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Gemini 3.7 Flash

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-fl...
218•thisisauserid•1h ago•145 comments

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
52•tosh•47m ago•14 comments

Mistral OCR 4.1

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1
87•spelk•1h ago•22 comments

Spaghettifying DRAM

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts
313•matt_d•4h ago•94 comments

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

https://donkeybas.com/
35•jkrauska•50m ago•11 comments

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai
27•pr337h4m•26m ago•1 comments

Tocharian Online

https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/tokol/0
25•Bluestein•1h ago•1 comments

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

https://0.mk/blog/link-rot
18•tdx•46m ago•3 comments

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o-scraps/index.html
28•timmmmmmay•2h ago•8 comments

Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo

https://uniqueatpenn.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/come-for-eniac-stay-for-univac-and-skeduflo/
45•cainxinth•2d ago•11 comments

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

https://deepseek.com/harness/en/
439•bjin•5h ago•200 comments

How art invented humanity

https://aeon.co/essays/humans-did-not-invent-art-it-was-the-other-way-around
50•prismatic•19h ago•8 comments

Gloomberb

https://gloom.sh/
294•rbanffy•4h ago•153 comments

Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations

https://oxide.computer/blog/kubernetes-on-oxide
95•stevehipwell•4h ago•34 comments

Ordinary abundance

https://ordinaryabundance.com/
99•yen223•4h ago•37 comments

Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results

https://www.netlify.com/blog/one-prompt-11-models-very-different-results/
126•toddmorey•5h ago•56 comments

From 13.5M installs to 499 active devices

https://games.lukicengineering.com/blog/2013-vs-2026/
21•boban-lukic•3d ago•5 comments

Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview

https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027
400•allanrbo•13h ago•278 comments

ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)

https://atg.science/careers
1•dkobran•6h ago

GoAccess – Open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

https://goaccess.io/
14•gregsadetsky•2h ago•1 comments

I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10

https://alexmorleyfinch.github.io/marlin/history/v1/article/the_birth.html
91•dreamforever•4h ago•53 comments

Show HN: MCP Memory – Fast Agent Memory Using Google's OKF and SQLite FTS5

https://github.com/fellowgeek/mcp-memory
47•pcbmaker20•4h ago•26 comments

Graduate student proves a quantum uncertainty principle for fractals

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-proves-the-fractal-uncertainty-principle-20260812/
42•bookofjoe•4h ago•6 comments

We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images

https://www.echo.ai/blog/echo-xnanoclaw-under-the-hood
58•omrimaya•4h ago•38 comments

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

https://www.codewithbullet.com
22•adi1•10h ago•21 comments

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-built-a-515-page-dossier-on-me-it-says-ill-never-leave/
152•thehoff•3h ago•184 comments

Show HN: OJCP – an open protocol for agent-consumable job data

https://ojcp.dev/
14•fraywing•1d ago•2 comments

JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

https://tschatzl.github.io/2026/08/10/jdk27-g1-serial-parallel-gc-changes.html
9•0x54MUR41•1h ago•0 comments

Better Gaussian Splatting in Julia

https://pxl-th.github.io/blog/better-gs-julia/
93•pxl-th•4d ago•13 comments

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

https://tradersunion.com/news/central-banks/show/2973571-deutsche-bank-becomes/
339•Markoff•6h ago•369 comments
Open in hackernews

Mistral OCR 4.1

https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1
86•spelk•1h ago

Comments

mainecoder•45m ago
The chinese did it better, mistral is alive thanks to regulations.
rtaylorgarlock•30m ago
I've been a bit more careful about complaining about regulations broadly due to competitive advantage, e.g. ITAR
mangecoeur•6m ago
i.e. it's one AI company that's basically guaranteed to never fail since it has a market niche guaranteed by European companies and governments.
petcat•1m ago
Which is also why their most recent model "Shieldstral" does nothing except monitor and moderate internet content.

After stuff like Chat Control I think they're obviously seeing a big demand for this kind of "internet safety" technology in Europe.

king_crimson•45m ago
At this point I lost all hope for Europe playing any significant role in the AI race. If that’s a good or a bad thing I don’t know, but it seems to me like that’s the reality.
kubb•39m ago
It's not a race. You don't get anything for winning.
bpodgursky•30m ago
It's red queen. You stay alive by winning, you lose everything by losing.
procgen•23m ago
The only prize is control of the light cone.
ChrisClark•17m ago
Unless you manage to build a god, and keep it under control... okay, we're all going to lose
Palpatineli•2m ago
How about "being able to align ASI somewhat to your values"?
thadt•31m ago
Yeah? And here I've been a happy Transkribus customer for some time now. If there are better models or interfaces out there for analyzing historical handwriting, I'll definitely take a look.
merb•43m ago
1000 Pages / 3.5€ this is expensive as hell. If this is not fastly superior than something like tesseract it is not worth it.
ComputerPerson•42m ago
I've got a scan from a book that I OCR with new releases. Ligatures, critical sigla, Fraktur letterforms, subscripts, superscripts, etc.

Nothing special about this model for overly-detailed work like mine.

It's been a while since I last tested (and discontinued my subscription), but the "pro" models from OpenAI dominate. Not surprising, given the price difference, but it would be nice if an OCR-specific model could perform better. It's worth mentioning that even the highest-end models do a pretty poor job with intricate text like mine.

petcat•37m ago
> the "pro" models from OpenAI dominate. Not surprising considering the price difference, but it would ne nice if an OCR-specific model could do better.

I haven't been impressed with any of Mistral's models. They obviously realized that they couldn't compete at the frontier so they decided to go for smaller focused models but even those have not been that good.

rtaylorgarlock•31m ago
Yet: how is pricing? Evaluating contents and routing appropriately isn't a new challenge in OCR, one of the oldest fields of applications in ML. Thus, how do the smaller open models perform in tandem with relatively pricy $/pg models & APIs? Your use case is remarkably rare relative to the volume and price sensitivity of enterprise data warehouse ops.
ComputerPerson•19m ago
I won't pretend to have any idea. My "benchmark" is very application-specific.

People seem to be complaining about the price, but I wouldn't be so quick to judge considering the advertised capabilities.

ianhawes•27m ago
I won't comment on accuracy, but in internal benchmarks, Mistral OCR is significantly faster than comparable APIs.
Johnny_Bonk•25m ago
How does this compare to Baidu Unlimited OCR. I've been very impressed with Baidu and it's essentially free to run on a decent computer, other than electricity costs.
spiderfarmer•22m ago
Where do your documents go?
rescbr•14m ago
They go to the decent computer hosting the model, which can be yours if you pay the electricity costs
maz1b•25m ago
How does this compare to 4?