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MaxProof: MiniMax-M3 tops IMO and USAMO gold thresholds via test-time proof search
MaxProof is a test-time scaling framework from the MiniMax-M3 series aimed at competition-level mathematical proof. Rather than relying on a single forward pass
Moonshot's Kimi K2.7-Code cuts thinking tokens 30% in open-weights coding model
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.7-Code on Hugging Face, an open-weights model tuned for agentic coding work. Built on Kimi K2.6 with the same architecture as t
New workplace rule for the AI era: don't ask colleagues to read what you didn't
Software engineer Tom Bedor proposes an etiquette principle for teams drowning in machine-generated text: anyone requesting a colleague's attention should demon
One weird trick for less sloppy AI frontends: ask for Qt style
A developer experimenting with AI-generated personal software ran into a familiar problem: no matter what visual style they requested, the output carried the sa
Open source maintainer bans LLM-generated pull requests: "I am not a reverse centaur"
Miguel Grinberg, a veteran open source developer, says the flood of contributions to his projects has shifted almost entirely to LLM-generated code — and he ref
Spyware authors weaponize LLM safety filters to dodge AI malware scanners
Malware developers have started embedding references to nuclear and biological weapons inside their spyware code — not as payload, but as a defense mechanism. T
The capability trap: why organizations reward firefighting over prevention
This 2001 California Management Review paper by MIT's Nelson Repenning and John Sterman explains why process-improvement programs so often fail — and the answer
Tonedear: Free Browser-Based Ear Training for Musicians
Tonedear is a free, browser-based ear training site aimed at musicians who want to sharpen their listening skills through repetition. It offers interactive dril
Translator to ChatGPT Evangelists: It's a Tool, Not a Magic Button
A freelance translator in Ottawa recounts a locker-room exchange that captures a widening gap in how people perceive AI. After explaining she had to skip a gym
WASI 0.3 ratified: async becomes native to WebAssembly Components
The WASI Subgroup has ratified WASI 0.3.0, a stable release that rebuilds the WebAssembly System Interface on top of the Component Model's new native async prim
When the Library Becomes a Lounge: What Dies When Universities Dumpster Books
An English professor recounts watching a construction loader dump thousands of 'deaccessioned' volumes into a dumpster behind her university's library in 2018 —
Why stripping 'um' from audio is hard — and how a local CLI cracked it
A developer built erm, a command-line tool that automatically removes filler sounds (um, uh, er) from voice recordings, and the writeup is a case study in why t