AI-ready biological data: $1.8B global commitment
REDWOOD CITY, CA, October 7, 2026 — Biohub, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, and new funding partners today announced a major expansion of an international effort to generate and make accessible the data enabling predictive AI models of biology. Together, the organizations are investing $1.8 billion in funding, data, computation, […]
The value of not getting to the point (2015)
I read somewhere recently, I forget where, that the purpose of people getting together for a conversation over a beer or coffee or lunch or dinner is that it the food and drink spare us from the burden of needing to have something to say throughout the whole conversation. This was a revelation to me. […]
What ArtCraft’s Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe
I am not a unique flower. Like many creatives, I had a good relationship with Adobe that, over time, went belly up. The first sign something was wrong was when the company more or less ignored Mac design conventions in a way that made its software harder to use. (All you had to do was […]
Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea)
A real terminal capture of k10s demo running – just screenshot, on the offline demo backend. Every frame in these docs comes out of the running binary, never hand-drawn. A cluster dashboard is something you open twenty times a day, usually while something is on fire. The two things that matter are how fast it […]
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
Today we release Whistle, a speech recognition model for mobiles, wearables, robots, smart home, automotive and microcontrollers. It is one 16.9 MB file, runs on the CPU with no dependencies, and loads into the same C++ engine as Needle, from the same container and the same quantisation. Whistle sandbox Speak, and Whistle transcribes it on […]
Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
Step 3.7 Flash is StepFun’s latest high-efficiency multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model. It pairs a 196B-parameter language backbone with a vision encoder for native image and video understanding, activating roughly 11B parameters per token. The model supports a 256K context window and exposes selectable reasoning levels (high/medium/low), letting callers trade off speed, cost, and depth of reasoning. […]
Tell HN: I’ve been paying for a rural Tanzanian’s education for 10 years
Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There’s no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an hour away that costs a few hundred dollars a year, which is out of reach […]
Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization
Sub-1-Bit LLM Compression via Latent Factorization Official implementation of LittleBit (NeurIPS 2025) and LittleBit-2 (ICML 2026). LittleBit-2: Maximizing the Spectral Energy Gain in Sub-1-Bit LLMs via Latent Geometry Alignment (ICML 2026)Banseok Lee, Youngmin Kim LittleBit: Ultra Low-Bit Quantization via Latent Factorization (NeurIPS 2025)Banseok Lee*, Dongkyu Kim*, Youngcheon You, Youngmin Kim LittleBit compresses large language models […]
Beauty in DVD Menus
Look at many early DVD releases, and you’ll see interactive menus touted as a selling point. Coming from VHS (or LaserDisc), which had no menus to speak of, this was a genuine improvement. That isn’t to say all DVDs had interactive menus, however. Many of the earliest releases just entered straight into their content, and […]
I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
GPT-6 Astra was a jump when it comes to puzzles. Claude Opus 5.5 is a jump when it comes to design. Vibe designing Even local models can make a competent landing page for a shop. Doing interactive visualization is a different tier. Since I am into creating data visualizations and explorable explanations, LLMs were both […]