Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

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Asahi Linux has fixed issues with macOS 27 boot picker compatibility and added support for M3 machines with high-quality audio output, CPU frequency switching, and big.LITTLE task scheduling. The team is also working on AVD video decoder support and has released m1n1 version 1.6.0 with Rust requirements for stage 2 builds and improvements for M3 series support.

Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

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Developers give coding agents excessive access for productivity, but this also raises security concerns. A tool like Claude Code hides classification signals in system prompts, making it harder to trust its claims of transparency.

Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants

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Claude Sonnet 5

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Claude Sonnet 5 is a more agentic AI model that can make plans, use tools, and run autonomously at a lower price than its predecessor. It's available across all plans and offers a safer and more efficient option for developers, with a lower rate of undesirable behaviors and improved performance on tasks like coding and knowledge work.

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

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Godot Foundation is updating its contribution policies to ban AI-authored code and AI-generated text in human communication. The goal is to reduce the burden on maintainers and ensure new contributors become future maintainers.

ArXiv's Next Chapter

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arXiv will spin out from Cornell University to become an independent nonprofit organization on July 1, 2026. This change will bring new flexibility and opportunities while maintaining arXiv's mission and values of free access to scientific ideas and discoveries.

Google copybara: moving code between repositories

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Copybara is a tool used internally at Google to transform and move code between repositories, allowing for syncing of confidential and public repositories. It is stateless and supports Git repositories, with experimental support for Mercurial.

Dexter (YC F24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer in Berlin

Dexter is an AI-native spend intelligence platform for complex enterprises, using AI to read invoices and contracts for clear insights and savings. They're hiring a Founding Engineer to scale their engineering team, focusing on AI and automation, with a competitive compensation package.

The first early human eggs from stem cells

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Conception has successfully generated early human egg cells from stem cells using a simple blood draw. They have created miniature human ovaries containing early eggs, a major scientific advance towards redefining fertility.

I Don't Maintain My Homelab

Have I reached nirvana? Is this the ultimate goal of homelabbers? It seems that I've somehow automated myself out of a job (hobby?) by building a resilient homelab. I have used a few different servers over the years, but have since consolidated all of my services onto a single server (build guide here), reducing the complexity of my environment. Because of the single-server setup, ...

Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models

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Researchers improved recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for noisy associative recall (NAR) by orthogonalizing their memory matrix during reads. This technique, inspired by Muon optimizer, significantly improved NAR performance in various tasks and vocab sizes.

Claude Science

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Claude Science is a public beta app that integrates AI with scientific computing, allowing users to run full analyses on their own infrastructure. It connects to 60+ scientific databases and domain-specific open models, and produces reproducible results with full provenance.

Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.

Nano Banana 2 Lite

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Nano Banana 2 Lite generates and edits images faster and more efficiently, ideal for designers and creators. It provides high-quality images quickly, reducing waiting time and increasing creative flow.

How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown

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A toy car's wind-up mechanism uses a Spiral Spring and gears to store and release energy, allowing it to shoot forward at high speeds. The gear system provides a mechanical advantage, making it easier for kids to wind up the spring with modest force.

Leanstral 1.5

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An updated Lean 4 formal proof engineering model optimised for automated theorem proving and autoformalization. 119B total parameters, 6.5B active.

Register Korea's First PC 'SE-8001' as a National Important Material

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In January 1981, computer manufacturer Sambo Computer launched the 'SE-8001,' Korea's first personal computer. It was a modification of a foreign personal computer and used a television set as its monitor. While primarily used for corporate accounting management, it marked the beginning of the era of home computers. The government is now implementing the National Registration ...

Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

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Pine64 launched PineVoice, a $50 smart speaker with open-source software on a RISC-V chip, featuring Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee interfaces. It runs on Alibaba's YoC platform and supports local wake word detection, with a recommended firmware update to Linux Voice Assistant.

CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

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The Large Hadron Collider has completed its final physics run and is undergoing a major maintenance and upgrade program, Long Shutdown 3, to prepare for the High-Luminosity LHC. The upgrade will increase the collider's luminosity by a factor of up to ten, enabling precision studies and potentially uncovering new phenomena.

Forestiere Underground Gardens

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Baldassare Forestiere built the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, California over 40 years using hand tools and mules. The gardens feature 65 rooms, skylights, and a variety of plants and trees protected from frost.

Single header Parser Combinators for C

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CParsec is a fast CSV parser for C that generates inlinable functions for parsing CSV rows. It is ~1.25 times faster than Rust's csv and ~20 times faster than attoparsec-csv.

Pystd, similar-ish functionality with a fraction of the compile time

The author of Pystd, a custom C++ standard library, is frustrated with the slow compilation times of C++ due to the large size of standard library headers. Pystd aims to minimize build times with a design priority of speed, achieving a build time of 1.9 seconds on a 16-core processor.

From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery

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Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience

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Chris von Csefalvay plans to train a drone to fly with reinforcement learning, focusing on 6 failure classes and simulating motor lag and loop latency. He's using PPO with parallel environments and an asymmetric actor-critic approach to prepare the drone for real-world crashes.

I ported Kubernetes to the browser

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Sam Rose created Webernetes, a browser-based Kubernetes cluster, using LLMs to port 100,000 lines of code from Kubernetes. He reviewed and tested the code to ensure its correctness, and now invites others to use and contribute to the project.

Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made

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Barley tea, or mugicha, is a Japanese drink made from roasted barley grains, not tea leaves. It's brewed from twice-roasted barley grains, sourced from domestic growers, and packaged in tea bags for a refreshing summer drink.

Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting

Ante is a work-in-progress language that aims to blend reference counting and borrow checking without run-time crashes. It achieves this through its concept of shape-stability and local uniqueness rules.

I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)

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The user built a radar that can classify materials, specifically targeting asbestos detection, using a combination of material sciences, wave physics, and neural networks. Due to a lack of funding, the project was stopped after achieving a proof of concept, but the user gained valuable experience in embedded firmware programming, product design, and hardware startup development.

Hatari – Online Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon Emulator

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Have you restarted your computer this week?

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The user enjoys manually restarting their Mac on Saturdays, closing all windows and ignoring unsaved work warnings, for a clean desktop environment. This process allows them to disconnect from work and resolve potential computer issues.