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GitHub▲ 171

H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon

MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers. Contribute to antirez/h3.c development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Alen Isaev▲ 141

Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states

Scroll through all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 reachable Rubik's Cube permutations.

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Vectorware▲ 163

Rust SIMD on the GPU

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Call-CC▲ 126

Chicken Scheme 6.0

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World Train Map▲ 91

World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world

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Arachnoid▲ 84

Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

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John Gruber▲ 44

Hyperspace

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John Scalzi▲ 30

Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero

My father recently wrote a piece detailing some of his thoughts on AI, and in doing so he compared using generative AI to playing Guitar Hero. I shall not let this analogy stand. If you…

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Neowin▲ 26

Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta 'Photos' App

Microsoft appears to have made another questionable move with a new OneDrive "Photos" app, and IT administrators are far from impressed. Here's why.

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GitHub▲ 15

Show HN: Mcptoon – MCP CLI client that cuts tool discovery tokens by 97%

Token-efficient MCP CLI client. 97% less tokens on tool discovery, 40-60% on results. Zero deps. Cross-platform. Works with every AI agent. - activeing123/mcptoon

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Mozilla▲ 23

Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases

Today, we moved to a new GPG signing subkey used to sign certain Firefox and Thunderbird artifacts (namely Linux tarballs, RPM packages, checksums files) after an unencrypted copy of the ...

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Manish Shrivastava▲ 4

DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself

Interviewed DeepSeek on how it works, then checked against papers. Same method as Kimi — plainer English and concept diagrams.

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Cactus Compute10d ago

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

Hey HN,Henry from Cactus here!We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots…

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HN — Best of the Week

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Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb▲ 188

Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb

The largest tell for me to tell where culture and sentiment is shifting for AI tools is usually X, viral GitHub repositories and Hacker News. One of these tells I’ve been seeing a lot lately is skills like I have ADHD and Agents.md instructions such as giving outputs in only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.

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Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on lo▲ 1081

Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows

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Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open▲ 563

Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open

How a missing Firestore security rule on tl;dv exposed 181,874 meetings from 84,312 users across 35,003 domains, including live calls I could join uninvited, and how six months of disclosure got me nothing but seen receipts.

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The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America▲ 423

The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America

The NGOs Behind Britain

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Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI age▲ 644

Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents

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Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's▲ 321

Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

The woman who found the chocolate bar during a house clearance compares it with today's Mars Bars.

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Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for a▲ 310

Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification

Illinois signed HB5511 on July 31. Past the TikTok and Instagram headlines is a mandate for operating systems, with no exemption for open source.

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Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us▲ 226

Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us

Heb jij een PlayStation? Dan betaal je onterecht een Sony Tax op al je digitale games. Stichting Massaschade & Consument voert collectieve actie voor een Fair PlayStation.

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Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities▲ 179

Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities

An unreleased version of Claude has made strides on a problem related to the Riemann hypothesis. It improved the lower bound for the fraction of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that…

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Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, sm10d ago

Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots

Hey HN,Henry from Cactus here!We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots…

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