Qwen3.8 is launching with 2.4T parameters, considered one of the most powerful models today. It's available on Alibaba's Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork for early testing.
The user, an SRE, bought an abandoned bowling center and replaced the expensive scorekeeping system with an open-source alternative using ESP32 and Raspberry Pi for under $400 per lane-pair. This project, called OpenLaneLink, aims to make bowling more affordable and reduce vendor lock-in by providing an open hardware and software stack.
HMD Touch 4G is a hybrid phone combining feature phone simplicity with smartphone features like video calls and Wi-Fi support. It offers a touchscreen, Cloud Phone Service, and Express Chat app for texting and video calling.
The creator of Jamcorder, a simple automated piano recording device, found the hardest part of building it was the software, not the hardware, which took over 3 years to develop. The experience suggests that hardware development is not as difficult as its reputation, and with proper planning, it's possible to successfully ship a hardware product at a medium scale.
Claude Code uses a preview of Bun v1.4.0, a not-yet-released version, indicating its use in production. This suggests Bun in Rust is being run on millions of devices.
Bananas may become more common in British gardens due to warmer summers and milder winters. Tropical plant enthusiasts have successfully grown bananas in the UK, using techniques like creating a microclimate effect to protect from frost.
The Minecraft snapshot has switched to SDL3 for window management, input, and platform integration, and added new item components for custom furnace fuels and technical changes for signs, world generation, and loot tables. Several bug fixes and changes have been made, including improvements to fullscreen mode, debug overlay, and loot table types, as well as fixes for various issues such as ...
Blender 5.2 LTS introduces new features including audio-reactive animations, node-based cloth and hair physics, and improved dynamics. It also includes a Texture Cache for reduced memory usage and startup time.
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Cagire is a free, open-source step sequencer that uses Forth scripts to produce sound and control effects. It includes a built-in audio engine and interactive documentation, and is available for self-compilation from source.
Our current IR data structures in Base are about 10 years old at this point. They've held up relatively well, but there are also big problems with. I think the three biggest are that the IR...
The user implemented a turn-based game with goblins that chase the player, using parallel arrays to represent goblin positions and health, and added a simple AI for the goblins to move towards the player. However, the game broke due to a memory bug caused by the custom character set being placed in the path of the growing arrays, which was fixed by trimming the charset and adjusting the ...
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transcribe.cpp is a ggml-based transcription library that supports various ASR models, ensuring accurate and fast local inference. It's designed to make locally run ASR easier, with a strong focus on performance, accuracy, and ease of use.
The last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent expired in Brazil today, marking the end of all patents for the technology. This milestone was confirmed by the VIA Licensing Alliance, ending a long period of patent protection.
The tool captures listings, runs full analysis, and provides a 0-100 score combining soil, climate, and land risk, along with a ranked list of suitable crops. It also offers site-selection data, price per acre ranking, and exportable reports for parcel analysis and assemblage projects.
As I continue reading An Introduction to Parallel Programming, I cannot help but notice a connection between communication among processors, communication among human beings, and communication within the individual self. Increasing computational power has allowed us to decode the human genome, improve medical imaging, accelerate web searches, and approach problems that were previously ...
Kurt Gödel's work on incompleteness theorems showed that mathematics cannot fully explain itself, and this has implications for artificial intelligence. His theorems, combined with Alan Turing's work on the halting problem, demonstrate that certain guarantees about thinking machines are provably unavailable.
Kimi K3 has exceeded capacity due to high demand, so new subscriptions are paused to protect existing users. Capacity will be added and new spots will reopen in batches, with membership plans being split into two more focused options.
Moonshine Voice is an open source AI toolkit for real-time voice agents and applications, with a micro version for embedded systems like microcontrollers and DSPs. It uses the Raspberry Pi RP2350 and requires minimal RAM and compute resources.
Texas police bought four $4.5 million Chevy Tahoes equipped with Cognyte's FalcoNet surveillance system, which secretly tracks people's data by intercepting phone connections to cell towers. The system's legality is questionable, and its use raises concerns about privacy and the corpo-surveillance state.
The IndieWeb is a people-focused alternative to the corporate web, promoting personal, independent websites that share commitments such as owning your data, using visible data, and being in control. It defines a set of principles and standards, including microformats, webmention, and micropub, to help individuals build and maintain their own websites and connect with others in a decentralized network.
SoundCloud upgraded its AAC encoder to Fraunhofer's libfdk_aac, improving perceptual audio quality. The new encoder removes high frequencies above 17 kHz, which humans can't reliably hear, to improve accuracy in the audible range.
C++ function types have language linkage (C++, C, or implementation-defined) which affects distinctness even with identical types. GCC and Clang don't store language linkage info, causing potential compilation failures when overloading function pointers.
OpenAI has been resetting usage limits for Codex and ChatGPT Work multiple times due to various issues such as increased traffic, reliability problems, and optimization issues. The resets aim to allow users to continue experimenting and building with the platforms.
Dupe culture is a phenomenon where consumers find cheaper alternatives to name-brand products, and it has become a thriving industry with dupes available for various products, from clothing to vacations. The rise of dupe culture has led to a shift in ideas of ownership and originality, with many consumers embracing dupes as a way of life and social media platforms making it easier to find and ...
A 23-year-old mathematician named Anatoly Karatsuba discovered a faster multiplication method in 1960, reducing the workload from O(n^2) to O(n^1.585) steps. This breakthrough led to a decades-long pursuit of the ultimate speed limit of multiplication, culminating in a 2019 algorithm that runs in O(n × log n) time.
Castor is a CLI tool that extracts video streams from websites, handles format compatibility, and casts to your TV in real time, with optional auto-generated subtitles. It requires a config.yaml file with device and source settings, and can be run natively or using Docker with a Chrome/Chromium and ffmpeg setup.
Terence McKenna's terrifying mushroom trip in Hawaii in 1988-89 changed his relationship with psychedelics and led to a crisis of faith in his heroic dose theory. He continued to promote psychedelics publicly but privately struggled with the risks and consequences of his experiences.
The user's Raspberry Pi 4B's microSD card failed due to excessive write cycles, prompting the user to take precautions to minimize writes and replace it with a new high-endurance card. The user repurposed old hard drives to create a btrfs pool with raid1 replication, set up a backup system, and configured various services to run on the new setup.