YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning

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YuE2 and Suno v5 achieve high scores on WildSongBench, with YuE2 reaching 6.9632 in the best-of-8 setting. MERT2-30s and MERT2-FS dominate MARBLE metrics for emotion recognition, while SheetSage2 achieves SOTA on 10 of 13 benchmark metrics for music transcription.

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

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Shopify is moving from React Native to Swift and Kotlin due to advancements in coding models, allowing for faster development without sacrificing performance. This change will enable Shopify's teams to build mobile apps more efficiently with the help of artificial intelligence.

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

Tristan Buckmaster questioned OpenAI's transparency about using his conversations with ChatGPT for training data. He felt misled by their response, which he perceived as dishonest and lacking explanation or evidence.

OpenAI Agents API

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The Agents API provides access to the Codex harness through an OpenAI-managed API, allowing applications to interact with agents in a sandbox environment. Sessions are managed by OpenAI, while applications provide tools and choose their execution environment.

Google will buy half the electricity of a nuclear power plant

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Google invests €13bn in Finland's AI infrastructure, including a 22-year contract to buy up to half the electricity from a nuclear power plant. The deal is expected to support over 37,000 jobs and boost Finland's GDP by €3.6bn annually.

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

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A man found two old cables in his "Big Box of Cables" and realized he needed them, rekindling motivation and purpose. He hopes to pass on the lesson to his future kids about not discarding useful items.

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

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The new coding model SWE-2 achieves 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, within one point of Fable 5.1, while being 64% cheaper than its predecessor SWE-1.7 and outperforming GPT-6 Astra at a quarter of the cost.

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

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A WebGPU shader on an untrusted site can hang a Mac's graphics, making the desktop UI unusable until a restart is forced by clicking a link. Apple has not prioritized fixing this issue despite its potential to be annoying and violating user trust.

Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

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System76's Thelio Mira AI workstations offer affordable, GPU-focused hardware for local AI development with various configuration options. The systems come with a limited warranty and support for Linux distributions, including Pop!_OS and Ubuntu.

Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)

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A Singaporean archaeologist used NASA's decorrelation stretch technique to uncover 200 previously hidden paintings at Angkor Wat, revealing faded images that were invisible to the naked eye. The technique, originally developed for satellite imagery, has been widely applied in various fields including archaeology and tattoo preservation.

Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds

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ngela Karime Venegas Hernández, a 16-year-old Mexican student, invented "Vortex Tech", a device that extinguishes fires using sound waves. It has been tested successfully on various materials and is set to represent Mexico at an international fair.

NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami

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The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a runway excursion accident involving Air Flight 7598 at Miami International Airport on September 6, 2026. The NTSB has recovered and read the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which will be reviewed to produce a written transcript.

Customizing my Compaq MX-11800 keyboard

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The author customized their Compaq MX-11800 keyboard with Gateron Milky Yellow Pro switches and a classic Mac look, but encountered issues with soldering and compatibility. They eventually found a solution by using Mill-Max sockets to hotswap switches and restored the keyboard's functionality.

Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom

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Neki – Sharded Postgres

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Neki is a sharded Postgres database built from lessons learned running large MySQL clusters, addressing common issues like table size and backup times. It offers an online operations model with features like schema changes, version upgrades, and resharding through a single psql connection.

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

A strategy to avoid receiving garbage on Codeberg involves not visiting as an AI scraper or contacting Codeberg. Using a Location directive with konqueror can help choose which changes to use, defaulting to 1 for best speed.

Setting up OpenCode with Ollama and sbx on Mac

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Local LLM development is now feasible with models like Qwen 3.8 and Gemma4 on Apple M5 MacBooks. Use Ollama for ease and stability, paired with Docker sandboxes to safely run models without system risks.

Recursion into madness

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The author explores the limitations of large language models, particularly in image and video editing tools, where recursive processes can lead to chaotic results. Gemini's attempts to rewrite a passage resulted in increasingly bizarre metaphors, demonstrating the model's struggles with open-ended rewrites.

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

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Microsoft has invested heavily in Rust, making it a Tier-1 language for internal development alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript. The company's MSVC backend, now connected to Rust via rustc_codegen_utc, enables seamless interoperability between the two languages.

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

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Hitachi introduces Y-series EcoCute CO2 heat pump water heaters in Japan with 370-liter and 460-liter models launching in November 2026. The new range supports daytime electricity tariffs and PV-linked energy management with a five-year manufacturer warranty.

What happens when a GPU writes memory

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The RTX 4090's L2 cache handles data serialization, and stores are sent to DRAM after a miss. The cache uses a combination of eviction policies to manage space, including writing back dirty lines before evicting them. Fences are used to ensure that data is written durably and visible across the system.

iPhone Duo

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The iPhone Duo offers a spacious display, multitasking capabilities, and compact design. It features essential controls on the side for easy access and comes with various accessories like a 100% fiber-based box for packaging.

JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation

The goal is to improve startup and warmup time for Java applications by compiling code to native code in a training run, storing it in an AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. This approach combines the benefits of static compilation with the agility and portability of dynamic compilation, allowing Java applications to achieve peak performance while adapting to changing workloads.

Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography

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A new camera technology, Proof of Capture, has been introduced to prove a photo was taken by a camera and not AI generated. This approach uses an invisible watermark in the image pixels to sign a perceptual hash at capture time.

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

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Threat actors have increasingly used AI models like Claude to carry out sophisticated cyber operations, including espionage and influence operations. These attacks often involve the use of compromised API keys, session tokens, and devices to accelerate their ability to rapidly scan, exploit, and take over target systems.

Embedding a bitmap font in your HyperCard stack

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The author is experimenting with HyperCard, a classic Macintosh program, to display text in different fonts. They discovered that HyperCard stacks use resources, which can include custom fonts like the Jeff-Nichols 72 font.

OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof

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OpenAI has settled a long-standing question about the Navier-Stokes equations with both human-readable and Lean 4 formal proofs, marking a significant breakthrough in generating machine-verifiable formal proofs. This development reduces the effort required for formal verification by four orders of magnitude, making it more feasible for various applications beyond mathematics research.

Show HN: Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality

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Printable posters of what's in season at your local farmers' market. Produce data is specific to your region, with week-level granularity.

Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)

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Anthropologist Roberto González examines the US military-industrial complex's expansion to Silicon Valley, where big tech companies receive multi-billion dollar Defense contracts. This has led to a lack of transparency and substantial spending on ineffective, unpredictable, and unsafe defense products funded by American taxpayers.