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I watched the excellent Veritasium video [1] on the Enigma machine, and watched the full animation by Jared Owen [2], but was still a bit confused on how the inner mechanics of an Enigma machine work…
A comprehensive coding tutorial on Google Research's Massive Sound Embedding Benchmark (MSEB), demonstrating how to implement custom sound encoders, drive classification, clustering, retrieval, and segmentation evaluato…
I have a theory: a mirror image of Roko’s Basilisk. It’s a future AI, millions of years in the future, that values the complexity of every human life so deeply that, after it and humanity have master…
We found an approach to get Jev-like properties from standard LLMs like GLM-5.3-Flash. The core idea is to craft the input prompt so that the first output token answers the question. This makes it po…
Hello HN, It started as an experiment: can Claude play chess properly if it uses vision instead of PGN notation? Somehow it can. The next experiment was to see whether Claude + Stockfish could explai…
The following explanation is taken from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622607 : Alan Kay performs an improvisational avant garde layered audio feedback loop about Claude Shannon, live online…
Hey HN, Guanming here, cofounder of General Instinct. We just released InstinctFlash, a high-performance serving framework for robotics models. It’s licensed under AGPL-3.0. On Jetson Thor, we see sp…
With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster.
Hey HN, Toby from Nari Labs here. We've been working on making OSS speech models super-fast. Last year, we built Dia, the first OSS text-to-speech model capable of doing natural dialogue. Since then,…
Hey HN, I'm Shreyash from Feyn. We help companies build custom models from their data. Today we're releasing MultiMatte, a background removal model you can aim with words. Name an object in your imag…
Hi HN, I’m Lloyd, one of two founders of RonanRx ( https://ronanrx.com/ ). We are building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, compounding, manuf…
Hi HN, I’m Lloyd, one of two founders of RonanRx. We are building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, compounding, manufacturing, and delivery. W…
Hey HN, I’m Antonio from Nori Robotics ( https://norirobotics.com ). We build a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot in San Francisco for robotics developers and researchers. I started working on Nori while…
The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.
Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics. We built HFlow ( https://github.com/Hebbian-Robotics/hflow ), an SDK that turns multimodal recordings from robots and human operat…
Hi HN, we are Sina Atalay and Abdullah Geduk, co-founders of Academa. We are both PhD students. We thought: what if lecture videos were written as code and compiled into video using computer graphics…
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
It's a macOS menu bar app that reads the text of your focused window every few seconds through the Accessibility API. No screenshots, no video, or OCR. It writes plain markdown, one file per day, int…
On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.
The vision plugin for OpenCode that truly understands images. Inspect, read, and reason about any screenshot or picture with deeper understanding than any other plugin — fully local, private, and fre…
Hey HN, we're Advaith and Akash from Discovered Materials ( https://discoveredmaterials.com/ ). We build AI agents that discover new materials for the semiconductor industry. GPUs today have a heat p…
River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured $1.1 billion out of the gate.
Hi HN! We’re Zack and Tommy the Co-Founders of Keet ( https://trykeet.com ). We are building a mobile app that generates courses on any topic, with short videos for explanation and games for reinforc…
Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and access.
Mistral AI has released Shieldstral 1.0 3B, an open-weights, policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that frames content moderation as a single yes/no question instead of a fixed harm taxonomy. Operators supply the…
In this tutorial, we build an advanced multimodal retrieval-augmented generation pipeline with NVIDIA NeMo Retriever. We begin by configuring a Python 3.12 environment, installing the required packages, and performing o…
I'm building Kedge, a globally distributed platform for stateful serverless apps. Here's how you make a simple static site: `echo '# Hello world!' | ssh kedge.dev' I helped build Fly.io for 4 years a…
Hey everyone, My team and I have been working hard on this project: https://peppy.bot It's a direct replacement for ROS 2. We already have the OpenArm robot (https://openarm.dev) working on the platf…
Hey HN, I’m Shreyash from Feyn. We help companies build custom models from their data. Today, we’re releasing FeyNoBg, an automatic background removal model. Alongside it, we're open-sourcing NoBg, t…
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
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