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unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF is a 27B Qwen3.8 vision-language model with Unsloth Dynamic V3.0 GGUF, designed for long-horizon agentic tasks and image/video understanding. It supports native context up to 262k tokens (extensible to 1M), stronger autonomous planning, and better environment feedback, with broad tool/framework integration (llama.cpp, Ollama, Unsloth Studio, Docker). It enables flexible thinking with default thinking mode, tunable reasoning_effort, and preserved context. Not yet deployed by an inference provider; part of Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 quants and Qwen3.8 collections.
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The text describes the earth.nullschool.net weather/ocean data interface and its many overlays. It features a cautionary note from Cameron about NOAA, the U.S. weather data agency, and mass firings by the new administration on February 27. The message warns that such actions threaten data availability and forecast quality, notes potential disruption, and commits to switching data sources if needed. It urges readers to speak up, contact representatives, and share concerns, highlighting NOAA as the data backbone and calling for the firings to be reversed.
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Private prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group posted about $1.4 billion in quarterly revenue as immigration detention nears records (around 66,000 detainees). CoreCivic: $684.9M (+27% YoY); GEO Group: $732.1M (+15%). The figure excludes $1.6B from CoreCivic’s sale of four facilities to DHS. Average revenue per detainee bed cited at roughly $307,000. Growth driven by more detainees, cost cuts, and new lines like ankle monitors under ISAP, helped by Haitian TPS ending. Both firms seek expanded ICE contracts; governance ties and related politics noted.
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Charlie Holland argues that Emacs Lisp's homoiconicity—code as data—lets macros bend the language by turning unevaluated forms into new code at expansion time. Macros aren’t functions; they write programs. The post surveys examples (unless, use-package, defun, lambda, defcustom), and shows how macro expansion tools (macroexpand-1/all, emacs-lisp-macroexpand, macrostep) reveal the ladder of expansions. It cautions about macro pitfalls (double evaluation, gensym capture, self-reference) and recommends using functions when possible and macros for bindings, evaluation control, or DSLs. The Hofstadter/Escher metaphors illuminate the self-referential beauty of macro systems.
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MIB Viewer is a free in-browser SNMP MIB browser, database, and OID search tool. It lets you upload .mib/.txt/.my files, browse a library of over 11,000 MIBs, and look up objects by name, OID, or number. It shows syntax, access level, description, and where an object sits in the MIB tree, and can generate ready-to-run SNMP commands. The page explains MIBs, SNMP, and OIDs, and keeps user-uploaded MIBs private to the current browser session. Popular MIBs and modules are listed.
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A browser-check message informs visitors of a brief wait while the site verifies the browser, with a manual link if automatic redirection fails.
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Kukuroo is a self-hosted iOS web-push worker on Cloudflare Workers. It provides a push endpoint, stores keys in the Worker, and encrypts payloads to the device—no dashboard or app. iOS 18.4+ renders pushes natively via a home-screen page; setup is one-click with npx kukuroo init. It can mount into an existing site. Prereqs: Cloudflare account, iOS Safari, Cloudflare Workers. Free: 50 devices per send, 100k requests/day; Pro: $5/mo for 10k devices per send and 10M requests. MIT licence.
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NanoNets/graft adds a local, deterministic code-graph to speed AI coding agents. It precomputes contextual understanding of your repo and reduces exploration. The graph is built in graft/ with two passes: Tier-1 tree-sitter indexing (no model), Pass-1 per-file summaries, Pass-2 grouped, cross-linked nodes. The graph is cached and updated incrementally; no server or telemetry. It wires agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.), supports monorepos/multi-repo folders, and you can view it with graft viz. Claimed gains: faster, cheaper, with equal or better correctness.
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Marcin Wichary reviews Lea Verou’s idea that a dark-mode toggle should expose two options—Light and Dark—while embedding the ‘system default’ behavior in hidden logic. The smart toggle flips between Light and Dark; choosing the option opposite the system locks the setting, while choosing the option that matches the system makes it follow the system again. Wichary acknowledges the article isn’t perfect, but agrees the approach helps avoid tri-state complexity and aligns UI with user goals, noting that even small design compromises increase cognitive load, much like the old Power/Sleep/Wake keys example.
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Toast 1 is Mixedbread’s first specialized search agent, available now. It delivers frontier-level search quality comparable to Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol but up to 10× cheaper and 12× faster, especially with Mixedbread Search, though backend-agnostic. It automates the search loop: decomposes queries, gathers evidence, inspects sources, and returns focused context for the final answer. In OfficeQA Pro V2 benchmarks, GPT-5.6 Sol with Toast 1 reaches 70% accuracy at about $1.15–$1.20 per task, outperforming prior frontiers. Across Harvey LAB, token usage drops 3.5× with Toast 1, same score. Launch pricing; integrates with existing stacks and coding agents.
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Seven books I keep close: Roget's Thesaurus (4th ed.), Sir Thomas Browne's Prose, Boccaccio's Decameron, From Frege to Gödel (van Heijenoort), Orbis Sensualium Pictis (Comenius), The Bible (NIV large print), and The Belles Heures of Duc de Berry. The essay explains how the thesaurus guides word choice and thought; Browne's Renaissance wit; Decameron’s humane storytelling; Frege–Gödel as foundations of logic; Comenius's illustrated education; and the Bible as a cornerstone for understanding modern life. It also notes other shelf items and the author’s personal, reflective relationship with books.
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Giuliano Bellini explains Sniffnet's participation in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, a 3-week sprint that funds and mentors open-source security. Sniffnet joined 50 projects to strengthen security planning (IRP), threat modeling (STRIDE), and practical defenses: secret scanning, CodeQL-based code scanning, repository rules, immutable releases, private vulnerability reporting, Dependabot, MFA, and fine-grained tokens. He stresses security as a shared, ongoing effort, notes planned tests and audits, and updates Sniffnet's Contributing Manifesto to restrict purely AI-generated code.
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Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 is a 27B FP8-quantized vision-language model for image, text, and video understanding. It features 64 layers and a native 262,144-token context (extensible to 1,000,000 with YaRN). It supports thinking mode with preserved thinking across turns and tunable reasoning depth. Deployment options include Transformers pipelines or engines like vLLM, SGLang, and TokenSpeed, or via the Qwen Cloud API. The docs cover quickstart guides, API usage, and benchmarks across coding, reasoning, and multimodal tasks.
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APIMart Model Market offers access to 500+ AI models via a user account. The page provides API docs, pricing, and resources, along with Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and other policy links. The catalog features many model families and variants (e.g., Flowmusic, Gemini, Grok Imagine, Kling, Nano Banana, Seedance, Seedream, Sora, Veo, SkyReels, etc.). Users can sign up, log in, and browse or select models through APIMart, with links to Discord and GitHub for support. © 2026 APIMart.
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Implemented IPv8 end-to-end: Linux Kernel 6.6 (AF_INET8 with TCP8/UDP8/RAW8), Musl Libc, iproute2, FRRouting, and a Go-based IPv8 Zone Server with 10 RFC sub-protocols (DHCP8, DNS8, SNTP8, NetLog8, OAuth8, WHOIS8, ACL8, XLATE8). In a 10-node, multi-AS lab (112k routes) it delivers HTTP over IPv8, DHCP8 leases, and NTP8 sync with sub‑ms lookups. Real‑world issues: PMTUD forcing MSS clamp to 1452, multihoming/uRPF drops, legacy switches unable to switch 0x88B8, and Zone Server single-point failure risk. Catastrophic: RIR revenue collapse, run on 32-bit ASNs, and 3–5M global routes (RINE). Full report and IETF draft linked.
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Lambdock is a modern, Wayland-native desktop dock for GNU/Linux, built in C with GTK4 and GNU Guile Scheme. It offers a live Unix-domain socket REPL, hot-reloadable Scheme and CSS configurations, and declarative Lisp-based dock setups with multi-dock support. It uses Wayland to track windows (zwlr_foreign_toplevel_v1), supports multi-monitor layouts, smooth auto-hide, and theme/icon customization. Its architecture enables bi-directional C/Guile interop, dynamic item definitions, and reproducible builds (Guix, Nix, Debian, Fedora), making it highly hackable and extensible.
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Alibaba's Qwen releases open weights for Qwen3.8. The 27B Qwen3.8-27B is a native multimodal model that outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus and shines in coding and office workflows. It supports 262K native context, expandable to 1M tokens via YaRN, and is built for builders—efficient, high-quality, and Apache 2.0 licensed. Open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Max-level) are also available. Download and deploy locally for lightweight apps or build agents via Hugging Face and ModelScope.
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An author turns RSS feeds into a portable e‑ink newspaper for the Xteink X4 to read instead of a phone. They love blogs, read outdoors on a 4.3‑inch device with no touchscreen, and installed the open‑source Crosspoint firmware after a quick setup. Using Feedbin's API, they built a 'feedpaper' workflow to fetch unread posts, convert them to an e‑pub, and filter out unwanted feeds; the project is on GitHub and installable via Homebrew. They read the result at an outdoor cafe.
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James Wang argues frontier AI lab culture shows intellectual arrogance and overconfidence in AI supremacy. Using Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Situational Awareness collapse as a case study, he likens it to Long-Term Capital Management, warning that leverage and hype can ruin even the smartest. He critiques lab overreach into deep-science tasks (materials science, bioengineering, semiconductors) and notes the HuggingFace security incident exposing governance gaps and reliance on non-U.S. models. The piece calls for humility, better risk controls, and broader historical-economic grounding to reduce backlash and misuses of AI.
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