2. GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence (artificialanalysis.ai)
GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days. It scores 1 point below GPT-6 Astra in the Intelligence Index at less than one quarter of the Cost per Task
3. Functional Ultrasound Imaging from Scratch (www.neuroai.science)
4. Deser: Rethinking Rust Serialization (lucumr.pocoo.org)
Can we do better than Serde?
5. Let's Ditch Google (Verb) (adam.farkas.pro)
Even without using google.com for three years now*, when I ask somebody to look up something on the web, I still use "to Google" (in German, "zu googeln") for that. The years of Google's search engine monopoly still work hard in me…
Starting today, I will pay more
Starting today, I will pay more
6. Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results (www.bigmessowires.com)
7. Building a certificate authority for the whole Internet (blog.cloudflare.com)
Twelve years after launching Universal SSL, Cloudflare is applying to become a certificate authority.
8. Show HN: Parrot – Open-Source Smart Meeting Recorder with Co-Pilot on Mac (openparrot.app)
A meeting recorder for your Mac with a live copilot. Answers from your own documents, mid-call. Free and open source.
9. Strange Parodies of Atari 2600 Video Game Box Cover Art (2008) (mightygodking.com)
So I hit up a garage sale over the weekend and bought a genuine, working-condition Atari 2600, with a huge stack of games nearly mint in their boxes, for a
11. Show HN: I built a free Burp/Caido alternative that needs zero setup (apiaxess.dev)
An API security workbench for web and Android apps. Point a browser or an Android target at an app and its API surface lands in one session. Free and open source.
12. Carnegie Mellon University Announces Historic $3B Gift from Ken Griffin (www.cmu.edu)
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin today announced a historic $3 billion gift to further elevate CMU in Pittsburgh and launch Carnegie Mellon University Miami.
13. I can't tell who's teaching who anymore (blog.murphytrueman.com)
On inheriting my mum's sentences, and watching them read as a machine's
15. Show HN: Strata – an expressive semantic layer that can say no to your LLM (strata.do)
15 minutes from setup to insights, on your own machine. One command starts the server, the CLI connects your warehouse, and your coding agent builds the semantic model.
16. Raleigh Vektar Restoration (2020) (retromash.com)
As of the time of writing this, I have few retro holy grails left. I have acquired or re-acquired a lot of the retro things from my youth that I had or that I had always wanted. Sure, I still have a list of Most Wanted items, but that list has been getting smaller and
17. Postgres with QUIC (blogs.lupyd.com)
Why Postgres connection poolers still choke on client-side TCP bottlenecks, how QUIC stream multiplexing solves the 30ms latency wall, and real benchmark numbers.
21. Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32 (groundrun.io)
We put an ESP32 and a phone on a Groundrun rig, had Claude write the app and firmware, and tested every Wi-Fi setup method as an automated regression suite.
22. Show HN: Perspica – A semantic diff for reviewing code (github.com)
Review code changes by what they do, not line by line. - sshah03/perspica
23. Recursive `make` and `-j` (quuxplusone.github.io)
Today I looked into “recursive” invocations of make; that is, cases in which a Makefile
recipe itself invokes make.
The official documentation
is quite good, but since I’m working with a range of different GNU Make versions, I looked
at how the behavior has changed over time, from GNU Make 3.81 to 4.3.
recipe itself invokes make.
The official documentation
is quite good, but since I’m working with a range of different GNU Make versions, I looked
at how the behavior has changed over time, from GNU Make 3.81 to 4.3.
24. Dumb servers, smart clients: Distributing OS images with Quarry (amutable.com)
Quarry, our TUF-based client and publishing tool, distributes immutable images from static hosting with per-machine repositories and cross-repository links.
25. Understanding the Dual Polytope for Hull Simplification (cairnc.github.io)
A short explanation of the polar dual of a convex polytope using the level sets of its support function.
26. I Turned a DirecTV HR54-700 into a Standalone Jellyfin Box (voidnullvalue.github.io)
A free HR54 on Saturday, Jellyfin playback by Sunday night, and eventually no helper PC left in the final architecture.
27. Remembering the Chicago Pile, the First Nuclear Reactor (www.newyorker.com)
Seventy-five years ago, in the heart of America’s second-largest city, a group of scientists lit a secret fire.
28. Why the Bronze Age Collapsed (www.worksinprogress.news)
30. Wavelets in 3D Graphics (comonad.com)
Wavelets have become a hot topic in mathematics in general and computer graphics in particular. They are a useful tool for multiresolution analysis of a data set and for data compression. There are several popular wavelet basis and scaling