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How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?

One of the most fascinating sequences in Atari's arcade manufacturing process in the early 80s, was the application of the fabulous artwork that adorned all of its cabinets from the golden age of arcade gaming. So this week, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at how this cabinet artwork was actually…

No, everyone is not using AI for everything

People are consuming AI like they eat meat: some are embracing it, some are limiting their use of it, and some are avoiding it altogether.

Rio de Janeiro's city government model Rio3.5 beats Qwen3.7 in recent benchmarks

Alibaba Qwen3.7 slowly fading into irrelevance at the frontier due to proprietary stance. In it's place we have Minimax M3 and... *checks notes* Rio 3.5 397b, made by the municipal IT company of Rio de Janeiro's city government. https://t.co/JgIJYVhoEi https://t.co/lVR83aAvPD

Show HN: Dual YOLOv8n UAV Detection on RK3588S at 42 FPS Using NPU

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Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

prefeitura-rio/Rio-3.5-Open-397B is presented as an original 397B model trained by IplanRIO. It is not. Its weights are a direct element-wise merge of our model, Nex, with the official Qwen3.5-397B-A17B base — about 0.6 Nex / 0.4 Qwen — ...

Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million

Provisional results of Sunday's polls show Swiss citizens have rejected the right-wing Swiss People's Party proposal to limit the population to ten million.