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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

An open speech recognition model that runs on the same CPU engine as Needle. It transcribes seven languages, reaches the first token in 11 ms, and loads beside Needle so one binary turns a clip straight into tool calls.

Theranos.World

An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real, from the court trial, parsed by Extend.

Making a flexible "neon" t-shirt with LED filaments

ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux

A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

The value of not getting to the point (2015)

Beauty in DVD Menus

Understanding of DVD video menus for films and series. The technical details of how menus were implemented and what functions were available for creating menus, a look at the influence of aspect ratios and how menu designs changed and became more ambitious before returning to boring, and specific looks at some of the most memorable DVD menus released.

License update: AI derivation prohibited on all my art, lore, stories, comics

“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically

"Math 1.0" placed a premium on being the first to solve an open problem, even if the solution was not initially well understood. Now that this goal has been optimized to the point of unsustainability, "Math 2.0" will need to decenter the role of raw problem solving and value mathematical progress more holistically - for instance by elevating the role of exposition, but also that of community building and opening up new directions of study. I believe that AI can contribute positively in all of these directions as well; but it will require more imagination and ambition than the "Math 1.0" mindset of simply pointing one's favorite AI agent at some set of open problems and asking for a solution. And our community will need to explicitly re-ev

Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

Largely missing from the archaeological record, fiber innovations played a huge role in the lives of early humans. Researchers are weaving together new insights from the traces they left behind

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

A flickering fireplace, a softly lit garden, and a smart home the whole family finally enjoys.

OLED burn-in test: 30-month update

After 30 months and 8,000 hours of deliberate abuse, our 4K QD-OLED monitor has measurable burn-in, lower peak brightness, and visible wear. Here's how bad it looks...

US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams

Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea)

Kubernetes TUI you can click. Instant search, logs/exec/port-forward, 7 themes, context-aware AI. Single Go binary. - p10node/k10s

Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter

Step 5 Preview is StepFun's flagship model for agentic work, built on a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture (27B active / 600B total parameters). $1 per million input tokens, $2.70 per million output tokens. 1,000,000 token context window, maximum output of 64,000 tokens.

DuckDB Ducklake

DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format - duckdb/ducklake

OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled

OpenAI has told investors that it hit roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, CNBC confirmed.,OpenAI has told investors that it hit roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, CNBC confirmed.

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

The man said they discovered that their parents’ coffee maker had generated far more traffic than they expected.

A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone

Whale falls are biodiversity oases at seabeds1–6, yet their record from the oceans has remained sparse and fragmentary6,7. Here we report the discovery of a vast whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (4,616- to 7,001-m depth), extending about 1,200 km along the sea floor of the southeastern Indian Ocean. This area has a deep and extensive accumulation comprising five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans recorded. We show that carcasses host specialized communities dominated by brittle stars, bone-boring worms and chemosynthesis-based bivalves and that the fossil record in this area comprises both extant and extinct deep-diving beaked whales. Isotopic dating shows that whale falls in this region have occurred