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DAPO: An Open-source RL System from ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIRgithub.com

What Happened to the Snowden Archivelibroot.org

Google's Open Agentic Orchestratoragentexecutor.io

Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practicestruthout.org

Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduced a bipartisan bill to prohibit private‑equity firms and other for‑profit entities from owning medical practices, citing rising health‑care costs and poorer outcomes linked to private‑equity ownership. The proposal mirrors an Oregon law and includes enforcement via the FTC, state AGs, and private actions.

Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them toseldo.com

The post argues that the free‑software model (MIT/BSD/Apache licenses) is an evolutionarily stable strategy: anyone can use the code for free, and attempts to charge via restrictive licenses fail because forks quickly replace them. This stability comes at a human cost—most maintainers are unpaid, many burn out, and the rapid velocity of modern ecosystems (npm, cloud services) amplifies the mainte…

Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05%github.com

Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washingtonsubstack.com

Why MCP Was Always a Bad Ideamaharship.com

The Hierarchy of Moneygregorygundersen.com

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: Wlithub.com

A historical essay tracing the origin of the letter W from post‑Roman scribal practices, its adoption via double‑U in early medieval Latin and Old English, competition with the rune wynn, and its later spelling quirks in English.

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbotgithub.com

jevchat is a Python CLI that turns the Typesafe Jev API into a symbol‑level chatbot by repeatedly asking Jev which next character to emit. It offers interchangeable sampling strategies and alphabets, live generation stats, and a benchmark mode that quantifies performance trade‑offs.

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAMsedaily.com

Samsung plans to more than double its HBM4 and HBM4E output next year, raising glass‑carrier cleaning to 50 k sheets/month and wafer input to ~250 k per month. The HBM4 family’s share of shipments is expected to jump from ~40 % to ~80 % as the higher‑layer HBM4E ramps up.

Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++github.com

The project releases a full, byte‑identical C/C++ decompilation of Resident Evil 4 for GameCube, reproducing the original binaries down to every byte. It ships with build scripts, verification tools, and detailed documentation of the matching process.

Trying the Software Factory Patternlethain.com

The post describes an experiment implementing the software‑factory pattern: an AI‑driven loop that audits a Linear project, syncs goals from Notion, metrics from Datadog/Snowflake, creates and updates issues, and executes non‑blocked tasks. It shows how tying together a unified task tracker, observability data, and an orchestrated agent harness can keep projects aligned without manual state hoard…

Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternativeradius.to

Radius is a new web platform marketed as a free, hyper‑local alternative to Meetup.com, letting users create groups, post events, and discover activities. The post is a product announcement with screenshots and UI copy but contains no technical details, architecture discussion, or implementation insights.

I am often wrongborischerny.com

The author shares a six‑step iterative framework for tackling product problems—understand data, fill gaps, define problem, craft a simple approach, set a goal, and act urgently—emphasizing that being wrong is a useful feedback loop. The piece is a personal opinion on product management practice.

Prompts aren’t Realevaluation.club

The talk argues that prompt engineering is a dead‑end and proposes building large evaluation/optimization pipelines (pass^k testing, adversarial scenario generation, automated prompt optimization) to make LLM agents reliable. It describes a workflow: generate tests, run them with/without a new “skill”, feed results to a genetic optimizer that mutates prompts, validate on hold‑out tests, and itera…

Laya (OS Jev) on Mac M4 CoreML Offline (45 decisions per second)github.com

A short walkthrough showing how to install and run the Laya‑CoreML demo (a multilingual language model) on a Mac M4 using the uv package manager, with a video of the UI, memory‑usage snapshot, and a sample Cloudflare JEv API call that returns a single urgency score.

Custom home server built from spare partsasmat.ca

A DIY home NAS built from a repurposed Zotac mini‑PC, 6×8 TB WD Red drives in a RAIDZ2 ZFS pool, encrypted boot, Wi‑Fi, custom Noctua cooling, and a front‑panel ESP32‑S3 touch screen driven by LVGL. Runs Kubuntu 24.04 with Docker‑Compose services behind Caddy, plus a self‑written dashboard and API.

One-Electron Universewikipedia.org

The article explains the one‑electron universe hypothesis: Wheeler’s idea that all electrons and positrons are different segments of a single particle’s world‑line moving forward and backward in time, with historical notes on Feynman and Stueckelberg.

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collectorbuchodi.com

OpenAI’s ChatGPT sets a cross‑site cookie (__obi) that advertisers’ ad‑pixel scripts automatically send back to OpenAI, linking browsing activity on third‑party sites to a user’s ChatGPT account. The author reverse‑engineered the token exchange, captured traffic from hundreds of pixels, and quantified the data collected (emails, phone numbers, locations, page paths). The mechanism works for logge…

Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Booksgadgetreview.com

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletionpirateface.co

Pirate Face offers a decentralized, torrent‑based layer that mirrors open LLM models from Hugging Face, providing checksum‑verified downloads and a drop‑in API so pipelines stay functional even if the original host disappears.

Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Businesstoolguyd.com

Show HN: A competition for small neural networks that play strategy gamestinybrains.dev

The Journey of a Migratory Shorebirdnewyorker.com

Mathematical Billiards (2024)uni-heidelberg.de

Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsongtheconversation.com

Qwen-Image-2.1: Compact, efficient, and unified image creationqwen.ai

The post announces Qwen-Image-2.1, a compact and efficient unified image creation model, highlighting its efficiency and compactness.

Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's consoftwarecrisis.dev

The article argues that chat‑based LLMs don’t think; the perceived intelligence is a user‑side illusion created by validation statements that exploit the Forer effect, much like a psychic’s cold‑reading con. Understanding this bias helps engineers set realistic expectations for AI products.