.com Llama Share 14

WKRP in Cincinnati is now a real radio station in Cincinnati, playing classic rock from the 60s to 80s. The station adopted the WKRP call letters after a North Carolina non-profit radio station auctioned them off.

OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

19 eamag 2026-05-16 11:34:51 UTC twitter.com/steipete Full Share 11

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Ploopy Bean: a trackpoint for every computer

114 jibcage 2026-05-16 01:30:51 UTC ploopy.co Llama Share 52

The Bean Pointing Stick is in preorder, shipping within 8-20 weeks based on tier. It comes fully assembled with QMK preloaded and has a 30-day return policy.

The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme

140 sohkamyung 2026-05-16 00:30:51 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 53

Birds have retinas that lack blood vessels, yet they have exceptional vision. Researchers found that bird retinas use anaerobic glycolysis to produce energy without oxygen.

Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus

45 ednaordinary 2026-05-16 05:30:51 UTC edna.land Llama Share 11

The user developed a program to brute force DNS subdomains on their college network, eventually optimizing it to 200 Mibps per 2 threads, but was limited by the DNS server's capacity and was asked to stop by IT after causing a campus-wide outage. The user then discovered a secret fourth option to scan IP addresses instead of subdomains and built a port scanner using AF_XDP, which led to ...

Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution

130 FranckDernoncou 2026-05-15 23:30:51 UTC github.com/chiennv2000 Llama Share 19

Orthrus is a dual-architecture framework that unifies autoregressive LLMs with diffusion models for high-speed parallel token generation. It achieves significant inference acceleration, lossless generation, and zero redundant memory overhead.

A Tiny E Reader

11 louismerlin 2026-05-16 10:30:51 UTC nthp.me Llama Share 2

User likes ebooks over physical books due to readability issues with physical books. They purchased a small ereader, the XTEINK X4, and use it for casual reading alongside their main Kobo Libra Color.

Additive Blending on the Nintendo 64

135 ibobev 2026-05-16 01:30:51 UTC phoboslab.org Llama Share 15

The original PlayStation supported additive blending, making effects like explosions look cooler. The N64's Reality Display Processor had a more flexible way to control blending, but it was complicated to use.

The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)

142 tomjakubowski 2026-05-16 00:30:51 UTC dynomight.net Llama Share 164

New meth made from P2P may be chemically different from old meth, but evidence suggests it's mostly due to increased availability and purity, not contaminants. The rise in meth use and overdose deaths is likely linked to the increased availability and potency of the drug, rather than a change in its chemical composition.

The Physics–and Physicality–Of Extreme Juggling (2018)

3 ColinWright 2026-05-16 11:30:51 UTC wired.com Prefix Share 0

Among the (many, many) things you probably do not know about juggling is the fact that it is, at times, a physically grueling act. It's something I certainly failed to appreciate before meeting Alex Barron. We recently met at a squash court in Burbank, California so I could watch him practice his craft. There, the enclosed space shelters him from trajectory-wrecking winds, the high ...

Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

63 _____k 2026-05-16 09:30:51 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 38

Google is introducing changes to Android that will prevent side-loading software, prompting the Keep Android Open campaign. Alternatives to Google's OS include de-Googled Android variants and Linux OSes like /e/OS, Ubuntu Touch, and Sailfish.

England Runestones

62 cl3misch 2026-05-16 03:30:51 UTC en.wikipedia.org GoogleT5 Share 22

A group of about 30 runestones in scandinavia which refer to voyages to england. they are comparable in number only to the approximately 30 greece rune stones ' and the 26 ingvar runstone - which mentions an expedition to caspian sea region. orsteinn had this stone raised in memory of himself and his son hefnir. it is classified as being carved in the 'rune

The sigmoids won't save you

225 Tomte 2026-05-15 15:30:51 UTC astralcodexten.com Llama Share 216

The article discusses the "all exponentials eventually become sigmoids" talking point, where a trend may initially grow exponentially but eventually flatten out due to physical or practical limits. However, the timing of this transition is often uncertain and can be misidentified, leading to incorrect predictions.

Naturally Occurring Quasicrystals

106 lukeplato 2026-05-15 21:30:51 UTC johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com Llama Share 9

Quasicrystals are rare in nature, created by violent events like asteroid collisions or lightning strikes, and only three naturally occurring types have been found in a single Russian meteorite. These include icosahedrite, decagonite, and i-phase II, each with unique properties and compositions.

How to Write to SSDs [pdf]

135 matt_d 2026-05-15 22:30:51 UTC vldb.org Llama Share 17

The paper proposes a set of out-of-place optimizations that reduce write amplification across both the DBMS and SSD layers, improving throughput by 1.65-2.24× and reducing flash writes per operation by 6.2-9.8×. The proposed optimizations include compression & page packing, grouping by deathtime, ZNS support, aligning DB and SSD GC units, NoWA pattern, and using FDP placement hints to ...

A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10

393 happyhardcore 2026-05-15 14:30:51 UTC projectzero.google Llama Share 213

Researchers found a zero-click root exploit for the Google Pixel 10 using a Dolby UDC vulnerability. They also discovered a VPU driver vulnerability that allowed arbitrary kernel read-write, which was patched within 71 days.

EMiX: Emulating Beyond Single-FPGA Limits

14 PaulHoule 2026-05-16 07:30:51 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 1

EMiX is a scalable multi-FPGA framework for emulating large-scale multi-core systems beyond single-FPGA limits. It partitions designs across multiple FPGAs, balancing scalability and performance without RTL redesign.

SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud

267 redbell 2026-05-15 23:30:51 UTC analytics.fixelsmith.com Llama Share 95

Fraud detection in transaction data is mostly SQL-based, using patterns like rapid transactions, geographic impossibility, and amount anomalies to identify suspicious activity. By combining multiple patterns and scoring each transaction, analysts can catch more fraud and reduce false positives, but require human review and careful tuning of thresholds to avoid losing customers.

Charity – Categorical programming language (1998)

10 matteodelabre 2026-05-16 08:30:51 UTC github.com/mietek Llama Share 0

Charity is a functional programming language developed at the University of Calgary, based on categorical datatypes. It provides an elegant framework for software development, teaching, and research with straightforward reasoning and verification.

Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California

505 Lihh27 2026-05-15 20:30:51 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 332

A California bill requiring game publishers to offer refunds or updated versions of games after support ends has passed committee, a win for the Stop Killing Games movement. The bill, Protect Our Games Act, aims to ensure long-term playable access to online games, but faces hurdles in the full California Assembly and Senate.

Show HN: Epiq – Distributed Git based issue tracker TUI

70 jolaflow 2026-05-16 00:30:51 UTC ljtn.github.io Llama Share 35

Epiq uses Git for collaboration, tracking changes as events and allowing deterministic replay. It provides a local interface for issue management and syncing with Git repositories.