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A bowling alley owner replaced a $120k scoring system with $1,600 in ESP32s.
Enthusiastic support for the project, with suggestions for lighting control and tap-to-pay integration.
Alibaba announces Qwen3.8, a 2.4T parameter open-weight model, second only to Fable 5.
Skepticism about the utility of a 2.4T model that few can run, plus strategic competition with Moonshot AI.
Claude Code ships with a Rust-based Bun v1.4.0 preview before public release.
Governance concerns over Anthropic's control of Bun split commenters.
Fable LLM discovered a counterexample to the 85-year-old Jacobian conjecture.
Confirmation of the counterexample, with surprise it was not found earlier.
Hardware is easier than software for simple products with strong margins.
Author details ESP32 firmware (110K lines) and STSAFE anti-counterfeit strategy.
OpenAI reduced Codex's context size from 372k to 272k tokens.
Most saw the reduction as a temporary cost/latency tradeoff, with OpenAI's Tibo promising a return to 372k.
AI advice tripled error rates while doubling confidence, a study found.
Commenters highlight the study's link and debate whether anthropomorphizing AI is fixable or inevitable.
Minecraft replaces GLFW with SDL3 for windowing and input, plus many technical changes.
Exclusive fullscreen issues are expected snapshot bugs; borderless is now default and preferred.
Xiaomi scales robot foundation models via 100K hours of embodiment-free pre-training.
Mixed views: impressed by scaling and uncut video, but skepticism about reliability and practicality of laundry tasks.
Kimi K3 demand overwhelms GPUs; Moonshot temporarily pauses new subscriptions.
Most commenters attribute the surge to K3's quality, not just cost shifts.
Moonshine is a Rust-based headless streaming server for Moonlight clients on Linux.
Isolated sessions praised; comparisons to Sunshine and Apollo dominate.
Kagi launches Orion, a WebKit browser emphasizing privacy and cross-engine extension support.
Performance split: some daily drivers, others citing bugs; extension support on iOS criticized as misleading.
A researcher used an LLM prompt to find a WordPress pre-auth SQLi leading to RCE.
Skeptics doubt the $500k payout and note WordPress's old code has many bugs.
IndieWeb protocols like Webmention and micropub offer a practical alternative to corporate web silos.
Thread split on IndieWeb's accessibility: valuable for technical users, but barriers for non-engineers remain high.
A minimalist browser-based ATC game where players draw flight paths for planes.
Fond nostalgia for Flight Control and comparisons to Mini Metro dominate the thread.
QwenCloud launches Token Plan with Individual and Team tiers for Qwen3.8-Max-Preview.
Discussion was redirected to an earlier, related post on Hacker News.
The last MPEG-4 Part 2 patent expired on July 19, 2026, ending patent protection for the codec.
Two camps: those celebrating MPEG-4 ASP's liberation and those noting H.264 patents remain active until 2030.
A Texas sheriff used 83,000 ALPR cameras to track a woman suspected of self-managing an abortion.
Correction: the abortion tracking narrative was fabricated by an abuser; police were actually locating a domestic violence victim.
A UK couple's bananas fruited after 15 years, highlighting climate change's impact on gardens.
Two camps: urban heat island effects vs. the reality of temperate-zone banana growing.
EU negotiations with the US may force biometric data sharing for visa-free travel.
Split: data export to US as unacceptable risk vs. EU governments already abusive.