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Zero-knowledge Image Editing and Compression

Zero-knowledge Image Editing and Compression

๐Ÿš€ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Paper 2026/2039 ZK-JPEG: Zero-knowledge Image Editing and Compression Samuel Dittmer, Stealth Software Technologies, Inc. Steve Lu, Stealth Software Technologies, Inc. Kimberlee Model, Stealth Software Technologies, Inc. Joseph Near, University of Vermont Abstract Tools for generating deep fake photographs are proliferating with greater ease of use and prominence in pop culture. Image authentication tools can defeat these deceitful developments by verifying that a digital image was actually produced by a physical camera. The challenge is that these tools must be robust to desirable image transformations. …
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trycua/cua: Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation. ยท GitHub

trycua/cua: Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation. ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Bring your own agent and model, or explore CUA-S1 for specialized decisions. Cua provides the computer and automation tools. Computer-Use 2.0 describes an agent moving between code, APIs, and graphical interfaces within the same task. Two Cua Driver sessions select cells in LibreOffice Calc and objects in Inkscape on an Omarchy desktop while a terminal stays in the foreground. Watch the 50-second demo, then explore Omarchy on Fleet. recording.mp4 Provision isolated cloud desktops at run.cua.ai. A Fleet maintains sandbox capacity; your code claims a desktop…
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The people who know the most often sound the least certain

The people who know the most often sound the least certain

โœจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I watched Dwarkesh Patelโ€™s recent conversation with John Schulman, Beren Millidge and Charlie Oโ€™Neill this week. For an hour and a half, some of the smartest people working in AI tried to reason, in public, about genuinely difficult questions.Can AI automate AI research? Can it choose its own research objectives? Does progress hit a wall when the thing we need cannot be turned into a clean reward? What happens when models become better at running experiments but humans are still needed to decide which experiments…
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Why I Think You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive

Why I Think You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: I think you should almost never use AI to write -- that is, to do the thing youโ€™re doing when you type words on a page -- whether for a blog post, a research report, a memo, a thoughtful email, a novel, or any other text aimed at conveying an idea, an argument, an analysis, or other substantive thoughts. I think this is the case even when you give the AI very detailed bullet points, dictated thoughts, or other context, and even when you edit…
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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: IntroIโ€™ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and Iโ€™d like to think Iโ€™ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the functional side of Rust like clean functions, expressive types, that sort of thing. But Iโ€™m always curious about other languages, and Zig has been on my radar for a while as a candidate C successor: lower-level, lighter-weight, and steadily earning its place among the languages people…
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mindbox77/zxdesk: A GUI operating system for the 48K ZX Spectrum, in Z80 assembly ยท GitHub

mindbox77/zxdesk: A GUI operating system for the 48K ZX Spectrum, in Z80 assembly ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum 48K, written in Z80 assembly. Overlapping windows with a z order and focus, pull down menus, a heap, an event queue, a storage layer with swappable backends, dialogues, controls, a notepad, a clock, a calendar, a two pane file manager, and a settings panel that actually changes things. It all fits in 48K on a machine from 1982, and it can drag a window inside a single 69,888 T state frame. It runs on the real thing, not…
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Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy as you age

Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy as you age

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Learning another language is a highly complex mental activity. It requires people to remember words, distinguish unfamiliar sounds, recognize patterns, work out grammatical rules and retrieve the right expression at the right moment. All of this happens while listening, interpreting and preparing a response. Could all this mental activity also help keep an aging brain healthier? Research suggests it can. Concerns about memory and dementia can send aging adults looking for ways to exercise their brain and maintain cognitive function, whether it is solving…
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Needle 3 – 8-29 MB foundation model for tiny devices

Needle 3 – 8-29 MB foundation model for tiny devices

โœจ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Install the Python package. The inference engine is fetched once from Hugging Face and cached; there is nothing else to build.Needle reads your tool descriptions to decide what to call and how to fill arguments, so describing them well is the whole game.Simple: decorate a function. The signature gives the argument types, the docstring is the tool description, and run() completes the loop: the model picks the call, Needle executes your function, feeds the result back, and returns the final response with the executed tool…
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Laya โ€” 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine with Calibrated Probabilities

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Everyone in AI right now is talking about a new kind of model: an architecture that is not autoregressive, does not generate text, and gives lightning-fast probability predictions over structured schemas.Seeing the hype online feels both validating and deeply frustrating.I worked on this literally one year back in March 2025. I spent months of hard work, sweat, and sleepless nights building it, published an arXiv paper (arXiv:2503.23303), released the model weights on Hugging Face (sales-conversion-model-reinf-learning), published the open dataset (saas-sales-conversations), built a PyPI package, and…
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AI-generated posters donโ€™t have to be horrible | โ€˜ERE I AM

AI-generated posters donโ€™t have to be horrible | โ€˜ERE I AM

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The problem A now famous Facebook post shows us the scourge of identikit posters generated by AI. Hereโ€™s an article on the subject from the Independent. A collage of AI-generated village fayre posters found online Hereโ€™s another I found in the wild. With apologies for picking on the Leamington Beer Festival - they are by no means unique Leamington Beer Festival 2026 โ€” with commentary from a passer-by The problem with these is not so much that theyโ€™re bad. Theyโ€™re OK, I donโ€™t love them.…
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