Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb

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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.

Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Imagine buying a very nice TV and figuring out it doesn't allow casting from random websites... Castor is a CLI that extracts video streams from websites, handles format compatibility, and casts to your TV in real time, with optional auto-generated subtitles burned directly into the video. Run castor cast to browse trending titles, search TMDB, inspect posters and metadata, then cast — ...

Transcribe.cpp

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.

Classic Amiga titles, free to download

The website offers a vast collection of 32-bit home computing content including games, demos, and utilities from the Amiga scene. It features various user group compilations and disk magazines from around the world, spanning thousands of files.

GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization

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If You Build It, They Will Come

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To join a new social group, organize events that align with their core activity, as there's often a demand for social events that exceeds supply. By doing so, you'll be noticed by other organizers and can build connections and friendships within the group.

Mayor Mamdani Says Landlords Can't Use AI Images to Advertise

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New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani is cracking down on deceptive landlord practices, including AI-generated images in real estate listings. He released a "Rental Ripoff Report" requiring landlords to disclose AI-altered listings and expanding tenant rights.

Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

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The Hardcore IndieWeb approach emphasizes complete control and independence over your online content by hosting it on your own server and managing it with basic HTML and text editing skills. By doing so, you can freely move your website to any host, avoid dependencies on third-party services, and maintain full ownership of your online presence.

Judge a book by its first pages

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Ishmael sets sail with little money and no shore interests, while Emma Woodhouse lives a comfortable life with her father and governess.

Codex Resets

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.

I'm Making Strandfall, a Solarpunk Orienteering Larp

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The game Strandfall combines digital and physical worlds through a highly physical outdoor larp where players use custom devices to forecast and investigate mysterious storms. The game's unique devices and design aim to create an immersive experience that encourages physical movement, role play, and collaboration among players.

Real-Time LuaTeX: Recompiling Large Documents in 1ms [pdf]

Researchers have developed a system called texlode that allows for real-time editing of LaTeX documents by recompiling only the edited paragraph, achieving O(1) latency. This approach adapts LaTeX's batch-mode architecture to support interactive editing, making it possible for authors to have both typographic quality and interactive feedback.

Gleam Is Now on Tangled

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⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!

Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

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GoPro is struggling financially with a 26% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2026 and may not survive the year without a new owner or fresh cash. Founder Nicholas Woodman is propping up the company with a $20 million loan, but a buyer is being sought to take over the brand.

Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?

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Fable 5 outperformed GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-hard optimization problem, producing the best solution with high consistency. The /goal feature, which changes the control loop and search path, sometimes improved and sometimes worsened performance, highlighting its complexity.

Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup

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Researchers created a digital environment where self-replication emerged alongside problem-solving capabilities in Z80 assembly programs. The results show that self-replication and problem-solving co-evolved, with environmental demands shaping the physical architecture of self-replication.

Our Approach to Bioresilience: Isomorphic Labs and Google DeepMind

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We're working to prevent AI misuse and ensure its safe use in biosecurity by partnering with governments, scientists, and experts to build a more resilient world. Our AI models and agents are being made available to trusted partners to support prevention, detection, and response to infectious diseases and future outbreaks.

Elixir-lang.org has a new design

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Elixir is a programming language that helps developers write clear and maintainable code, focusing on data and domain, with features like immutability and a gradual type system. It scales vertically and horizontally, excelling at real-time systems and supporting teams with diverse needs.
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LG monitors may automatically install software promoting McAfee subscriptions without user consent. Users can block this behavior by enabling a Windows Group Policy setting to prevent automatic downloads of device-associated applications.

Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

To create a separate environment for Claude Code on a spare Mac, follow a step-by-step guide to set up a fresh local account, install necessary tools, and configure SSH and computer use. This setup allows for remote control of the spare Mac from a main Mac or phone, enabling tasks like research, development, and browser control with Claude Code.

Show HN: Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser

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Open, edit, and save real .map files — brushes, patches, entities, and terrain in a TypeScript + WebGL2 editor, with BSP compilation by id Software's original q3map compiled to WebAssembly. One click launches your compiled map in browser-native ioquake3.

A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game

Lindsay Barnett tours Highland Park, a John Hughes film backdrop, where she grew up near Michael Jordan during the Bulls' era. Now a Chicago teacher, she revives a beloved local video game.

The Kimi K3 Moment

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The user compared Kimi K3 and Claude, finding them to be nearly identical in performance but vastly different in price. The user believes US AI policy has failed, allowing a Chinese model to outperform restricted American models.

Harness Engineering

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“Most people do not know that they can just point their agents at my writing, tweets, podcasts, and talks and improve the output of their agents by 100x.” Harness engineering, the practice of improving agent output by shaping the environment around it, holds a chosen model and coding agent constant as a black box. It improves the two external levers—context and tools—and curates the ...

Circular Obstacle Pathfinding (2017)

The A* algorithm efficiently finds optimal paths in grids and graphs, including environments with circular obstacles by generating surfing and hugging edges. It uses bitangents for surfing edges, checks line-of-sight, handles overlapping obstacles, and optimizes by filtering non-optimal cusp paths.

Typing Speed Test, but for Developers

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What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph

How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

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GitHub addressed unowned repositories by enforcing ownership via custom properties, archiving 8,000 inactive repos and requiring ownership at creation, reducing risk in workflows like secret scanning. The solution used Service Catalog sync, validation rules, and automated enforcement to ensure all active repos have clear owners.

Advances in Real Time Rendering in Games

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Welcome to the home of the well-established series of SIGGRAPH courses, covering late-breaking work and advances in real-time computer graphics for games! Since then, now two decades, we have continued bringing you the state-of-the-art techniques from the game development community, as well as innovative graphics methods and forward-looking research with the emphasis on practical ...

Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home

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The author of "The Secret Life of Circuits" created 290 original illustrations by gathering real data for electronics components, including quartz crystals, batteries, and vacuum tubes. To measure semiconductor devices, the author used a benchtop multimeter and pulsed power from a lab supply, interfacing them to a computer using the SCPI protocol to capture accurate V-I curves.