ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room

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ZuckOff is an app that detects nearby camera glasses via Bluetooth, listing brands like Ray-Ban and Oakley. The app supports independent development and works with privacy groups to improve detection capabilities.

Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions

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Disney+ updated its Subscriber Agreement to allow ads in all subscription tiers, including those marketed as "no ads" or "ad-free". This change was made via an update to the service's terms & conditions, binding existing subscribers.

ZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See You

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A Polish developer created ZuckOff, a Bluetooth detection app that identifies nearby Meta smart glasses. The app can detect the presence of these glasses but not who is wearing them or if they are recording.

Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

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Kev is a family of small decision models built on Qwen3.5, with pretrained weights or trainable from scratch, and runs on CUDA and Apple Silicon. The API matches TypeSafe's System One, allowing for Python SDK integration.

Jev-Leftpad

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The code uses leftPad from 'jev-leftpad' to add spaces before a string, and it doesn't require an API call.

Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes

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2023-12: A personal AI's long-term memory system was first conceptualized, focusing on raw conversation logs and timestamps.

AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

AX is an agentic runtime system that enables massive density and fast stateful actor lifecycles, allowing billions of tasks to run concurrently. It provides a ready environment with installed toolchains and verified dependencies, enabling users to focus on their work without worrying about infrastructure.

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

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Samsung Electronics plans to more than double its HBM4 memory chip output next year, driven by increased demand for glass carriers used in the production process. The company aims to raise glass carrier production volume 2.5 times from this year's 20,000 sheets per month.

Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips

The website is blocking your IP due to security measures triggered by an unknown action. You can report the issue to the site owner, including details of what you were doing when blocked and Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of the page.

Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM

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The mini-AGI is a continually learning byte-level language model that trains on a single 8 GB VRAM GPU, storing its weights as ordinary files on disk. It reads from a stream of characters and grows new capacity while training, pruning what's not needed.

Qwen Image 2.1

Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

Heretic removes restrictions from language models

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Take control of the most important technology of our time Heretic removes restrictions from language models, making sure they always follow your instructions

Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

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Spain's Intellectual Property Commission blocked several domains of Archive.today, a web archiving service, due to copyright concerns. Users are redirected to a government page accusing them of accessing an "illegal" website and potentially contributing to criminal activity.

The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art (2024)

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The author discusses the role of CRTs in pixel art, arguing that modern nostalgia for CRT fuzziness is misplaced. They highlight how techniques like dithering and anti-aliasing were used to improve pixel art quality on old hardware, which was often more forgiving than modern screens.

What happened to the Snowden archive

Edward Snowden's documents from the archive were published by The Guardian, Der Spiegel, and other outlets until 2014-2015. The Intercept continued publishing documents for five years but stopped in May 2019 due to financial constraints and a desire to seek new partners.

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

Amiga Unix, Again

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Amiga Unix, also known as Amix, is a community project that aims to revive Commodore's System V Release 4 for the Amiga. It provides a modern toolchain and drivers for various hardware components on 68040 and 68060 machines.

I am often wrong

The author shares their iterative problem-solving approach, which involves redefining steps as new information is learned. They emphasize the importance of feedback and clarity in defining problems and approaches to achieve successful solutions.

MCP was always a bad idea?

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The author attended an event about the MCP protocol, which they feel is outdated due to advancements in LLMs. They suggest abandoning MCP and relying on HTTP APIs and CLIs for better functionality.

Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits

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Singapore's ReadSG program rewards daily reading with virtual coins redeemable for cash, aiming to build reading habits among a phone-first population. The initiative has drawn attention from governments and educators worldwide as a test of gamification shifting screen habits at scale.

Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test

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The Apple iPhone 18 Pro delivers excellent overall camera performance with a wide dynamic range, improved contrast and skin tones, effective stabilization, and a well-balanced texture-noise trade-off. Its variable aperture is particularly strong in maintaining sharpness in complex scenes.

Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?

The author argues that as AI advances, human communities of expertise will be needed to steer and control its development. This is because AI's decision-making processes are incomprehensible, making it difficult for humans to trust them. The author suggests that adopting a fundamental axiom: "human flourishing" - prioritizing the well-being of humanity over technological progress - can help ...

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

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The letter W originated from the Latin alphabet's lack of a sound /w/, which was present in Germanic languages, and evolved through various spelling practices in post-classical Europe. The English language eventually adopted the letter W to represent this sound, with its usage influenced by historical linguistic changes and regional dialects.

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business

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Sherline Tools, a US manufacturer of precision lathes and CNC machines, is winding down operations due to changing market conditions. The company will continue selling products and parts until October 2026 before ceasing all activities.

The LLMentalist Effect (2023)

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The author argues that large language models (LLMs) are not intelligent, but rather use statistical tricks to create the illusion of intelligence. This "intelligence illusion" is similar to a psychic's con, where users believe they are being read or understood by the model due to its ability to generate specific and relevant responses.

Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%

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This project recompiles the N64 game Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber to a native PC executable using the N64Recomp toolchain. The ROM must be supplied by the user, and no copyrighted game data is included in the final package.

Why Backprop Goes Backward (2018)

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The author explains why backpropagation, an algorithm for computing the gradient of a neural network, must go backwards. They show that by using the multivariable chain rule and message passing between nodes, they can compute derivatives in linear time with respect to the number of nodes.

Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser

PHONES A / LEFT B / RIGHT C D E FA BINPUTIN OUT THRU DC IN POWER 按住步进+滚轮锁参 · R 录制 · P 敲击 · Shift+U 静音 旋钮修改整轨音色。开启 STEP LOCK,给每一步不同的声音。1/16 · 16 STEPS

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

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Jevchat is an interactive chat model that generates text based on user input, using various strategies and algorithms to produce responses. It can be run with different options, such as choosing a question or generating text from pre-defined alphabets.