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More Floating Point Alternatives

https://wizardzines.com/comics/floating-point-alternatives/

7•vismit2000•2d ago

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MiroslavPokorny•1d ago

Strange the most obvious - fixed point numbers is not mentioned.

vismit2000•1d ago

https://wizardzines.com/comics/fixed-point/

schiffern•1d ago

None of the base 10 formats, but the hobby calculation language Frink supports exact rational fractions, arbitrary width bigints (not pictured), intervals arithmetic, and symbolic expressions.

https://frinklang.org/fsp/frink.fsp?fromVal=new+interval%5B-...

Xiaomi MiMo v2.6

https://mimo.xiaomi.com/mimo-v2-6

552•volf_•5h ago•280 comments

Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models

https://status.claude.com/incidents/7g1qpkyz5gxh

50•corvad•57m ago•26 comments

Spymarks, Not Watermarks

https://brand.io/article/spymarks/

121•possibilistic•2h ago•28 comments

I don't want to read what you didn't write

https://blog.colinbreck.com/i-dont-want-to-read-what-you-didnt-write/

268•mooreds•3h ago•99 comments

Transformers Explained Visually

https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/

208•aray07•6h ago•36 comments

NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead

https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-s-mars-sample-return-mission-dead

315•Muhammad523•6h ago•246 comments

What Sun got wrong

https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/20/what-sun-got-wrong/

500•chmaynard•11h ago•289 comments

Attention is all you have

https://alicegg.tech/2026/09/21/attention

584•zer0tonin•11h ago•176 comments

AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

https://linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck-reworked

143•julian_digital•6h ago•143 comments

Divide by depth for instant 3D

https://gabrieloc.com/2026/09/15/perspective.html

86•gabrieloc•2d ago•9 comments

Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1094575/2385e98583715c2b/

32•chmaynard•2h ago•7 comments

The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/21/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-artificial-intelligence/

88•digital55•6h ago•42 comments

First Shader from Zero in Godot 4

https://www.gdquest.com/library/first_shader_godot4_portal/

32•ibobev•15h ago•2 comments

More Floating Point Alternatives

https://wizardzines.com/comics/floating-point-alternatives/

8•vismit2000•2d ago•3 comments

How do traffic signals work? (2019)

https://practical.engineering/blog/2019/5/11/how-do-traffic-signals-work

61•at1as•9h ago•46 comments

Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?

https://safedep.io/mathmain-encrypted-loader/

111•abhisek•7h ago•30 comments

Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)

https://wondermark.com/socrates-vs-writing/

6•spectraldrift•1h ago•0 comments

Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware

https://timdettmers.com/2026/09/21/dlab-open-source-week/

103•pretext•7h ago•54 comments

Robin Williams' Daughter to Fans Creating AI Videos: 'Have Some Shame'

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/robin-williams-daughter-ai-videos-1236871568/

17•CharlesW•37m ago•0 comments

Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/turn-restrict-access-apple-intelligence-mchlb2e44f94/mac

243•alwillis•8h ago•164 comments

Grok 4.7

https://x.ai/news/grok-4-7

501•meetpateltech•10h ago•417 comments

Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/300

104•luu•7h ago•28 comments

Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5

https://github.com/jaredpalmer/kev/tree/main

407•tosh•18h ago•184 comments

Paper Models of Polyhedra

https://www.polyhedra.net/en/

3•pykello•2d ago•0 comments

HERMES radio enables voice and data communication over vast distances

https://spectrum.ieee.org/hermes-shortwave-radio-digital-data

99•SamuraiLion•9h ago•40 comments

The agents, they just want to talk

https://snats.xyz/pages/articles/political_ecology/the_agents_they_just_want_to_talk.html

13•snats•9h ago•4 comments

Python Workers are now generally available

https://blog.cloudflare.com/python-workers-ga/

183•torutofu•12h ago•32 comments

Roboharm: Do frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions?

https://robocurve.org/roboharm/

36•msadowski•7h ago•17 comments

TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/

21•andsoitis•20h ago•2 comments

US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/faa-halts-some-us-east-coast-flights-due-communication-issues-20...

201•allanbreyes•7h ago•116 comments