John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Tim Cook will become Apple's executive chairman on September 1, 2026, while John Ternus will take over as CEO. Ternus has been with Apple for 25 years and has overseen many groundbreaking products.

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

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Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is an early preview of a proprietary model with stronger world knowledge and instruction following, along with improved agentic coding. It achieves top scores on six major coding benchmarks and is available through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers

We are open-sourcing the Kimi Vendor Verifier (KVV) project to ensure open-source models run correctly everywhere. KVV includes Pre-Verification, AIME2025, K2VV ToolCall, Upstream Fix, Pre-Release Validation, and Continuous Benchmarking to improve model accuracy and trust.

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64

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a 2-layer transformer model is implemented on a commodore 64 using 6502/6510 assembly, with 25,000 int8 parameters and real-time processing. the model is trained with quantization-aware training and produces responses in several minutes.

We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090

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Lucebox rewrites LLM inference software for specific chips, achieving high performance and efficiency. It uses techniques like kernels, speculative decoding, and quantization tailored per target, with projects like megakernel and DFlash demonstrating significant speedups.

Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit

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The author explains the megamerge workflow in Jujutsu, a powerful technique for working on multiple branches simultaneously, reducing merge conflicts and switching between tasks. The megamerge workflow involves creating an octopus merge commit as the parent of all working branches and using Jujutsu's absorb and squash commands to incorporate new changes.

GitHub's fake star economy

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A Carnegie Mellon University study found 6 million fake GitHub stars across 18,617 repositories, with AI/LLM repos being the largest non-malicious category. The study's tool, StarScout, identified fake stars distributed by roughly 301,000 accounts.

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

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ggsql is a new data visualization tool that uses SQL syntax to create rich, structured visualizations, making it easy for SQL users to create custom plots. The tool is designed to be powerful, ergonomic, and safe, with a focus on integrating with AI agents and code-based reporting tools, and is currently available in alpha release.

F-35 is built for the wrong war

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The US has attempted to equip its entire tactical air fleet with the F-35, a masterpiece but expensive and limited platform, which may not be suitable for protracted wars. A balanced force with unmanned systems could hedge against the F-35's limitations and provide a more sustainable solution.

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

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Deezer reports a surge in AI-generated music uploads, with 60,000 tracks daily, but 85% are detected as fraudulent. The company will no longer store hi-res AI tracks and labels them for transparency.

Kefir C17/C23 Compiler

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Kefir is an independent C17/C23 compiler developed by Jevgenij Protopopov, validated with 100 software projects and targeting x86_64 architecture.

AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing

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People are resisting AI by intentionally feeding it trash data to waste its training, citing AI's negative impact on the world. This resistance aims to make AI companies rethink their data sourcing methods.

OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on "prompt relevance"

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ADWEEK MiniMBA in Marketing helps leaders shape media strategy with confidence. StackAdapt is testing ads in ChatGPT with low CPMs and discounted fees for early access.

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

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Modern Rendering Culling Techniques

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Culling is a crucial optimization technique in game development that reduces unnecessary work by skipping objects, triangles, or lights that are not visible to the player. Various culling techniques, including distance, frustum, occlusion, and meshlet culling, can be combined and layered to achieve the best results, with the goal of being conservative with correctness and aggressive with wasted work.

Bloom (YC P26) Is Hiring

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Bloom is a platform that generates on-brand marketing assets in seconds, helping small businesses avoid template-like designs. It raised ~$1M from YC and notable investors, aiming to build a Brand OS system.

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

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AES-128 is safe against quantum computers due to the difficulty of parallelizing Grover's algorithm, making it impractical to break with current technology. Experts, including NIST, agree that AES-128 remains secure for decades to come, and no key size changes are necessary as part of the post-quantum transition.

Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64

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The C standard library's string.h functions, such as memcpy, are often implemented as built-in functions by the compiler due to their importance in program speed, and can be optimized using x86 assembly instructions like rep movsq and SIMD extensions. The glibc's implementation of these functions, such as memcpy and memset, uses indirect functions that can choose the most efficient ...

Anatomy of High-Performance Matrix Multiplication (2008) [pdf]

We present the basic principles which underlie the high-performance implementation of the matrix- matrix multiplication that is part of the widely used GotoBLAS library. Design decisions are justified by successively refining a model of architectures with multilevel memories. A simple but effective algorithm for executing this operation results. Implementations on a broad selection of ...

Show HN: Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks

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Docker compose for KVM. Define multi-VM stacks in a single YAML file. No libvirt, no XML, no distributed control plane. The primitive is a VM, not a container. Every workload instance gets its own kernel boundary, its own qcow2 overlay, and its own cloud-init seed. name: my-stack services: db: image: ubuntu:noble vm: vcpu: 2 memory_mb: 1024 cloud_init: packages: - postgresql runcmd: - ...

10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026

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Someone wrote a unit test for @servo 10 years ago with a cookie expiry date of April 18, 2026, now the CI is broken. Maintainers suggest using system time or a library like TimeCop to make tests more robust.

Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding

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Kimi K2.6 is a state-of-the-art open-sourced model featuring long-horizon execution, agent swarm capabilities, and strong improvements in coding tasks. It demonstrates exceptional reliability, instruction following, and out-of-distribution generalization, setting a new bar for open-sourced models in agentic workflows.

M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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WebUSB Extension for Firefox

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To use the extension, install the native stub program on your computer and a browser extension. The native stub requires a specific operating system and kernel version.

Sauna effect on heart rate

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Saunas have a therapeutic effect and promote cardiovascular health by stimulating the heart and increasing blood volume. Sauna use is linked to better same-day recovery, with lower nighttime heart rates and increased activity.

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

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Government urges staff to switch from Silicon Valley to Visio platform. France and Germany disagree on detoxing from Big Tech, with France filing a complaint against Kick.

Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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We accepted surveillance as default

DoubleClick was founded in 1996 by Kevin O'Connor and Dwight Merriman, enabling cross-site tracking through third-party cookies, which became a standard in the web architecture. The technology was a choice made by browser vendors, and undoing it would be inconvenient for the organisations that built it, despite the physical and financial costs to users.

I learned Unity the wrong way

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I spent 3 years building Unity games by copying tutorials and stitching forum scripts together. Then an interviewer asked me what Queue<T> was. I could not answer.

OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS

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The user discusses the security risks of current agent gateways, comparing them to the insecure MS-DOS era, and proposes a safer architecture for agents. The user's own project, Wirken, uses separate processes, hardened containers, and a hash-chained audit database to provide a more secure agent gateway.