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In-Memory Filesystems in Rust

news.ycombinator.com André Arko 2025-11-05 06:33:35

In-memory Filesystems in Rust I’ve been working on a CLI tool recently, and one of the things it does is manage files on disk. I have written a lot of file management tests for Bundler, and the two biggest reasons that the Bundler test suite is slow are exec and fstat . Knowing that, I thought I would try to get out ahead of the slow file stat problem by using an in-memory filesystem for testing. A collaborator mentioned being happy with the Go package named Afero for this purpose, and so I se

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Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-05 16:00:35

In Brief Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Musk wrote on X. He added that Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months.” AI engineer Tim Kellogg described the Grok license as “custom with some anti-competitive terms.” Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which i

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Notion’s offline mode might just make me ditch Obsidian

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 04:00:56

Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Notion is one of my favorite tools. From databases to to-do lists, tracking restaurants I wanted to check out, and so much more, I’ve dabbled in it for years until I finally made the switch to Obsidian. That’s mostly because of Notion’s one fatal flaw. The moment you lose internet, the app effectively becomes useless. The moment you lose internet, the app effectively becomes useless. I’ve learned that the hard way on flights, cafes with rocky Wi-Fi, even when

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You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 06:47:35

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3. For now, anyone can download, run and even tweak Grok, whose source code was uploaded to the Hugging Face platform. However, there are restrictions to xAI's open-source license, which doesn't let people use Grok to train, create or improve other AI models. It's not the first time xAI has made its mo

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SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 05:40:38

SQLite (with WAL) doesn't do `fsync` on each commit under default settings SQLite has a WAL mode (the default is journal mode), but you’re likely using it if you want higher write throughput. SQLite also has a PRAGMA called synchronous which configures how fsync is called. The default is NORMAL . This is what the docs say: [..] but WAL mode does lose durability. A transaction committed in WAL mode with synchronous=NORMAL might roll back following a power loss or system crash. In WAL mode when

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Regulators Say Binance Must Tighten Money Laundering, Terrorism Rules

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-06 05:39:13

Beleaguered crypto company Binance must tighten up its compliance controls covering anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism and add an independent auditor if it wants to keep doing business in Australia, regulators said this week. The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) is mandating the crypto giant put outside auditors in place within 28 days of its decision. The watchdog said that the new rules are intended to address “serious concerns” it has about its oversight

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Waymo Gets First Driverless Car Permit in NYC

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-11-06 06:19:06

Waymo has become the first autonomous vehicle operator to secure a permit to test self-driving cars on the streets of New York City, the state’s department of transportation said in announcing the news. The New York City Department of Motor Vehicles approved Waymo’s application, allowing the company to conduct limited testing of its autonomous vehicles within certain city zones. The permit comes after years of regulatory negotiations and signals a potential shift toward broader deployment of d

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How to Watch NFL Games Without Cable in 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 23:00:06

The summer is winding down, which means the return of cooler weather, Spirit Halloween stores and football. We are less than two weeks away from the start of another NFL season. The 2025 NFL season kicks off on Thursday, Sept. 4, in Philadelphia with the Super Bowl champion Eagles opening their title defense against the Dallas Cowboys in primetime on NBC and Peacock. The following night, the Chiefs and Chargers face off in Brazil for a game that will -- in an NFL first -- stream live free on Yo

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The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity

wired.com Webb Wright 2025-11-06 00:00:00

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot maids. Instead, we’ve seen the rise of artificial intelligence systems that can beat us in chess, analyze huge reams of text, and compose sonnets. This has been one of the great surprises of the modern era: physical tasks that are easy for humans turn out to be very difficult for robots, while algorithms are increasingly able to mimic our intellect. Another surprise that has long p

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Best Heart Rate Monitors (2025), WIRED Tested and Reviewed

wired.com Michael Sawh 2025-11-06 02:30:00

Compare Top 5 Heart Rate Monitors FAQS We tested and recommend all of the heart rate monitors below, which do a pretty impeccable job. But what do all these terms mean? Heart rate zones: If someone tells you they’ve been doing 80/20 training, they’ve been doing heart rate zone-based workouts. Heart rate zones are an easy way to break down your range of effort during exercise. Zones go from 1 to 5, with 5 indicating working at 90 to 100 percent of your maximum heart rate. Zone 2 represents tra

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I’m a pro photographer and these are my favorite gimbals for iPhone or Android in 2025

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 04:30:26

There are multiple factors to consider when picking the right smartphone gimbal, and the DJI Osmo Mobile does a great job of checking most of the boxes. The most exciting part is the multifunction module. This magnetic accessory attaches to the gimbal, and honestly, it almost feels like it has superpowers. This module takes care of most of the smart and connectivity functions. Powered by AI, it is the brain behind Active Track. This module can identify people and track them, making the gimbal a

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ThinkMesh: A Python lib for parallel thinking in LLMs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 22:23:33

ThinkMesh ThinkMesh is a python library for running diverse reasoning paths in parallel, scoring them with internal confidence signals, reallocates compute to promising branches, and fuses outcomes with verifiers and reducers. It works with offline Hugging Face Transformers and vLLM/TGI, and with hosted APIs. Note: This is still in it's early development phase and breaking changes can sometimes occur Highlights Parallel reasoning with DeepConf‑style confidence gating and budget reallocation

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Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-06 00:57:19

Seed Seed is an interactive software environment. With it you can create and use computer programs in many ways. It is based on the Common Lisp language and runs inside the Web browser, allowing you to build software on a local or remote computer system, and it can present programs and their output using a wide variety of display modes. Seed depicts programs in the form of a tree grid, featuring glyphs that denote different functions and types of data. All of Seed's display modes share basic in

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AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

news.ycombinator.com Vinci Rufus 2025-11-05 23:18:52

Published: Aug 13, 2025 | at 11:00 AM We’ve reached an inflection point in AI development. The scaling laws that once promised ever-more-capable models are showing diminishing returns. GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini represent remarkable achievements, but they’re hitting asymptotes that brute-force scaling can’t solve. The path to artificial general intelligence isn’t through training ever-larger language models—it’s through building engineered systems that combine models, memory, context, and determ

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Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

news.ycombinator.com Graham King 2025-11-05 23:40:33

Most models are excellent, so cost and latency dominate. It’s great that AI can win maths Olympiads, but that’s not what I’m doing. I mostly ask basic Rust, Python, Linux and life questions. So I did my own evaluation. I gathered 130 real prompts from my bash history (I use command line tool llm). I had Qwen3 235B Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Pro group them into categories. They both chose very similar ones, broadly (with examples): Programming - “Write a bash script to ..” Sysadmin - “With curl

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Premier League Soccer: Stream Arsenal vs. Leeds Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 10:30:03

Arsenal plays its first home fixture of the new season on Saturday as Leeds heads south to the Emirates, buoyed by a positive start to life back in the English Premier League. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services for watching Premier League games as they happen, wherever you are in the world, and how to use a VPN if it's not available where you are. The Gunners kicked off the new campaign with a narrow 1-0 win away at Man United. They will have been further boosted by havin

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ChatGPT-5 Impressions: Fast, but a Bit Impersonal

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 10:54:00

ChatGPT-5 likes getting straight to the point. For some, that's a reprieve from its chattier predecessor, GPT-4o. For others, something will certainly seem off. Despite the hype leading up to OpenAI's launch of GPT-5, it ultimately doesn't feel too different from 4o. The quality of responses in my ongoing testing seems to be at the level of past models, including the o3 "reasoning" model. The major difference is that some responses generate very quickly in relatively few words, while others ca

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La Liga Soccer: Stream Levante vs. Barcelona Live From Anywhere

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-05 14:00:05

Segunda Division champions Levante face a tough test of their La Liga credentials on Saturday as they take on Catalan giants Barcelona. Below, we'll outline the best live TV streaming services to use to watch the game as it happens. Levante secured a return to Spain's top flight in some style last term, but the Frogs worryingly slipped to defeat to Alaves -- a club widely tipped to be battling relegation this term -- in their season opener last weekend. It was business as usual, meanwhile, fo

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People Who Don't Smoke Are Getting Lung Cancer in Scary Numbers

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-05 15:15:22

Image by Getty / Futurism Cancer It's no secret that our efforts to save the planet from the excesses of global trade are failing spectacularly. Our bodies are riddled with manmade compounds, cities are routinely enveloped by massive clouds of noxious smoke, and glaciers are melting faster than ever before. Indeed, in 2025, not even the remote ice shelves of Antarctica are safe from humanity's garbage. At the same time as the Earth struggles to hold the weight of all our garbage, a concerning

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Overwatch 2 will allow KBM on console, but you'll be up against PC players

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 00:00:34

Overwatch 2 console players will officially be able to use a keyboard and mouse starting with the release of Season 18. In patch notes posted ahead of the new season, the Overwatch 2 team says matchmaking pools will be tweaked slightly so players are sorted into a Mouse and Keyboard Pool and a Controller Pool. Those playing on a console using keyboard and mouse (KBM) inputs will be paired with PC players and other KBM console players, while the Controller Pool will be reserved only for console p

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The Amiga games and demo scene collection

news.ycombinator.com Deniz B. 2025-11-06 00:49:06

User-Friendly Launcher Experience the best of the Amiga system with our sophisticated and performant game and demo launcher with pixel-perfect high-resolution screenshots, and metadata like release date, developer, publisher, etc. Entirely controllable using gamepads, joysticks or via keyboard. This lets you quickly and easily try the best of what the system has to offer.

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Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 00:00:15

Waymo can now test its self-driving cars in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams has announced. Local authorities have granted the company the permit needed to be able to test autonomous vehicles in parts of Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. It's the first-ever permit for the "testing deployment" of AVs the city has granted. Waymo will be able to deploy a fleet with up to eight vehicles in the city until late September 2025. For now, though, the permit only allows Waymo to test its AVs with drivers be

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MasterClass deal: Get half off subscriptions for Labor Day

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-06 02:45:37

If you want to brush up on some skills or learn new ones, MasterClass offers a good way to do just that. The streaming service has hundreds of classes taught by professionals and experts in their fields, and now you can get a subscription for 50 percent less than usual. All MasterClass membership tiers are on sale right now, so you can sign up for as low as $5 per month. With a subscription, you could watch a class on writing taught by James Patterson, or learn cooking techniques from Thomas Ke

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Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++

news.ycombinator.com Thien Tran 2025-11-05 21:29:02

In this post, I will walkthrough how I learned to implement Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++. The main objective is to learn writing attention in CUDA C++, since many features are not available in Triton, such as MXFP8 / NVFP4 MMA for sm120. I also feel this is a natural next step after learning about matmul kernels. Lastly, there are many excellent blogposts on writing fast matmul kernels, but there is none for attention. So I want to take this chance to write up something nicely. Readers

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Five Years Ago, ‘The Batman’ Made Its Brutal, Moody Debut

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-11-06 02:25:04

On August 22, 2020, Warner Bros. held its first-ever DC FanDome, a weekend-long virtual event meant to make up for that year’s San Diego Comic-Con, which was canceled due to the pandemic. If you’ve ever followed big industry events like the Game Awards or… well, Comic-Con, you know they often come with a big trailer or two that’s meant to make it all worth it. And for WB, the big showcase for its inaugural, short-lived event was the very first look at Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Trailers for super

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The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-05 17:24:16

published 8/21/2025 The First MoQ CDN: Cloudflare 🚨 It’s finally happening! 🚨 Cloudflare has just announced their Media over QUIC CDN! It’s an official product, and you can test MoQ on their massive, anycast network. Try it out, and convince your boss’ boss that the writing is on the wall. If you’ve been living under a rock, MoQ is an up-and-coming standard for live media, aiming to supplant WebRTC, HLS/DASH, and even RTMP/SRT as the one to rule them all. And now Cloudflare wins the award fo

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OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-11-06 05:25:35

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling the development of computer-use agents (CUAs). Models trained usin

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Hot deal: The best XGIMI portable projector discounted for the first time!

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 05:12:35

Are you looking for a portable projector? I swear, I can no longer live without mine. It turns regular movie nights into magical moments! XGIMI makes some of the best ones; their latest and greatest is the XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser. It’s a bit on the pricier side, with a $799 full retail cost. It has just been discounted for the first time, though, so you can save $120 on it right now. Buy the XGIMI MoGo 4 Laser portable projector for $679 ($120 off) This offer is available from Amazon as a “limited t

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Apple trained a large language model to efficiently understand long-form video

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-06 10:27:48

Apple researchers have developed an adapted version of the SlowFast-LLaVA model that beats larger models at long-form video analysis and understanding. Here’s what that means. The nerdy bits Very basically, when an LLM is trained to also understand video, it learns to split videos into frames, apply computer vision to extract visual features, analyze how those features change over time, and align all of that with language so it can describe or reason about the video in the form of text. One v

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College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-06 10:13:56

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English "just for fun" got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest creation mentioned real protests from 1834 London—events the developer didn't know had actually happened until he Googled them. "I was interested to see if a protest had actually occurred in 1834 London and it really did happen," wrote Reddit user Hayk Grigorian, who is a computer science student at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. For t

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In-Memory Filesystems in Rust

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Notion’s offline mode might just make me ditch Obsidian

You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

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Waymo Gets First Driverless Car Permit in NYC

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I’m a pro photographer and these are my favorite gimbals for iPhone or Android in 2025

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AGI is an engineering problem, not a model training problem

Evaluating LLMs for my personal use case

Premier League Soccer: Stream Arsenal vs. Leeds Live From Anywhere

ChatGPT-5 Impressions: Fast, but a Bit Impersonal

La Liga Soccer: Stream Levante vs. Barcelona Live From Anywhere

People Who Don't Smoke Are Getting Lung Cancer in Scary Numbers

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Waymo can now test its self-driving vehicles in New York City

MasterClass deal: Get half off subscriptions for Labor Day

Writing Speed-of-Light Flash Attention for 5090 in CUDA C++

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OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

Hot deal: The best XGIMI portable projector discounted for the first time!

Apple trained a large language model to efficiently understand long-form video

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

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