How small can a language model be while still doing something useful? I wanted to find out, and had some spare time over the holidays. Z80-ΞΌLM is a character-level language model with 2-bit quantized ...
π Key Facts β iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 14 and will be acquired by Picea Robotics. β Founded in 1990 by Colin ...
Paramount Skydance, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Netflix have very different approaches to remote work. John Lamparski/Getty Images; Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images; Beata Zawrzel/Nu...
From hacks and macro shocks to stablecoin regulation and market-structure upgrades, 2025 reshaped how crypto operates and what mainstream adoption really means....
Venture partners such as Pantera, Hash3 and Variant look back on a year of regulatory shifts and uneven markets, outlining cryptoβs biggest winners and losers in 2025....
π Key Facts β Anna's Archive scraped metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million songs from Spotify, totaling under 300TB. β The...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said over the summer that she didn't use AI. "Yeah, that's changed," she told Business Insider this month. Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images More and more lawmakers are be...
Jules Love. Courtesy of Jules Love The biggest barrier to AI adoption in creative agencies isn't tech but mindset, a consultant says. He said role-specific training and protected time to experiment wi...
π Key Facts β White elephant gifts stem from a legend of the King of Siam gifting burdensome animals to courtiers. β Secret Santa gifts...
Hi HN, I built a small Linux CLI tool called witr (Why Is This Running?). The idea came from a situation most of us have hit: you log into a machine, see a process or port running, and immediately won...
π Key Facts β The archive contains over 1,300 scanned manuscripts from 1959 to 2002, hosted by UT Austin's Computer Science Department. β ...
π Key Facts β iRobot, Luminar, and Rad Power Bikes are very different companies β These companies faced similar challenges ...
π Key Facts β OpenAI launched 'Your Year with ChatGPT' on December 22, 2025. β The feature is available in the US, UK, Canada, ...
π Key Facts β Adding a rooftop solar array to a home or business is exciting and expensive. β It is tempting to cut corners to keep cos...
Altcoins lagged Bitcoin in 2025, but XRP, Zcash and Algorand outperformed on regulatory clarity, privacy demand and tokenization....
In 2024, Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chips finally made Arm-based Windows laptops viable. Unlike previous Arm laptops that struggled to even run Windows well, this new class offered solid performance and ...
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π Key Facts β Parses legacy formats EULUMDAT (1990) and IES (1991) for basic photometry. β Supports new spectral data standards TM-33 a...
As crypto, governments and Big Tech converge on digital identity, selective disclosure and zero-knowledge proofs are emerging as a privacy-first alternative to surveillance systems....