“Explore the world of 3D assets with Hunyuan3D 2.0, a groundbreaking synthesis system that creates high-resolution, textured 3D assets. The system features innovative components Hunyuan3D-DiT and Hunyuan3D-Paint, producing geometry that aligns perfectly with condition images and vibrant textures for generated or hand-crafted meshes. With a user-friendly production platform and top-notch performance, Hunyuan3D 2.0 outperforms previous […]

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Scholarly has had a fruitful year, securing investments, growing its customer base, and sticking to a simplified technology stack of Rails, Stimulus, and MySQL. Moving away from React has improved the testability of their application, resulting in more reliable Capybara-powered system specs. The emphasis on server-rendered content has led to fast route change times due […]

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President Trump announced a $500 billion joint venture investment in AI infrastructure by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, creating a new entity called Stargate. The investment, starting at $100 billion, aims to develop data centers and electricity generation in Texas for AI advancement. Figures like SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son praised Trump’s role in facilitating the project’s launch, […]

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In the world of prime numbers, fascinating stories abound. Alexander Grothendieck once humorously named 57 as a prime number, although it’s divisible by 3. On the other hand, Freeman Dyson impressed his colleague with the large prime number 231 – 1. Such conversations have sparked interest in memorable primes, like the palindromic number 12,345,678,910,987,654,321. Indian […]

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Kimi k1.5 is a groundbreaking multi-modal model designed by the Kimi Team that outperforms GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.5 by up to 550% on various benchmarks like AIME, MATH-500, and LiveCodeBench. Utilizing reinforcement learning (RL), Kimi k1.5 demonstrates improved reasoning capabilities across different modalities such as text and vision. Key features include long context scaling […]

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The author shares their experience with LLM-assisted coding using ContinueDev + OpenRouter setup, emphasizing the importance of tracking expenses and analyzing call costs. They discovered that Jupyter notebooks, due to their verbose nature with base64-encoded images and rich metadata, significantly increased expenses when fed into the AI system. By converting notebooks to Python scripts and […]

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The author delves into the complexities of managing software dependencies in Linux distributions, focusing on Alpine Linux. They explore parsing repository files, creating constraints, handling conflicts and dependencies, and solving the problem using a constraint solver. Despite encountering challenges, they were able to achieve satisfactory results in terms of package installation in Alpine 3.20. The […]

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The author shares their journey of improving software by implementing Raven, a fictional computer designed for cross-platform portability. A recent fix resulted in a 50% increase in speed compared to the previous version. The author also discusses setting up Github CI testing, implementing actual snapshot testing, statically preventing panics in the code, and utilizing fuzzing […]

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Daniel, a 15-year-old high school junior, has discovered a unique 0-click deanonymization attack that can determine a target’s location within a 250-mile radius through popular apps like Signal, Discord, and more. By exploiting Cloudflare’s cache storage, attackers can pinpoint users’ locations without their knowledge. Daniel has developed tools like Cloudflare Teleport to execute these attacks, […]

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DeepSeek has unveiled its first-generation reasoning models, boasting performance that rivals OpenAI. With models ranging from 1.5B to 70B parameters, these models excel across math, code, and reasoning tasks. The 4.7GB model archqwen2 with 7.62B parameters and quantizationQ4_K_M is a standout feature. Users can easily access and utilize these models for various tasks, making DeepSeek […]

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