Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model

756 vimarsh6739 2026-07-15 18:24:50 UTC thinkingmachines.ai Qwen Share 193

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

142 gnyeki 2026-07-15 23:24:50 UTC mort.coffee Qwen Share 59

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.

G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics

44 serial_dev 2026-07-16 01:24:50 UTC davidobando.github.io Full Share 13

G# is a modern .NET language that brings Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics to the CLR.

Grok Build is open source

304 skp1995 2026-07-15 21:24:50 UTC github.com/xai-org Qwen Share 349

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.

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

106 bilsbie 2026-07-15 21:24:50 UTC siegelendowment.org Qwen Share 46

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.

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

379 rvz 2026-07-15 16:24:50 UTC reuters.com Full Share 216

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Bluesky Trademarks ATProto

17 chaosharmonic 2026-07-16 01:24:50 UTC atproto.com Qwen Share 2

Bluesky acquired the "ATPROTOCOL" trademark to protect the atproto community from legal threats, ensuring free use while defending against misuse. Licensing is optional for most, mandatory for branding, and future ownership may shift to an independent governance body.

LLM Networking with MikroTik

59 gregsadetsky 2026-07-15 22:24:50 UTC blog.greg.technology Qwen Share 23

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.

CatchCat – Pokémon Go for Cats, IRL

15 marojejian 2026-07-16 01:24:50 UTC catchcat.lol Qwen Share 4

CatchCat is a real-world cat-collecting game for Android/iOS where players use their camera to verify real cats, earning unique digital keepsakes with stats and tiers. Community sightings appear on a map for exploration, and competitive "Alley Clash" matches are upcoming, all with privacy-focused on-device detection and optional in-app purchases.

Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry's New Miracle Materials (2018)

43 andsoitis 2026-07-15 23:24:50 UTC chemistry.berkeley.edu Qwen Share 10

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.

Job queues are deceptively tricky

35 ingve 2026-07-16 00:24:50 UTC typesanitizer.com Qwen Share 7

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.

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

246 neomindryan 2026-07-15 16:24:50 UTC neomindlabs.com Qwen Share 162

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

53 hmate9 2026-07-15 23:24:50 UTC playonemoreletter.com Full Share 31

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

Command Line Interface Guidelines

84 subset 2026-07-15 20:24:50 UTC clig.dev Qwen Share 15

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.

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

99 spacemarine1 2026-07-15 20:24:50 UTC elbowgreasegames.substack.com Qwen Share 24

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.

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

105 benswerd 2026-07-15 20:24:50 UTC brainless.swerdlow.dev Full Share 21

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

Book prizes don't work how you think

90 samclemens 2026-07-15 20:24:50 UTC rebeccamakkai.substack.com Qwen Share 43

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.

Nul Characters in Strings in SQLite

35 basilikum 2026-07-15 23:24:50 UTC sqlite.org Qwen Share 10

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.

Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important

299 ramon156 2026-07-15 12:24:50 UTC ramones.dev Qwen Share 256

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.

Voxatron

73 lsferreira42 2026-07-15 20:24:50 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.

Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)

245 theanonymousone 2026-07-15 13:24:50 UTC dev.moe Full Share 132

Collection of Digital Clock Designs

191 levmiseri 2026-07-15 17:24:50 UTC clocks.dev Full Share 36

A collection of thoughtfully designed digital clocks.

P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC

38 halb 2026-07-15 22:24:50 UTC pairdrop.net Full Share 16

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

The Tokio/Rayon Trap and Why Async/Await Fails Concurrency

3 LAC-Tech 2026-07-16 02:24:50 UTC pmbanugo.me Prefix Share 0

Over the last decade, async/await won the concurrency wars because it is exceptionally easy. It allows developers to write asynchronous code that looks virtually identical to synchronous code. But beneath that familiar syntax lies massive structural complexity. It hides control flow, obscures hardware realities, and ultimately pushes the burden of scheduling back onto the developer. Rich ...

Designing APIs for Agents

59 benswerd 2026-07-15 19:24:50 UTC freestyle.sh Qwen Share 29

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

0 2026-07-15 17:24:50 UTC jobs.ashbyhq.com Full Share

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Towards a harness that can do anything

179 evakhoury 2026-07-15 14:24:50 UTC eardatasci.github.io Qwen Share 93

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 ...

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

134 nonadhocproblem 2026-07-15 16:24:50 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.

Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs

115 birdculture 2026-07-15 15:24:50 UTC danq.me Qwen Share 11

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.

Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly

148 coolelectronics 2026-07-15 21:24:50 UTC developer.puter.com Full Share 86

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