GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

Among models given nothing but a prompt, the best open-weight option beat Claude Opus 4.8.

Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models (2024)

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2401.07013: Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models

5k menus from the New York Public Library’s Buttolph Collection (1880-1920)

What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?

Show HN: Zanagrams

Zanagrams is a free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it. A new Zanagrams puzzle every day.

Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

Deciphering basmala

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

Historical and current prices for DRAM, HBM, and NAND flash.

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

My experiencing trying to get a second opinion on my shoulder injury using Claude Code. It's a fascinating glimpse into the future but it's hard to have full confidence in the results just yet.

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online

Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the,Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression

Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

At WWDC 2025, Apple announced macOS 26 Tahoe. One of the new features in macOS Tahoe is a new disk image format: ASIF. Designed for use with virtual machines (its documentation lives under the Virtualization framework), ASIF takes a lot of inspiration from existing virtual disk formats. Practically, that means it’s another sparse virtual disk format, and functions very similar to sparse VMDK, VHDX or QCOW2 files (for the uninitiated, it allow you to store a large disk, or file, in a smaller, “sparse” manner).

NUMA: Cores, memory, and the distance between them

Why two identical VMs on the same host can perform 20% differently — and what NUMA topology in Xen-based virtualization actually costs you.

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

I ran HackerRank's open-source ATS on my resume 100 times. Same resume, different score every time. Here's why.

Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing

Alt title: The reports of tokenmaxxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.

TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer

Hello you fine Internet folks,

US Grid Constraints: Towards 40GW+ of Behind-the-Meter Datacenter by 2028?

Why the Grid Can't Keep Up, and Why that Drives Behind-The-Meter 50%+ of DCs/Year By 2028

We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library

By rearchitecting the Images binding, we accidentally uncovered a bug that existed in the open-source hyper library across multiple major versions.

Lore – Give your coding agent the decisions your team made

Give your coding agent the decisions your team already made — so it stops re-doing things you ruled out, treating product knowledge like code. - itsthelore/rac-core

Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal

agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal. Contribute to ogulcancelik/herdr development by creating an account on GitHub.

1.38 Millimeter Microcontroller

TI’s MSPM0C1104 is a 24MHz Arm® Cortex®-M0+ MCU with 16KB flash, 1KB SRAM, 12-bit ADC. Find parameters, ordering and quality information