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Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html
22•CommonGuy•1h ago

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bigcat12345678•13m ago
How is ornith-1.5's base model developed? Is the base model one of the Open weights models, or one pre trained by ornith team from scratch? I couldn't find information to answer this question in the article.
goldemerald•9m ago
It looks like they post-trained Qwen3.6. Interesting to see how far they could improve it with they harness/algorithm.

Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/11/civic-hygiene/
121•felineflock•38m ago•57 comments

Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

https://yassa9.github.io/osint/gralhix-004/
232•yassa9•4h ago•47 comments

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2026/08/19/sondehub-and-war/
314•kareiva•5h ago•41 comments

OpenLogi

https://openlogi.org/en
1299•amatheus•14h ago•357 comments

Microgpt in pure C hits 10M tps on Apple m5

https://github.com/vixhal-baraiya/microgpt-c
48•dhorthy•1d ago•10 comments

Launch HN: OneCLI (YC S26) – OSS sandboxed agent harness for teams

https://github.com/onecli/onecli
4•guyb3•16m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL for Everything

https://www.raphaelbauer.com:443/posts/postgresql-everything/
157•karlmush•3h ago•107 comments

Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma

https://twitter.com/NoubarAfeyan/status/2090050162441752787
271•heydenberk•3h ago•111 comments

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730
446•exceptione•4h ago•265 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...
81•downbad_•1h ago•33 comments

Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

https://ornith.ai/ornith_1_5.html
23•CommonGuy•1h ago•2 comments

Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam

https://theremin.bizibah.com/
165•gurov•6h ago•65 comments

Taffy: A flexible, high-performance, cross-platform UI layout library

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy
59•robin_reala•6d ago•23 comments

Extensible Software in the Age of LLMs

https://jeremymorrell.dev/blog/extensible-software-in-the-age-of-llms/
3•coloneltcb•19m ago•0 comments

Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Faithful

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08679
4•florianherrengt•26m ago•1 comments

A decades-old bug in Knuth's long division (TAOCP Vol II, Algorithm 4.3.1D)

https://kolja.rs/algorithm-d/
103•nk_kolja•6d ago•21 comments

Cerebras CS-4

https://www.cerebras.ai/cs4
407•sunils34•16h ago•247 comments

Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elite

https://phys.org/news/2026-08-forged-meteorites-fashionable-ancient-greek.html
86•pseudolus•5d ago•35 comments

Being ambitious and being a dad

https://nicholascharriere.com/blog/being-ambitious-and-being-a-dad/
789•nichochar•3d ago•598 comments

Supersonic Trebuchet [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co57SfcT-h0
209•CharlesW•4d ago•92 comments

Mathematics in the Age of AI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.16753
7•jonbaer•1h ago•2 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/
74•__fst__•1h ago•59 comments

Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things

https://homosabiens.substack.com/p/activation-energy-is-a-good-model
117•surprisetalk•5d ago•32 comments

Show HN: Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes

https://github.com/enthdegree/f100
25•enthdegree•4d ago•12 comments

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/
155•matt_d•14h ago•37 comments

A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly
355•phoenix120•18h ago•163 comments

How does IKEA come up with names for its products?

https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc...
427•NaOH•22h ago•304 comments

λλ: A Programming Language for Silicon Photonics

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829151
74•matt_d•10h ago•16 comments

Finger: the 1971 social network that never died

https://en.andros.dev/blog/54572bc7/finger-the-1971-social-network-that-never-died/
296•andros•1d ago•99 comments

A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux

https://www.xda-developers.com/25-year-old-brazilian-video-patent-expired-legal-headache-linux/
288•theanonymousone•4d ago•143 comments