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Kimi K3: The First Frontier Model to Drop RoPE Entirely for NoPE
Kimi K3, released as an open-weight model, is a production-scale version of last year's Kimi Linear, blown up from 48B to 2.8 trillion parameters — currently th
Kimi Linear: Hybrid Attention That Beats Full Attention With 75% Less KV Cache
Moonshot AI's Kimi Linear is a hybrid attention architecture that its authors claim is the first linear-attention design to beat full attention in head-to-head
Misago dumps React for HTMX to kill the double-render problem in its forum
The Misago forum project is tearing out React.js in favor of HTMX, arguing that a server-rendered architecture with sprinkles of client interactivity fits forum
Netflix exec sues, says ketamine-therapy confession at 'trust' retreat cost him $1.1M job
Kevin Baillie, former VP and head of creative at Netflix's visual effects division, is suing the company for wrongful termination. At a January 2026 company ret
One missing underscore in a Kik subpoena jailed an innocent Canadian for 18 months
A 2018 child-luring investigation that started in Wisconsin collapsed on a single-character error. Forensics on a 12-year-old victim's phone identified her adul
Opus 5 tops SlopCodeBench at 24% — but every model failed to finish a challenge
SlopCodeBench, a long-horizon coding benchmark out of GOrlanski's lab at UW Madison, tries to fix what its author finds broken about most coding evals: they han
Own your domain: why Substack shouldn't be a writer's digital home
Independent writer Elizabeth Tai argues that Substack is a distribution channel, not a home. Treating a subdomain like xx.substack.com as your primary web prese
Paged Out! #9 Lands: Free One-Page Hacker Zine Hits 125K Downloads
Paged Out! has released its ninth issue, continuing the free, community-run technical magazine's signature format where every article fits on a single page. Fou
Python Standalone Builds: portable, self-contained interpreters that run anywhere
The python-build-standalone project ships fully-featured Python distributions that carry their own dependencies. Most standard-library extension modules are inc
Reusable small-molecule glue grips Teflon hard, then rinses off with ethanol
A team at the University of Tokyo led by Takuzo Aida has synthesized a crystalline small-molecule adhesive, a fluoro-crown ether phosphate called CyclicFP-fmoc,
RL-tuned 9B open model beats frontier LLMs on catalog review at a fraction of the cost
A vendor case study argues that the companies pulling real ROI out of AI aren't the ones renting the biggest frontier APIs — they're the ones training small ope
Running opencode on a self-owned open-model endpoint feels like freedom
A Modal engineer describes the unexpected satisfaction of wiring the opencode CLI to his own inference endpoint rather than upgrading a personal Claude or ChatG