MiMo v2.6(mimo.xiaomi.com)
1064 points by volf_ | 464 comments
Xiaomi's announcement page for the MiMo-V2.6 model series, with links to try it, the API, Hugging Face weights, a tech report, and coding benchmark charts.
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Attention is all you have(alicegg.tech)
996 points by zer0tonin | 298 comments
A personal blog essay by Alice GG titled "Attention is all you have", opening with the Tetris effect to discuss how what we focus on shapes perception.
I don't want to read what you didn't write(blog.colinbreck.com)
952 points by mooreds | 394 comments
Colin Breck's blog essay arguing against reading AI-generated writing such as design documents and summaries, and describing where he finds AI useful.
What Sun got wrong(bcantrill.dtrace.org)
660 points by chmaynard | 380 comments
Bryan Cantrill blog post reflecting on what Sun Microsystems got wrong, prompted by Oxide's homage t-shirts for its OxCon meetup.
Spymarks, not Watermarks(brand.io)
623 points by possibilistic | 157 comments
Blog post arguing that some modern watermarks act as 'spymarks' that covertly track or identify users rather than just marking content.
Grok 4.7(x.ai)
577 points by meetpateltech | 488 comments
Announcement page introducing Grok 4.7, xAI's new model for coding and knowledge work, claimed faster and cheaper than comparable models.
Transformers Explained Visually(poloclub.github.io)
576 points by aray07 | 85 comments
Transformer Explainer is an interactive in-browser visualization that runs GPT-2 and shows how embeddings, multi-head self-attention, and MLP layers process text.
ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room(zuckoff.app)
561 points by Bluestein | 234 comments
Landing page for ZuckOff, an app that detects nearby camera glasses like Ray-Ban Meta and Snap Spectacles via their Bluetooth signals and alerts the user.
Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions(consumerrights.wiki)
436 points by DeepLogin | 284 comments
Consumer Rights Wiki article on Disney+'s January 2025 subscriber agreement change allowing ads in all tiers, including ad-free plans.
NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead(science.org)
433 points by Muhammad523 | 349 comments
Science magazine news article reporting that NASA's Mars Sample Return mission has been cancelled; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5(github.com)
425 points by tosh | 192 comments
GitHub repository for Kev, a tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on Qwen3.5 that users can train and run themselves.
Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August(twitter.com)
368 points by espeed | 253 comments
An X post by Lon Lundgren with a chart claiming Anthropic's Fable 5 used 22–51% fewer median thinking tokens in August than July on subscription plans.
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Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf](gameshelf.jmac.org)
349 points by kelseyfrog | 89 comments
Scanned PDF of the 1996 internal puzzle design document for LucasArts' adventure game Grim Fandango.
ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you(wired.me)
335 points by choult | 314 comments
Wired Middle East article about ZuckOff, a free phone app that detects nearby Meta smart glasses that may be recording.
AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up(linear.app)
300 points by julian_digital | 367 comments
A Linear engineering blog post explaining how AI-assisted coding increased CI load and how the team reworked its CI pipeline to keep up.
Jev-Leftpad(github.com)
220 points by fka | 78 comments
M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review(macstories.net)
216 points by piotrgrabowski | 213 comments
Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0(lwn.net)
172 points by chmaynard | 94 comments
LWN article by Jonathan Corbet previewing the Git 2.56 release and the upcoming changes expected in Git 3.0.
Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware(timdettmers.com)
161 points by pretext | 80 comments
The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence(terrytao.wordpress.com)
150 points by digital55 | 76 comments
Guest post on Terence Tao's blog announcing the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, with members including Tao, Gowers, Hairer, Witten and others.
Markdown in /src(htmx.org)
138 points by perrygeo | 77 comments
An htmx.org essay by Carson Gross arguing that Markdown is becoming source code and should be checked into /src, with code and tests derived from it rather than ephemeral prompts.
Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less(personalimportation.org)
129 points by burnt-resistor | 94 comments
Advocacy page of the Campaign for Personal Prescription Importation (CPPI), a group supporting Americans buying cheaper prescription drugs from licensed Canadian pharmacies.
Solitaire Alone Together(solitairealonetogether.com)
120 points by eieio | 29 comments
A browser-based solitaire game with a retro PC boot screen theme, apparently letting people play solitaire together online.
The forgotten battle of East Lansing(eastlansinginfo.news)
98 points by rmason | 18 comments
An East Lansing Info article recounting a little-remembered historical conflict, the "forgotten battle" of East Lansing, Michigan.
Don't Use AI to Write(paulbakker.io)
94 points by eigenBasis | 52 comments
Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?(scientificamerican.com)
92 points by tomjakubowski | 46 comments
Scientific American article on whether OpenAI's claimed Navier-Stokes proof qualifies for the $1-million Millennium Prize only through a controversial loophole.
Apple Mac mini review(arstechnica.com)
88 points by throw0101c | 49 comments
Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI(blog.trailofbits.com)
88 points by aray07 | 13 comments
Trail of Bits blog post on using AI agents to build custom tooling (LSP server, decompiler, static analyzer) and formal models for auditing the Miden zero-knowledge VM.
Winning the visa lottery(aeaweb.org)
78 points by neehao | 59 comments
First Shader from Zero in Godot 4(gdquest.com)
75 points by ibobev | 8 comments
Data Protection Commission fines Google €403M over processing of location data(dataprotection.ie)
70 points by DeepLogin | 31 comments
Irish Data Protection Commission press release announcing a €403 million fine against Google following an inquiry into its processing of location data.
The Claude Delusion(pluralistic.net)
67 points by hn_acker | 56 comments
Socrates vs. the Written Word (2011)(wondermark.com)
60 points by spectraldrift | 39 comments
A 2011 Wondermark "True Stuff" post on Socrates' argument in Plato's Phaedrus that writing would harm memory and understanding.
Women Who Sold Books Door to Door(daily.jstor.org)
57 points by herbertl | 6 comments
JSTOR Daily article examining three nineteenth-century memoirs by women who worked as traveling door-to-door booksellers.
