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How Complex Systems Fail (1998)

MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months

What Is a Harness?

An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.

The End of an Athlon

Things I want in a modern relational query language

Why Sal Khan't: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling

Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat…

GLM-5.3 (open-weight) beat Anthropic/OpenAI models – for 1/5 the cost

Seventeen models on the Featherbench leaderboard: glm-5.3 leads at 100%, eight tie at 96%, and checker errors flip the safety ranking. See who tops the board.

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

Slovakia's national security service NBU has issued a security alert against the use of NERO R-ONE high-speed traffic cameras.The agency s [Read More]

JIT Compiling Code in 5μs

Build a copy-and-patch JIT compiler in Rust, generate ARM64 machine code, and benchmark it against an interpreter and handwritten implementation.

Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive

SkyLens is a live satellite tracker and declassified UAP evidence hub. Real-time 3D map of thousands of orbiting satellites, 535+ UAP case analyses from official government releases, NASA asteroid approaches, and daily space news. Free, no signup.

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Amiga-Inspired AROS Goes Bare Metal on Raspberry Pi

There's no actual data, but if we had to guess the least-favourite Disney movie of former Amiga owners would have to be Frozen, because none of them will ever be able to "Let it Go". The Amiga-derived...

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed

Wi-Fi has been getting faster with every iteration... on paper. But Wi-Fi 8 is finally focusing on what matters, and it's the upgrade we needed.

Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware

Kaspersky expert has discovered new Android malware designed to serve ads and build a proxy botnet. It’s delivered through legitimate software for DoFun head units.

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Quick Introduction We have all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded it (or more likely, some quantized form of it) and said “eww…

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes

Qwen 3.8 27B genuinely shocked me with what it achieved here.

Coconut Oil Jet Fuel Matches Kerosene's Efficiency in Engine Tests

Coconut oil jet fuel matched kerosene's efficiency in engine tests and cut hydrocarbon emissions, a new study in the journal Fuel finds.