| 1. | Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent(ai.meta.com) |
| 648 points by yks 1 day ago | 725 comments | permalink | |
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| 2. | Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf](cims.nyu.edu) |
| 1996 points by procedurecall 2 days ago | 811 comments | permalink | |
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| 3. | How to build a printer(nishantjosh.dev) |
| 432 points by cat-whisperer 1 day ago | 103 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: The author turned an Xteink X3 e-ink reader into an AirPrint-compatible printer by implementing IPP over HTTP and advertising it via Bonjour/mDNS. To handle full-page images on a device with only ~7KB of free RAM after Wi-Fi, they streamed incoming pages through a row-by-row decode/scale/dither pipeline directly into the display's existing framebuffer, avoiding a second image buffer. Printed pages are saved as BMPs to the SD card, which serves as the "output tray." | |
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| 4. | AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA(blog.google) |
| 591 points by utiiiD 2 days ago | 130 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1-petabyte database containing pre-computed predictions for the regulatory impact of all ~9 billion possible single-nucleotide variants in the human genome, generated by their AlphaGenome AI model. It introduces the AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score to rank variants across coding and non-coding regions, and has already helped researchers identify a causal DNM1 splice variant in rare disease work and uncover 22% more non-coding associations in UK Biobank BMI data. Access is via a no-code web portal. | |
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| 5. | Mercury 2.5(inceptionlabs.ai) |
| 245 points by Topfi 1 day ago | 52 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Inception has released Mercury 2.5, claimed to be the largest diffusion-based LLM ever trained, delivering 1,107 tokens/sec on NVIDIA GPUs with a 260K context window and pricing at $0.20/$0.75 per million input/output tokens (80% off at launch). The model reportedly matches cost-optimized frontier models like GPT-5.6 Luna, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Claude Haiku 4.5, with production users citing sub-200ms latencies for voice agents and 82% latency reductions for coding context compaction. Inception also previewed Mercury Voice (sub-170ms TTFT) and Mercury Router for model routing. | |
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| 6. | DaVinci Resolve 21.1(blackmagicdesign.com) |
| 436 points by tosh 2 days ago | 199 comments | permalink | |
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| 7. | I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer(github.com) |
| 527 points by domhudson 2 days ago | 364 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A plugin/skill for coding assistants (Claude Code) that enforces terse, action-first responses: lead with the next command, number steps, cap lists at 5, and drop preamble, recap, and pleasantries like "Great question!" or "Hope this helps!". Defined by 10 rules in a SKILL.md file, it's installable via the Claude plugin marketplace and forkable for customization. Loosely inspired by The Adult ADHD Tool Kit, but tuned for LLM output style rather than human productivity. | |
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| 8. | Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI(mathstodon.xyz) |
| 469 points by _alternator_ 1 day ago | 403 comments | permalink | |
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| 9. | On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem(openai.com) |
| 1327 points by tedsanders 1 day ago | 1108 comments | permalink | |
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| 10. | Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses(quesma.com) |
| 283 points by stared 2 days ago | 131 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, and Terminal-Bench 2.1 shows that 4-bit Q4_K_M (17GB) matches full BF16 performance and fits on a 24GB GPU, while 2-bit degrades modestly but remains usable. 1-bit quantizations collapse to random-chance performance, with longer reasoning making results worse as models exhaust token budgets. Takeaway: pick the largest quant that fits your VRAM plus context—Q4_K_M is the sweet spot, and quantization shouldn't be feared. | |
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| 11. | We built our house for LAN parties (2024)(lanparty.house) |
| 586 points by fittingopposite 4 days ago | 364 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Cloudflare engineer Kenton Varda and Jade Wang built a custom house in Austin featuring 12 wall-mounted PCs in the basement plus 6 more in the office, all fold-away, with 20 identical netbooted machines (i5-13600KF, RTX 4070, 32GB RAM) running from a shared disk image in a dedicated server room with its own A/C. Additional features include DDR pads in the floor, extensive Cat6 wiring with UniFi networking, fiber-optic DisplayPort/USB runs up to 100ft to the stations, cat doors throughout, and a roof deck. It's a follow-up to Varda's 2011 Palo Alto LAN house, scaled up for family life. | |
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| 12. | Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished(grapheneos.social) |
| 302 points by Cider9986 1 day ago | 299 comments | permalink | |
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| 13. | ChatGPT Images 2.5(openai.com) |
| 375 points by vertigoruntime 1 day ago | 442 comments | permalink | |
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| 14. | Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs(github.com) |
| 276 points by Argonautlabs 1 day ago | 152 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A fork of the Deltafin engine runs the full unpruned 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 MoE model on an M5 Max MacBook Pro (128GB) at ~1 token/sec decode, streaming 1.45TB of expert weights from four SSDs. Scaling tests show the slowest drive per layer bottlenecks throughput (one drive gets 52%, three drives 90% of four-drive speed), and prefill is painfully slow—~6.3 minutes to first token on a 512-token prompt—because each layer's experts are re-read 8 times, a known but unfixed bug. | |
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| 15. | Show HN: Copperhead – Cursor for circuit boards(copperhead.sh) |
| 242 points by animeshchouhan 2 days ago | 113 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Copperhead is an open-source AI agent that designs and verifies KiCad PCBs through an eight-stage pipeline (brief → spec → architecture → BOM → schematic → layout → gerbers → firmware → dev plan), gating each stage on validated artifacts and clean ERC/DRC checks. It makes surgical edits to KiCad s-expression files rather than regenerating them, refuses to run on dirty git trees or violate documented constraints, and aims to prevent the design drift that causes costly board respins. The CLI is free (Apache-2.0, BYO model key); hosted cloud, team, and enterprise tiers start at $49/user/month. | |
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| 16. | Getting your hands dirty is good for you(bbc.com) |
| 247 points by HatchedLake721 2 days ago | 209 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Finnish research suggests that direct skin contact with soil, plants, and moss significantly increases microbial diversity on the skin, which supports immune regulation and may reduce risk of autoimmune and allergic conditions. Studies of children playing on forest-floor daycare yards, adults gardening with microbially-rich soil, and offices with living "green walls" all showed measurable immune benefits, including more regulatory T cells and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Researchers argue cities should be designed to encourage incidental contact with nature, since the benefits are substantial and the risks minimal. | |
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| 17. | The two Christian saints who are the Buddha(signoregalilei.com) |
| 245 points by surprisetalk 2 days ago | 201 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: The Christian saints Barlaam and Josaphat, venerated by Catholic and Orthodox churches, are actually a retelling of the Buddha's life story, transmitted via Sanskrit ("Bodhisattva") through Persian, Arabic, and Georgian versions before entering the Christian tradition in the 10th century. The name "Josaphat" itself derives from "Bodhisattva," and though scholars had noted parallels for centuries, the Buddhist origin wasn't widely acknowledged until the mid-19th century. The tale illustrates how religious traditions have long absorbed and reinterpreted each other's stories across cultures. | |
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| 18. | Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts(vale.rocks) |
| 240 points by patadune 2 days ago | 85 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A tour through obsolete HTML snippets that once littered websites due to browser wars, vendor extensions, and third-party integrations—things like IE's X-UA-Compatible, conditional comments, MSSmartTagsPreventParsing, Skype Toolbar opt-outs, Baidu transcoding blockers, Apple/Microsoft pinned-site meta tags, PICS content labels, and Twitter card metadata. The author catalogs each with historical context, explaining why they existed and what (if anything) replaced them, noting many persist in legacy markup despite being irrelevant today. | |
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| 19. | Mistral raises €3B(mistral.ai) |
| 841 points by kuberwastaken 2 days ago | 593 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Mistral raised €3B in a Series D at a €21B+ post-money valuation, led by Samsung Electronics with EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity — the largest equity round ever for a European tech company. The funds will expand frontier research, compute capacity, and international growth, positioning Mistral as a full-stack "sovereign AI" provider offering open-weight models, infrastructure, and products to enterprises and governments seeking control over data and deployment. | |
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| 20. | I resigned from Anthropic today(twitter.com) |
| 682 points by yurivish 1 day ago | 968 comments | permalink | |
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