Do transformers need three projections? Systematic study of QKV variants

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2606.04032: Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants

Latent Agents: A Post-Training Procedure for Internalized Multi-Agent Debate

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2604.24881: Latent Agents: A Post-Training Procedure for Internalized Multi-Agent Debate

Retro-Tech Parenting

JLink JTAG Access on the Pinecil

It has been more than two years since I bought a Pinecil soldering iron and wrote about soldering the breakout board and accessing the UART. I’ve been doing more work with the Pinecil as of late following the addition of upstream support for the Bouffalo Lab BL706 MCU in Zephyr (big shout out to @VynDragon, @will-tm, @josuah, and everyone else who has been contributing to the upstream Bouffalo Lab efforts!).

Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot

Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS

Mercek is a desktop app for Amazon ECS. It uses your existing AWS credentials, works across all your accounts and regions, and never sends anything to a server.

IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

Run away while you still can, it's not too late for you to avoid the curse of knowledge.

WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

From DrvFs in WSL 1 to Plan 9 to virtiofs, cross-OS file access in WSL 2 has improved with each generation. A new change gives each virtio device its own dedicated DMA pool, removing the last major contention point on the virtiofs path.

Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API

Castor: CERN Advanced STORage Manager

VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare

VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.

I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling

Samurai City

Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers

Royal wax, as well as royal jelly, determines the fate of a honeybee larva

Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery

Skills for threat modeling, scanning, triage, patching, plus an autonomous scanning harness you can /customize - anthropics/defending-code-reference-harness

Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux"

Linux userspace driver for the ASUS ZenVision lid OLED (Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition, UX5401ZAS) — 256x64 monochrome panel over USB - tarpediem/zenvision-linux

KVarN: Native vLLM backend for KV-cache quantization by Huawei

KVarN is a native vLLM KV-cache quantization backend for your agents: 3-5x more context, throughput above FP16, and FP16-level accuracy. Calibration-free, one flag. - huawei-csl/KVarN

Alibaba/Open-Code-Review

Battle-tested at Alibaba's scale. Hybrid architecture code review tool: deterministic pipelines + LLM Agent, precise line-level comments, built-in fine-tuned ruleset (NPE, thread-safety, XSS, SQL injection), OpenAI & Anthropic compatible. - alibaba/open-code-review

When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement

Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.

Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices