Universe’s expansion ’is now slowing, not speeding up’
The universe’s expansion may actually have started to slow rather than accelerating at an ever-increasing rate as previously thought, a new study suggests. ”Remarkable” findings published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society cast doubt on the long-standing theory that a mysterious force known as ’dark energy’ is driving distant galaxies away increasingly faster. Instead, […]
You Should Write An Agent
Image by Annie Ruygt Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. There are big ideas in computing that are easy to get your head around. The […]
Two billion email addresses were exposed
05 November 2025 I hate hyperbolic news headlines about data breaches, but for the ”2 Billion Email Addresses” headline to be hyperbolic, it’d need to be exaggerated or overstated – and it isn’t. It’s rounded up from the more precise number of 1,957,476,021 unique email addresses, but other than that, it’s exactly what it sounds […]
LLMs Encode How Difficult Problems Are
Abstract:Large language models exhibit a puzzling inconsistency: they solve complex problems yet frequently fail on seemingly simpler ones. We investigate whether LLMs internally encode problem difficulty in a way that aligns with human judgment, and whether this representation tracks generalization during reinforcement learning post-training. We train linear probes across layers and token positions on 60 […]
Show HN: TabPFN-2.5 – SOTA foundation model for tabular data
Abstract The first tabular foundation model, TabPFN, and its successor TabPFNv2 have impacted tabular AI substantially, with dozens of methods building on it and hundreds of applications across different use cases. This report introduces TabPFN-2.5, the next generation of our tabular foundation model, scaling to 20× data cells compared to TabPFNv2. On industry standard benchmarks […]
Swift on FreeBSD Preview
etcwilde (Evan Wilde) November 6, 2025, 5:18pm 1 We have been hard at work to bring the Swift toolchain to FreeBSD. A preview Swift bundle for FreeBSD 14.3+ is available at https://download.swift.org/tmp-ci-nightly/development/freebsd-14_ci_latest.tar.gz. The bundle contains a Swift development compiler and Swift runtimes needed for compiling Swift programs on, and for, FreeBSD 14 on x86_64 machines. […]
The English language doesn’t exist – it’s just French that’s badly pronounced
Richard Good Is English nothing more than a regional dialect of French? That’s the wilfully provocative claim made by linguist Bernard Cerquiglini in his new book, La langue anglaise n’existe pas, c’est du français mal prononcé. It’s an entertaining and stimulating essay – and a highly recommended read for learners of French Saved from being […]
The Parallel Search API
123456789101112131415curl https://api.parallel.ai/v1beta/search -H ”Content-Type: application/json” -H ”x-api-key: $PARALLEL_API_KEY” -H ”parallel-beta: search-extract-2025-10-10” -d ’{ ”objective”: ”When was the United Nations established? Prefer UN”’s websites.”, ”search_queries”: [ ”Founding year UN”, ”Year of founding United Nations” ], ”max_results”: 10, ”excerpts”: { ”max_chars_per_result”: 10000 } }’”` curl https://api.parallel.ai/v1beta/search -H ”Content-Type: application/json” -H ”x-api-key: $PARALLEL_API_KEY” -H ”parallel-beta: search-extract-2025-10-10” -d ’{ […]
Senior BizOps at Artie (San Francisco)
About Artie Artie is a fully-managed CDC streaming platform – we replicate production databases into warehouses in real time with zero maintenance. Teams use us for fraud/risk monitoring, live inventory, customer-facing analytics, and ML pipelines. We’re trusted by 30+ customers including Substack, Alloy, and Wasserman – and just raised our Series A led by Standard […]
ICC ditches Microsoft 365 for openDesk
Het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag – Shutterstock Het Internationaal Strafhof (International Criminal Court, ICC) ruilt Microsoft 365 in voor Open Desk, een Europees open source alternatief. Dat schrijft de Duitse krant Handelsblatt. De krant verwacht dat het ICC met de overstap mogelijk een trend start binnen de Europese publieke sector. Microsoft bevestigt de breuk […]