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Thinking Machines Lab has released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts open-weights model with 41 billion active parameters at inference time and a one-million-token context window, trained on 45 trillion tokens spanning text, images, audio, and video. It ships alongside Inkling-Small (12B active) and is designed for fine-tuning via the company's Tinker platform. On some reasoning benchmarks it matches top closed-weight competitors at roughly one-third of the thinking tokens.
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xAI has open-sourced Grok Build, its terminal-native agentic coding CLI — launched in May 2026 in the same family as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex CLI — making the full source available on GitHub. Developers can now read exactly how context assembly and tool-call dispatch work, fork it, or run it fully local-first against their own inference endpoint. It's the second major AI coding CLI to go open source this year.
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A developer at NeoMind Labs ran Google's Gemma 4 26B model at 5.2 tokens per second on dual 2013-era Xeon E5-2690 v2 processors — no GPU, no AVX2, under $300 in hardware — using an optimized llama.cpp fork and rewriting quantization helpers as portable scalar operations. The result is 16 tokens per second on prompt evaluation and a working demonstration that frontier-class inference is reachable well below the GPU cost floor. The write-up details every compiler fallback and MoE routing trick that made it possible.
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Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have jointly offered $60.50 per share for PayPal — a 28% premium over Tuesday's close — in a deal valued at over $53 billion backed by roughly $50 billion in committed bank financing. The combined entity would process approximately $3.7 trillion in annual payment volume, making it one of the largest consolidations in digital payments history. PayPal has not publicly responded; the firms are seeking to advance discussions in coming weeks.
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Brainless is a shadcn/ui component registry that reconstructs the UI patterns of Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and xAI Grok as reusable React components — covering message displays, thinking visualizations, tool call indicators, code diffs, and session blocks. It installs via shadcn's CLI and imports from a brainless namespace, and takes a semantic HTML approach with ARIA attributes rather than wrapping raw output in pre tags. It's a polished shortcut for developers building their own agent interfaces.
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misa77 is an LZ-based compression codec achieving 5,219 MB/s decompression on the Silesia corpus — more than twice LZ4's 2,505 MB/s — while also delivering better compression ratios. The performance comes from a branch-minimizing format designed for out-of-order CPU execution, with runtime AVX2/SSE2 path selection and no entropy encoding. The acknowledged tradeoff is slow compression at roughly 50 MB/s, targeting write-once, read-many use cases like ML datasets and archived databases.
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Misfits Attic announced Duskers 2.0 at the PC Gaming Show in July 2026, funded by indie project fund Stray Signal. The original Duskers — a terminal-command space survival game with a 90% positive Steam rating and over 20 awards — had players dispatch drones into derelict ships using typed commands; the sequel shifts the philosophy from "Explore, Adapt, Survive" to "Explore, Adapt, Revive," adding moral complexity around whether to hoard resources or rebuild colonies. No release date announced; wishlisting is live on Steam.
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Lexaloffle — the studio behind PICO-8 — is drawing HN attention to Voxatron, its fantasy console for creating and playing voxel-based games. It ships with built-in devkit tools for building animations, characters, and worlds; a community BBS of user-made cartridges; and an HTML5 web player for sharing creations. Currently at alpha v0.3.6 for $19.99.
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clocks.dev is a curated gallery of creative digital clock implementations built in CSS and JavaScript, pulling 119 upvotes and 31 comments on HN. There's no AI, no funding round — just the perennial developer fascination with making pixels move in precisely timed, aesthetically considered ways. A reliable Wednesday afternoon HN special.
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Plough magazine convened ten authors and poets to debate whether America has a literary equivalent of Homer, Shakespeare, or Dante, with nominees including Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Robert Frost, and Tracy Chapman. The collective verdict: America hasn't produced one yet, though it might eventually as the nation confronts more defining cultural moments. A thoughtful literary symposium that wandered onto HN's front page this afternoon.
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