Who's afraid of Chinese models?

396 mfiguiere 2026-07-20 21:11:09 UTC stratechery.com Llama Share 274

The author argues that the reaction to Chinese open weight models is overblown, as they are not necessarily cheaper to serve on a marginal cost basis, but rather are benefiting from a lack of compute and a price umbrella. The author suggests that the US should pass a law to make distillation of models fair use and to loosen restrictions on using frontier labs' models for cybersecurity, to ...

Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

148 swat535 2026-07-21 00:11:09 UTC forum.jellyfin.org Llama Share 82

Project leader and core team member depart due to burnout and life changes, leaving the project in capable hands. They express hope for Jellyfin's continued success and trust in the team to keep the project alive.

Kimi Work

441 ms7892 2026-07-20 18:11:09 UTC kimi.com Llama Share 193

You want to find and summarize all PDF files containing quarterly reports in the local workspace ~/Documents/KimiWorkspace and generate a clear summary document. You also want to know about Scheduled Tasks in Kimi Work, specifically if they run when the computer is asleep.

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

388 baldvinmar 2026-07-20 17:11:09 UTC jelly-ui.com Full Share 143

Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for soft, tactile product interfaces. Real form controls meet soft-body physics, with dark mode, right-to-left support and WCAG AA color tokens built in.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

266 artninja1988 2026-07-20 19:11:09 UTC xenaproject.wordpress.com Llama Share 91

Mathematicians are using AI tools to find counterexamples to long-standing conjectures, including the Erdős Unit Distance conjecture, Grothendieck's question, and the Jacobian Conjecture. These AI-generated counterexamples are being formalized in Lean, a programming language for mathematics, and are helping humans gain a deeper understanding of the underlying mathematics.

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

599 speckx 2026-07-20 14:11:09 UTC news.risky.biz Llama Share 337

A hacker breached Romania's cadastre agency, wiping the country's land registry database after a failed extortion attempt. The hack has brought the real-estate market to a standstill.

Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral

3 arghunter 2026-07-21 03:55:10 UTC armaangomes.com Prefix Share 0

# DOOM Doom is a video game made by id Software that released in 1993. It was a revolution in gaming that spread across the world and defined the modern FPS. Its popularity has given rise to the saying "Doom can run on anything". To prove this point Doom ha been ported to almost everything, from microcontrollers, to toasters, and even bacteria. Two weeks ago we successfully ...

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

200 StatsAreFun 2026-07-21 01:11:10 UTC aclu.org Llama Share 26

Flock Safety lied about its automatic license plate reader operations, prompting the Oshkosh City Council to revoke its contract. Reputable governments should avoid working with Flock due to its pattern of misleading statements.

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

216 aratahikaru5 2026-07-20 19:11:10 UTC blaizzy.github.io Llama Share 80

Nativ offers a local AI app for Mac with open models from Google, Cohere, and Liquid AI, no accounts or subscriptions required. It's 100% open source, built on MLX-VLM, and connects to existing coding agents.

A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste

3 sudo_cowsay 2026-07-21 03:53:10 UTC instructables.com Full Share 0

A Koi Pond Mosaic Made From 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste: Every 3D printer owner ends up with quite a pile of plastic waste: failed prints, stringy purge, and the plastic purge tower left behind after a multicolor job. Over three years I saved every scrap of mine, and it added up. When I finally weighed it…

I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs

89 wallach-game 2026-07-20 21:11:10 UTC numerlab.org Full Share 65

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Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

26 Webstir 2026-07-21 03:18:10 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 20

The internet surveillance has not changed much in five years, but the fear of expressing oneself freely has increased due to potential consequences from governments and social pressures. The risk of being denied entry or kicked out of a country for expressing critical opinions has made people more cautious about speaking out.

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco

107 akanet 2026-07-20 21:11:10 UTC vincentwoo.com Full Share 22

Scene capture and reconstruction by Vincent Woo. Built on PlayCanvas by Donovan Hutchence. Thank you to Isaac Mason and Andreas Sundquist of World Labs for early prototyping, and to Rebecca Nestle of Grace Cathedral for the opportunity. If you have a connection to a historic location that could benefit from digital preservation, please feel free to email Vincent.

Agent swarms and the new model economics

147 jlaneve 2026-07-20 18:11:10 UTC cursor.com Llama Share 62

Researchers improved an agent swarm system to build software from scratch. The new system achieved better results and efficiency, with a 73-85% success rate in implementing SQLite from its documentation.

China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning

1015 benwerd 2026-07-20 15:11:10 UTC werd.io Llama Share 809

American companies are losing the AI model market due to their locked-down business practices, while China's open approach is gaining traction. China's release of AI models openly could turn a US-created compute disadvantage into a distribution advantage, and create a more effective global ecosystem.

The Psychology of Software Teams

60 dcre 2026-07-20 23:11:10 UTC routledge.com Llama Share 14

The book "The Psychology of Software Teams" by Cat Hicks provides a science-based approach to understanding software teams, revealing principles for resilience, collaboration, and innovation. It offers a humane alternative to the traditional "death march" approach to software development, focusing on psychological safety, learning, and collaboration.

What most histories get wrong about MUMPS's first standard

8 Rochus 2026-07-21 02:11:10 UTC github.com/rochus-keller Prefix Share 6

Ask almost anyone when the MUMPS programming language was first standardized and you will hear the same answer: 1977, as ANSI X11.1-1977. It is the date in the Wikipedia infobox, in countless retrospectives, and in the bibliographies of papers that ought to know better. It is also wrong, or at least incomplete. The first formal MUMPS standard was an U.S. government publication issued in ...

My two year old taught me constraint solving

49 bambataa 2026-07-20 21:11:10 UTC thecomputersciencebook.com Llama Share 18

A father and his 2-year-old son explore the Brio wooden train set and discover it's an interesting algorithms problem, leading them to use backtracking search, constraint satisfaction, and SAT solvers to find the most complex layouts. The son's insights and suggestions, such as using global constraints and counterexample-guided refinement, help the father improve the solvers and ultimately ...

LEDs’ potential to save our night skies

220 defrost 2026-07-20 13:11:10 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 170

The author explores how artificial light at night affects cities, citing excessive lighting as a problem that disrupts human health and ecological balance. LEDs offer a solution, but their potential is often wasted due to outdated thinking and a failure to control and coordinate lighting levels.

Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

69 alexsouthmayd 2026-07-20 17:11:10 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 76

Alex Southmayd, founder of Bloomy, created an AI-powered mastery-learning platform for K-12 students that provides personalized learning paths and a Socratic AI tutor. Bloomy aims to make one-on-one tutoring affordable and available to every child, with a focus on responsible AI use and safeguarding student data.

The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism

70 trinsic2 2026-07-20 20:11:10 UTC scottrlarson.com Llama Share 8

Scott Larson, a computer professional, presented a community presentation on the effects of Surveillance Capitalism, arguing that big players like Google and Facebook build predictive profiles that are sold to advertisers for commercial gain, reshaping society without public knowledge or consent. Larson advocates for informed civic engagement and changing individual behavior to reverse this ...

Perfection is not over-engineering

213 var0xyz 2026-07-20 14:11:10 UTC var0.xyz Llama Share 92

The author argues that perfection is not over-engineering, but rather ambiguous requirements. Clear requirements lead to a perfect solution.

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding

7 NordStreamYacht 2026-07-21 03:57:10 UTC asia.nikkei.com Prefix Share 0

A Meta data center in the state of Georgia. The company's off-balance-sheet debt is about $420 billion, nearly triple its transparent debt. © AP PALO ALTO, California -- Hidden debt at U.S. tech giants swelled eightfold in roughly four years to an estimated $1.65 trillion as artificial intelligence investments ballooned, a Nikkei study shows, exceeding actual debt and making it tougher ...

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

158 firephox 2026-07-20 15:11:10 UTC nothings.org Llama Share 65

The author of the text discusses the limitations of screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO) in accurately simulating real-world lighting effects, particularly in corners of rooms. They argue that SSAO often produces unrealistic results, such as darkening corners, due to a misunderstanding of how light interacts with surfaces.

Shinjuku Station in 3D

175 Gecko4072 2026-07-20 14:11:10 UTC satoshi7190.github.io Full Share 34

「新宿駅周辺屋内地図データ」（国土交通省）（https://www.geospatial.jp/ckan/dataset/mlit-indoor-shinjuku-r2）を加工して作成

You only need the frontier model for one single edit

94 jxmorris12 2026-07-20 20:11:10 UTC stencil.so Llama Share 23

The author proposes a method to optimize model usage by letting an expensive model plan a task and then handing it off to a cheaper model to execute. This approach reduces costs and improves efficiency.

How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks

200 dopamine_daddy 2026-07-20 17:11:10 UTC unslop.run Llama Share 145

Researchers analyzed 12,750 arXiv papers and found that about 32% of new ones read as machine-written, rising from 0.4% before ChatGPT. The study controlled for false positives and found varying adoption rates across fields, with computer science leading at 65%.

A Mathematical Tribute to the Soccer Ball

4 igonvalue 2026-07-21 03:11:10 UTC nytimes.com Full Share 2

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Atomic Physics in Pure Anglo-Saxon

17 xelxebar 2026-07-21 01:11:10 UTC ling.upenn.edu Llama Share 6

The world is made up of tiny particles called unclefts, which link together in various ways to form different substances, and their behavior determines the properties of these substances. By understanding how these particles interact, scientists can manipulate them to create new substances and harness their energy, leading to technological advancements and potential benefits for humanity.

85.3 GFlops: Optimizing FP32 Matrix Multiplication on a Single AMD Zen 3 Core

60 houslast 2026-07-20 19:11:10 UTC github.com/houslast3 Llama Share 17

Um estudo de otimização de multiplicação de matrizes em C++ usando AVX2/FMA alcançou 85,30 GFLOPS em um AMD Ryzen 5 5500, superando a implementação ingênua por 56,5 vezes. O modelo MX24 atingiu o melhor desempenho, com erro máximo absoluto de 0,0.