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Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-12 | get AI Model Development Kit → | tags: gemini, needle, cactus

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First Real-Time Brain-Controlled Hearing Device (slashdot.org)

2026-05-12 | tags: attention, brain, conversation

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Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Adam | get Focus Booster App → | tags: hugo gernback, attention spans, smartphones

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Megan Thee Stallion Says Your Social Media Strategy Is Wrong: ‘It’s Not About Being Seen’ (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-05 | by Jason Feifer | get Social Media Strategy Guide → | tags: megan thee stallion, instagram, attention economy

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The end of the ‘Always Available’ professional (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-05-05 | get Professional Laptop Stand → | tags: professional reputation, time management, attention control

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Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-01 | get Group Theory for Positional Encodings → | tags: group theory, positional encodings, attention

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LFM2-24B-A2B: Scaling Up the LFM2 Architecture (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-30 | tags: lfm2, mixture of experts, hugging face

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Best Apps for Focus (2026): Focus Friend, Forest, Focus Traveller (wired.com)

2026-04-25 | by David Nield | get Forest: Focus for Productivity → | tags: focus friend, forest, focus traveller

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Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | get NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU → | tags: parameters, computation, transformers

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DeepSeek-V4: Towards Highly Efficient Million-Token Context Intelligence (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | get DeepSeek V4 AI Assistant → | tags: deepseek-v4, mixture-of-experts, compressed sparse attention

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High-Fidelity KV Cache Summarization Using Entropy and Low-Rank Reconstruction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-19 | by Jc Blog | tags: large language models, kv cache, transformer architecture

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Can the 'Attention Liberation Movement' Foment a Rebellion Against Screens? (slashdot.org)

2026-04-19 | by Posted | get Blue Light Blocking Glasses → | tags: attention liberation movement, screens, diamonds

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Attention spans have dropped by two-thirds in the past 20 years. Here’s how to reclaim yours (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-14 | get Focus Booster Timer → | tags: attention spans, screens, schools

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Veteran Windows dev shows off AI running on 47-year-old PDP11 with 6 MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM — 'gloriously absurd' project runs transformer model written in PDP-11 assembly language (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-14 | by Mark Tyson | get Vintage PDP-11 Emulator Kit → | tags: pdp-11, neural network, transformers

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Four steps for better focus from a cognitive scientist (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-04-09 | get Focus Booster App → | tags: cognitive scientist, attention-grabbers, focus

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Hybrid Attention (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-07 | get Hybrid Attention Neural Network → | tags: pytorch, triton, rust

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I Watched a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters to Confront My Dwindling Attention Span (wired.com)

2026-04-01 | by John Semley | get Noise Cancelling Headphones → | tags: béla tarr, film at lincoln center, sátántango

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Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot (wired.com)

2026-04-01 | by John Semley | get The Ultimate Movie Theater Snack Pack → | tags: béla tarr, film at lincoln center, sátántango

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IndexCache, a new sparse attention optimizer, delivers 1.82x faster inference on long-context AI models (venturebeat.com)

2026-03-27 | get Sparse Attention Optimizer Kit → | tags: indexcache, deepseek, glm

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Chris Hayes Has Some Advice for Keeping Up With the News (wired.com)

2026-03-24 | by Katie Drummond | get News Aggregator App → | tags: chris hayes, the sirens’ call, attention economy

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MSA: Memory Sparse Attention (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-21 | get Sparse Attention Transformer Model → | tags: msa, memory sparse attention, rag

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Attention Residuals (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-20 | tags: transformers, attention residuals, arxiv

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Launch HN: IonRouter (YC W26) – High-throughput, low-cost inference (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-12 | get NVIDIA Jetson Nano → | tags: ionrouter, ionattention, yc w26

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FBI Arrests Man Who Allegedly Stole $46 Million Worth of Crypto from U.S. Government Stockpile (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-05 | get Blockchain → | tags: attention, attention reports, charge

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Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-26 | get OpenMind → | tags: zattention, zquantize, zkv

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Okay, This AI-Powered ‘Robot Phone’ Has My Undivided Attention (gizmodo.com)

2026-02-24 | get Smartphone → | tags: ai powered, attention, okay

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Out of Light Adjust Share: Caravaggio, La Tour, and the Art of Attention (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-23 | by Nicole Krauss | get Artificial Lighting → | tags: attention, caravaggio, la tour

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What the ‘AI inflection point’ means for journalism (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-20 | get Newsroom → | tags: ad slap, agents, agents triggered

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‘Staples Baddie’ went viral. Here’s what the retailer is doing about its Gen Z employee’s internet fame (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-19 | get E-commerce platform → | tags: attention, attention january, baddie

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Mark Zuckerberg said very little on his first day of testimony—but the fact he’s here at all is a major moment (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-02-19 | get Facebook → | tags: alleges, alleges faced, attention