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EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Introducing EmbeddingGemma 2, an open multimodal embedding model optimized for privacy-first use cases
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,935 posts.
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The Slow Formation of Durable Software
How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions
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The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the Association for Computing…
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Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand
Sticks tongue out at AI
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Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol
tapo now logs in over the TPAP protocol, so the Third-Party Compatibility switch in the Tapo app can stay off. Also new: H200 and H500 camera hubs with recording downloads, and plug schedules and timers.
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What is Codemode
If you just need bash, why do you need codemode?
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Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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What's Earth's dominant species by mass?
You might have heard that all the ants in the world weigh as much combined as all the humans. That isn’t true. We outweigh ants 5 to 1.1 Termites might have us beat, though.2 Either way, it’s not r…
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A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU
Update (28th of September 2026) Max Desiatov told me that the @c swift attribute should work, instead of declaring the functions using @_cdecl. The @c attribute marks a global function as a C function implemented in Swift, which formalizes the @_cdecl attribute. A link to the proposal is available here. I did update…
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Polars 2.0
The release Python Polars 2.0, bringing the streaming engine, out-of-core and first class blazingly fast SQL support
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I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
Alex Moon is an Australian-British software engineer and artist based in the North East of England.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 was awarded to Francis Halzen "for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin"
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Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
News post: Gleam v1.19.0 released!
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We are going to kill "unalive"
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Resurrecting iChat audio and video conferencing
Bringing back mid-2000s Video conferencing in Apple iChat
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Open Source as We Know It Is Dead
I've been part of open source for most of my life. This year, the projects I love started closing their doors to outside contributors, and I don't blame them one bit, but it makes me sad. A personal look at how AI is changing open source as I've known it.
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LLMs may have helped my RSI
Just a place to store my random thoughts and contributions to the world.
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Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language
just a diary
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Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
A look at the history of visual changes to example.com.
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Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend
The one where I go crawling back.
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Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation
Deep learning has been built around backprop, the only credit assignment algorithm capable of training modern neural nets, including transformer-based language models. Backprop requires differentiability and produces first-order gradients, and deep learning’s architectures, optimizers, and hardware have co-evolved…
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Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
Explore two room-temperature antiferromagnetic semiconductor candidates found by Claude Opus 5.5 agents, with calculations, code and caveats.
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The Future of Mathematics
[This is a guest post by Jeremy Avigad. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] “Mathematics underwent, in the nineteenth century, …
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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Make intelligence open and accessible to all
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Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have
Plain text is portable, inspectable, searchable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence. Its simplicity has helped it survive decades of...
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OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Recently, multiple organisations have disclosed how clusters of so-called “rogue” AI agents attempted to break into websites and online services, sometimes successfully. Agents from OpenAI’s enviro…
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Benchmark in Milliseconds
How long should a micro benchmark run? My rule of thumb is to tweak the input size until the benchmark takes about 300ms, for the following reasons:
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The future of independence is interdependence
Every one of us depends on others; the only difference is how visible that dependence is.
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"I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"
That’s something Ben Thompson said a recent episode of Dithering . He was referring to how he felt while trying to help his mom get control of her digital…