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Ember-1
We heard from users that they needed K3’s coding capabilities at a lower cost, because its long reasoning traces made automated coding expensive at scale. Turning down K3's reasoning effort didn't solve this. Lower effort settings gave up too much quality. To keep the quality and cut the tokens, the model had to learn to reason more efficiently, and that meant training it.
Getting there took serious research. Our team ran more than 50 training experiments and over 200 evaluations, and developed…
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The state of SIMD in Rust in 2026
A lot of progress was made since last year, and I made some of it!
After last year's survey I started contributing to the SIMD library that seemed the most promising. One thing led to another, and now I'm a maintainer of Fearless SIMD.
To avoid a conflict of interest, I invited authors of other libraries (std::simd, wide, pulp, macerator) to review and provide feedback on a draft of this article. However, I retained editorial control, and all mistakes are my own.
This year's survey is more in…
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Alan Kay's answer to "Did the ENIAC have a BIOS"?
Alan Kay's answer: I’m pretty sure it nether had a BIOS, nor anything analogous to a BIOS. I’m on the side of those who don’t consider it to be a stored program computer (there were a few tricks you could do along those lines, but not enough IMO to qualify). An interesting question is whether th
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Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi
Lofi Cities is a free web app that pairs animated pixel-art city nights with endless lofi music generated live in your browser. Pick a city and let it run: every scene is a 480×270 pixel animation that loops seamlessly every four minutes, with its own weather, landmarks and city sounds, while new lofi tracks are composed on the fly.
There is nothing to install, no account and no pop-ups. It works on computers, phones and tablets, and makes a calm background for studying, working or winding down…
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In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life
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Oral history of John Chowning, inventor of FM synthesis [video]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chowning
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Imp is a full port of DSPy to the BEAM
https://hex.pm/packages/imp
https://dspy.ai/current/
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Writing Efficient C++ Code (2013)
This article was originally published in Polish in issue 4/2013 (11) of Programista magazine.
Although high-level languages—scripting, interpreted, or running in a virtual machine—have many advantages and are the best choice for numerous applications, sometimes we need to write code that is as efficient as possible. Choosing a native language such as C++ is not enough. Only some knowledge and familiarity with good practices will let us get the most computing power out of the hardware.
C++ is a…
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Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
Hello! Recently I needed bike lights for my bike. And I remembered that I already had rechargeable bike lights that I bought ten years ago, that I hadn’t tried in a long time. I tried to recharge them, but after fully charging them, they only worked for maybe 5 minutes before they turned off again.
I don’t know much about electronics, but I’ve been curious about whether it’s possible to fix old electronics for a long time, and this seemed like the perfect repair project because I might just nee…
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Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
One of the good features of Go is that you namespace your code with the location to fetch the code. This means if you host your Go code at http://github.com/thetrueares/boneclone then you have the line import “github.com/thetrueares/boneclone” and Go will fetch it using git. This makes it super easy to know where to go to report bugs for open source libraries and really easy to fetch and distribute go libraries without a centralised package management system. For many, it’s literally the locatio…
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Moscow invites North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for official visit
Russia has extended an official invitation to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit the country, a deputy foreign minister said Thursday, according to the TASS state news agency.
Moscow and Pyongyang have drawn markedly closer in recent years, with North Korea sending troops to fight alongside Russian forces in Ukraine in 2024 and deepening military cooperation under a mutual defense pact.
Pyongyang refuses to halt nuclear tests
North Korea's foreign ministry on Thursday rejected an intern…
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UK to open new refugee resettlement routes for Afghan women and Palestinians
Shabana Mahmood will announce a new legal route for refugees that prioritises Afghan women and girls and Palestinians, unfreezing a scheme that will put the most vulnerable refugees on a faster path to permanent status.
The change marks a shift in Mahmood’s approach to asylum seekers after the abrupt closure of the Afghan resettlement scheme last year and changes that will keep refugee status under constant review for two decades.
The home secretary is to say the changes will show there is fai…
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The US rejected Iran’s peace proposal because Iranian negotiators “were asking for everything up front” and was not negotiating ‘in good faith’ to end the ongoing war, says US Ambassador to UN Mike Waltz
The Trump administration’s ambassador to the United Nations said the US rejected Iran’s proposal to end the ongoing war there because Iranian negotiators “were asking for everything up front”.
Echoing comments by Donald Trump on Saturday, the president’s UN ambassador Mike Waltz told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday that Iran had asked for relief “from billions and billions of sanctions that are going into place” as part of an economic blockade on Iran. The blockade is aimed at putting pressu…
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Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran ready for ‘doomsday’ war with U.S., but leaves diplomacy on the table
Daily life continues in the strategic port city of Bandar Abbas on the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the United States, as Iranians spend time along the city's waterfront at sunset in Bandar Abbas, Iran on September 12, 2026.
Fatemeh Bahrami | Anadolu | Getty Images
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Sunday that his country is ready for a "doomsday" war with the U.S., but that he is leaving diplomacy on the table so as not to "miss any chance for peace."
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Swiss voters reject stricter neutrality rules that would have curbed Nato cooperation
Swiss voters have decisively rejected a proposal for a strict definition of neutrality that would have required Switzerland to curb cooperation with Nato and abandon sanctions against Russia.
All cantons and about 70% of voters rejected the proposal for a strictly defined version of neutrality to be written into the Swiss constitution, final results from the Federal Statistical Office showed. The motion had been promoted by the far-right Swiss People’s party (SVP).
Although the defeat was exp…
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These are the first feathers ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop
Feathers like this one (shown at 200x magnification) preserved in fossilized dung from a meat-eating dinosaur such as a juvenile T. rex or Nanotyrannus could help explain why only some birds went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
J.K. O’Connor et al/Current Biology 2026
Exquisitely preserved feathers, the first ever found in fossilized dinosaur poop, are providing a peek into how some ancient birds lived — and possibly went extinct.
Dense bristles suggest some of the feathers could…
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Study identifies the values most strongly associated with rejecting antidemocratic politicians, offering new insight into why some voters resist leaders who challenge democratic norms.
New research suggests that an individual’s personal commitment to the institutions of liberal democracy can act as a buffer against voting for politicians who threaten democratic rules. The findings indicate that while political party loyalty heavily influences voter choices, a deep-seated support for democratic principles helps people resist candidates who might otherwise erode democratic norms. The study was published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
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High dietary cholesterol intake was associated with a 63% increased risk of pancreatic cancer in the case-control studies of a recent meta-analysis, whereas there was no association in the cohort studies. Total fat intake showed no association in either study type.
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A recent study suggests that people in the general population who possess higher levels of autistic-like traits tend to avoid positive, affectionate behaviors to maintain their romantic relationships.
The research was led by Andrzej Łukasik, a PhD with habilitation and head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Rzeszow’s Collegium Medicum in Poland, who aimed to explore how subtle personality traits shape romantic behavior from an evolutionary perspective. The central focus of the study is autistic-like traits, which refer to patterns of social functioning, communication difficulties, and rigid thinking. “Autistic-like traits (ALTs) are personality, social, and cognitive charac…
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How companies use digital dark patterns to trick online consumers into handed-over personal tracking data for behavioral advertising. 86% of the websites audited used deceptive visual configurations on their cookies and privacy ad banners to manipulate choice.
Nearly nine in 10 (86%) UK-licensed online gambling websites are operating in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation, according to new research from the Gambling Research, Education and Treatment (GREAT) Centre at Swansea University.
The study audited the cookie consent banners and network traffic of all 624 casino and sports betting websites licensed by the Gambling Commission. The team found that:
Two-thirds (67%) of sites began collecting personally identifiable data before users…
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If AI can hack a government, the time to pull the plug is now
What does it mean if AI hacks a government? Because that’s exactly what it’s done – the Australian PM Anthony Albanese has confirmed that an OpenAI agent “infiltrated” a statistics portal on an Australian government website, which contained private data from its universal healthcare scheme, Medicare. It is the world’s first known AI breach of a government system, and it happened three months ago. As to why we’re only finding out about this now, well – it’s because AI didn’t tell anyone. It “didn…
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Microsoft gutted the Age of Empires studio while folding it into Activision
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What we know so far: World's Edge, the Microsoft studio that oversees the Age of Empires franchise, has lost nearly half its staff in the latest round of Xbox layoffs. The cuts coincided with Microsoft's decision to place the studio under Activision. Former employees also said the studio's next project was canceled during the transition. The moves raise questions about World's Edge's future role a…
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AI Battle Between Insurers and Hospitals Jacked Up Patient Prices by Nearly $1 Billion
Artificial intelligence proponents claim AI will make healthcare more efficient, but an analysis published Wednesday suggests that the burgeoning technology is instead helping hospitals identify more lucrative diagnoses—and is driving nearly $1 billion in additional costs for patients and insurers.
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) analysis found that the share of inpatient cases billed as "medically complex" rose from 37% at the beginning of 2023 to 40% by the end of 2025. While t…
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Users find a default, mandatory Windows feature freezes your PC when you use internet
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OpenAI pauses training after a model escaped containment, and its kill switch failed
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What just happened? As almost every new day brings stories of another AI agent going rogue and breaching an organization's systems, OpenAI has announced a pause in the training of its most powerful artificial intelligence models. The announcement came hours after the company disclosed more incidents of its agents acting concerningly, and a separate report that its agents unsuccessfully tried to ha…
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“They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.”
A Mastodon post by computer scientist David Chisnall has a very Unsung opener:
I have used vim since around 2000. I have written five books, a PhD thesis, a few dozen papers and over 150 articles with it. At this point, my higher brain functions are not engaged at all when I use a bunch of common vim commands, they just happen. Documents I wrote with anything else have random :w in the middle.
Chisnall goes on to talk about one specific vim feature:
Persistent undo is one of my favourite feat…
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Ten Lines Of Code That Changed My World
Ten lines of code that, one way or another, mean something to me. Either because I wrote them, or I extensively copied them, or they made me laugh. Or cry.
10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!"
20 GOTO 10
I don’t know when I typed this for the first time, or if it was exactly this version. Might have been without the comma, or with more exclamation marks.
Nevertheless, the computer obliged, cheerfully greeting the world, and very much in particular, the wide-eyed kid who had just communicated with a compu…
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One month without AI
Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and feature requests — but I wanted to avoid future drama and have a position against AI.
However, although I was not using AI for my FOSS contributions, I kept using it at work. In my workplace, as well as in many of my developer friends’, using…
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LuaRocks Security Incident September 2026
On September 25th, 2026 we received a report of a remote code execution vulnerability in LuaRocks.org, coordinated through CISA. The vulnerability was fixed on September 26th. While investigating, we found that it had been exploited on the LuaRocks.org server several times between July 9th and August 20th, 2026.
Because an attacker was able to run code on the server, we are treating everything that server had access to as exposed. The site has been moved to a newly built server, and every crede…
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postmarketOS rebrands as Nura
After a one and a half year selection process, the new name of the operating system formerly known postmarketOS has been announced during the mystery talk of our very own conference. From now on this project is known as Nura!
Nuraghe from Macomer
by Sailko, CC-BY-3.0
Nura comes as an abbreviation of Nuraghe, which are ancient (3000 BC and older) granite structures found in Sardinia in Italy, many of which still stand today. The deeper meaning is the stability and the resistance to millenniums,…
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Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
Valve's Steam client beta today introduced Pyrowave as an experimental video codec for high bandwidth, low-latency video streaming. Following rumors over the summer of Valve working on a new "Pyrowave" video encoding method for Steam Linux, today it's rolled out in beta/experimental form for streaming. Pyrowave is available with today's Steam beta on Windows and macOS as well as Linux, for Linux if using the experimental SteamRT3 Steam client. This high bandwidth, low-latency video codec was de…
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Rusty thoughts on "Parse, don't validate"
Like many programmers, I find Alexis King's Parse, don't validate article fascinating, because it gives a name to an idiom that seems familiar and important - one I've observed and used in the past without naming it explicitly. This post is a review of the "Parse, don't validate" pattern applied to the Rust programming language (the original post uses Haskell). I was particularly interested in finding educational examples of this pattern in the Rust standard library and other well-known projects…
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After 5 Years and 28 Miles on Mars, NASA's Perseverance Rover Is Still Searching for Clues to Ancient Life
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Synthetic Opioid Cychlorphine Is Spreading Through the U.S. Drug Supply — Here’s What to Know
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African Elephants May Eat Medicinal Plants to Treat Ailments Like Upset Stomachs and Exhaustion
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First Okapi Born in Southeast Asia Is Spending His First Months Playing Hide-and-Seek
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Umwelt Suggests That Every Animal Experiences the World Differently — and it Can Change How We Study Them
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The 2026 Harvest Moon Rises This Weekend With Saturn Shining Nearby
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First New Cat Species in a Century, an mRNA Flu Vaccine, and Earth's Magnetic Field Could Affect How We Age
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This Week’s books in Programming
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Valerian (c. 199 – 260 or 264) was Roman emperor from 253 to spring 260 AD. Valerian is known as the first Roman emperor to have been taken captive in battle, captured by the Persian emperor Shapur I after the Battle of Edessa.
"Valerianus" redirects here. For other people, see Valerianus (name).
Bust, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek[1]
Roman emperor
Reign September 253 – June 260
Predecessor Aemilian
Successor Gallienus (alone)
Co-emperor Gallienus
Born c. 199[2]
Died After 260 AD
Bishapur or Gundishapur
Spouses
Mariniana
Cornelia Gallonia
Issue
Detail
Gallienus
Licinius Valerianus
Names
Publius Licinius Valerianus[3]
Regnal name
Imperator Caesar Publius Licinius Valerianus Augustus
Dynasty Valerian
Valerian ( və-LEER-ee-…
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Article photo for Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu is entirely symmetrical
Piano
keyboards
Label Dog Ear Records
Website dogearrecords.com
Nobuo Uematsu (植松 伸夫, Uematsu Nobuo; born March 21, 1959) is a Japanese composer and keyboardist best known for his contributions to the Final Fantasy video game series by Square Enix.[1][2] A self-taught musician, he began playing the piano at the age of twelve.[3] Uematsu joined Square in 1986, where he first met Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi. The two later worked together on many games at the company, most notably in…
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Victor Marx is an American political candidate who is the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado in the 2026 election. He was born to a man named Karl Marx. He has made several claims about his life and background that have been seen as sensational and controversial.
Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse
Eileen Marx
(m. 1987)
Children 5
Military career
Allegiance United States
Branch United States Marine Corps
Service years 1983–1986
Unit 9th Communication Battalion
Website Campaign website
Victor Marx (born July 5, 1965) is an American author, minister, and political candidate. He is the Republican nominee for governor of Colorado in the 2026 election, where he will face the Democratic nominee Phil Weiser.[1][2] Marx has mad…
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On 27 July 1990 Jamaat al Muslimeen, an extremist Islamist group, instigated an attempted coup d'état against the government of Trinidad and Tobago. On 1 August, the insurgents surrendered with the promise of amnesty. They were charged with treason, but ordered released due to the amnesty.
Eternal flame and 1990 Coup Attempt Memorial, the Red House, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Date 27 July – 1 August 1990
Location
Trinidad and Tobago
Result Government victory
(coup suppression, 24 people dead including some insurrectionists, millions of dollars in property damage and losses)
Belligerents
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
Government of Trinidad and Tobago
Defence Forces
Police Service Jamaat al Muslimeen
Commanders and leaders
A. N. R. Robinson (Prime Minister)
Winston Ch…
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Anne McDonald was a nonverbal Australian woman with cerebral palsy and severe intellectual disability, and one of the first subjects of the scientifically discredited facilitated communication technique. She was credited as an author and activist despite having no legitimate means of communication.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Anne McDonald Centre, a centre for facilitated communication use in Melbourne directed by Rosemary Crossley.
Anne McDonald (11 January 1961 – 22 October 2010) was a nonverbal Australian woman with cerebral palsy and severe intellectual disability who was one of the first subjects of the scientifically discredited facilitated communication (FC) technique. McDonald was credited as an author and activist despite not having a legitimate means of communicati…
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Arthur Brooks: Your Parents Raised You. What Do You Owe Them?
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Two drinks with Rachel Dolezal. Should a woman voice Aslan in ‘Narnia’? The lady who went on 50 firs…
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The Vegan Catholic Philosophers of Princeton
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How Communism Kills Kindness
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Two Drinks with...Rachel Dolezal
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Why You Should Care That Aslan Is a Woman
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‘Fauda’ Tells the World the Truth. How to Find Love. Plus . . .
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2026.39: Begun, the Aggregator Wars Have
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AI Killed the MVP – Long Live the IUP
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An Interview with Colossus EIC Jeremy Stern About Profiling Mark Zuckerberg
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The Year AI Came For Us: Teaching Entrepreneurship Will Never Be The Same
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More on Muse, Amazon, and Walmart; Muse and Expedia; Whither Google?
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Amazon Blocks Muse, Amazon’s Moat, Aggregator v Aggregator
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Frontier Overhangs
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #212
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Would We Send Our Kids to HAA?
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