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Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
33•E-Reverance•1h ago

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api•34m ago
It sounds like this is less computationally efficient than backprop, but more easily parallelizable. Is that fair?

Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam
222•Philpax•3h ago•62 comments

Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation

https://qlabs.sh/research/dust
47•E-Reverance•1h ago•3 comments

Find the flattest route between any two points in SF

https://flattensf.com/
31•ishan0102•57m ago•7 comments

Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates

https://www.vals.ai/blogs/room-temperature-magnetic-semiconductors
123•outlier99•1h ago•106 comments

Web Search API

https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-10-02-introducing-web-search-api/
456•tosh•11h ago•208 comments

Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf]

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf
76•vinhnx•2d ago•17 comments

Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort

https://smyck.net/2026/10/03/holocron-the-backup-of-last-resort/
21•hukl•1d ago•18 comments

Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1

https://floreal.tech/blog/2026/making-a-gtk-app-in-haskell-part-1/
118•Vosporos•8h ago•26 comments

Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge

https://www.techspot.com/news/114091-florida-woman-used-claude-diary-anthropic-reported-shoot.html
430•emptybits•17h ago•360 comments

A third way of using Linux

https://hisvirusness.com/third-is-the-way
13•speckx•2h ago•23 comments

How to save a life without knowing CPR

https://bookofjoe2.blogspot.com/2026/10/beyondthemedspeak-how-to-save-life.html
53•bookofjoe•3d ago•38 comments

Incident with Actions

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/3q1yb5m7ltvb
83•hising•2h ago•53 comments

The Future of Mathematics

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/the-future-of-mathematics/
65•smilelamp•3h ago•26 comments

Linux containers in 500 lines of code (2016)

https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.html
83•mkornaukhov•8h ago•17 comments

Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear

https://github.com/rsutcliffe/nightwatch
64•delphidolphin•1d ago•9 comments

The lamps in my house

https://arslan.io/2026/10/05/the-lamps-in-my-house/
94•farslan•8h ago•54 comments

Apple and a hacker's future

https://stratechery.com/2026/apple-and-a-hackers-future/
176•maguay•12h ago•173 comments

Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-05/qualcomm-licenses-patents-on-huawei-s-logicfol...
168•0xedb•14h ago•105 comments

DEDA – Tracking Dots Extraction, Decoding and Anonymisation Toolkit

https://github.com/dfd-tud/deda
3•greyface-•1d ago•0 comments

The first fully implanted cochlear implant reaches patients

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant
51•rbanffy•4d ago•52 comments

Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses

https://www.barrons.com/news/norway-eyes-partial-ban-of-smart-glasses-e65dc239
106•pseudolus•4h ago•64 comments

2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: Deisseroth, Hegemann, Nagel

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2026/summary/
112•lode•13h ago•45 comments

Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/
127•AlexeyBrin•2d ago•98 comments

Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`

https://blog.haskell.org/foldl-and-foldr/
123•signa11•4d ago•29 comments

The era of software quality, or the era of ostriches?

https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2026/10/02/the-era-of-software-quality-or-the-era-of-ostriches/
14•vinhnx•2d ago•58 comments

The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/mosquitoes-are-a-choice/
228•benbreen•1d ago•176 comments

Martian chaos terrain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_chaos_terrain
94•tiagod•3d ago•25 comments

Greenvolt begins building 600 MW/2.4 GWh BESS in Poland

https://www.ess-news.com/2026/09/25/greenvolt-begins-building-600-mw-2-4-gwh-bess-in-poland/
52•msalsas•4h ago•31 comments

Hot Flashing Guide Rev. 2.0 (2004)

https://archive.techarp.com/showarticle504a.html?pgno=0
12•userbinator•2d ago•1 comments

Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41564-pixel-11-doesnt-yet-meet-the-grapheneos-security-standards...
385•finnlab•9h ago•228 comments