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Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter

https://github.com/MaximeRivest/Riddle
250•modinfo•5h ago•145 comments

OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
495•peter_d_sherman•10h ago•200 comments

How to sequence your own DNA at home

https://bradleywoolf.com/links-1/sequencing-my-own-dna-at-home
111•bilsbie•4h ago•32 comments

CoMaps – FOSS Offline Maps

https://www.comaps.app/
378•basilikum•9h ago•77 comments

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

https://martinalderson.com/posts/the-upcoming-ai-margin-collapse-part-1-glm-5-2/
242•martinald•8h ago•158 comments

Small AI Models Gain Traction In places with unreliable networks

https://spectrum.ieee.org/small-language-models-ai-pharmaceuticals
61•sscaryterry•4h ago•12 comments

Ternlight – 7 MB embedding model that runs in browser (WASM)

https://ternlight-demo.vercel.app/
136•soycaporal•5h ago•38 comments

A global workspace in language models

https://www.anthropic.com/research/global-workspace
311•in-silico•11h ago•111 comments

Pruning RAG context down to what the answer actually needs

https://www.kapa.ai/blog/how-we-prune-rag-context
71•emil_sorensen•9h ago•9 comments

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/
531•dijksterhuis•14h ago•532 comments

Linux on the Atari Jaguar

https://cakehonolulu.github.io/linux-for-jaguar/
121•cakehonolulu•10h ago•22 comments

A 2048-spin bulk acoustic wave Ising machine for number partitioning and Sudoku

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02112
33•Jimmc414•3d ago•9 comments

AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit

https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/2026/07/06/amd-ryzen-ai-halo
296•LabsLucas•13h ago•215 comments

OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released

https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.4
45•throw0101a•6h ago•12 comments

Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms

https://devz.cl/posts/acryonym-fatigue-series-why-i-m-wary-of-engineering-acronyms/
36•DanielVZ•6h ago•24 comments

OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Office files

https://github.com/iOfficeAI/OfficeCLI
144•maxloh•11h ago•37 comments

Full Writeup of the Windows GDID

https://github.com/SmtimesIWndr/gdid-reversal
50•typeofhuman•6h ago•26 comments

Stealth robotics startup (YC S26) is hiring principal engineers (Palo Alto)

1•david-venegas•12h ago

Tiny-C Reference Manual Excerpt

https://permacomputer.solarpunk.au/?p=204
10•surprisetalk•4d ago•0 comments

Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation

https://github.com/polyml/polyml
41•Lyngbakr•6h ago•6 comments

Learning to code is still worthwhile

https://stevekrouse.com/learn-to-code
137•stevekrouse•7h ago•142 comments

Aluminum foil (2021)

https://dernocua.github.io/notes/aluminum-foil.html
254•firephox•15h ago•109 comments

Giving a domain a hill to climb: benchmarking as data activation

https://sparsethought.com/2026/07/03/benchmarking-as-data-activation/
7•galsapir•3d ago•3 comments

Road to Elm 1.0

https://elm-lang.org/news/faster-builds
313•wolfadex•16h ago•155 comments

Rotman Lens

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotman_lens
91•thomasjb•5d ago•25 comments

Januscape: Guest-to-Host Escape in KVM/x86 [CVE-2026-53359]

https://github.com/V4bel/Januscape
86•Imustaskforhelp•11h ago•28 comments

The Music of Destruction

https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-music-of-destruction-fuelling
19•lermontov•4d ago•9 comments

Kani: A Model Checker for Rust

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01504
132•Jimmc414•12h ago•7 comments

M/PC – A Concatenative OS

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/m_pc.html
46•caminanteblanco•8h ago•5 comments

Evaluation order and nontermination in query languages

https://www.rntz.net/post/2026-06-11-datalog-nontermination.html
27•luu•4d ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

Giving a domain a hill to climb: benchmarking as data activation

https://sparsethought.com/2026/07/03/benchmarking-as-data-activation/
7•galsapir•3d ago

Comments

2key•3d ago
interesting take not sure I 100% agree

and yet, Interesting take

galsapir•3d ago
curious where the disagreement lands: the claim i'm least sure of myself is that measurement alone already counts as activation (nothing in the weights changes, so it's a looser sense of the word than usual) the part i'd defend harder is the eval -> reward one: once a benchmark becomes the thing you train against, its flaws stop being measurement error and start being incentives. if you're pushing back somewhere in there, i'd genuinely like to hear it
Terretta•1d ago
I wanted to like this and appreciated the genAI tokens were teased into a less AI-ish vernacular, but surfaces and honest caveats drifted back too far to overcome the "I'm human" signaling attempted through lowercase sentences and em dashes replaced with colons.

I agree with the problem described within, and in the dead comment here.