| 1. | The lost joy of music piracy(pigeonsandplanes.com) |
| 818 points by mcgin 56 days ago | 581 comments | permalink | |
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| 2. | Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model(thinkingmachines.ai) |
| 1209 points by vimarsh6739 56 days ago | 289 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Inkling is a new open-weights Mixture-of-Experts model (975B total, 41B active) with a 1M-token context, native multimodality (text, image, audio), and controllable thinking effort, pretrained on 45T tokens. It's positioned not as a frontier leader but as a strong, balanced base for fine-tuning, benchmarking competitively against open-weights peers like Kimi K2.6 and GLM 5.2, and is available today on Tinker and Hugging Face. A smaller 276B/12B-active variant, Inkling-Small, is previewed with comparable performance on many benchmarks. | |
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| 3. | Grok Build is open source(github.com) |
| 573 points by skp1995 56 days ago | 615 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: xAI has open-sourced Grok Build (aka "grok"), a Rust-based terminal AI coding agent that provides a full-screen TUI for codebase understanding, file editing, shell execution, web search, and long-running task management. It supports interactive, headless (CI/scripting), and editor-embedded modes via the Agent Client Protocol, with prebuilt binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows. First-party code is Apache 2.0 licensed, though the repo includes vendored ports from OpenAI's Codex and sst/opencode. | |
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| 4. | SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions(mort.coffee) |
| 352 points by gnyeki 56 days ago | 168 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: SQLite ships with several problematic defaults: foreign key constraints are ignored, columns don't enforce their declared types, concurrent writers immediately get SQLITE_BUSY errors instead of waiting, and performance-critical settings like WAL mode are off. The author proposes borrowing Rust's edition system: a single `PRAGMA edition = 2026` would opt into a modern set of sane defaults (strict tables, foreign keys, busy timeout, WAL) without breaking backwards compatibility for existing databases. | |
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| 5. | Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources(reuters.com) |
| 484 points by rvz 57 days ago | 299 comments | permalink | |
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| 6. | Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU(neomindlabs.com) |
| 319 points by neomindryan 57 days ago | 205 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A hobbyist got Google's Gemma 4 26B MoE model running at ~5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old dual Xeon E5-2690 v2 server with no GPU, by patching ik_llama.cpp to work on pre-AVX2 hardware. The core bug: the graph builder emitted fused MoE ops (MOE_FUSED_UP_GATE) that had no non-AVX2 compute path, silently leaving expert FFN outputs as uninitialized memory and producing fluent multilingual gibberish. The fix splits those fused ops into separate mul_mat_id calls plus a fused SILU-multiply when IQK is disabled. Claude did the C++ diagnosis; the author drove the debugging process. | |
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| 7. | Collection of Digital Clock Designs(clocks.dev) |
| 295 points by levmiseri 57 days ago | 50 comments | permalink | |
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| 8. | Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly(developer.puter.com) |
| 242 points by coolelectronics 56 days ago | 123 comments | permalink | |
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| 9. | Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)(academic.oup.com) |
| 738 points by bilsbie 57 days ago | 394 comments | permalink | |
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| 10. | Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail(fabiensanglard.net) |
| 936 points by vinhnx 57 days ago | 249 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A detailed teardown identifies every computer visible in Jurassic Park (1993), including Apple Powerbook 100s, Macintosh Quadra 700s, SGI Indigo and Crimson workstations, Thinking Machines CM-5 supercomputers (which replaced the book's Cray after Cray declined to loan hardware), and a pre-release Motorola Envoy PDA that Spielberg reportedly got via a chance meeting with frogdesign's founder. Apple and SGI loaned roughly $1.2M (about $4M today) in hardware, with real software like SGI's fsn file manager ("It's a Unix system!") and Earthwatch weather visualization powering the on-screen displays. | |
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| 11. | Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important(ramones.dev) |
| 335 points by ramon156 57 days ago | 280 comments | permalink | |
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| 12. | OpenAI loses trademark dispute at EU court(dpa-international.com) |
| 260 points by hermanzegerman 57 days ago | 165 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: The EU General Court ruled against OpenAI's trademark application for "OPENAI," finding the term purely descriptive for software and IT services—"open" suggests freely accessible and "AI" refers to artificial intelligence. The court rejected OpenAI's arguments that the term is a coined phrase and dismissed the relevance of registrations granted in the UK, Singapore, and 30+ other countries. OpenAI can still appeal to the European Court of Justice. | |
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| 13. | The kids with phones are alright(heatherburns.tech) |
| 264 points by JumpCrisscross 61 days ago | 379 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A viral Scotrail video showing passengers confronting a drunk council legal officer secretly filming teenage girls is used to argue that UK tech policy has it backwards: instead of restricting perpetrators, laws increasingly punish young people by curtailing their phone use. The author contends that smartphone bans and age-verification regimes reflect the values of a detached upper-class elite who infantilize their own children, and that working-class teens actually need phones—and the agency to use them—for real-world safety and developing adult resilience. | |
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| 14. | Codex Micro(openai.com) |
| 300 points by davidbarker 57 days ago | 244 comments | permalink | |
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| 15. | Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)(dev.moe) |
| 261 points by theanonymousone 57 days ago | 153 comments | permalink | |
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| 16. | Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes(krebsonsecurity.com) |
| 204 points by robin_reala 57 days ago | 120 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Microsoft patched 570 vulnerabilities this Patch Tuesday—nearly triple last month's record—including 60 critical bugs and three zero-days, two of which are being actively exploited. Microsoft attributes the surge to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, a trend echoed by Adobe, Cisco, Mozilla, Oracle, and Google ramping up their own patch cadences. Researchers warn that Microsoft's human-centric "exploitability index" is falling behind, as AI tools like Anthropic's red team model have produced working exploits for 13 of 14 flaws rated "less likely" to be exploited. | |
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| 17. | Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone(prismml.com) |
| 694 points by xenova 57 days ago | 249 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: PrismML released Bonsai 27B, a compressed version of Qwen3.6 27B using ternary (1.71 bits/weight, 5.9GB) or binary (1.125 bits/weight, 3.9GB) weights, enabling a 27B-class multimodal model to run on an iPhone 17 Pro. The variants retain 95% and 90% of full-precision benchmark performance respectively, with math and coding capabilities nearly untouched, and reach up to 163 tok/s on an RTX 5090. Weights are available under Apache 2.0 with native support for Apple MLX and NVIDIA CUDA. | |
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| 18. | Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)(danq.me) |
| 878 points by MrVandemar 61 days ago | 535 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Frustrated that a travel agency required installing a 43MB Android app just to view an itinerary (which was really just HTML, images, and PDFs with added tracking and ads), the author reverse-engineered it by rooting an Android emulator and intercepting traffic with HTTP Toolkit. They discovered the app fetches JSON from an API using concatenated username-password credentials in the URL, then wrote a Ruby script to convert that JSON into a lightweight, password-protected webpage for their tour group—stripping ads and tracking while gaining bookmarking, printing, and accessibility benefits. | |
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| 19. | Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity(lenergy.com.au) |
| 288 points by i2oc 58 days ago | 408 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: From July 2026, energy retailers in NSW, South Australia, and South-East Queensland must offer households at least three free hours of daytime electricity daily (around midday), capped at 24 kWh/day, to pass on the benefit of excess rooftop solar generation. Access requires only a smart meter and opting in — no solar panels or home ownership needed — making it available to renters and apartment dwellers. Estimated savings range from $100–$1,100/year depending on how much load you can shift into the free window. | |
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