Arkiv

Self-contained highly-portable Python distributions

This project produces self-contained, highly-portable Python distributions. These Python distributions contain a fully-usable, full-featured Python installation: most extension modules from the Python standard library are present and their library dependencies are either distributed with the distribution or are statically linked. The Python distributions are built in a manner to minimize run-time dependencies. This includes limiting […]

Bytecode-to-Source Mapping

I encountered this problem while working through the challenges in chapter 14 of Robert Nystrom’s Crafting Interpreters. Note: Production VMs are more sophisticated, though I’ll share how this is similar to other VMs like JVM and Lua at the end of this post. Background The first half of the book implements a toy language, jlox, […]

Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library

← Bicycles Windblown hair Free kick → We’re introducing FeyNoBg, a state-of-the-art model for automatic background removal. Across eight benchmarks, it posts the best published S-measure on four and comes within 2% of the leader on the rest. Others betterFeyNoBg better UHRSD-TE+2.5%HRSOD-TE+2.3%DIS5K+1.1%DAVIS-S+0.2%DUTS-TE-0.8%COD10K-TE-1.2%DUT-OMRON-1.7%CAMO-TE-1.9% -2%0%+2.5% BenchmarkUHRSD-TE FeyNoBg0.981 BiRefNet0.957 Description Tests salient-object masks in ultra-high-resolution images, including 4K […]

Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website

Decathlon switched on Wero on decathlon.de on July 20, making Germany the first market in the French group’s international footprint to carry the European payment scheme. Wero is the retail payment product of the European Payments Initiative (EPI), a consortium of banks and payment providers backed by 18 shareholder institutions and more than 50 members […]

Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]

{{ message }} Latest commit You can’t perform that action at this time.

Exploiting Volvo/Eicher’s fleet platform to gain control over all users/vehicles

Eaton • Jul 27, 2026 Copy Link Share Key Points / Summary VE Commercial Vehicles, a joint venture between the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors, builds and maintains a fleet management system called My Eicher for Indian commercial vehicle customers. “My Eicher is a complete fleet management & vehicle GPS tracking system designed for commercial […]

Apple Will ’Watch Everything Burn’ When the AI Bubble Bursts

Memory prices have doubled, Macs and iPads have gone up, and iPhones are expected to follow. Ed Zitron – who writes the Where’s Your Ed At newsletter, hosts the Better Offline podcast, and has been described by Politico as the AI boom’s most ”acerbic gadfly” – has spent years arguing the buildout driving those costs […]

Should you wash your solar panels?

I have a small solar farm and the panels have got visibly dusty. Is cleaning them worthwhile? How much difference does it make? Let’s find out. I know that my panels have not been cleaned in the last year. I expect they also weren’t cleaned in the year prior to that (why would you clean […]

AI companies are shredding rare books

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they’re free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use […]

Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5

Subscribe to updates for Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5 via email and/or text message. You’ll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever Claude creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Enter mobile number