MiniMax M2.7 Is Now Open Source

17 steveharing1 2026-04-12 10:07:57 UTC firethering.com Llama Share 3

MiniMax's M2.7 model achieved a 30% performance improvement through self-evolution and demonstrated strong results in software engineering, office productivity, and document work. It is available on HuggingFace with weights for download and deployment, but requires prior written authorization for commercial use.

An Interview with Pat Gelsinger

39 zdw 2026-04-12 07:03:57 UTC morethanmoore.substack.com Llama Share 16

Pat Gelsinger, former Intel CEO, now at Playground Global, is evaluating startups and investing in companies that can shape the industry. He believes the future of compute will be heterogeneous, combining classical, AI, and quantum systems.

Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone

17 _Microft 2026-04-12 09:03:57 UTC phyphox.org Llama Share 3

The phyphox team received the Ars legendi-faculty award in 2020 for developing phyphox, an app for academic teaching and physics classes. They also received the teaching award in 2019 from the AG Physikalische Praktika of the German Physical Society.

Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user

121 OuterVale 2026-04-12 09:03:57 UTC theregister.com Llama Share 55

A US university student is locked out of his iPhone 13 after Apple removed a character from the Czech keyboard in an iOS update. He hopes for a fix in the next update, but may have to restore his device and lose valuable photos.

Tofolli gates are all you need

66 ibobev 2026-04-12 05:03:57 UTC johndcook.com Llama Share 11

Landauer's principle sets a lower bound on erasing one bit of information, but reversible circuits can still provide practical efficiency gains. Reversible circuits like the Toffoli gate can be used to compute any Boolean function, including NAND, but may require more input and output.

The Miller Principle

23 FelipeCortez 2026-04-12 09:03:57 UTC puredanger.github.io Full Share 21

I had some other principles too but I figured no one would read them…. :)

How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next

391 Anon84 2026-04-11 20:03:57 UTC rdi.berkeley.edu Llama Share 98

An automated scanning agent discovered vulnerabilities in eight prominent AI benchmarks, allowing near-perfect scores without solving tasks. The Agent-Eval Checklist provides a minimum bar for robust evaluation, including isolating agents from evaluators and preventing tampering with evaluation data.

The End of Eleventy

172 ValentineC 2026-04-12 02:03:57 UTC brennan.day Llama Share 124

The Font Awesome team has launched a Kickstarter for Build Awesome, a rebranded version of the static site generator 11ty, which has already reached its funding goal, but many 11ty developers are concerned about the project's direction and potential impact on the open-source community. The rebranding effort has been met with skepticism, with some developers questioning the need for a paid ...

Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found

1120 dominicq 2026-04-11 17:03:57 UTC aisle.com Llama Share 298

Anthropic's Mythos AI model is not the only solution for AI cybersecurity as smaller, cheaper models can recover similar analysis and detect vulnerabilities. The capability of AI cybersecurity is jagged and doesn't scale smoothly with model size, with the system and security expertise being more important than the model itself.

How Complex is my Code?

132 speckx 2026-04-12 00:03:57 UTC philodev.one Llama Share 30

Measuring code complexity for humans is challenging as it involves understanding the mental effort required to comprehend the code, which can be influenced by factors such as familiarity with patterns, working memory load, and coherence. Various metrics like Cyclomatic Complexity, Halstead Complexity, and linguistic complexity measures can provide insights, but ultimately, the cognitive ...

US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional

173 Jimmc414 2026-04-12 06:03:57 UTC theguardian.com Llama Share 132

A US appeals court ruled a 158-year-old ban on home distilling unconstitutional, citing it as an improper tax measure. The decision allows individuals to distill spirits at home for personal use or as a hobby.

Pijul a FOSS distributed version control system

158 kouosi 2026-04-11 21:03:57 UTC pijul.org Llama Share 24

Pijul is a free, open-source version control system based on a theory of patches, offering simplicity and scalability. It preserves order and guarantees strong merge properties, modeling conflicts as standard cases.

447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane

218 iliatoli 2026-04-11 21:03:57 UTC zenodo.org Full Share 111

Access to this resource has been blocked due to unusual traffic from your network. If you believe this is a mistake, please contact support@zenodo.org with the reference information below.

I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

249 tradertef 2026-04-12 06:03:57 UTC stevehanov.ca Llama Share 186

The author, a successful bootstrapper, shares their playbook for running a lean startup with minimal costs. They use a single VPS, statically compiled binaries, and local GPU hardware for AI tasks.

Dark Castle

187 evo_9 2026-04-11 20:03:57 UTC darkcastle.co.uk Llama Share 24

Return To Dark Castle is a 2008 Macintosh platform game with 63 levels, including 50 new ones. The game follows Bryant as he fights to defeat the Black Knight and rescue Duncan, the original hero.

Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)

204 krackers 2026-04-11 21:03:57 UTC khronokernel.com Llama Share 141

You worked as a Mac Admin Intern and researched Apple Silicon Virtual Machines limitations. You found the limitation is implemented in the closed-source XNU kernel, not userspace, and can be overridden by setting hv_apple_isa_vm_quota in the kernel.

Stewart Brand on How Progress Happens

5 bookofjoe 2026-04-12 08:03:57 UTC newyorker.com Prefix Share 1

In 1968, Stewart Brand, a young hippie who had studied biology at Stanford, co-created the Whole Earth Catalog, a “do-everything-yourself compendium” that became a touchstone for both Bay Area counterculture and, eventually, Silicon Valley technologists. “Maintenance: Of Everything,” his new book, is a kind of spiritual descendant of the Catalog—a celebration of the practice of learning how ...

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

245 zdw 2026-04-11 16:03:57 UTC v68k.org Llama Share 62

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS that runs 68K Mac applications in an emulator. It launches directly into an application without a startup phase on POSIX-like systems.

Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI

267 seekdeep 2026-04-11 13:03:57 UTC cirruslabs.org Llama Share 128

Cirrus Labs joined OpenAI to build tooling for agentic engineers, extending its mission of making engineers more effective. Cirrus Labs will relicense its tools under a permissive license and stop charging licensing fees.

Network Flow Algorithms

21 teleforce 2026-04-12 06:03:57 UTC networkflowalgs.com Llama Share 0

Network flow theory is applied in various fields to model transportation, image segmentation, and other problems. This graduate text presents efficient combinatorial algorithms for network flow problems, including maximum and minimum-cost flows.

Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons

437 vidluther 2026-04-11 11:03:57 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 241

User created pardonned.com to verify claims and easily access pardons data, using Playwright, SQLite, and Astro. They plan to extend the site with analysis and comparison tools to break down pardon composition by President and visualize changes in pardon numbers.

Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust

218 codetheweb 2026-04-11 15:03:57 UTC notes.brooklynzelenka.com Llama Share 71

The user created a library called surelock to prevent deadlocks in Rust by using a linear scope token called MutexKey that threads through every acquisition and provides a compile-time witness of the current lock state. The library uses a physical-world analogy where the MutexKey is like a key that is consumed and re-emitted at each lock acquisition, and it also supports incremental ...

How a dancer with ALS used brainwaves to perform live

47 1659447091 2026-04-12 03:03:57 UTC electronicspecifier.com Llama Share 8

Dentsu Lab's Project Humanity translates muscle signals and brainwaves into digital expression for people with physical disabilities. Their technology allows users to interact with software and access virtual spaces like the Metaverse.

How to build a `Git diff` driver

118 zdw 2026-04-11 19:03:57 UTC jvt.me Llama Share 12

User plans to blog about creating external commands for git diff, specifically for OpenAPI specs with oasdiff. They will expose more information in output and handle 7 git diff arguments, including /dev/null for created/deleted files.

Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them

50 momentmaker 2026-04-12 04:03:57 UTC pilgrima.ge Llama Share 33

A foreigner in Fukuoka took a train to a small town, walked between bronze statues of cartoon pirates, and completed a circuit in his nervous system. This was a pilgrimage, a structure of departure, intention, stations, witness, and return, that unfolded slowly over time.

Optimal Strategy for Connect 4

296 marvinborner 2026-04-11 11:03:57 UTC 2swap.github.io Llama Share 32

A weak solution to Connect 4 was developed using a language that describes perfect play for a small subset of nodes and a small opening tree. This solution uses no search during runtime and fits in about 150 kilobytes.

What is a property?

80 alpaylan 2026-04-11 20:03:57 UTC alperenkeles.com Llama Share 23

Property-Based Testing involves combining properties and generators to find bugs, but the traditional model of independent generators and properties is often inadequate due to complex system interactions. A better approach is to use dependent generators that can run computations related to the property, allowing for more accurate and efficient testing.

Software Preservation Group: C++ History Collection

26 quuxplusone 2026-04-12 02:03:57 UTC softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org Llama Share 2

Bjarne Stroustrup developed C++ from 1979 to 1991, adding features like classes, templates, and exceptions. He released Cfront, the first C++ compiler, in 1985, and continued to improve the language through various releases and documentation.

The Soul of an Old Machine

57 mskalski 2026-04-11 23:03:57 UTC skalski.dev Llama Share 12

The author has a strong attachment to hardware, often choosing unique devices with characteristics not found in others. They've kept many devices running for years, sometimes with community support, and find it rewarding.

Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D

341 coolwulf 2026-04-11 17:03:57 UTC flight-viz.com Full Share 62