AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

Kobo can run apps now

Cobalt is an open-source app platform for Kobo e-readers: a launcher, a signed App Store, a Rust SDK, and a capability-isolated runtime. One USB install; every app after that arrives over Wi-Fi.

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms

10 RPS with p95 TTFA under 50 ms on a single H100: how we optimized Qwen3-TTS serving.

Felony Bench

Felony Bench is the most important benchmark of our time, some are saying, counting the number of questionable decisions made by AI agents. We might need a Pandemic Bench soon...

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip

LiteLLM (YC W23) Is Hiring – Rust / Performance Engineers

Own the migration of LiteLLM from Python to Rust and make us the fastest AI gateway ever built. You'll plan the migration directly with our CTO, structure the codebase for the move, and lead a gradual, stability-first rollout at 1B+ requests/mo. This is a single-owner mandate for a Rust expert who is obsessed with performance. Years of production Rust experience required. Major bonuses for prior language-to-Rust migrations and a track record of shipping performance-critical systems.

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases

How an expired nameserver let me take over e164.arpa zones for multiple territories, and why I probably should have checked my logs sooner.

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text, so you can ask the model to describe pictures, read text from screenshots, analyze charts, and more.

Rebuilding our Electron meeting-recording engine in Swift

How we moved our Electron app's recording engine from the render process to native Swift, bridging ScreenCaptureKit and libobs to React with a Combine-to-Jotai tool.

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute

Compute is the brain of the Waymo Driver, translating raw sensor data into real-time driving commands. Operating demonstrably safe, physical AI on the road demands a fundamental shift towards a system engineered for deterministic, low-latency performance. Over the past decade, we have co-designed our hardware, sensors, and algorithms side-by-side to solve the unique constraints of real-world edge compute. We’re offering the first look under our trunk to share our approach to compute, our custom silicon, and how we collaborate with industry leaders to build the most capable computing system on the road.

People of ACM – Russ Cox

Russ Cox is a Distinguished Engineer at Google. He was a leading figure in the development of the Go programming language and environment working with co-creators Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson, and serving as technical lead for over a decade. Before Go, he created Google Code Search, which provided regular-expression-based search over the world’s open-source code and led to the widely used RE2 regular expression library. He is on the editorial board for ACM Queue, a magazine for practicing software engineers.

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

I built an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory.

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

Don’t let the absence of a flying car in your garage distract you: we are definitely now living in a version of the future out of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson. Every day I notice a news story that startles or alarms me, that feels like pure cyberpunk, nestled between reports about council bin collections…

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

Left: The Lunar Orbiter camera system sitting in the bottom half of the pressurized shell. Project Manager Cliff Nelson (left) stands with NASA/Langley team members Calvin Broome, Israel Taback, and Joe Mooreman. From NASA. Right: Lunar Orbiter frame 5017-M, showing artifacts from Kodak's camera system. From NASA/LOIRP. In 1966 and 1967, NASA sent five robotic…

What happens when a GPU reads memory

Following an LDG.E SASS instruction through the hardware units in an RTX 4090.

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

decayfmt: a Rust file format where every open permanently corrupts the file. Decay is a first-class property with no recovery without a backup. - aravpanwar/decayfmt

Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent

The open-source AI IDE for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and more. Run agents in parallel, locally or in the cloud, and build reusable workflows. - proliferate-ai/proliferate

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.