One-Electron Universe
The one-electron universe is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time. It was proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940. A similar “zigzag world line description of pair annihilation” was independently […]
Singapore Is Paying People to Put Down Their Phones and Read Books
Singapore’s National Library Board launched ReadSG on 6 September 2026, a five-year national reading campaign that converts logged reading time into virtual coins redeemable for cash. The initiative has drawn attention from governments and educators worldwide who are watching to see whether a small financial reward can reshape phone-centric habits. How the Scheme Actually Works […]
Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
What is Pirate Face? A decentralized, peer-to-peer layer for sovereign AI. Open models from Hugging Face become checksum-verified torrents, held by a global swarm so they survive any single host taking them down. The goal is permanence for open-source AI. Do I need an account to use Pirate Face? No. You can browse, download, and […]
Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business
If you buy something through our links, ToolGuyd might earn an affiliate commission. Sherline Tools, a USA manufacturer known for precision lathes, mills, micro-machining accessories, and more recently small CNC machines, has announced that they are “winding down manufacturing operations.” Following are some highlights from Sherline’s recent message to their customers. Sherline Products, Inc. has […]
Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong
Birds sing the most around an hour before dawn, when the air is at its stillest. Theoretically, this enables sounds to travel further, making song up to 20 times more effective than if sung at midday. It’s a good time to take a moment to soak in the spring birdsong and notice the individual harmonies […]
Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con
For the past year or so I’ve been spending most of my time researching the use of language and diffusion models in software businesses. One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat-based language models, are intelligent. But there isn’t […]
The Millennium Problems for Biology
Demonstrate the ability to produce protein binders against intracellular targets. Specifically, demonstrate the ability to design zero-shot protein binders that, without further evolution or optimization, will reliably engage preregistered intracellular protein targets in living cells when administered extracellularly to those cells at pharmacologically supported concentrations. The cell entry mechanism must be plausible in a therapeutic […]
RSA-896
RSA-896 RSA-896 is a RSA challenge number I factored with Claude on September 19, 2026. RSA-896 = 4120234369866595438555313653325759481798116998443279828454556264 3387644556524842619809887042316184187926142024718886949256093177 6375033421130982397485150944909106910269861031862704114880866970 5649029036536588674337317208131041051908642547932826013912576240 33946373269391 p = 636606729769440499166579950236036751749912014371509557713570027 508971809534551913252252094954941974952859310861988904737359709 200557919 q = 647218161102195448058768698177623951380616936266986989243011933 572862870905830904361851542450154852431416136790787107595965374 752513489
Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test
The Apple iPhone 18 Pro camera performance is evaluated across photo, zoom, and video use cases using DXOMARK’s objective measurements and perceptual analyses to assess imaging performance across common shooting conditions. This article provides a structured summary of DXOMARK’s lab measurements and perceptual analyses to describe the device’s imaging performance. Overview Key camera specifications: Primary: […]
Show HN: I created an open source locally usable full fledged AI platform
Quickstart · Live demo · What’s inside · Security · What’s new · Usage guide · Changelog Chat with 300+ models. Build agents that write their own operating manuals. Research, generate code, run it all — on your keys, on your infrastructure. When you send a message, the request goes from your browser through ENZO […]