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Knowledge Distillation of Black-Box Large Language Models

Researchers introduce Proxy-KD, a novel method that uses a proxy model to transfer knowledge from proprietary black-box…

A QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels

QSOE 0.1, a QNX-inspired operating system with selectable kernels, has released its first public version featuring two…

Xonaly – Canada's Independent Search Engine

How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown

Pull-back toy cars use a cleverly engineered system of gears and a spiral spring to store and release energy.

California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1

Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.

POSIX Is Not a Shell

POSIX is a specification, not an actual shell program, and different shell implementations (bash, dash, ksh, etc.)…

Show HN: Bash4LLM+ – A lightweight, dependency-free Bash wrapper for LLM APIs

Bash4LLM is a single-file Bash wrapper for interacting with LLMs from the terminal.

Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch

Hi everyone,I started working on nanoeuler after the ban of anthropic's fable because my ambition and dream is to work…

TOP500 at ISC'26: We Have a New Number 1 – By George Cozma

China's LineShine supercomputer has claimed the number one spot on the TOP500 list at ISC'26 in Hamburg, marking the…

The US Used to Demand the Best Tech. Now We Ban It

Do LLMs pass the mirror test?

The article examines whether large language models possess self-awareness by proposing a new "mirror test" adapted from…

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

Computer-Aided Language Development in Nonspeaking Children (1968) [pdf]

http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/cs/tr/68/85/CS-TR-68-...

GitHub – librepods-org/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem

LibrePods is an open-source project that enables AirPods to work with their full feature set on non-Apple devices like…

Historical memory prices 1960-2026

The Cost Yagni Was Never About – By Kent Beck

Kent Beck clarifies that YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It) is not about saving effort on coding, but rather about the…

Ornith-1.0: Self-scaffolding LLMs for agentic coding

Ornith-1.0 is a new family of open-source models ranging from 9B to 397B parameters designed for agentic coding tasks,…

Semgrep: GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our Cyber Benchmarks

Zhipu AI's GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, achieved a 39% F1 score on Semgrep's IDOR vulnerability detection benchmark,…

Writer Ian Bogost says ‘The Small Stuff’ can help us reclaim our lives from dematerialization

Has Silicon Valley been building the wrong things?

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD

The article discusses the Lemote Yeeloong laptop, a Chinese MIPS64-based netbook capable of running OpenBSD, which the…

Show HN: DRM-Free Books

After several years of mandatory DRM lockdowns from most commercial book sources, now authors have a choice when it…

Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University discovered that at least 50 students used artificial intelligence to cheat…

I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

The author used Claude's Opus 4.8 AI model to analyze their MRI results after receiving a shoulder diagnosis they felt…

Reflections on Software Engineering in the Age of AI

Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)

Apple announced a new sparse disk image format called ASIF (Apple Sparse Image Format) for macOS 26 Tahoe, designed for…

TechCrunch Mobility: All eyes on Tesla FSD

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is…

Programmable Probabilistic Computer with 1M p-bits

Researchers have developed a programmable probabilistic computer with one million p-bits by networking multiple FPGAs…

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