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TurboFieldfare streams a 26B MoE model on 8GB Macs in ~2GB of RAM
TurboFieldfare is an open-source Swift and Metal runtime that runs the instruction-tuned Gemma 4 26B-A4B mixture-of-experts model on Apple Silicon without loadi
Una pitches a repairable, USB-C GPS watch with an open developer platform
Una is a GPS sports watch built around repairability rather than the sealed, disposable model common to most wearables. The company argues that a single failed
Userscript pulls Hacker News comments into a sidebar next to the article
HNewhere is a small userscript that ends the two-tab dance of reading an article and its Hacker News thread separately. When you land on a page that has an asso
AI Firms Are Buying and Shredding Rare Books to Feed Training Pipelines
AI companies are purchasing physical books in bulk, running them through high-speed scanners that slice off the spines, and destroying the originals in the proc
Anthropic's Amodei: We never called for banning open-weights models
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is pushing back on claims that his company wants US regulators to ban Chinese open-weights models. He argues that open models without
Astronauts return from six-month missions feeling like observers of their own lives
Crews returning from standard six-month ISS rotations report a lingering perceptual state that flight surgeons and crew psychologists now recognize as a pattern
Bun's $165K Rust Rewrite Looks Far From Done — and Far More Expensive
A skeptical developer dug into the widely-shared claim that Bun's JavaScript runtime was rewritten in Rust by Anthropic's Claude in 11 days for $165,000 in API
Casa Grande residents petition for oversight of city's Flock surveillance cameras
Deflockcg.com hosts the petition for Deflock Casa Grande, a nonpartisan civic campaign pushing back against the Arizona city's rollout of Flock Safety surveilla
Court Tosses Google's DMCA Claim Against Search Scraper SerpAPI
A federal judge dismissed Google's DMCA Section 1201 lawsuit against SerpAPI, a service that scrapes Google Search results and repackages them as an unofficial
Delayed Gratification: The Print Magazine That Waits Three Months to Cover the News
Delayed Gratification is a quarterly print magazine built on a deliberately contrarian premise: rather than chasing breaking news, it revisits events roughly th
Engineered HIV vaccine coaxes primate immune systems into rare broadly neutralizing antibodies
Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Scripps Research, and IAVI report an HIV vaccine that, in rhesus macaques, produced the strongest HIV-figh
Exposed admin APIs handed full control of 676k trucks on Volvo-Eicher fleet platform
A researcher found that My Eicher — the telematics and fleet-tracking platform run by VE Commercial Vehicles, a Volvo Group and Eicher Motors joint venture serv