Hardware/Chips ServeTheHome

Noctua NH-U14S DX4677 Quick Look With the Intel Xeon 600 Series

A first look at the Noctua NH-U14S DX4677 cooler paired with the Intel Xeon 600 series workstations.

Hardware/Chips ServeTheHome

Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Ultra SFF G2 Review A Bit Bigger and a Bit Better

Review of the Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Ultra SFF G2, a small form factor workstation balancing size and expandability.

Software Engineering Hackaday

DOOM runs (slowly) in a IBM PC-Compatible CSS Sheet

A developer has created CSS-DOS, a massive 300MB CSS sheet that allows DOOM to run within a web page via a simulated IBM PC environment.

Hardware/Chips Hackaday

Cut And Fold Your 3D Printer’s Next Cover

A simple, non-3D printed top cover design for the Snapmaker U1 3D printer using a cut-and-fold method.

Open Source Hackaday

FLOSS Weekly Episode 875: JavaScript as a Systems Language

FLOSS Weekly discusses Puter, a project that implements a full desktop OS experience within the web browser.

Other Hackaday

Hayabusa2’s Next Target is a Tiny 11 Meter Asteroid

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is tasked with visiting a small 11-meter asteroid for further research.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Job queues are deceptively tricky

A community discussion on the complexities and hidden pitfalls of implementing job queues in software systems.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Explaining Data Mixing Scaling Laws

Proposes a unified framework to explain data mixing scaling laws in multi-domain neural network training, outperforming existing baselines.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Attention-Discounted Adaptive Sampler for Masked Diffusion Language Models

Introduces ADAS, a training-free reranking rule that improves the performance of parallel masked diffusion language models.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ISE: An Execution-Grounded Recipe for Multi-Turn OS-Agent Trajectories

Presents ISE, a three-stage synthesis paradigm for creating grounded, multi-turn training data for OS agents.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Atlas H&E-TME: Scalable AI-Based Tissue Profiling at Expert Pathologist-Level Accuracy

Introduces Atlas H&E-TME, an AI system for scalable, expert-level tissue profiling in histopathology.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Keep Policy Gradient in Charge: Sibling-Guided Credit Distillation for Long-Horizon Tool-Use Agents

Presents Sibling-Guided Credit Distillation (SGCD) to improve long-horizon tool-use in reinforcement learning agents.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Follow the Latent Roadmap: Navigating Revocable Decoding for Diffusion LLMs with Anchor Tokens

Introduces ASRD, a training-free framework that improves decoding speed and quality in Diffusion Large Language Models.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Prime Fourier Embeddings: A Principled Basis for Modular Arithmetic

Introduces Prime Fourier Embeddings (PFE) to provide a principled basis for modular arithmetic in neural networks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

RESOURCE2SKILL: Distilling Executable Agent Skills from Human-Created Multimodal Resources

Presents RESOURCE2SKILL, a framework for distilling multimodal resources into executable skills for software agents.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

FFAvatar: Feed-Forward 4D Head Avatar Reconstruction from Sparse Portrait Images

Presents FFAvatar, a Transformer-based 3D Gaussian framework for reconstructing animatable 4D head avatars from sparse images.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Why Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B when it says it could have raised more

Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B to maintain a tighter focus and remain a more impactful partner to its portfolio companies.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic

Microsoft is reportedly training its sales teams to emphasize the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of its own AI models over those from OpenAI and Anthropic.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

Skullcandy’s bass-boosting Crusher headphones now come with Bose’s ANC

Skullcandy has released a new version of its Crusher wireless headphones incorporating Bose's Active Noise Cancellation and spatial audio technologies.

Other Ars Technica

Hundreds rally at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs, and Ars was there

Employees and union members rallied at Bethesda HQ to protest Xbox layoffs and push for contract bargaining.