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The $8 Linux Computer (2022)

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How Long Can Life Wait?

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Show HN: Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller

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Need for Speed Underground 2 online in the browser

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Libghostty 1.0

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Running a law firm on Free software

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Text.js: Build full-stack React apps that render inside console.log

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They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7

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British Library Legal deposit and web archiving

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Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas

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arXiv · AI

Recent papers

SwarmEvolve: Latent Agent Swarms for Evolutionary Discovery and Optimization

LLM-guided evolutionary search uses AI agents to improve programs for mathematical and computational problems by iteratively refining solutions and combining high-scoring methods. However, the process…

Qile JiangGeorge Em KarniadakisNov 05, 2026

Scientist World: Grow a Research World for AI-Scientists

AI-Scientists arrived, but a world for them to grow in did not. Human scientists take theirs for granted $-$ centuries of open problems and shared ideas, waiting in the scientific literature. To AI-Sc…

Taiming LuSachin KonanZhuang Liu

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Nov 05, 2026

XStack: A Benchmark for ML Repo Migration

ML code should run where researchers choose, not where it was first written. Today, machine learning code mainly lives in two ecosystems, PyTorch on NVIDIA GPUs and JAX on Google TPUs. Migrating repos…

Linrong CaiTaiming LuHaozhe ChenNov 05, 2026

Same Behavior, Different Mechanism: What Finite Experiments Can Certify About Integrated Information

Interpretability, AI auditing and assessments of machine consciousness increasingly rest on mechanism-level quantities: functionals of a system's causal transition law that describe how it computes, n…

Linqian WuDiaoxuan HeNov 05, 2026

Towards interpreting any residual stream direction by scaling activation inversion

To interpret a direction in a language model's residual stream, we can look for text that strongly activates it. But when such text is found by scanning a corpus, it is limited to what that corpus con…

Celeste De SchamphelaereJuan J. VazquezAri SpiesbergerNov 05, 2026

ReproBridge: Building Reproducibility into ML Research Artifacts

Reproducing machine learning experiments requires reconstructing procedures from information scattered across papers, released code, and supporting artifacts. For coding agents, reproduction success c…

Yubo WangRui MengJaehyun NamNov 05, 2026

Label-Wording Augmentation in a Typed-Decision Encoder: Gains on Unfamiliar Words, Not on Abbreviations or Codes

Typed-decision models score options that the caller supplies at request time, so their accuracy depends on label wording that the model's developer does not control. We compare two releases of a 307M-…

Vladimir BeskorovainyiNov 05, 2026

Understanding AI from the Inside: The State of Mechanistic Interpretability for AI Safety

Neural networks are likely to be among the most consequential artefacts in human history. As these systems become more capable and autonomous, their potential to cause societal harm also grows, making…

Fazl BarezTung-Yu WuHunar BatraNov 05, 2026