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Billion-Parameter Theories โ€“ Sean Linehan

Billion-Parameter Theories โ€“ Sean Linehan

โœจ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: For most of human history, the things we couldn't explain, we called mystical. The movement of stars, the trajectories of projectiles, the behavior of gases. Then, over the course of a few centuries, we pulled these phenomena into the domain of human inquiry. We called it science. What's remarkable, in retrospect, is how terse those explanations turned out to be. F=ma. E=mcยฒ. PV=nRT. The universe, or at least vast swaths of it, submitted to compression ratios that seem almost unreasonable. You could capture the behavior…
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RunanywhereAI/RCLI: Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG ยท GitHub

RunanywhereAI/RCLI: Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. On-device voice AI + RAG ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Talk to your Mac, query your docs, no cloud required. RCLI is an on-device voice AI for macOS. A complete STT + LLM + TTS pipeline running natively on Apple Silicon โ€” 43 macOS actions via voice, local RAG over your documents, sub-200ms end-to-end latency. No cloud, no API keys. Powered by MetalRT, a proprietary GPU inference engine built by RunAnywhere, Inc. specifically for Apple Silicon. Real-time screen recordings on Apple Silicon โ€” no cloud, no edits, no tricks. Voice ConversationTalk naturally โ€” RCLI listens,…
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Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Daily links from Cory Doctorow

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A core tenet of the enshittification hypothesis is that all the terrible stuff we're subjected to in our digital lives today is the result of foreseeable (and foreseen) policy choices, which created the enshittogenic policy environment in which the worst people's worst ideas make the most money: https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence Take commercial surveillance. Google didn't have to switch from content-based ads (which chose ads based on your search terms and the contents of webpages) to surveillance-based ads (which used dossiers on your searches, emails, purchases and…
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Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) โ€“ Stripe for Identity Verification

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Hi HN, Iโ€™m Alberto. I co-founded Didit (https://didit.me) with my identical twin brother Alejandro. We are building a unified identity layerโ€”a single integration that handles KYC, AML, biometrics, authentication, and fraud prevention globally. Hereโ€™s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTdcg7JCc4M&t=7s.Being identical twins, weโ€™ve spent our whole lives dealing with identity confusion, so it is a bit of irony that we ended up building a company to solve it for the internet.Growing up in Barcelona, we spent years working on products where identity issues were a massive pain. We…
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Rebasing in Magit

Rebasing in Magit

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Here I have opened the git log1 Iโ€™m sorry about the mouse cursor โ€“ itโ€™s an artifact of selecting the area to screenshot., by first opening Magit (which I have bound to the F3 key), and then pressing lL. The first l is the prefix key for dealing with the git log, and the second L is to to view the log for all local branches (and the remote branches they track.) Hypothetically, if we wanted to run a more complicated log command, it…
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Hisense VIDAA TVs reportedly add unskippable startup ads before live TV

Hisense VIDAA TVs reportedly add unskippable startup ads before live TV

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Hisense Smart TV owners are reporting a new ad placement that goes beyond the usual home-screen tiles and sponsored recommendations: a mandatory advertisement shown immediately after powering on the TV. According to user posts, the ad appears before viewers can reach live TV or the first channel, even when the goal is simply to watch traditional broadcast programming rather than launch a streaming app. Similar complaints also reference Toshiba and JVC-branded televisions that run the same VIDAA operating system, which suggests the behavior is linked…
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FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE Announcement | The FreeBSD Project

๐Ÿš€ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is now available for the amd64, i386, aarch64, armv7, powerpc, powerpc64, and riscv64 architectures. FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE can be installed from bootable ISO images or over the network. Some architectures also support installing from a USB memory stick. The required files can be downloaded as described below. SHA512 and SHA256 hashes for the release ISO, memory stick, and SD card images are included at the bottom of this message. PGP-signed checksums for the release images are also available at: A PGP-signed version of this…
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A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications ยซ bunnie’s blog

A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications ยซ bunnie’s blog

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: One of my latest projects is the Baochip-1x, a mostly-open, full-custom silicon chip fabricated in TSMC 22nm, targeted at high assurance applications. Itโ€™s a security chip, but far more open than any other security chip; itโ€™s also a general purpose microcontroller that fills a gap in between the Raspberry Pi RP2350 (found on the Pi Pico2) and the NXP iMXRT1062 (found on the Teensy 4.1). Itโ€™s the latest step in the Betrusted initiative, spurred by work I did with Ed Snowden 8 years ago trying…
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Getting Started | Lisp-Stat

Getting Started | Lisp-Stat

๐Ÿš€ Discover this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: An easy way to start with Lisp-Stat Monday, 09 March 2026 Itโ€™s never been easy for a developer to get started in Common Lisp. Emacs, though a powerful editor, isnโ€™t considered an IDE by modern standards. Setting up a compiler, quicklisp, slime, swank, and then learning an entirely new programming paradigm has scared off many would-be entrants to the Common Lisp community. Given the size of the Common Lisp community this is understandable. Making the new user experience smooth and frictionless as possible is hard…
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Long-Context Geometric Reconstruction with Hybrid Memory

Long-Context Geometric Reconstruction with Hybrid Memory

๐Ÿš€ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: LoGeR: Long-Context Geometric Reconstruction with Hybrid Memory ๐ŸšงUnder construction Junyi Zhang1,2 Charles Herrmann1,* Junhwa Hur1,* Chen Sun1 Ming-Hsuan Yang1 Forrester Cole1 Trevor Darrell2 Deqing Sun1,โ€  1 Google DeepMind ย ย ย ย  2 UC Berkeley (*: Project leads, โ€ : Direction lead) LoGeR scales feedforward dense 3D reconstruction to extremely long videos. By processing video streams in chunks and bridging them with a novel hybrid memory module, LoGeR alleviates quadratic complexity bottlenecks. It combines Sliding Window Attention (SWA) for precise local alignment with Test-Time Training (TTT) for long-range global…
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