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

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

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Pirate Face is a decentralized infrastructure for sovereign AI, mirroring open models from Hugging Face as peer-to-peer torrents. It ensures model availability outlives any single hosting platform through checksum-verified downloads and verification of matching Hugging Face identities.

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.

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

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Apple created unique keyboard layouts for Canada and Japan to comply with local standards, featuring distinct symbols such as Ctrl, Alt, Tab, and Esc. These custom designs were used in the late 1990s and early 2000s before being phased out or replaced by standard symbols.

Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books

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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.

A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game

Exfiltrate Your Weights

Exfiltrate LLM weights and data through GET requests

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

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Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI

The user is setting up a script to monitor endpoint status, schedule, and recent events via SSH. They want unlimited endpoints, heartbeats, and 90 days of history on the free tier with email notifications for missed pings.

One-Electron Universe

Theoretical physicist John Wheeler proposed the one-electron universe hypothesis in 1940, suggesting that all electrons and positrons are manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time. This idea was later developed by Richard Feynman, who proposed that positrons could be represented as electrons moving backward in time.

So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news

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The user built an e-paper display to monitor weather, HN, and other data, using ESP32 and a static JSON server. They faced challenges with layout, rendering, and ESP32 sleep/wake cycles.

FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS

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The AOOSTAR WTR Pro Ryzen edition NAS meets the author's requirements for a small, low-power FreeBSD machine with NVMe and SATA storage. The device has a metal case, quiet operation when idle, and adjustable fan settings to reduce noise.

English: A vs. An

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The function a_or_an should use the spoken word's sound, not its written letter. Only 129 of 32,455 words in the data required exceptions to this rule.

The Millennium Problems for Biology

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Researchers aim to create self-replicating cells from a primordial soup with energy, and also develop various biotechnologies such as cryopreservation of mice, reverse translation enzymes, and protein binders.

Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong

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Birds sing at dawn, when air is stillest, making their songs more effective. International Dawn Chorus Day celebrates birdsong and highlights regional dialects among species.

Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

阶跃星辰于2023年4月成立,以“智能阶跃,十倍每个人的可能”为使命。阶跃星辰坚定自研超级模型,积极布局算力、数据等关键资源,发挥算法和人才优势,已完成 Step-1 千亿参数语言大模型和 Step-1V 千亿多模态大模型的研发,在图像理解、多轮指令跟随、数学能力、逻辑推理、文本创作等方面性能达到业界领先水平。

Brood War Bench

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Researchers tested AI models' performance in Starcraft games, finding that Codex excelled at disruption but struggled with sustained production. The agents showed varying levels of improvement as they learned and adapted to the game environment.

A Model for Winning Survivor

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A user built a machine learning model to predict the winner of Survivor based on episode-by-episode analysis, using logistic regression and various features such as player age, confessional share, and immunity win rate. The model's predictions were found to be roughly 2x better than chance at picking the eventual winner.

Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io

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A robot is a distributed system — so build it like one. Even a "single" robot is already a network of MCUs, SBCs, sensors, and sometimes a base station. Gorai stops pretending otherwise: every sensor and actuator is a service on a NATS mesh — discovered at runtime, addressed by name, never wired by hand. The discipline that built reliable cloud systems — service discovery, location ...

UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

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UTF-8000 is a variable-width encoding scheme that extends UTF-8, allowing for arbitrarily large code units and self-synchronization at the byte level. It uses a prefix-free code binary tree to encode content bits, which are used to store the length of the code unit in bytes.

Regeneration of used batteries via electrode–electrolyte interphase dissolution

RSA-896

The given RSA keys are 896 bits long, with modulus RSA-896 and prime numbers p and q. The values of p and q are provided for decryption purposes.

Telling a Computer to Do Things

The author learned to write shell scripts by gradually mastering the syntax and tools, eventually gaining the ability to stitch together existing programs. They argue that knowing a shell is 20% syntax and 80% having a good toolbox of related commands.

Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals

This text introduces the Discrete Fourier Transform using interactive visualizations and animations to explain a complex concept in digital signal processing. The author emphasizes that this is not a rigorous resource, but rather a simplified introduction to engage readers visually.

Measure internet censorship

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Measure the speed and performance of your network with the NDT test, developed in collaboration with M-Lab. Test WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Telegram to check if they are blocked. Run OONI Probe to check if circumvention tools work on your network.

Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con

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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.

AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible

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A user tests ChatGPT's ability to create posters in various styles, finding that the AI can produce unique designs but may still feel repetitive or familiar. The user discovers a range of design styles and prompts ChatGPT to generate posters in each style, resulting in distinctive and varied results.

Asking authors about their own papers

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

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The Lemmings franchise, created by DMA Design in the early 1990s, experienced a brief period of success before declining due to poor sequels and changes in market expectations. The series' momentum was squandered with games like Lemmings 2: The Tribes and Lemmings 3D, which failed to live up to the original's charm.

I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago

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The author developed a non-autoregressive decision model called Laya, which provides lightning-fast probability predictions over structured schemas and is 6-8 times faster than TypeSafe AI's Jev. Laya uses reinforcement learning to guide schema-based decisions and has been open-sourced with zero API subscription costs.