Zvec: A lightweight, fast, in-process vector database

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🚀 Quickstart | 🏠 Home | 📚 Docs | 📊 Benchmarks | 🎮 Discord | 🐦 X (Twitter) Zvec is an open-source, in-process vector database — lightweight, lightning-fast, and designed to embed directly into applications. Built on Proxima (Alibaba’s battle-tested vector search engine), it delivers production-grade, low-latency, scalable similarity search with minimal setup. 💫 Features […]

Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube

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In a move that has delighted fans of classic science fiction, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun uploading full episodes of the iconic series , providing free access to the show just as it departs from the ad-supported streaming platform Tubi. The transition comes at a pivotal time for the series, which has maintained a dedicated […]

MinIO repository is no longer maintained

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@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@ 1 – # Maintenance Mode 2 – 3 – **This project is currently under maintenance and is not accepting new changes.** 4 – 5 – **Alternate Options:** 6 – 7 – – **AIStor Free**: Fully featured, standalone version of AIStor for community use. Download a free license key from [Free license […]

Expensively Quadratic: The LLM Agent Cost Curve

Pop quiz: at what point in the context length of a coding agent are cached reads costing you half of the next API call? By 50,000 tokens, your conversation’s costs are probably being dominated by cache reads. Let’s take a step back. We’ve previously written about how coding agents work: they post the conversation thus […]

Asimov (YC W26) Is Hiring

We’re building training data for humanoid robots by collecting egocentric video of people doing everyday tasks. The role: Wear a phone mounted on a lightweight headband while going about your day — cooking, cleaning, desk work, errands, organizing, whatever you normally do. We send you the kit (headband + guide), you download our app, and […]

Audio is the one area small labs are winning

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Disclosure: Amplify is an investor in Gradium. If AI research is Star Wars and OpenAI is the death star, then without a doubt the rebels are building audio models. The best models for voice – TTS, STS, STT, and the like – are not coming from the big labs. Instead, they’re built by their underfunded, understaffed, […]

Skip the Tips: A game to select ”No Tip” but dark patterns try to stop you

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A free browser game that challenges you to press ”No Tip” while dark patterns try to trick you into tipping. From tiny buttons and guilt-trip modals to fake loading screens and rigged sliders — can you escape the tip screen? Skip the Tips is a satirical take on modern tipping culture. Every checkout screen has […]

Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

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Rethinking Vim as a tool for writers The pencil plugin aspires to make Vim as powerful a tool for writers as it is for coders by focusing narrowly on the handful of tweaks needed to smooth the path to writing prose. For editing prose-oriented file types such as text, markdown, mail, rst, tex, textile, and […]