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GitHub Actions was down

GitHub Actions is experiencing degraded performance and authentication issues affecting run starts and downloads, with the cause identified and mitigation underway.

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

Spain has blocked prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi for operating without a gambling license, as reported by Reuters.

Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union

Ride-share drivers in Massachusetts have formed the first US union for gig workers, certified to represent nearly 70,000 drivers after a 2024 ballot measure allowed collective bargaining.

Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier

The Netherlands has blocked a US takeover of a vital digital supplier, citing national security concerns.

PiD: Fast and High-Resolution Latent Decoding with Pixel Diffusion

PiD is a plug-and-play diffusion decoder that replaces VAE/RAE decoders to directly generate super-resolved pixels in a single pass, supporting backbones like FLUX, SD3, and DINOv2.

Language Models Need Sleep

A new study proposes a 'sleep' mechanism for large language models where they periodically consolidate recent context into persistent fast weights during offline passes to improve performance on long-horizon tasks like math reasoning and graph retrieval.

Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs

The real cost of owning a home

The author details the actual costs of home ownership, including a $12,777 loan origination fee, a first-year mortgage payment of $2,329.92 where only 21% went toward principal, and significant maintenance expenses like a $21,046 siding replacement and $9,390 roof repair.

Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'

Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'.

Don't Subscribe So Casually

Subscriptions act like roommates that subtly shape your future behavior and preferences, making casual sign-ups risky even for beneficial services like insurance or streaming.

Open-source comic reader library for JS/TS

comimi is an open-source JavaScript/TypeScript library for reading comics.

DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD

DynIP is a dynamic DNS service offering sub-minute updates, RFC 2136 TSIG support for routers, and native IPv6 and DNSSEC support, ideal for homelabs and infrastructure teams.

Interactive live visualizer for gepa runs

GepaViz is a live visualization tool for GEPA prompt optimization runs that renders candidate trees as force-directed graphs, offering embedded, remote, and static modes via a Python callback or CLI.

Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes

Motorola's pre-installed Smart Feed app hijacks the Amazon app to inject an affiliate code for a fashion influencer, a behavior that can be disabled in settings.

The user is visibly frustrated

The author argues that coding agents frustrate users because their conversational UX mimics human coworkers, leading to emotional reactions when the algorithms repeatedly make mistakes despite apologies, suggesting a more clinical interface could prevent this illusion.

微信聊天情报看板：聚合群聊信号、话题、链接和趋势

WeChat Radar is a local-first intelligence dashboard that aggregates WeChat group messages, topics, and links into a SQLite database and a web-based dashboard for daily analysis.

Incident with Actions and Pages

GitHub is currently investigating degraded performance and authentication issues affecting Actions and Pages, with the majority of Actions runs impacted.

Does anybody like React?

A collection of articles criticizing React for its complexity, security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and ecosystem bloat, arguing that it is often the wrong solution and that teams are choosing it reflexively rather than for technical merit.

Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team

EAGLE 3.1 introduces architectural improvements like FC normalization and post-norm hidden states to address attention drift, resulting in 2x longer acceptance lengths and 1.66-2.03x higher throughput in vLLM, with open-source support from the EAGLE, vLLM, and TorchSpec teams.

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up

Earthion is a new 16-bit style shoot 'em up releasing on August 31, 2025, featuring a story about fighting invaders on Earth, a soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro, and physical editions available for Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox, and PC.

Real wages start to shrink in developed countries

Real wages in developed countries are beginning to shrink, a trend that may persist as inflation remains sticky and central banks maintain high interest rates.

🗺️ Think like a software architect, not just a coder — 21 architecture maps (incl. AI gateway, RAG, agents, inference serving, vector DB) + a language-agnostic system-design tutorial. Every template links to real open-source prototypes. 中英文双语。

A bilingual open-source knowledge base focused on system architecture patterns and design thinking, featuring 9 tutorial chapters on architectural decision-making and 25 real-world system templates ranging from e-commerce to AI chat products.

Solution for long term memory for agent coding CLIs and to facilitate handoff between different agent vendors

ai-memory is a Rust-based tool providing long-term memory for AI coding agents via a git-backed wiki, supporting cross-agent handoffs, FTS5 search, and zero-friction capture through lifecycle hooks.

AI agent workspace for DeepSeek models, with Code and Claw modes built into your application.

DeepSeek GUI is a desktop application that wraps DeepSeek TUI into a graphical workbench for developers, featuring multi-session chat, file change review, Skill/MCP management, and background automation like Lark integration.

A powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system that enables agents to work for long periods of time autonomously without losing track of the big picture

GSD Pi is a local-first coding agent for planning, implementing, and tracking project work from the command line, now at version 1.0.0, and installs via npm as @opengsd/gsd-pi.

See what your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Kimi) sends to the model — local proxy + web dashboard

ccglass is a lightweight local logging reverse-proxy and web dashboard that captures and visualizes real-time requests from coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and DeepSeek-TUI, bypassing standard proxy limitations without requiring CA certificates.

/r/LocalLLaMA

/r/LocalLLaMA

The Qwen3.5 35B A3B uncensored heretic model, which preserves 785 MTPs, is now available in Safetensors, GGUF, NVFP4, and GPTQ-Int4 formats on HuggingFace.

We are releasing **MiniCPM5-1B**, the first model in the **MiniCPM5** series.

MiniCPM5-1B is a 1.08B parameter dense Transformer model designed for on-device deployment, achieving state-of-the-art performance in tool use, code generation, and reasoning within its size class, and it supports both fast and deep-thinking modes via a single checkpoint.

**Zero-shot expressive voice cloning and speech generation.

Scenema Audio is a zero-shot expressive voice cloning and speech generation model that creates realistic, emotionally nuanced audio with scene awareness and long-form capabilities, available via Docker.

/r/LocalLLaMA

/r/LocalLLaMA

Hy-MT2 is a family of “fast-thinking” multilingual translation models designed for complex real-world scenarios.

Tencent's Hy-MT2-1.8B-GGUF is a multilingual translation model optimized for on-device deployment via AngelSlim 1.25-bit quantization, reducing storage to 440 MB and improving inference speed by 1.5x, while outperforming several commercial APIs and open-source models in fast-thinking mode.

/r/LocalLLaMA

/r/LocalLLaMA

Strix Halo users can apply a rejected PR to llama.cpp to achieve up to 31% faster processing for Mixture-of-Experts models, with the biggest gains at low context lengths.

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SkillOpt optimizes markdown skill files using frontier models to propose edits validated against held-out sets, achieving performance gains like +59.7 on SpreadsheetBench and matching frontier models on procedural benchmarks, though it requires auto-graders for clear correct answers.

/r/StableDiffusion

The author tested SenseNova-U1-8B-MoT-Infographic, GPT Image 2, and Nano Banana on a complex Mars rover infographic prompt and found the open-source 8B model held up surprisingly well against the others.

/r/LocalLLaMA

The Qwen3.5 27B Uncensored Heretic Native MTP Preserved model is now available in multiple formats including Safetensors, GGUF, NVFP4, and GPTQ-Int4, and the author explains that Qwen3.5 is optimized for general AI assistance while Qwen3.6 is better suited for agentic and coding tasks.

三角洲行动OBS锁头插件 – 基于OBS渲染注入的智能锁头辅助，支持QQ音乐/网易云联精准骨骼识别、平滑自瞄、压枪抑制，稳定过检，提升击杀效率。动加载。DeltaForce OBS Lockhead Plugin – Smart aim assist via OBS injection, supports QQ Music/NetEase Cloud integration. Bone recognition, smooth aimbot, recoil control, stable anti-cheat bypass.

DeltaForce-OBS-Locker is an OBS-based aim assist plugin for the game Delta Force that features intelligent locking, recoil control, and prediction algorithms, and it can be installed via OBS Studio or disguised as a QQ Music plugin.

Hy-MT2 is a family of “fast-thinking” multilingual translation models designed for complex real-world scenarios.

Tencent's Hy-MT2 is a multilingual translation model family (1.8B, 7B, 30B-A3B) optimized for complex scenarios and instruction-following, with the 1.8B model quantized to 440MB via AngelSlim for on-device use.

DiffusionOPD: A Unified Perspective of On-Policy Distillation in Diffusion Models

DiffusionOPD is an online policy distillation framework for multi-task diffusion alignment that trains task-specific teachers and distills their capabilities into a unified student using a closed-form KL objective, outperforming multi-reward RL baselines across aesthetics, OCR, and GenEval.

Hy-MT2-1.

Tencent's Hy-MT2-1.8B-1.25Bit-GGUF is a quantized, on-device translation model that reduces storage to 440MB and improves inference speed by 1.5x while outperforming commercial APIs like Microsoft and Doubao.

An AI agent for coding and others

**It speaks.

/r/LocalLLaMA

A Claude Code plugin that maintains `FILETREE.md`.

A Claude Code plugin that maintains FILETREE.md with per-file descriptions and content hashes to enable fast repo orientation and stale summary detection, offering commands like /filetree:init, /filetree:update, and /filetree:lint.

/r/MachineLearning

The user seeks online communities for serious AI research discussions, specifically looking for places to post technical issues like SSL training behaviors and loss curves to receive thoughtful, non-hype responses.

/r/MachineLearning

Repo-native harness engineering starter kit for coding agents.

The harness-starter-kit is a GitHub repository containing starter templates for various web frameworks including Python, TypeScript, Spring Boot, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Next.js, React, and Vue.

PixelWizard: Towards Efficient High-Fidelity Video Generation at Ultra-Large Spatial Resolutions

PixelWizard is a high-resolution text-to-video generation framework that decouples global structure from detail generation and accelerates synthesis using shortcut step-size conditioning, requiring 52GB VRAM for 2K or 100GB for 4K generation.