Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse
KAISER PERMANENTE NURSES who answer advice and triage calls say their duty of care for patients is being increasingly threatened by workplace
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Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work
Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first day of the Recurse Center (https://www.recurse.com/)
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Mozilla: The state of open source AI
Article URL: https://stateofopensource.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48947825 Points: 252 # Comments: 173
First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
Researchers have found an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star with an atmosphere.
Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)
Noticing responses to problems; there’s a whole set. The consultant’s reaction to each of these as they arise.
Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners
Design high-quality benchmarks that go beyond recall to evaluate how frontier models truly reason, act, and judge.
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AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
URL already posted: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
How the brain rapidly switches attention between competing speech streams in complex listening environments is not fully understood. This study shows that neural tracking of a new speaker emerges before disengagement, with transient dual encoding and reduced alpha power supporting flexible audito...
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
Pebble Mega Update - July 2026
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
A chemical process called carbonation, which helps seal cracks, could help explain why many ancient Roman structures are still standing today. Researchers hope that the insights will lead to better modern-day building materials
The human-in-the-loop is tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video.
Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
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Decoy Font
Decoy Font combines every letter with a decoy, making it harder for AI to read what you type. Type a message to try it out or download the TTF directly.
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook: the same standalone product with deeper Google integration and a secure cloud computer.
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Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures (2015)
A few words about this book.
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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Kimi K3 is the world's first open 3T-class model — frontier performance across coding, knowledge work, and reasoning, with native multimodality and 1M context.
Kimi K3 is now live
Try Kimi K3 to build playable multiplayer and 3D games, create consulting grade slides, and run parallel tasks with Swarm and Goal to get more work done.
SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
SpaceX shares dipped below their IPO price of $135 on Wednesday morning for the first time since listing, signaling dwindling hype around the Elon Musk company.
Ente – Opening Our Books
Explore Ente's business metrics, updated every month.
OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Introducing our new OnePlus Community experience, with a completely revamped structure, built from the ground-up.
At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic
A chronological ledger of 105 YC founders connected to OpenAI or Anthropic, from their earliest YC batches to where they went next.
The lost joy of music piracy
What.CD, Oink, and the banalities of streaming.
1,300 Beautiful Wildlife Illustrations from the 19th Century Now Restored
Today, if you want to know about any of the flora or fauna that surround us, you have only to look it up online.
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Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095 Points: 280 # Comments: 98
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Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly
GPU acceleration WebGL-based rendering for web content. Enable JIT Experimental JS → WASM JIT. Expect bugs....
Grok Build is open source
SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible. - xai-org/grok-build
Why I Left Google DeepMind
I fought against Google’s Pentagon AI deal from the inside. Powerful people and institutions failed to keep their AI ethics promises under pressure.
Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Our first open-weights model: multimodal, Mixture-of-Experts, with controllable reasoning effort. Available to fine-tune on Tinker.
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Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU
A storage appliance that shipped before AVX2 existed now runs Google's Gemma 4 26B in my basement, no GPU. Here's how we got a modern MoE model onto a CPU older than the instructions its inference engine assumed were there.
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Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)
Telegram claims to have 5 data centers (DCs), referred to as DC1~5 in Telegram’s code and documentation. Among them, DC1 and DC3 are located in Miami, USA; DC2 and DC4 are in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and DC5 is in Singapore. Each account is associated with a DC upon registration and does not chang...
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Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important
and why communication is so important
TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
Security notifications affecting the Tailscale client and service Read our incident disclosure and notification policy. If you’re directly affected by a security issue in Tailscale, and we have your contact information, we will contact you.
Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
Vancouver Police Department Partnering with our community for excellence and innovation in public safety. Partnering with our community for excellence and innovation in public safety. Learn More Got a question about our services? Call us : 1.800.123.4567 VPD News Nothing Found
I also filed the corners off my MacBook
Modify your tools more!
Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
The vulnerability nobody seems interested in fixing
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Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
Today, we're announcing Bonsai 27B, based on Qwen3.6 27B, the new multimodal flagship of the Bonsai family and the first model of its capability class to run on a phone.
S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB – only one notch above junk level
S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.
I'm a USB-C Maximalist
My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single universal power brick. This little unit was all I needed to charge my various gadgets. It has a hefty USB-C PD (Power Delivery) port for...
Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
Reflections on autonomy and the value of thinking for ourselves
Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act
Critics fear the reforms could weaken government transparency by curbing civil society's access to official information and limiting requests from foreigners.
How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Hack the text output of Claude Code to make life a little bit sillier.
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Punch yourself in the face with reality
Who can punch themselves in the face with reality the most? This is who will win in the age of AI.
Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts
What version of Codex CLI is running? Upstream main after #26210 (Encrypt multi-agent v2 message payloads, merged 2026-06-05). This appears to affect versions that include that change and enable Mu...
European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
In the README, the following is listed: App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation I would like to strongly urge to abandon this plan. Requiring a depe...
Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem
India's new brainstem atlas offers scientists an unprecedented map of one of the brain's least known regions.
Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity
From 1 July 2026, energy retailers in NSW, South Australia, and South-East Queensland must give households at least three hours of free electricity every day. N
Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
In a real win for Earth Day, it has been reported that scientists in Japan have developed a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries
An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold
Emily Eden travelled across northern India in the 1830s, sketching princes, warriors, hill communities and even animals.
Climate.gov was destroyed. Open data saved it
"After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline."
Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
Whois Lookup for t.me
The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
Under Assembly Bill 1709 by Democratic Assemblyman Josh Lowenthal, social media companies might soon be forced to remove addictive features.
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Show HN: Super Dario
Article URL: https://superdario.pawb.de Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48896286 Points: 332 # Comments: 82
Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor
SpeechAnalyzer vs SFSpeechRecognizer vs Whisper tiny/base/small, measured on 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances on Apple Silicon, with raw transcripts released for independent rescoring.
DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
With the White House trying to ensure that no DOGE records see the light of day, the public may never know how much DOGE cut or what, if anything, it saved.
LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
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Grok uploaded my user directory to xAI's servers
@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything...
A voxel Tokyo in real Japan time – ride the Yamanote line and study Japanese
Ride the Yamanote line through a voxel Tokyo synced to Japan's real clock, weather, and seasons. A lofi bed plays while N5 sentences are read aloud and drift by as subtitles — an ambient Japanese study room you just press play into.
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Backtrack-Free Cursive
Making English more enjoyable to write.
Sam Neill has died
New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television
The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most important parts of the Earth's climate system. Each blue line represents a different year since 1...
Count Binface
I’m an intergalactic space warrior and leader of the Recyclons from planet Sigma IX. I came to Earth in 2017 and stood against Prime Minister Theresa May (as ‘Lord Buckethead’), going went viral (in a non-Covid way). Then in 2018, after an unfortunate battle on the planet Copyright, I rewspawned...
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Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles
Should HN add the ability to flag articles as AI-generated? This doesn't have to act as a regular flag, i.e., it won't de-rank the article; it could just show up as an indicator, allowing others (like myself) who don't like reading AI-generated text, to skip it.
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Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
A list of illustrated literature spanning Western comics, Japanese manga and graphic novels. Sorted by publication date.
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin
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I love LLMs, I hate hype
I think from this blog you may misunderestimate how absolutely giddy I am about AI. I did hacking from 2007-2014, after that my whole career has been devoted to AI. I love the progress. I’m so excited for the new LLMs, self driving cars, video generation models, and coding agents. I set up a Linu...
Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Claude Code vs OpenCode token overhead measured at the API boundary. Out-of-the-box baselines, instruction file weight, MCP schema tax, subagent multipliers, and cache-write behaviour.
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LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders
Send them $10,000. They send you $10,000. You've both booked $10,000 in revenue. Cash never moves. Everybody's a rocketship. (Satire.)
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Understanding the Odin programming language
Learn the Odin Programming Language and demystify low-level programming
Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family
The domestic worker, who entered the household at the age of seven and never received wages or vacations, is set to be compensated by her employers
Old and new apps, via modern coding agents by Terry Tao
I have been interested in machine-assisted ways to do and teach mathematics from as far back as 1999, when I started coding several applets in Java 1.0, both for my complex analysis and linear alge…
What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) - grok-build-cli-wire-analysis.md
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How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
This hard-hitting blogpost by Ken Murray, a retired Los Angeles family doctor, helped open up discussions about why doctors routinely administer treatments to dying patients that they would adamantly refuse for themselves. Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopaedist and a mentor of mine,...
Mesh LLM: distributed AI computing on iroh
How Mesh LLM pools existing GPU resources across machines into a single OpenAI-compatible API, built on iroh.
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Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
Run real npm packages and TypeScript - all from a single 9 MB binary. Ant is a lightweight JavaScript runtime built from scratch on its own engine, with a Node-compatible API, a VM-isolated sandbox, and Wasm support built-in.
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AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence
I used to be one of these people. I read Yudkowsky and was like, OMG recursive self improvement hard takeoff AI is coming. Then I joined the real world and actually tried to do things. At comma, we ship a hardware product of similar complexity to a cell phone, and it’s really hard. Reality has lo...
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Prefer strict tables in SQLite
I prefer strict tables in SQLite because they avoid some datatype problems, such as putting text in number columns.
Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)
For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. But lead is a poison, and burning it has had dire consequences
Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom
Neoclouds are one of the more hotly debated AI business models, with CoreWeave and Nebius being the two most widely recognized names. These companies have seen their sales, backlog, and share prices soar. Yet, supporting their growth is extremely expensive, and neoclouds do not have the same cash...
Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii
Kelsey Pfendler set out to become first US woman, youngest woman and fastest woman to solo over 2,400-mile journey
UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction
You pay in seconds. Seven parties make it happen, and you see only one of them.
We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
PgBouncer is single-threaded, so a single process caps out at one CPU core no matter the box size. See how ClickHouse Managed Postgres runs a peered fleet of PgBouncer processes with so_reuseport to scale pooling across every core — with benchmarks showin
Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch
Learn programming by building real systems from scratch. Redis, Git, a database, a compiler — every lesson is choose, write, run.
Networking and the Internet, from First Principles
How controlled disturbances of electricity, light, and radio, cooperatively routed across a web of independent networks, deliver data across the world in milliseconds.
Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot
An anti-AI font that can be read by humans but not leading AI models. Type your text below, then download and share the video clip containing your message.
The vintage beauty of Soviet control rooms (2018)
Just for the pleasure, a selection of vintage control rooms dating back to the Soviet era! A beautiful collection of control rooms filled with large buttons and analog dials, long before the democratization of computers and screens. More info: Present And Correct
Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules.
GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps
GPT-5.6's new Sol, Terra, and Luna tiers go head-to-head with Grok 4.5, Claude, Meta's Muse Spark, and the open-weights crew on a raycaster, a Rubik's cube, a calculator, and Game of Life. Here's every build, with cost and latency.
Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the company of trade secret theft. Specifically, Apple alleges that its...
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An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
Our article 'Fighting the AI scraper bot scourge', published in early 2025, discussed the probl [...]
Mayor Mamdani announces "Click-to-Cancel" rules
NEW YORK – Today, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner Samuel A.A. Levine announced sweeping new consumer protections that will crack down on junk fees and subscription traps, making it easier for New Yorkers to know the rea...
How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge.
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GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
https://x.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805, https://xcancel.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805Prompt: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863490 Points: 491 # Comments: 405
New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
Rule from Mamdani administration bans companies from trapping customers into paying recurring charges and ‘junk fees’
War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history
Explore 5,000 years of conflict on an interactive world map. 10,584 wars, 427 empire borders with shifting frontiers, casualty estimates with sources.
SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
It could mean faster internet for rural customers, but not everyone is happy.
The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)
Ever since James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released in 1991, I’ve been reading about the many ways ILM, led by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, had to basically invent new way…
Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
The discovery makes sense: Mollusks use these teeth to excavate rocks while they feed
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QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
The QuadRF (pictured above) a phased-array radio built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board with picosecond-level timing. It does advanced signal processing and beamforming. It can see WiFi through walls and track drones in flight. If the open source community can come up with something like...
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A love letter to flashcards
A personal reflection on how spaced repetition and hand crafted flashcards helps me to keep understanding alive
Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
TIM ROUGHGARDEN treats computation as a law of nature, tracing its arc from Turing's proof that some problems are unsolvable to the P versus NP question at the heart of modern computer science.
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Write code like a human will maintain it
One of the best things about LLMs is that they'll write code for you, all day long. Who cares about DRY? You don't have to be the one updating the same long con...
Successful companies go blind
The Mexican cavefish kept its eye genes for over a million years after the eyes themselves disappeared. Something similar happens to companies once they achieve success.
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell
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Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
If you’re the sun, I’m a black hole – The Stephen Hawking, Say Anything
Late Bronze Age Collapse
This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system …
EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA
Highlights, press releases and speeches
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Good Tools Are Invisible
TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling them as a "puzzle game" which is "fun" to solve.I don't want my tools to be "fun". I want my tools...
In Emacs, everything looks like a service
A common refrain is that Emacs is an operating system (OS). This isn’t true, but what invites comparison to an OS is its ability to orchestrate applications and utilities above the OS kernel...
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AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
Article URL: https://nevo-project.epfl.ch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48856904 Points: 280 # Comments: 234
Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond
While there is robust literature on the negative impact of adolescent device use on physical and psychological health, there is less research on the use of t...
Why American ambulance rides are so expensive
The unfortunately botched economics of emergency care
GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper
A real quarter of UK SME books, 59 transactions, 68 minutes, $2.73 of tokens — and a VAT return within 7 pence of the human-prepared one.
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Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig
Ghostty and Terraform maker and Hashicorp founder talks about open source, terminals and Zig.
AI 2040: Plan A
A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.
AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
We scanned over 1 million social media posts for AI content. It turned up on every platform we checked, and 1 in 3 top LinkedIn posts flagged as AI-generated.
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Hy3
Article URL: https://hy.tencent.com/research/hy3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847552 Points: 556 # Comments: 117
A possible future for Damn Interesting
An attempt to secure the future of the site, with an unfortunate quantity of moist metaphors.
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No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
Article URL: https://datacenter.iers.org/data/latestVersion/bulletinC.txt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846281 Points: 308 # Comments: 244
Muse Spark 1.1
Today, we’re excited to introduce Muse Spark 1.1, the latest model from Meta Superintelligence Labs and a significant upgrade from Muse Spark. Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic tasks, with major gains in tool and computer use, coding, and multimodal understanding.