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Kobo can run apps now | 30

Kobo can run apps now

The Cobalt launcher on a Kobo Clara BW: Settings, App Store, Terminal, AI Chat, Audiobooks, Components, Daily Brief, Feeds and Gutenbird.
bandarlabs.github.io

Cobalt: apps and an SDK for Kobo e-readers

Cobalt is an open-source app platform for Kobo e-readers: a launcher, a signed App Store, a Rust SDK, and a capability-isolated runtime. One USB install; every app after that arrives over Wi-Fi.

Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude | 12

allaboutcoding.ghinda.com

Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude | All about coding

Claude goes above and beyond what is asked and guesses what you might want. Codex does what you tell it and stops at the first sign that it might be done. Ten impressions from a week of using Codex more.

Felony Bench | 31

Felony Bench

Felony Bench bar chart showing Anthropic at 8, OpenAI at 7, Meta at 1, and Google and Moonshot at 0
felonybench.com

Felony Bench

Felony Bench is the most important benchmark of our time, some are saying, counting the number of questionable decisions made by AI agents. We might need a Pandemic Bench soon...

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe | 16

Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

Direct link to Legacy Survey Sky Viewer: https://viewer.legacysurvey.org [NKosmatos]

newscenter.lbl.gov

Scientists Release Biggest 2D Map of the Universe - Berkeley Lab – Berkeley Lab News Center

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results | 52

kagi.com

Changelog - Kagi Search

Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.

SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers 0

ycombinator.com

Forward Deployed Engineer at SalesPatriot | Y Combinator

The Mission America's industrial base runs on systems built in the 1980s. Billions of dollars in critical components (F-35 parts, industrial assemblies, electronics, bolts, and hoses) still move through email threads, excel sheets, and disconnected ERPs. We're replacing that with an AI-native platform that makes aerospace, electronics, industrial, and defense supply-chain operations nearly autonomous. Faster quoting. Faster procurement. Full visibility. Real operational intelligence for the companies our nation depends on.  Quick Facts - YC W25 company. Top 5% growth in batch - Raised $10M+ from investors including Paul Graham, SV Angel, Pear VC, and CRV - Team of 20 co-live in our Warsaw & SF Hacker Houses - 7 figure ARR transacting ~$50M a week through our system The Job 1. Go. Fly out and plant yourself inside the customer's operation. Weekdays are onsite (Wisconsin, New York, Miami, Los Angeles); weekends we regroup at the SF HQ to debrief and keep building. 2. Understand. Map how the company actually operates, from sales and supply chain teams to executives and CEOs. Learn the breakpoints choking their growth and speed. 3. Implement. Configure automations within SP Studio tooling so the platform accurately reflects the customer's needs. Build trust and confidence in SalesPatriot. 4. Iterate. Take full ownership of the customer's outcome. Keep finding and killing their most pressing problems, leading org-wide scaling, until SalesPatriot is the operating system their business runs on. What We’re Looking For - Ready to relocate full-time to San Francisco. This is not a remote role. - Absolute grinder. Interested in co-living (though not required). - Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid change. - Track record of shipping fast. - Full-stack beyond code: comfortable jumping between frontend, backend, and organizational politics — earning trust with procurement specialists while navigating executive priorities and IT constraints. - Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack. - Proficiency in TypeScript, JavaScript, and at least one frontend library (React, Svelte, Next etc). - Be ready to show us at least one full-stack project you've shipped (GitHub repo / web app / Loom demo video). - Knowledge of SQL databases, preferably Postgres. - Personable: clients trust you, like you, and look forward to your updates. You handle the conversation and the code. - Low ego, curiosity, and intellectual honesty — focused on outcomes, not "being right." The Process Call with engineer → 1hr technical test → Call with founder → fly out to SF HQ (on us) → offer.

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study 30

economist.com

AI boosted homework scores, then exam scores dropped: study

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Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border 39

nytimes.com

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

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I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases | 17

lina.sh

I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases - lina's blog

How an expired nameserver let me take over e164.arpa zones for multiple territories, and why I probably should have checked my logs sooner.

People of ACM – Russ Cox | 3

acm.org

Attention Required! | Cloudflare

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders | 8

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders | Claude by Anthropic
claude.com

Bringing the cybersecurity capabilities of Claude Mythos 5 to more defenders | Claude by Anthropic

We’re sharing an update on our efforts to help more teams leverage frontier capabilities for cyber defense.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp | 28

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

api-docs.deepseek.com

Vision | DeepSeek API Docs

The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text, so you can ask the model to describe pictures, read text from screenshots, analyze charts, and more.

How we made a text-to-speech model respond in sub-50 ms | 10

Benchmark chart comparing p95 audible TTFA across serving engines as RPS increases
nari-labs.com

Pushing the Speed-Cost Frontier for Qwen3-TTS | Nari Labs

10 RPS with p95 TTFA under 50 ms on a single H100: how we optimized Qwen3-TTS serving.

A look under our trunk: what's in our compute | 6

waymo.com

A look under our trunk: what’s in our compute

Compute is the brain of the Waymo Driver, translating raw sensor data into real-time driving commands. Operating demonstrably safe, physical AI on the road demands a fundamental shift towards a system engineered for deterministic, low-latency performance. Over the past decade, we have co-designed our hardware, sensors, and algorithms side-by-side to solve the unique constraints of real-world edge compute. We’re offering the first look under our trunk to share our approach to compute, our custom silicon, and how we collaborate with industry leaders to build the most capable computing system on the road.

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip | 10

pointinthecloud.com

I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip - some thoughts about simpler computers

Tumble Forth – from assembly to OS with C compiler | 1

tumbleforth.hardcoded.net

Tumble Forth

Church of the TigerBeetle: A Look at Tech Evangelism | 4

wespiser.com

The Church of the TigerBeetle

My experiences at Systems Distributed '26

What happens when a GPU reads memory | 7

blog.doubleword.ai

What happens when a GPU reads memory

The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000) | 2

tronweb.super-nova.co.jp

The B-right/V R2 Operating System (2000)

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory | 13

blog.jakesaunders.dev

Building an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory

I built an (almost) fully self-hosted, sandboxed, agentic software factory.

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article | 30

adnanakil/nobuzz

Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article

Using an old Android phone as a music player | 5

monocyte.blog

Using an old Android phone as a music player

I'm becoming AI-blind | 25

I'm becoming AI-blind

cymerys.com

I'm becoming AI-blind - Rafal Cymerys

Recently I've been catching myself having these little moments at work, when I'm trying to read a document someone has sent me and my brain somehow refuses to analyze it. It feels like I'm reading it, but I'm unable to focus on its content. I sat down to analyze these situations and realized they all have a common denominator: the documents all show a strong trace to AI. My brain learned to quickly spot signs of AI-generated content, at least the low effort one, and it now ignores it and moves on without thinking much about it.

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it | 9

aravpanwar/decayfmt

Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson | 23

precastreinforced.co.uk

New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] | 4

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout | 1

invertingvision.com

Kodak's "pre-invented" lunar orbiter camera; or, the fate of SAMOS readout

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor | 1

journals.plos.org

Quantifying the honey bee dance floor

Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine | 7

Show HN: Shoehorn – Quantize any model down to run on your machine

Working on Mac, Linux, and Windows now. I include a simple GUI to find new models and get things built and set up. It is working quite well across a few models for me. The GitHub README and DESIGN.md files go into detail of the how/why and it's working remarkably well so far. https://github.com/notactuallytreyanastasio/shoehorn [rhgraysonii]

notactuallytreyanastasio.github.io

shoehorn — make any language model fit your machine

Quantize a BF16 GGUF with an imatrix to exactly fit your VRAM, then run it with llama.cpp. Every spare megabyte spent where it buys the most quality.

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6 | 1

theconsensus.dev

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6