2. Leonardo, Borgia, and Machiavelli: A Fateful Collusion (www.historytoday.com)
3. Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents (zindex.ai)
Diagram infrastructure for agents. Create, validate, and render diagrams through the Diagram Scene Protocol.
4. KV Cache Compression 900000x Beyond TurboQuant and Per-Vector Shannon Limit (arxiv.org)
Recent work on KV cache quantization, culminating in TurboQuant, has approached the Shannon entropy limit for per-vector compression of transformer key-value caches. We observe that this limit applies to a strictly weaker problem than the one that actually matters: compressing the KV cache as a sequence. The tokens stored in a KV cache are not arbitrary floating-point data -- they are samples from the exact formal language the model was trained on, and the model is by construction a near-optimal predictor of that language. We introduce sequential KV compression, a two-layer architecture that exploits this structure. The first layer, probabilistic prefix deduplication, identifies semantically equivalent shared prefixes across sessions using the trie metric d_T(s, s') = -log_2 P_M(s ^ s') from Probabilistic Language Tries (PLTs). The second layer, predictive delta coding, stores only the residual of each new KV vector from the model's own prediction of it, achieving a per-token entropy bound of H(KV_{i+1} | KV_{<=i}) <= H(token_{i+1} | token_{<=i}). We prove that at typical language model perplexity -- approximately 10-20 for fluent English text -- this bound is 3.3-4.3 bits on average per token position, compared to TurboQuant's 3 bits per vector component (with typical attention heads having 64-128 components). The theoretical compression ratio over TurboQuant is approximately 914,000x at the Shannon limit. Even at 1000x above the entropy floor -- a deliberately pessimistic worst-case overhead, two orders of magnitude above the 2-5x typical of practical source coders -- the ratio remains approximately 914x over TurboQuant, with compression improving rather than degrading as context length grows. The two layers are orthogonal and compose with existing per-vector quantization methods including TurboQuant.
7. Prediction markets are breaking the news and becoming their own beat (www.niemanlab.org)
"I wake up every day and I
8. Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift 'Super Dumb' Men (www.wired.com)
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
9. Tim Davis – Probabilistic engineering and the 24-7 employee (www.timdavis.com)
Software is quietly becoming a probabilistic system. Generation has become cheap but validation has not, and correctness is becoming something you believe rather than know. The shift from deterministic to probabilistic engineering, the splitting of roles, and the 24-7 employee whose agent fleet work
10. Show HN: Backlit Keyboard API for Python (github.com)
A beginner-friendly Python package for controlling keyboard backlight. - itsmeadarsh2008/backlit-kbd
12. A History of Erasures Learning to Write Like Leylâ Erbil (thepointmag.com)
When I set out to become a novelist in Turkey in the early 2000s, Leylâ Erbil had yet to publish what is perhaps her most accomplished work, What Remains.
13. Show HN: WeTransfer Alternative for Developers (dlvr.sh)
Share files anonymously with clean links, expiry, password protection, download limits, and a developer-first API. Up to 2 GB per file.
14. Expansion Artifacts (mattstromawn.com)
Matt Ström-Awn · Designer, leader, and coach focused on building exceptional products and teams.
15. Show HN: Runner – A Better Claude Cowork (runner.now)
Stop asking. Start finishing. Runner connects Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, and local files so you can prep meetings, draft follow-through, and get work done.
16. A mad undertaking: An undefinitive guide to the Aadam Jacobs collection (aadamjacobscollection.org)
18. Show HN: Antenna – RSS reader with a built-in MCP server (antennafeed.com)
Local-first feed reader. Email + MCP outputs, backed by the same SQLite index. For a world where your inbox and your agent are both first-class readers.
19. Using Changesets in a polyglot monorepo (luke.hsiao.dev)
Some notes and tips on how to use Changesets for versioning packages in a polyglot monorepo.
20. Real-Time Visualization of Human Finger Joint Cavitation (2015) (journals.plos.org)
Cracking sounds emitted from human synovial joints have been attributed historically to the sudden collapse of a cavitation bubble formed as articular surfaces are separated. Unfortunately, bubble collapse as the source of joint cracking is inconsistent with many physical phenomena that define the joint cracking phenomenon. Here we present direct evidence from real-time magnetic resonance imaging that the mechanism of joint cracking is related to cavity formation rather than bubble collapse. In this study, ten metacarpophalangeal joints were studied by inserting the finger of interest into a flexible tube tightened around a length of cable used to provide long-axis traction. Before and after traction, static 3D T1-weighted magnetic resonance images were acquired. During traction, rapid cine magnetic resonance images were obtained from the joint midline at a rate of 3.2 frames per second until the cracking event occurred. As traction forces increased, real-time cine magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated rapid cavity inception at the time of joint separation and sound production after which the resulting cavity remained visible. Our results offer direct experimental evidence that joint cracking is associated with cavity inception rather than collapse of a pre-existing bubble. These observations are consistent with tribonucleation, a known process where opposing surfaces resist separation until a critical point where they then separate rapidly creating sustained gas cavities. Observed previously in vitro, this is the first in-vivo macroscopic demonstration of tribonucleation and as such, provides a new theoretical framework to investigate health outcomes associated with joint cracking.
21. FreeBSD CVE-2026-4747 Log Suggests Mythos Is a Marketing Trick (www.flyingpenguin.com)
22. Zelensky says failure of US envoys to visit Kyiv is 'disrespectful' (www.bbc.com)
US envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner have travelled to Moscow several times, but never to Kyiv.
23. Show HN: Four years of my CS degree, typeset in LaTeX (850 pages) (starikov.co)
Four years of Missouri S&T, typeset in LaTeX.
25. Show HN: Medievalizer, an extension that rewrites pages into Old English scripts (github.com)
Turn any docs page into a medieval tutorial. Contribute to theletterf/medievalizer development by creating an account on GitHub.
26. Show HN: Verified Deep Learning with Lean 4 (brettkoonce.github.io)
27. Show HN: A fake small claims court for petty complaints (benlirio.com)
File your most absurd everyday grievance in small-claims court and receive an official typewritten judgment.
28. Corner-Case RCU Implementations (people.kernel.org)
RCU has a way of popping up unexpectedly. In the words of Fedor Pikus, "In fact, you may already be using the RCU approach in your progr...
29. My University Hired a Terrorist (www.facultyleaks.com)
30. Show HN: DSS, a new human-readable and plain format for XLS and spreadsheets (github.com)
The Data Sheet Standard (DSS) is a text-based, human-readable data format designed to represent multi-sheet spreadsheet data. - Datastripes/DataSheetStandard