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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things
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Simon Willison’s Weblog
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
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Rhombus 1.1 is now available
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blog.racket-lang.org
Rhombus v1.1
Rhombus version 1.1 is now available! We are pleased to announce Rhombus 1.1 is now available from https://rhombus-lang.org/. _Rhombus is a general-purpose programming language that is easy to use and uniquely customizable._ As of this release:: A...
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The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
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Higher Ed Dive
Inside the federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
In court documents, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and others shared which words they used to target grants.
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Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
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AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64
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Meanhamster
Mean Hamster Software
Independent games and software for classic and modern computers since 1985.
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Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners
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The Boston Diaries
Gmail might partially be to blame for me receiving emails from other Sean Conners - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm
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Applying a photosynthetic process to treat "dry eye"
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Science
Taking a Tip From Plants - For the Eyes?
Taking a Tip From Plants - For the Eyes?
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Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler
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GIMP Development Update
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www.gimp.org
GIMP - Development Update, August 2026
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Amodei Re. Regulation
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X (formerly Twitter)
Dario Amodei (@DarioAmodei) on X
1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation.
First, on regulation, I think that “either concentrate…
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HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons
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Insomniac's Log
HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons
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Show HN:
Desktopcolors.com
– A museum for solid background colors of classic OS
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Desktopcolors
desktopcolors.com — The desktop color archive
Every solid desktop background color shipped by classic operating systems.
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Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
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RIPE Labs
Two Providers, a Stubborn Plateau and a Very Long Tail: Email in the Tranco Top-1M
Ten years of DNS measurements reveal three trends across the Internet's most popular domains: email continues to consolidate around two providers, DMARC enforcement has hit a plateau, and a surprisingly large long tail of infrastructure defies easy classification.
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$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake in PJM
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Semianalysis
$12B of US ratepayers' money wasted on a modeling mistake and PJM wants to do it again
American Grid design needs an overhaul, Why it is good to be full of cold air.
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People are worried about America's solvency
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GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
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Roboflow Blog
GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading VLMs.
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Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA
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X (formerly Twitter)
Lydia Kauppi (@lydiakauppi) on X
Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA
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Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway
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Yucatán Magazine
Mexico Crackdown on Coastal Development Underway
In a move that signals a shift in environmental protection, Profepa has launched an aggressive campaign against unauthorized coastal development
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Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver
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Menachem Kornreich
Sokoban - Menachem Kornreich
Play Sokoban in your browser and watch an AI solver crack it.
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Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models
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1667
1667 · write your novel in the terminal
A full-screen terminal environment for writing fiction with language models. Keep every take in a story tree. Plain-text files and no tracking of any kind.
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Incident with
Github.com
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Githubstatus
Incident with GitHub.com
GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.
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