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Tiny Basic for Arduino is a lightweight, portable BASIC interpreter for mid-range Arduino boards and MCUs, featuring an in-hardware code editor and a comprehensive built-in standard library for hardware I/O, math, and bit manipulation.

Octomind is an open-source, Rust-based CLI-first AI coding agent runtime that gives LLMs access to repos through MCP tools, supporting interactive, piped, daemon, WebSocket, and ACP sub-agent modes with TOML-based guardrails, budgets, and adaptive compression.

Users report that OpenAI appears to have silently re-enabled the 'Improve the model for everyone' data-sharing setting in Codex, reactivating model training on their chats without explicit opt-in. Affected users are being pointed to ChatGPT data controls and OpenAI's privacy page to disable it again.

The AI Bubble Monitor is a tool tracking indicators and metrics related to potential overvaluation in the AI market.

JIVX 推出基于真实 YouTube 视频的日语口语练习功能，将视频台词逐句拆解并按 N5-N1 等级分级，供用户进行打字或语音跟读练习。

A blogger recounts spotting AI-generated customer service replies from Ocado, using tells like sycophantic agreement and em-dashes, and how complaining loudly led to a human apology. The piece advocates for the AI Resist List and pushing back against poor AI deployments.

Microsoft confirmed its software estate hasn't caught up with Canada's November 1 permanent end to seasonal clock changes, leaving admins fixing Outlook calendars, recurring meetings, and workarounds across Power Automate, Fabric, and SharePoint while fixes roll out through December.

Bema is a new work messaging platform built by founder Ben to address clutter in existing tools, emphasizing asynchronous communication with an optional urgent 'break glass' channel.

A biographical retrospective on Charles Tandy, the entrepreneur who grew a family leathercraft business into Tandy Corporation and expanded it with Radio Shack and Pier 1 Imports through mergers, leveraged buyouts, and a proxy battle.

A blog post argues that the 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' claims are misleading, showing the headline Qwen math result actually relies on writing Python code and running the model, not directly reading raw weights as advertised.

Anthropic's IPO filing reveals a $1.7 billion quarterly payroll, equating to roughly $107K per employee per month, highlighting the company's massive labor costs ahead of going public.

Revolut moved ~2,000 engineers onto self-hosted GLM models for coding, retiring Claude Code and Codex to an exception list — running on 56 Nvidia B200s at a blended 30 cents per million tokens (about a tenth of prior Anthropic/OpenAI spend), with engineering lead time improving 70%.

Nicholas Carlini demonstrates that a modern Stockfish port running on a 1996-era 200 MHz Pentium Pro achieves ~3300 Elo, far surpassing Kasparov's ~2800, showing that most of the +1335 Elo gain since 1996 comes from better programming (+720) rather than faster hardware — meaning Deep Blue's custom supercomputer was never necessary.

A blog post shares uBlock Origin network and cosmetic filter rules to stop TechCrunch's autoplaying JW Player videos and Connatix floating ad player from loading at all on Firefox (full MV2 uBO).

NVIDIA released Auto Ontology, an open-source (Apache 2.0) library that builds a trusted context/ontology layer from enterprise metadata, reconciles metric definitions across systems, and exposes it to agent harnesses via MCP, CLI, and API for grounded, validated agentic analytics and NL-to-SQL querying powered by NVIDIA NIM.

Cloudflare's status page lists multiple active incidents across several data center locations including Houston, Karachi, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur, indicating widespread service disruptions.

Show HN: hjkl — a free browser game that teaches Vim commands through guided, prompted, and independent editing exercises in a real Vim editor. It covers motions, text objects, marks, registers, search, and file jumps with no account required.

该论文对开源 5G RAN 平台 OpenAirInterface (OAI) 和 srsRAN 进行了对比评估，涵盖特性、部署灵活性以及基于视频点播、直播和云游戏等真实应用负载的性能分析。

Show HN: Hacker Times is a New York Times-inspired front page for Hacker News stories, offering a new visual take on browsing HN submissions.

DiscImageStudio is an open-source tool that converts images into data conforming to the physical-layer constraints of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs, producing patterns visible to the naked eye on the disc surface after burning. It supports a Windows GUI and an experimental CLI for Linux/macOS.