1. Infinite-Parameter LLMs: Generating and Adapting Weights from Live Data (arxiv.org)

The scaling laws hold that a language model grows more capable with more parameters and more training data, and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have ridden these laws to remarkable results, activating only a fraction of an enormous stored parameter bank for each token. That success is built on static pretraining data. A deployed model faces a different world, where much of the data that would make it more useful is not in its training set but in the live interaction it is currently handling, such as the facts a user supplies or the corrections they give. A conventional model cannot learn from this data, because its weights are frozen after training. Instead, the knowledge and behaviour supplied at run time are placed in the prompt, by retrieval or instruction, and re-read on every request only to be discarded once the request ends. We ask how an architecture could learn from live interaction by writing it into its weights. Taking inspiration from MoE, we propose the \textbf{Infinite-Parameter LLM}. A compact hypernetwork turns the data given at run time into a low-rank modulation of a shared base network, so the feed-forward weights are generated from live data rather than stored in a fixed bank. Where prior weight generators read the context once and freeze, we carry a Bayesian belief over the generator's latent code and update it online, so the effective weight is re-derived from that evolving belief as the session proceeds rather than fixed after one read. The stored footprint stays fixed, yet the weights the model can compile are effectively infinite. For the knowledge and behaviour supplied at run time, carrying them in the weights rather than the prompt is amortized in compute, frees the context window, persists across turns, and can generalise better than in-context use. We specify an evaluation protocol that tests exactly this against in-context learning and retrieval.

Research on Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures reveals how language models can adapt in real-time by leveraging live data, rather than relying solely on static pretraining. This approach could enhance the effectiveness of deployed models, making them more responsive to current user interactions.

6. The most important product decision is what you don't build (liamnugent.me)

Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.

Focusing on what to eliminate can be just as crucial as deciding what to create. This piece highlights the often-overlooked importance of product decisions that involve saying no.

7. Whoisinspace.com/ (whoisinspace.com)

Who Is In Space is constantly updated to make sure you can easily find out how many people are in space right now.

9. Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (2001) (news.slashdot.org)

Hobart noted that Richard Stallman has written a very well said piece on the civil liberties that we will no doubt be deprived of following the recent terrorist attacks on the US. I know RMS takes a lot of heat for being out there sometimes, but this is a really well said bit and worth a read.

11. TSMC revealing details about next gen A14 node (iedm26.mapyourshow.com)

TSMC’s new A14 NanoFlexTM Pro platform promises significant advancements in chip technology, boasting the smallest SRAM cell size and improved speed, power efficiency, and density compared to its N2 predecessor. These innovations could reshape the landscape for high-performance computing and mobile devices.

17. A 32-Year-Old Bug Walks into a Telnet Server (labs.watchtowr.com)

A long, long time ago, in a land free of binary exploit mitigations, when Unix still roamed the Earth, there lived a pre-authentication Telnetd vulnerability.

In fact, this vulnerability was born so long ago (way back in 1994) that it may even be older than you. To put the

18. Show HN: Microsoft Office Running with Wine on Linux with No Virtualization (github.com)

A set of Nix Flakes and scripts to get Office 365 working on Linux without virtualization. - Tombert/office365_flake

A developer has successfully run Microsoft Office on Linux using Wine without the need for virtualization, addressing a common barrier for users considering the switch from Windows. This solution could make it easier for many to adopt Linux while still using their preferred office software.

20. Lucasart's Afterlife (togameforlife.wordpress.com)

I can hardly believe I’m writing a blog post about a game that came out 27 years ago, but here we are. Lucasfilm, at one time had a gaming subsidiary called Lucasarts, and they produced somet…

25. I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9 (www.petervijeh.com)

Gemini 3.1 Pro labeled 4,290 Reddit comments for $9; a fine-tuned GLiNER model now tags brands, models and materials locally at 0.83 F1 against those labels. Five of ten training runs produced nothing because of a tensor I misread as an attention mask; the loss went flat and no error named the tensor.

26. Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain (www.sci.news)

Paleontologists from Fundación Dinópolis have identified the first confirmed fossils of the genus Diplodocus found outside North America.

Paleontologists have discovered Diplodocus fossils in Spain, marking the first time this dinosaur has been confirmed outside of North America. This finding could reshape our understanding of the species’ distribution during the Jurassic period.

28. Better Vector Search for Long Documents: Chunking Inside Manticore Search (manticoresearch.com)

An embedding model reads only the first few hundred tokens of a document and silently drops the rest. Manticore Search now splits long documents for you at INSERT time: add chunk_strategy to the vector column and pick one of five strategies. No ingest pipeline, no splitter library. On our own manual, recall@5 for deep content went from 55% to 83%.

29. Running Ubuntu on the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet (vhaudiquet.fr)

I own a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook, a ChromeOS 2-in-1 ARM64 tablet.
I had been running ChromeOS, then postmarketOS, which suddenly broke.
Time for some firmware hacking to try and get Ubuntu to run there!

A Lenovo IdeaPad Duet owner shares their journey of transitioning from ChromeOS to Ubuntu, detailing the challenges of firmware hacking to get the popular Linux distribution running on this ARM64 tablet. It’s a practical guide for those looking to repurpose their Chromebooks with a different OS.

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