AI / Models / Agents
How Speculative Decoding Makes LLMs Go Brrr: Explains speculative decoding through its draft-and-parallel-verification loop and compares approaches including independent draft models, Medusa, MTP, EAGLE, DFlash, and DSpark.
Training AI to Paint with Code: Surya Narreddi’s team used reinforcement learning to train a language model to create editable p5.brush JavaScript paintings, focusing on aesthetic rewards built from hand-rated references and pairwise judgments.
deepManifold: Brings together two preprints and related essays that use fixed points, stacked piecewise manifolds, and boundary-conditioned iteration to formulate the geometry, algebra, and computation of neural networks.
GPT-5.6 Sol Runs Doom in Turing Complete: According to the creator’s demo and Tom’s Hardware, GPT-5.6 Sol built a virtual RV32IM CPU called Codex-R32 inside Turing Complete and ran a PureDOOM build on it, although the result was not yet playable.
First Results from Jalapeño: OpenAI reports that its first custom inference chip improved both power efficiency and end-to-end latency against the tested comparison systems while serving several large models in InferenceX; the chip remains in production validation.
GLM-5.3-Flash: Z.ai’s first natively multimodal GLM-5 model uses 320B total parameters, 18B active parameters, a hybrid linear-and-sparse attention architecture, and IndexPool to reduce indexing overhead at long context lengths.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: An open-weight multimodal MoE model and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture, introducing hybrid GDN–QSA attention, gated residuals, and N-gram embeddings.
Hy4 Preview: Tencent Hunyuan’s open-weight flagship MoE preview has 770B total parameters, activates 49B per token, supports a 1M-token context window, and uses Gated DSA, IndexCache, and iHC.
Mathematics / Research / Learning
Proswit — Interactive Math Articles: A collection of interactive articles on probability, analysis, and foundational mathematics, covering topics such as Bayes’ theorem, the central limit theorem, Brownian motion, and Fourier series.
Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?: Jonas and Kording applied standard neuroscience analyses to a simulated MOS 6502 microprocessor and found that, although the methods produced patterns resembling neuroscience results, they still failed to recover the processor’s known hierarchical structure and functional mechanisms.
Symbolica: A high-performance computer algebra library for Python and Rust that manipulates large symbolic expressions, performs pattern matching, and generates optimized numerical code; its source is viewable, but redistribution and professional use are license-restricted.
s2 CLI and Skill: A read-only Semantic Scholar CLI and agent skill from Hugging Face for searching papers and retrieving references and citations, also used by the Papers with Code chat interface.
You Are NOT Dumb, You Just Lack the Prerequisites: A personal reflection arguing that difficulty with math and other complex subjects often comes from missing prerequisites, and that rebuilding the foundations can make progress possible.
Palomar: A public, searchable registry of Lean formalizations that pins source revisions, checks proofs with Lean, and publishes the exact statements, dependencies, and review comments.
Programming / Systems / AI Tools
GPUIX: Provides React and TypeScript bindings for Zed’s GPUI, rendering native desktop interfaces directly through Metal, DirectX, or Vulkan without Electron or web views.
Scrollbar but Cooler: A front-end experiment that redesigns the web scrollbar while preserving its positional cue and drag interaction.
Lody: A shared workspace for coding-agent teams that connects existing agents and machines through ACP and lets people share sessions and dispatch work from desktop, mobile, web, or CLI.
Archify: A Node.js rendering and validation system for coding agents that deterministically compiles typed JSON IR into self-contained HTML/SVG maps for architecture, workflow, sequence, data flow, and lifecycle diagrams.
Gribouille: A declarative Grammar of Graphics library for Typst, inspired by R’s ggplot2 and Python’s plotnine.
Markdown Graphs: A set of monospace chart and table components installable through shadcn and embeddable in React/MDX, with some components also offering ASCII versions for README files.
Fresh: A terminal text editor built around a zero-configuration, familiar interface, with mouse support, menus, a command palette, LSP, multiple cursors, an integrated terminal, and Git-worktree task orchestration.
Backend from First Principles: An open collection of backend-engineering notes and code examples spanning HTTP, routing, authentication, databases, caching, concurrency, observability, deployment, testing, and event streaming.
How Hugging Face Inference Endpoints, Jobs, and Buckets Power Search on Papers with Code: Hugging Face explains Papers with Code’s hybrid-search architecture: Jobs build paper embeddings offline, Buckets hand off artifacts, Inference Endpoints handle live queries and incremental updates, and RRF combines PostgreSQL full-text search with pgvector retrieval.
macOS / Productivity / Other
omacosy: An Omarchy-style desktop setup for macOS 26 on Apple Silicon, combining AeroSpace or OmniWM, Karabiner, and custom Swift helpers for dwindle tiling, a Super key, a status bar, focus-follows-mouse, and workspace gestures.
OmniWM: An open-source tiling window manager for macOS 26 and Apple Silicon, inspired by Niri and Hyprland and featuring Niri and Dwindle layouts, a workspace overview, a command palette, and optional IPC/CLI control.
Try Omarchy: Packages an ARM64 Arch Linux image configured with Omarchy Quattro, a QEMU runtime backed by Apple’s Hypervisor Framework, and a Swift/AppKit launcher into a macOS app for Apple Silicon.
AeroSpace Guide: The official end-to-end guide to AeroSpace, covering installation, TOML configuration, layouts, workspaces, keybindings, CLI commands, and multi-monitor behavior on macOS.
Workout Guide: An open workout illustration library with 302 exercises and 906 transparent SVG frames, searchable by equipment, muscle group, and exercise type, with MIT-licensed code and CC BY-SA 4.0 assets.
Blue Fish Archive: An unofficial fan-made archive of DeepSeek whale-girl stickers, with a browsable sticker wall, full-size previews, copying, and downloads.