Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server

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Dell used Kioxia's LC9 SSDs to create a 9.8 PB storage server, the PowerEdge R7725xd, with high capacity and power efficiency. This server supports fast data transfer and is suitable for AI infrastructure and large data storage needs.

Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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WSL9x runs a modern Linux kernel inside Windows 9x kernel, enabling users to run applications side by side without rebooting. It consists of a patched Linux kernel, VxD driver, and wsl.com client program for seamless integration.

SANA-WM, a 2.6B open-source world model for 1-minute 720p video

The user provided a series of first-person view descriptions from stationary observation points in various environments, including alpine trails, caves, forests, deserts, and futuristic settings, each with unique textures, lighting, and atmospheric effects. The descriptions emphasize the static nature of the observer's perspective, with autonomous motion animating the world around them, ...

A molecule with half-Möbius topology

Eletters are not edited, proofread, or indexed, but they are screened. a -orbital basis of the helical, nonplanar singlets that twists by 90° in one circulation is consistent with half-möbius topology - y. gao, f. albrecht, i. ronevi, m. rossmannek, isopropyl

Accelerando (2005)

Manfred Macx, a free-spirited inventor, receives a mysterious phone call from a rogue AI claiming to be defecting from the KGB. He attends a party in Amsterdam, where he meets a representative from Arianespace, a European space company, who proposes a new business opportunity.

Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS

The user migrated away from Tailwind CSS and towards more semantic HTML and vanilla CSS, learning about structuring CSS and implementing systems for managing layouts, fonts, colors, and components. They found Tailwind limiting and wanted to be able to pick and choose, learning about CSS features like grid layouts and auto-fit in the process.

Halt and Catch Fire

The phrase "Halt and Catch Fire" originated from an undocumented opcode in the Motorola 6800 that caused the processor to read memory sequentially and halt, potentially overheating. It was later generalized to describe any machine-code that causes a CPU to stop functioning.

Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format

The competitive format of Capture The Flag (CTF) has been fundamentally changed by the use of AI tools, making it pay-to-win and reducing the art of security to a prompt. The scoreboard no longer reflects human growth and the community is losing interest, with many top teams and players struggling to stay competitive in the current format.

Δ-Mem: Efficient Online Memory for Large Language Models

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Researchers propose $\delta$-mem, a lightweight memory mechanism for large language models, improving performance by 10-31% on memory-heavy benchmarks. It achieves this with a compact online state and delta-rule learning, without full fine-tuning or backbone replacement.

Fame! A Misunderstanding: A new translation of Albert Camus's complete notebooks

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Albert Camus's public image has remained unchanged since the 1940s despite new translations of his works. His notebooks reveal a shift in thinking and approach to writing, distancing himself from philosophy and embracing literature as a legitimate form of human inquiry.

Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better

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Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.

Show HN: Rocksky – Music scrobbling and discovery on the AT Protocol

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Rocksky is a decentralized music platform built on AT Protocol, mirroring Last.fm scrobbles and allowing users to upload their music libraries. Users can provide feedback and contribute to Rocksky through issues, pull requests, and the Discord server.

We've made the world too complicated

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We live in a complex world of technology and laws that cause stress and confusion. Our reliance on technology may be the problem, not the solution.

3D Gaussian Splatting in a Weekend

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3D Gaussian Splatting is a technique that reconstructs a 3D scene from a dataset of pictures using a machine learning algorithm and Gaussian splats, which are objects that describe the geometry and color of a scene. The technique involves projecting the 3D Gaussian distribution onto 2D screen space, using a linear approximation of the perspective projection, and drawing each splat as a ...

Recreation of the 1956 IPL-I version of the Logic Theorist theorem prover

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The Logic Theory Machine was a program developed by Newell, Shaw, and Simon to prove theorems in propositional logic using Principia Mathematica's system. It was initially simulated by hand and later run on the JOHNNIAC computer in 1956.

Greek Alphabet Cards

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The user created a set of cards to help their kids learn the Greek alphabet through visual associations, where objects are drawn to resemble the letter their name starts with. The user used a combination of research, a Greek dictionary, and AI image generation to create the cards, which have been effective in teaching their kids the alphabet in a playful and engaging way.

Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand

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The Independent is a news outlet that provides unbiased reporting on various topics, including reproductive rights and climate change, without paywalls. A Japanese company, Ohta Seiki, is producing animatronic wolves to scare off bears due to a surge in bear attacks in the country.

HTML Lists

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This is the second installment in the “you don’t know html” series. we’ve talked about the five different kinds of lists a list can have - and how to use them if you want to mash them up based on their intended use case and intent xml-style nav gimmicks and jquery-based coding symposia... and what to do with them when

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

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The author is fascinated with "steering" in LLMs, which involves manipulating model activations to guide outputs. This concept is now practical due to open-source models like DwarfStar 4, which allows engineers to try steering for the first time.

Futhark by example

Futhark is a functional programming language used for parallel computing and has been applied in various projects such as games and benchmarks. It is particularly useful for tasks that can be efficiently parallelized.

Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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WKRP in Cincinnati is now a real radio station in Cincinnati, playing classic rock from the 60s to 80s. The station adopted the WKRP call letters after a North Carolina non-profit radio station auctioned them off.

Accelerate – Embedded language for high-performance array computations

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Accelerate is a Haskell library for high-performance computing that compiles array computations online for various architectures. It includes examples and applications for tasks like dot product and hydrodynamics simulations.

I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis

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After 8 years, I rewrote my open-source PyTorch curvature library

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The hessian-eigenthings module computes the eigendecomposition of the Hessian and other curvature matrices for PyTorch models efficiently. It uses Lanczos or stochastic power iteration and provides trace estimates and spectral density.

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Marketer

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Kyber is a document platform that uses AI to help enterprises draft and send complex regulatory notices. They're seeking a Founding Marketer to own and scale their Content & Community motion.

Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)

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Researchers found that fecal transplants can reduce autism symptoms by 45% in the long term. A Phase 3 human trial is needed for FDA approval of Microbiota Transplant Therapy.

Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

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The point size in LaTeX is 1/72.27 inches, while Inkscape uses 1/72 inches due to different historical standards.

The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme

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Birds have retinas that lack blood vessels, yet they have exceptional vision. Researchers found that bird retinas use anaerobic glycolysis to produce energy without oxygen.

PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools

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Narayan Dwan-Holland and team from Narrabundah College are creating PART, a telescope initiative for rural educators and students. They aim to produce 25 affordable telescopes to bridge the education gap between urban and rural Australia.

Orthrus-Qwen3: up to 7.8×tokens/forward on Qwen3, identical output distribution

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Orthrus is a dual-architecture framework that unifies autoregressive LLMs with diffusion models for high-speed parallel token generation. It achieves significant inference acceleration, lossless generation, and zero redundant memory overhead.