Why Large Tech Firms Stumble: Understanding the Stack Fallacy
TL;DR The 'stack fallacy' is the mistaken belief that building the layer above your company's core technology is trivial. The…
DatBench: Toward Discriminative, Faithful and Efficient VLM Evaluation
TL;DR Researchers propose DatBench, a curated evaluation approach for vision-language models (VLMs) guided by three desiderata: faithfulness, discriminability, and compute…
Dude, Where’s My Supersonic Jet? Three startups racing to deliver
TL;DR Three companies — Boom Supersonic, Astro Mechanica and Hermeus — are pursuing new engines, airframes and business models to…
Hierarchical Autoregressive Modeling Boosts Memory Efficiency in Language Generation
TL;DR Researchers propose PHOTON, a hierarchical autoregressive architecture that replaces flat token-by-token scanning with multi-resolution, top-down context access to reduce…
Building a Custom Raspberry Pi Data Diode for Air‑Gapped Systems
TL;DR A systems integration team built a one-way data transfer device using two Raspberry Pi units and an opto coupler…
Masonite framework author Joe Mancuso has died, community mourns
TL;DR A GitHub discussion in the Masonite repository announced that Joe Mancuso, the author of the Masonite Python web framework,…
Show HN: Jax-JS — JavaScript ML and array library compiling to WebGPU
TL;DR Developer Eric released jax-js, a reimplementation of JAX written in pure JavaScript that compiles numerical programs to WebGPU and…
Intricuit’s Magic Screen aims to add touch to MacBook Air and Pro displays
TL;DR A third-party accessory called Magic Screen is slated for a Kickstarter and claims to add touch and stylus support…
Mammotion’s Spino S1 Pro robot pool cleaner lifts itself to charge
TL;DR Mammotion unveiled the Spino S1 Pro at CES 2026, a robotic pool cleaner that docks itself via a robotic…