This text describes a new model called Jeff, which is a small, fast decision-making system for zero-shot classification tasks. It can be fine-tuned on specific examples to improve its accuracy.
The author and his roommate hacked together a restored version of Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly after MGM altered it for profit. They collaborated with other preservationists to create an official release that closely matched their work.
The model is evaluated based on objective checks, not writing quality. The 135M model's performance is measured by speed and accuracy metrics from runs in the browser.
The chat rooms of COMETLINK, a 1996 online service with mail, news and a web of its own. Sign on and drop into rooms where the regulars are still talking.
Scientists have found evidence of a 1847 geomagnetic storm disrupting telegraph systems in England, making it the earliest recorded space weather event. This discovery suggests that society has been experiencing space weather effects on technology for almost as long as electrical technologies exist.
Sonnet 5.5 is a faster and lower-cost version of Sonnet 5, suitable for everyday tasks and well-scoped work, with improved design capabilities.
The company has formed a deep technical partnership with AMD to accelerate AI research and development, aiming to create an end-to-end open AI ecosystem. The partnership is expected to close by the end of 2026 subject to regulatory approvals.
This project runs a sliced 0.5B LLM across a cluster of 7 ESP32s3. One act as master and others are node. The master node runs the tokenizer and embeding and the other attention layer and MLP ran on the nodes. The master and node communicate through high speed SPI Daisy-Chain. This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
In July of 1945, Han van Meegeren picked up his badger-hair brush and began to paint his last forgery. Over a decade, the wiry Dutchman had surreptitiously become Europe’s premier conman — a disgruntled artist-turned-forger who’d sold his works for tens of millions of dollars. Fueled by rejection from the art world, he had duped leading critics, wealthy collectors, and even a high-ranking ...
California wine growers are struggling to sell their grapes due to declining demand, forcing some to tear out vineyards that have been in their families for generations. The industry is facing significant losses as prices paid for grapes drop and many growers are left with unsold crops.
The author created a custom solution to bypass Sony's restrictions on streaming from the PS5, using DNS spoofing and RTMP redirection. A macOS app manages dnsmasq and nginx-rtmp to intercept streams destined for Twitch or YouTube, allowing them to be redirected to the author's Mac instead.
Parley is a decentralized chat network where each instance runs independently and communicates through DNS, HTTPS, and signed messages. It allows users to connect with others across different domains using IRC clients without plugins.
A public radio show host, Dave Blanchard, noticed unusual comments on an episode featuring author Elizabeth Gilbert. He suspected bots but couldn't understand their behavior. A young NPR employee, Hannah Chinn, investigated and discovered that the commenters were actually middle school kids using Spotify to chat with each other in a private group chat-style setting.
A researcher found a set of 10 random words that form a circle and circulant matrix, challenging the idea that only specific words can create such patterns. This discovery raises questions about representation geometry and highlights the importance of statistical constraints in avoiding false positives.
The author analyzed Reddit's "what should I buy" threads in six knife subreddits to see if brand-heavy accounts were over-represented. The analysis found that these 49 accounts wrote 11.3% of the buying-thread mentions, significantly above chance.
The GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent enables security researchers to automate and share AI-driven workflows for vulnerability detection in Android apps. It helps find complex vulnerabilities by guiding LLMs with custom prompts, leading to over 20 reported issues.
Two leading AI labs, OpenAI and Anthropic, have been making alarming announcements about their powerful LLM-powered agent systems. Congress should investigate these labs' research efforts to uncover the truth behind their actions.
Nvidia is releasing a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment. The platform, called Open Agent Safety Platform, aims to provide a secure environment for AI models to operate within.
↑↓ Elevate │ ←→ Power │ A/D Move │ J/L Weapon │ SPACE Fire │ SPACE AGAIN = Laser/Plumage │ Cheese bounces 3x │ Poison drops bubbles │ Moon gravity
The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
Cloudflare has introduced a new CLI, cf, which allows agents to use every Cloudflare product by providing thousands of commands. The new CLI is built on Vite and provides features like JSON output, natural language search, and typed configuration.
A person named Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next successfully reverse engineered and ported the 1989 game War of the Lance to modern browsers using a Three.js rendering engine, taking about a week due to VRAM constraints. The process involved creating custom assets and optimizing the renderer, making it possible for players to experience the game without UX issues.
Google Maps has been updated to show Zionist-holocausted Gaza. This is part of Rafah.
Pawpaws are a tropical-tasting fruit native to Canada, with a unique flavor profile similar to banana, mango, and pineapple. They can be found at farmers' markets and festivals in southern Ontario, B.C., and Quebec during the fall season.
Type any website's address and fight your way through it: its text, images and boxes become a destructible pixel-art level. Play solo or with friends. Free, in your browser.
Bluesky Social PBC created the Public Ledger of Credentials Organization to manage a directory for AT Protocol accounts, allowing users to control their identities. The organization aims to provide public identity infrastructure and mature into a small, reliable operation with diversified funding.
The author is exploring the use of procedural generation in heraldry and other visual traditions, comparing Western European heraldry with Japanese mon. They are developing a system to generate fantasy symbols that can be used in fictional settings.
The author argues that AI-powered coding tools are not yet capable of replacing human developers due to their limitations in logic and volume, and that the "coding is solved" narrative is misleading. They advocate for a balanced approach to using AI as a tool, rather than relying solely on it.