11. Microslop (www.s-config.com)

Microslop. There, we did our part!
This article will more than likely buy us a blacklist on the Bing network. For those people younger in the crowd, asking, "What's a Bing?" Ohh, bless you, child, for nature is healing.
First, a special thanks to the PCMasterRace thread on Reddit for the graphic a

15. Show HN: Lengpal – simple video chat for language exchange (www.producthunt.com)

We’re launching Lengpal, a video chat tool for language exchange. Think of it as Google Meet for language practice. You sign up, create a room, and invite your partner to join you for a session. A built-in timer helps structure the exchange so both participants get equal speaking time.

21. Researchers improve lower bounds for some Ramsey numbers using AlphaEvolve (arxiv.org)

We present improved lower bounds for five classical Ramsey numbers: $\mathbf{R}(3, 13)$ is increased from $60$ to $61$, $\mathbf{R}(3, 18)$ from $99$ to $100$, $\mathbf{R}(4, 13)$ from $138$ to $139$, $\mathbf{R}(4, 14)$ from $147$ to $148$, and $\mathbf{R}(4, 15)$ from $158$ to $159$. These results were achieved using AlphaEvolve, an LLM-based code mutation agent. Beyond these new results, we successfully recovered lower bounds for all Ramsey numbers known to be exact, and matched the best known lower bounds across many other cases. These include bounds for which previous work does not detail the algorithms used. Virtually all known Ramsey lower bounds are derived computationally, with bespoke search algorithms each delivering a handful of results. AlphaEvolve is a single meta-algorithm yielding search algorithms for all of our results.

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