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Mesh LLM pools your own GPUs into one OpenAI-compatible endpoint over iroh

Mesh LLM is a peer-to-peer system that pools GPUs across machines you already own—laptops, office desktops, closet servers—into one inference cluster exposed as

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New federal 'do no harm' rule cuts aid to college programs whose grads earn too little

The U.S. Department of Education has begun rolling out an accountability test, mandated by last year's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, that ties federal student loa

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Nvidia's Neocloud Loop: How Circular Financing Props Up CoreWeave and Nebius

Neoclouds like CoreWeave and Nebius have become central to the AI infrastructure race by offering hyperscalers something they struggle to build themselves: fast

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Off-topic for this desk: shingles-vaccine/dementia study, and no article body supplied

Two problems make an accurate summary impossible here. First, the only text provided is the headline itself — 'The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of demen

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RISCBoy: an open-source handheld console built from a custom RISC-V chip up

RISCBoy is a from-scratch, open-source portable games console — effectively a Game Boy Advance reimagined as if RISC-V had existed in 2001. The project spans th

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Show HN: A platform for learning systems by rebuilding Redis, Git, and more from scratch

ShipThatCode is a coding-education platform built around a single premise: you learn infrastructure by reconstructing it yourself rather than reading about it.

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Terence Tao Uses AI Agents to Revive Dead Java Applets and Build New Ones

Mathematician Terence Tao describes migrating his decades-old web materials to a maintainable repository with the help of modern AI coding agents. The centerpie

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The Case for STRICT Tables in SQLite

SQLite's default flexible typing lets you shove text into an integer column, invent nonexistent datatypes like UUID or JSON, and even omit column types entirely

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Vint Cerf, TCP/IP co-creator, retires from Google after 20 years

Vinton Cerf, the 83-year-old computer scientist who co-designed TCP/IP with Robert Kahn in the 1970s, is stepping down as Google's chief internet evangelist, a

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When 'Just Ask Claude' Becomes a Polite Way to Dodge a Hard Question

The author makes a distinction that gets lost in the reflexive push toward AI tools: the value of asking an experienced human isn't information retrieval, it's

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Who really invented the SVD? Tracing linear algebra's workhorse to the 1870s

G.W. Stewart's 1993 essay reconstructs how the singular value decomposition — now a staple of numerical computing, statistics, and machine learning — was discov

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Why Doctors Choose to Die Gently — and Refuse the Care They Give Patients

Retired family physician Ken Murray argues that doctors, when facing terminal illness, consistently opt for far less aggressive treatment than they routinely ad

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