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The science behind Pixel Watch's insulin resistance feature

https://www.empirical.health/blog/wearable-insulin-resistance/
6•brandonb•46m ago

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brandonb•39m ago
(OP here) I worked on one of the first studies on detecting diabetes from wearables in 2018. It was kind of fun to review how the field has evolved. The basic approach is the same (pretrain a self-supervised foundation model on sensor data, fine-tune for a particular application) but the scale is several orders of magnitude larger.

Show HN: 8-bit Qwen3.8-27B decodes 1.7x faster than BF16, slower at 16K context

https://github.com/promptdriven/pdd/tree/main/research/omlx-qwen38-quantization
1•gltanaka•1m ago•0 comments

US Army unit offers 4-day GTA VI pass as reenlistment incentive

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grand-theft-auto-army-reenlistment-bonus/
1•Vaslo•1m ago•0 comments

Constructing Hadamard Matrices

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/13/constructing-hadamard-matrices/
1•ibobev•1m ago•0 comments

Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B: SOTA 35B MoE model

https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B
1•nateb2022•1m ago•0 comments

NASA's Mariner 9 probe encoded images

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/13/mariner-hadamard/
1•ibobev•1m ago•0 comments

After Linode's $5 VM, we tested its $12 plan 3 times in LAX. What did $7 buy?

https://webbynode.com/articles/linode-12-vps-extra-7-dollars-lax
1•gsgreen•1m ago•0 comments

Don't Instantiate Value Object

https://aleksandar-b.github.io/blog/posts/dont-instantiate-value-objects
1•alex_brajkovic•2m ago•0 comments

AI Used to Verify Toughest Mathematics Proof Yet

https://spectrum.ieee.org/axiom-math-246-theorem-formalization
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

Knowing your robot: the fiduciary program in the age of AI

https://polanyisociety.org/knowing-your-robot-the-fiduciary-program-in-the-age-of-ai/
1•hkhn•3m ago•0 comments

Building apps with an autonomous Gauntlet Loop – extended Matt Shumer's concept

https://viborc.com/the-parts-of-an-autonomous-build-loop-that-arent-the-prompt/
1•viborcip•5m ago•0 comments

Screening babies' genomes could save lives

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02528-y
1•Brajeshwar•6m ago•0 comments

The job ain't quite the same

https://prashanth.world/the-job-aint-the-same/
1•mangoman•7m ago•0 comments

Treasury Announces Increased Sizes of Nominal Long-End Liquidity Support Buyback

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0607
1•zelias•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: INXM // local` OSS for using LLM as compiler and not as runtime

https://github.com/inxm-ai/inxm-local
2•oesimania•7m ago•1 comments

Dream Coder ADE

https://www.dreamcoder.ai/
1•hmokiguess•8m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Data Visualization for Agents

https://tryopendata.github.io/openchart/
1•RileyHilliard•8m ago•0 comments

How Claude's Text Watermarking Works [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLv7qRWFMlw
2•ModelForge•10m ago•0 comments

Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/08/12/remote-workers-report-highest-well-being-study-7700-emp...
3•downbad_•11m ago•0 comments

IBM's new modular architecture for cryogenic systems

https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/modular-cryogenics
1•rbanffy•11m ago•0 comments

Six Ways an Eval Lies: structural defects that survive preregistration

https://github.com/Threadborne/eval-integrity
1•Threadborne•12m ago•0 comments

A pocketable AI agent – Tokens free to use now

https://plugos.net/plugclaw/
1•Nut_•13m ago•0 comments

Changes for Apps in the European Union – Support Developer

https://developer.apple.com/support/apps-in-the-eu/
1•OptionOfT•13m ago•0 comments

An echo of Einstein: Unexpected link between whale calls and special relativity

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-echo-einstein-unexpected-link-whale.html
2•tiahura•14m ago•0 comments

100% RHAE on ARC-AGI-3 public with Claude Code, Opus 5, and one skill

https://arc-skill.vercel.app/
1•pbshgthm•14m ago•0 comments

New Casio F-B100W – Upgrade to the iconic F-91W after 40 years

https://www.casio.com/uk/watches/casio/product.F-B100W-1A/
3•__fst__•15m ago•2 comments

Extreme evolution: The animals evolving at super speed to survive

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260805-the-animals-evolving-at-super-speed-to-survive
1•jazali•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Boomkat - a lightweight JavaScript engine written from scratch

https://github.com/ricardobeat/boomkat
3•ricardobeat•16m ago•1 comments

Rod Liddle loathed me on sight. He was a genius

https://www.damianreilly.co.uk/p/no-mate-thats-not-it
1•myrtlehinch•16m ago•0 comments

Claude 529 Errors Again Today

2•connortyndall•17m ago•1 comments

Teaching AI with Quantum Data

https://www.quantinuum.com/blog/teaching-ai-with-quantum-data
1•jonbaer•18m ago•0 comments