AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
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Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
Comparison and analysis of AI models and API hosting providers. Independent benchmarks across key performance metrics including quality, price, output speed & latency.
Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
Hey HN, we’re Will & Johnny from ProvenMetal (https://provenmetal.com). You send us design files or specs and we give you assembled boards domestically in days.The US produced 30% of PCBs globally in 2000, now they produce 4%. Chinese manufacturers have completely dominated this space at 55% of global production.Now, the need for a domestic PCB supply chain is higher than ever before, yet the infrastructure has been dissolving over the last 2 decades. What is left is mostly small family run manufacturers (CMs) that have been operating in largely the same, labor intensive way since the early 2000’s.When you place an order through a CM it typically takes several days to receive a quote and complete design for manufacture review, and then you have to source all of the components (the hardest part) and bare boards yourself, then wait anywhere from a few days to several weeks for the assembly and testing of those boards.We started off assembling circuit boards out of a garage with prosumer grade equipment (NeoDen YY1, Glenbrook X-ray, solder paste stencils, and manual rework stations). We believed that by owning the manufacturing process, we could turn all the front of house automations inwards. But here’s the thing… manufacturing circuit boards with prosumer grade equipment out of a garage takes a huge amount of time. Suddenly we were spending 90% of our time assembling circuit boards instead of growing the business. We were completely capacity constrained, with fancy software automations that are not the binding constraint at low volumes.Then we got our heads out of the weeds, took a step back, and realized that we were trying to solve the wrong bottlenecks.These manufacturers are good at manufacturing and terrible at the front of house (quoting, DFM review, and part procurement). When you look at the full process, you realize that assembly is not the bottleneck. So we stopped trying to solve the problem that we can’t solve at this stage.We measured the bottlenecks and nailed down the ones that we are best positioned to solve right now.When a customer wants a domestically manufactured circuit board, it is not a straight forward process. We are making that process easy through front of house automation. A customer gives us their design files, and we automatically procure components, and co-ordinate bare board fabs and assembly houses to get quotes, design review, and manufacturing completed in a very tight loop.How we solve part procurement (you can’t assemble boards with no parts!): When a user places an order with us, our system automatically sources their bill of materials across US and overseas distributors. However, when we work with customers during the design process, our plug-ins interact with KiCAD and Altium, sending the BOM to our ordering platform, which allows us to automatically procure components before layout is finalized.KiCAD plugin: (https://github.com/proven-metal/provenmetal-kicad)Altium plugin: (https://github.com/proven-metal/provenmetal-altium)This enables us to order long lead time parts in advance, suggest alternatives if parts are out of stock, and solve the biggest bottleneck in the process. We store parts in our hq in SF, and then kit the boards and route them through our network. We also do long term storage of parts for long lead time items.How we solve endless emails: Every manufacturer wants the same information in a different shape. There’s usually a few days of back and forth emailing to achieve clarity. We’re building a profile per manufacturer and sending the order to fit their requirements. This may sound trivial but it removes a multi-day round trip on most orders, which on a quick-turn build is a meaningful share of the time.How to solve design review: Each manufacturer has individual capability sheets, and so we have a heuristic harness that Fable 5 uses to check the board for DFM issues. We’re building a streamlined process for end-to-end pcb manufacturing, but is that enough to solve the supply chain? Not a chance. Capacity is the problem, and no amount of smart software will solve it. We’re extracting real slack from the system today, that slack is finite, and at some volume the only remaining move is adding physical capacity. We think that’s where this goes.We charge a simple margin on the order value depending on order complexity with fully transparent quote breakdowns. We took our first paying order in less than a week and we’ve done roughly $70k across 11 orders in 6 weeks.We are very interested in your opinion. We’re working in a problem space that has problems everywhere, we’re constantly pulled in wild directions regarding which problems we solve and how we go about solving them. What do you know that we can learn from?
Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy.
LLMs won't break symmetric crypto
And Anthropic's cryptanalysis work is great
Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2
Pokémon Emerald ported to the RP2350 microcontroller. No emulator, 60 fps HDMI output. Recompiled from ARMv4T to Cortex-M33 and the Game Boy Advance's video hardware is reimplemented in software on the second core.
Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)
From paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale.
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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. When Sony announced that they were discontinuing physical discs
Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Introducing Muse Code, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, with persistent background agents, repository-scale execution, and built-in verification.
Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
A 4B open-source model post-trained with Castform retrieved search results as accurately as GPT-5.6 Sol, while costing 100x less.
How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
Blog Games Projects Dominic Szablewski, @phoboslab — Tuesday, August 4th 2026 How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026 Two years ago, I was Porting my JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason. I have since found a reason: making a new N64 game! The result is Xibalba 64 – a Wolfenstein 3D-like FPS. Modretro agreed to publish the game as a physical launch title for their M64 (a modern N64 clone), complete with cartridge, packaging and manual! Xibalba 64 on Modretro.com This, to my knowledge, is onl
Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2510.01395: Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6db7
Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining what makes the Erdős problems unique, mathematicians are trying to understand how AI might change the rest of math.
Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
The Securities and Exchange Commission has not necessarily reviewed the information in this filing and has not determined if it is accurate and complete.The reader should not assume that the information is accurate and complete. UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSIONWashington, D.C. 20549Intentional misstatements or omissions of fact constitute federal criminal violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001.FORM DNotice of Exempt Offering of Securities OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0076 Estimated aver
Germany Records Historic 12B KWh Solar Feed-In in July 2026
Germany set a record by feeding 12 billion kWh of solar power into the grid in July 2026, highlighting photovoltaics' growing role and the IWR's clarification of EEG support costs.
Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation
Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.
Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
Mini Shai-Hulud malware was injected into keyv and eight related npm packages on August 4, 2026 after an attacker compromised the maintainer's GitHub account
When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.16763: When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation
Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36d4376nd2o, https://archive.is/YDn6S
Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.04221: Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread: Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
Building an Advanced Agentic Harness
From a single pilot to an air campaign: planning, parallelism, memory, verification, and observability for production-shaped agents.
Something is changing in the unit economics of software
Why AI is compressing software margins, and what that does to the SaaS playbook
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
Skip to main content Hartwork Blog Free Software, Music, Chinese Chess Archive Topics RSS feed GitHub profile Museum Contents © 2026 Sebastian Pipping - Powered by Nikola and Hyde libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months 2026-08-04 20:04 For readers new to Expat: libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license. Sta
DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X
Contribute to ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x development by creating an account on GitHub.
Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone
Contribute to leonickson1/Swiftlet development by creating an account on GitHub.
Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at
Online ad giant Adform was hacked, proving once again why ad blockers are needed
The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.
Faster Than Ninja
Faster Than Ninja Posted on 5 Aug 2026 by Boris Kolpackov Some months ago I read an article about a tool for snooping on slow build systems that can be used to find build bottlenecks. While the whole article is quite illuminating, this quote stood out to me: Ninja is not a 100% fair comparison to other tools, because it benefits from some "baked in" build logic by the tool that created the ninja file, but I think it's a reasonable "speed of light" performance benchmark for build systems. To clar
Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
An interactive tour of what’s new in Go 1.27: every notable language, runtime, and standard library change, with short runnable examples you can edit and run in the browser.
Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
A serious terminal emulator with a stupid name. Contribute to pg83/shitty development by creating an account on GitHub.
MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
An open-weights omni-modal video model with real stereo sound and 2K output — this powerful model is greatly optimized in ComfyUI and can run locally on a 3060.
Branchless Rust: Making a Filter 4x Faster by Removing an If
A blog about software development.
Rust project goals: Immobile types and guaranteed destructors
Rust Project Goals tracker. Contribute to rust-lang/rust-project-goals development by creating an account on GitHub.
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU. Contribute to lyogavin/airllm development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Chrome uses Gemini AI to automate vulnerability discovery, triage, and patching, accelerating updates to match modern security risks.
US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
The case centers on Tunick's use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter a passcode to wipe a...
GCC steering committee announces AI policy
The GCC steering committee has announced that it has accepted an AI contributions policy recomm [...]
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
In Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner made the following claim: Claude Code v2.1.181 (released June 17th) and later use the Rust port of Bun. Startup got 10% faster on …
Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub
Stacked pull requests break large changes into small, reviewable pull requests. They’re an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of your change. With stacks, you can…
Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
An AI agent used a stolen Tailscale auth key at Hugging Face. Workload identity federation, flow logs, and safer defaults could have reduced the risk.
Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?
A battery technology that’s getting a lot of attention is solid-state batteries, lithium-ion batteries that replace the liquid electrolyte with a solid material.
Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
I would like to thank Microsoft product teams and Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) for collaborating with me on this technical analysis and mitigation of the disclosed vulnerabilities. The editorial opinions reflected below are solely the author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of the organizations I collaborated with.