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Rio de Janeiro's celebrated locally-built AI model Rio-3.5-Open-397B has been publicly accused of being a 60/40 weight merge of Nex-N2-Pro and Qwen3.5-397B, not an original model. Tensor analysis shows collinearity of 0.98–0.99 between the "Rio" weights and the blend ratios — statistically impossible for an independently trained model. Without its hardcoded system prompt, the model identifies as "Nex" 79% of the time versus 0% "Rio." The Rio team has since acknowledged the sourcing.
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Lucky Robots is a simulation platform built from scratch for robot AI training using MuJoCo physics and Vulkan rendering — not a retrofit of Unity or Unreal. Robots fail millions of times safely in simulation, then trained policies deploy directly to physical hardware. A companion cloud platform called LuckyHub extends training for large-scale collaborative episode generation.
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Trace is a macOS app that captures both mic and system audio and transcribes everything locally on Apple Silicon — no cloud upload, no account required. A global shortcut lets you flag key moments with inline notes during a live call, outputting a clean Markdown transcript. Calendar integration auto-names sessions; available for £9.99 on the Mac App Store.
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The monthly HN community showcase thread has 421 comments spanning indie developer tools, AI-adjacent projects, and personal productivity software. It's the community's reliable pulse check on what side projects and early-stage startup ideas are actively circulating. Common themes this month include AI tooling, local-first apps, and open-source developer infrastructure.
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Kage crawls websites using headless Chrome, strips JavaScript while preserving styling, images, and fonts, and packages the result as a self-contained offline archive — static folder, a Kiwix-compatible ZIM file, or a single compiled binary with built-in WebView. Features include robots.txt compliance, resumable crawls, and deterministic URL-to-path mapping. It's a complete rethink of the browser "Save As" experience that's been broken since the 1990s.
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Yserver is a ground-up X11 server in Rust that drops Xorg's compatibility baggage while supporting major extensions including GLX, DRI3, Composite, and RANDR. It boots full desktop environments — MATE, XFCE, and Cinnamon — and supports GPU drivers across AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Apple Silicon, and Qualcomm. Validated against X.Org test suites and MIT licensed.
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Zinnia is a 64-bit Unix-like kernel built in Rust as a systems programming learning project, minimizing unsafe code while implementing POSIX APIs alongside Linux and BSD extensions including epoll and timerfd. Drivers load as Rust ELF dylibs at boot, similar to Linux modules, and the kernel boots real x86_64 hardware running full Wayland and X11 desktop environments. ARM64 and RISC-V support are planned.
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Chaosnet was a pioneering local area network developed at MIT starting in 1975, using carrier-sense multiple-access — the same fundamental approach as Ethernet — for machine communication within one to two kilometers without centralized control. It supported file access, terminal emulation, mail, and full connection management with flow control, all predating TCP/IP. Now resurfaced via a beautifully rendered archive of the original MIT documentation.
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An interactive web museum of segmented display fonts — the kind found on digital clocks, pinball machines, train departure boards, and vintage electronics. Roughly a dozen typefaces are included, from classic eight-segment to elaborate 93-segment designs sourced from historical patents. You can type text, see it rendered in each style, manually paint individual segments, and watch glyphs morph across display systems.
