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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
We’re sharing an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, including a writeup and a formal proof in Lean.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,237 posts.
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Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models
Research update on compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models.
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AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.
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Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
I test Unsloth GGUFs of Qwen3.8 27B (Q4_K_M, UD-Q2_K_XL, UD-IQ1_S) with llama.cpp on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, Terminal-Bench 2.1. Q4_K_M matches BF16 and fits an RTX 4090.
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FreeBSD 14.5-Release
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE. This is the sixth release of the stable/14 branch.
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PISA 2025 Students' reading and mathematics performance declined across the OECD
Student performance across OECD countries has continued to decline, reaching the lowest average ever recorded by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in mathematics and reading. Across the OECD, one in five 15-year-old students is now a low performer in science, mathematics and reading, up…
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Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Across 44,143 European companies with a detected CDN, 89.6% use Cloudflare. We publish the per-country counts and what the 2025-26 outages showed.
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Mistral raises €3B
Mistral today announced that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion.
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There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis
Big week! We just finished moving the Overwatch and Fortnite wikis off of Fandom. It’s still my favorite thing in the world to help wiki editors grab control of their projects and make them awesome (and not covered with a dozen auto-playing video ads!)
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Jellyfin 12.0
{/ cspell:ignore crobibero Brainz EOTF desync /}
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TALA Is Open-Source
Seven real-world layout comparisons and eleven original diagrams, including two with selective TALA positioning.
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AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
$12,431 in fake invoices, 2,797 spam emails, $0 revenue.
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Stockfish 19
Stronger, smaller, and easier to run, thanks to an upgraded network architecture, universal binaries, and more!
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Speculative Decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs
A practical guide to speculative decoding in vLLM on AMD GPUs, covering draft-and-verify mechanics, MTP, EAGLE-3, DFlash, DSpark, configuration, tuning, and ben
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Keep Our Servers Running
“Universal access to all human knowledge is within our grasp. Our job is to put the best our world has to offer within the reach of our children.” —Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Digital Librarian Every time you search the Wayback Machine or explore a collection at the Internet Archive, you are accessing a global…
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It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis will ship with WebAssembly-based proof of…
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An Alien Mind
Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination.
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NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9
The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 9.5, the fifth (and final) release from the NetBSD 9 stable branch.
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Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
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A/I shuts down
The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous…
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Asahi Linux on M3
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
By enabling access to space, we contribute to humanity’s progress and our planet’s sustainable technological and economic development. Select your journey to orbit and launch with us.
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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.
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How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)
Public Health professor discusses how ultra-processed foods are a direct legacy of the tobacco industry, and are responsible for a dramatic rise in obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases across the country.
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Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
U.S. workers form first recognized unit as global union movement builds across Wikimedia Foundation
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Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
We are accelerating elements of our upcoming v5 release with interim updates to keep pace with the frontier. Index v4.2 has more complex and realistic tasks, and more private test sets to prevent gaming
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Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Most of what an AI coding agent does for me isn't thinking. It's I/O.
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This Month in Ladybird – August 2026
Video on Twitch and YouTube, CSS scroll snap, JavaScript debugging, session restore, and a serious push on engine performance with a new style engine.