- Mistral Large 4 (mistral.ai)
- Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen (nobelprize.org)
- Release of Polars 2.0 (pola.rs)
- JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history (helgilibrary.com)
- Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link's TPAP protocol (dinculescu.dev)
- Benchmark in Milliseconds (matklad.github.io)
- Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore (gleam.run)
- AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware (github.com/fesens)
- Mathematics of Geothermal Energy (ebsco.com)
- Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire (techdirt.com)
- Show HN: I turned my iPhone and a $20 smart plug into an f-stop timer (peterszentkiralyi.eu)
- I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity (ajmoon.com)
- Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP (arxiv.org)
- Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason (reuters.com)
- Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model (reflection.ai)
- Nature's capacity to 'bounce back' when species are lost is vastly overestimated (phys.org)
- The Early History of Smalltalk (1993) (worrydream.com)
- Show HN: Parseable, an open observability datalake, handles 100M time-series/min (parseable.com)
- California Closed the Montana License Plate Loophole (thedrive.com)
- Dust: Pretraining Transformers Without Backpropagation (qlabs.sh)
- Find the flattest route between any two points in SF (flattensf.com)
- Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror (tdk.com)
- Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend (dbushell.com)
- World's First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months (techcrunch.com)
- Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates (vals.ai)
- Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors (smarthomescene.com)
- Competitive Programmer's Handbook (2018) [pdf] (cses.fi)
- The complement of true is true, except when it's false (dryperspective.github.io)
- Two ARM64-specific compiler optimization bugs, in GCC 15/16 and Rust, hit curl (mastodon.social/bagder)
- The lamps in my house (arslan.io)