Our position on open-weights models

222 surprisetalk 2026-07-27 22:16:27 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 234

The author of Anthropic does not support banning open-weights models, but instead advocates for keeping powerful chips out of authoritarian hands and requiring safety testing of all capable models. The author's primary concern is authoritarian governments building more powerful AI models than the US, and their secondary concern is powerful AI models being misused for cyberattacks or biological attacks.

Watching Go's new garbage collector move through the heap

144 matheusmoreira 2026-07-27 18:16:27 UTC theconsensus.dev Llama Share 16

Go 1.26's new garbage collector, Green Tea, improves performance by reducing cache misses and increasing speed, but its impact on L3 cache is initially misleading. By analyzing L1 cache metrics, we see that Green Tea reduces L1 cache misses and improves overall performance, but Go still struggles with memory fragmentation due to its non-moving collector.

Launch HN: Rise Reforming (YC S26) – Turning Waste Gases into Valuable Chemicals

53 george_rose25 2026-07-27 20:16:27 UTC rise-reforming.com Llama Share 17

Rise Reforming converts biogas from wastewater, farms, and landfills into valuable chemicals, reducing reliance on fossil fuels and supply chains. Their technology fits in a shipping container, allowing for rapid deployment and production of chemicals like DME, methanol, and DMC.

Securing Services with Rootless Containers

37 speckx 2026-07-27 20:16:27 UTC blog.coderspirit.xyz Llama Share 14

The website uses Anubis to protect against aggressive AI scraping, which adds a Proof-of-Work load to make scraping more expensive. Users with plugins like JShelter need to disable them for this domain to access resources.

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

86 jcbhmr 2026-07-27 19:16:27 UTC gregoryszorc.com Llama Share 20

This project creates self-contained Python distributions that can run on any system with minimal dependencies. The distributions can be customized and repackaged by downstream tools like PyOxidizer and PyOxy, which add functionality to the Python interpreter.

Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol

139 gmays 2026-07-27 15:16:27 UTC cen.acs.org Llama Share 72

Researchers developed a small-molecule glue called CyclicFP-fmoc that bonds strongly to nonstick surfaces and can be easily removed with ethanol. The adhesive combines high strength, ductility, and washability, making it reusable and recyclable.

Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages

55 LorenDB 2026-07-27 19:16:27 UTC gpuopen.com Llama Share 6

Researchers at AMD developed a method to efficiently animate massive amounts of geometry using tetrahedral cages. This approach decouples animation cost from triangle count, allowing for real-time rendering of complex scenes with many animated objects.

The computer that helped win World War II

164 baruchel 2026-07-27 14:16:27 UTC spectrum.ieee.org Llama Share 66

In 1941, British codebreakers discovered a new German encryption system called Tunny, which was more advanced than Enigma, and they built a machine called Colossus to break the code. Colossus, the world's first large-scale programmable electronic digital computer, was built by engineer Tommy Flowers and helped the Allies decipher encrypted messages, saving countless lives and shortening World War II.

Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped

219 cdrnsf 2026-07-27 19:16:27 UTC techdirt.com Llama Share 80

A judge has dismissed Google's lawsuit against SerpAPI, a company that scrapes Google's search results, citing that Google's "SearchGuard" measure is not designed to protect copyrighted content. The court ruled that Google's claims under the DMCA are subject to dismissal as they do not effectively control access to a copyrighted work.

A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

48 quantified 2026-07-27 22:16:27 UTC arstechnica.com Llama Share 20

A Nova Scotia man, Brandon Klayme, was wrongly convicted of child sex abuse charges due to a single underscore mistake in a username. The mistake led police to Klayme instead of the actual perpetrator, and he was acquitted after an appeal in 2024.

Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

79 snyy 2026-07-27 17:16:27 UTC usefeyn.com Llama Share 21

FeyNoBg is a state-of-the-art model for automatic background removal that outperforms or closely matches the best published results on eight benchmarks. It's based on BiRefNet and uses a library called NoBg for training and running the model.

Exploiting Volvo/Eicher's fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles

121 EatonZ 2026-07-27 15:16:27 UTC eaton-works.com Llama Share 39

A vulnerability was found in My Eicher's APIs, allowing hackers to gain high-level access and account takeover, potentially controlling hundreds of vehicles. The vulnerability was discovered in 2025 and fixed in November 2025, but not before exposing sensitive data of 275k vehicles and 115k customers.

Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)

210 Ralfp 2026-07-27 10:16:27 UTC misago-project.org Llama Share 152

Misago's current implementation has issues with duplicated code and complexity. It can be simplified by using a JavaScript framework with server-side rendering like Next.js or Remix.run, and focusing on an API with React.js UI.

Bytecode-to-Source Mapping

29 evakhoury 2026-07-27 19:16:27 UTC tidefield.dev Llama Share 2

The user encountered a problem while working on a bytecode VM, specifically how to efficiently store and retrieve line numbers for a chunk of bytecode. They discussed two solutions: run-length encoding and a static predecessor problem solved via binary search, which can be used for both sequential traversal and arbitrary lookups.

Paged Out #9 [pdf]

156 laurensr 2026-07-27 15:16:27 UTC pagedout.institute Llama Share 20

Paged Out! magazine Issue #9 is now available with over 70 items, articles, and artwork, and the editorial team is working on Issue #10 with a call for papers deadline of September 30, 2026. The magazine is also introducing a Patreon page to support its financial goals and making past issues available for purchase through Lulu.com.

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH

205 migmartri 2026-07-27 17:16:27 UTC microsoft.ai Llama Share 107

Microsoft has announced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact security model that delivers world-class performance at 50% of the cost of leading models, and Perception, an agentic security system for continuous monitoring and patching. The combined system, MDASH, uses MAI-Cyber-1-Flash to efficiently handle 90% of tasks, enabling the use of more costly models for exceptionally hard tasks, resulting in ...

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring remote AE's to help make buildings cheaper

0 2026-07-27 17:16:27 UTC up.codes Full Share

We’re looking for talented and motivated people who can help us build easy-to-use compliance and product research tools. Learn about our culture and explore open positions.

Colorblind: Checking figure accessibility for colour blind people

6 sebg 2026-07-27 22:16:27 UTC quantixed.org Prefix Share 0

When preparing images for publication, it is good practice to check how accessible they are for colour blind people. Using a simple bit of code, it is possible to check an image – or a whole figure – in ImageJ for accessibility. Using the script we can see how it appears to people with different types of colour blindness. From this, we could see that panels A and C were problematic for folks ...

Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

173 klaussilveira 2026-07-27 10:16:27 UTC github.com/libsm64 Llama Share 22

This project provides a shared library for SM64 movement and rendering code, allowing Mario to be easily integrated into existing game engines or systems. The library loads official SM64 ROMs at runtime for asset extraction and can be built and used with SDL2 and GLEW libraries.

Forth

56 beardyw 2026-07-27 21:16:27 UTC xkcd.com Full Share 10

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details.

Building GCC 1.27 (2019)

8 ciponi 2026-07-27 20:16:27 UTC kristerw.blogspot.com Prefix Share 1

GCC 1.27 was released in 1988 and is the first version of GCC supporting the x86 CPU. I thought it would be fun to make it work on my desktop computer. Mikhail Maltsev wrote a great blog post about this a while back “Building and using a 29-year-old compiler on a modern system”. I used Mikhail’s work as a starting point, but I built on a 64-bit Ubuntu system so I needed to update paths and ...

How real are real numbers? (2004)

41 surprisetalk 2026-07-27 16:16:27 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 30

The discussion focuses on mathematical and physical arguments against continuity and in favor of discreteness, particularly Emile Borel's ideas. This is from a paper by Gregory J. Chaitin.

Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks

36 pranitha_m 2026-07-27 15:16:27 UTC pranitha.dev Llama Share 2

The user's Rust service experienced a memory spike due to Tokio's task scheduling, where tasks from earlier events were being started much later than expected, causing a higher-than-expected memory usage. To resolve this, the user added a Semaphore to bound the number of events that can be processed at a time, achieving event-level fairness and reducing the peak memory usage.

VLC for Unity now supported on Linux

147 martz 2026-07-27 09:16:27 UTC code.videolan.org Llama Share 44

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How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?

440 tomlockwood 2026-07-27 11:16:27 UTC lockwood.dev Llama Share 333

The author questions the value of Anthropic's acquisition of Bun and the company's large valuation, citing a lack of release tags and increasing open pull requests. The author suspects that the cost of the rewrite is higher than claimed, with potential off-the-books expenses and ongoing Anthropic employee involvement.

Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware

21 rzk 2026-07-27 21:16:27 UTC theverge.com Llama Share 17

A Florida man, Zyaire Wilkins, is accused of working with co-conspirators to launch malware-embedded Steam games that stole at least $220,000 in crypto. Wilkins was arrested and charged with conspiracy to obtain information by computer for private financial gain.

Modern email can be built from borrowed parts

168 andros 2026-07-27 09:16:27 UTC en.andros.dev Llama Share 98

The user proposes a new mail system called HMTP (Hypertext Mail Transfer Protocol) that uses HTTP and replaces SMTP's design flaws, focusing on discovery, verification, delivery, and encryption over HTTP. HMTP uses standardized technologies like WebFinger, ActivityPub, Webmention, Ed25519, and HPKE to provide a secure, decentralized, and scalable mail system with features like first-contact ...

The Artist Who Colored Ghibli

94 herbertl 2026-07-27 19:16:27 UTC animationobsessive.substack.com Llama Share 9

Michiyo Yasuda was a key color designer at Studio Ghibli, creating unique and nuanced colors for films like My Neighbor Totoro and Princess Mononoke. Her subtle perception and attention to detail allowed her to convey emotions and realism in Ghibli's films, making her a master of her craft.

Towards a Theory of Bugs: The Ruliology of the Unexpected

61 nsoonhui 2026-07-27 11:16:27 UTC writings.stephenwolfram.com Llama Share 35

The author explores the concept of bugs in software and their ubiquity, discussing how even simple programs can exhibit computational irreducibility and unpredictability, making it difficult to guarantee bug-free behavior. The author uses examples from Turing machines and cellular automata to illustrate the challenges of predicting program behavior and the importance of computational ...

Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace

1298 nateb2022 2026-07-27 07:16:27 UTC huggingface.co Llama Share 509

Kimi K3 is a 2.8T-parameter model with native vision capabilities and a 1-million-token context window, designed for frontier intelligence across long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning. It is the world's first open 3T-class model, released under the Kimi K3 License for research, deployment, and further innovation.