DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient. 🔹 Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding. 🔹 Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput, and scaling to larger models. 1/6
Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes
Somewhere between “nanoGPT toy” and “you need a research lab” there’s a large, under-described region where one person with a few thousand dollars can train a meaningful model. I wanted to see language and understanding emerge from random weights for myself, and to learn the parts you can only learn by starting from scratch. This […]
Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
Relativity Park: Walking Speed of Light Special relativity with c = 5 km/h Field guide (Help) H Settings Tab Your velocity 0.00km/h β:  v / c 0.0000 Îł:  Lorentz factor 1.000 Lengths ahead Ă— 1.0000 Doppler at crosshair 1.000 at rest Elapsed Your watch 0:00.0 World clock 0:00.0 World clocks tick Ă— 1.000 faster than […]
Factoring RSA 260

By Eric Lu09.09.26 Over the past few weeks, the Cognition research team and I have been optimizing our job scheduler to better use disaggregated compute. As a proof of concept, and because I’ve enjoyed factoring numbers as a hobby for the past ten years or so, I drove a bevy of Devins to obtain a […]
Apple Unveils iPhone Duo

September 9, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Apple unveils iPhone Duo iPhone Duo features a breakthrough foldable design that’s beautiful, versatile, and durable, opening up possibilities that feel entirely new yet remarkably familiar CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today introduced iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone. Opened, it is the thinnest iPhone ever, with a 7.6-inch inner display that provides […]
iPhone Duo

Get the highlights. Foldable design A new iPhone enters the fold. Introducing iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone. When open, it’s the thinnest iPhone with the largest display ever — 50 percent larger than iPhone 18 Pro Max. And it has an outer display with more than 90 percent of the screen area of iPhone 18 Pro. Through reimagined iOS experiences, it offers unparalleled versatility […]
Apple Watch Series 12

September 9, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Introducing Apple Watch Series 12, with the all-new Health Sensing System Apple Watch Series 12 offers the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable, higher-frequency heart rate and HRVÂ sensing, a readiness score, and Audio Intelligence features built with privacy at the core CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today introduced Apple Watch […]
Apple Introduces AirPods 5

September 9, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Apple introduces AirPods 5, featuring best-in-class open‑ear Active Noise Cancellation With industry-leading ANC in an open-ear design, improved sound quality, hands-free access to Siri AI, and Live Translation, AirPods 5 deliver the best audio experience Apple has ever offered in this style of AirPods, at an incredible price CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple […]
iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

September 9, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max The new Pro lineup introduces variable aperture with the most advanced camera in an iPhone, incredible battery life, next‑level performance, and Siri AI, all powered by A20 Pro CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, delivering the most advanced […]
Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

A follow-up to Reasoning prefills on a few open models and Stolen Thoughts This v1.1 reruns the reasoning-prefill experiment with GPT-5.5 Pro as the teacher. For each problem, I generated two responses from each target model: an ordinary, unprefilled response; and a response starting with the first 1% of GPT-5.5 Pro’s reasoning, inserted into the […]