Oh, look! ๐จ Enlightenment E16 is finally fixing a bug that could legally buy a drink in most countries. ๐บ Meanwhile, their website is stuck in a time warp: "403 Forbidden" โ the only thing more outdated than the bug itself. ๐
#CuttingEdgeTechhttps://iczelia.net/posts/e16-20-year-old-bug/ #EnlightenmentE16 #BugFix #TechNews #403Forbidden #OutdatedTech #HackerNews #ngated
Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16.
The editor in chief of this blog was born in 2004. She uses the 1997 window manager, *Enlightenment E16*, daily. In this article, I describe the process of fixing a show-stopping, rare bug that dates back to 2006 in the codebase. Surprisingly, the issue has roots in a faulty implementation of Newton's algorithm!
๐ "Oh wow, look at arXiv with its tiny-brained 'TinyLoRA' trying to solve world problems with a whopping 13 parameters! ๐ Meanwhile, the rest of us are learning to reason with at least 14 parameters and a cup of coffee. โ
#CuttingEdgeTech #ArxivComedy"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118 #CuttingEdgeTech #ArxivComedy #TinyLoRA #MachineLearning #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters
Recent research has shown that language models can learn to \textit{reason}, often via reinforcement learning. Some work even trains low-rank parameterizations for reasoning, but conventional LoRA cannot scale below the model dimension. We question whether even rank=1 LoRA is necessary for learning to reason and propose TinyLoRA, a method for scaling low-rank adapters to sizes as small as one parameter. Within our new parameterization, we are able to train the 8B parameter size of Qwen2.5 to 91\% accuracy on GSM8K with only 13 trained parameters in bf16 (26 total bytes). We find this trend holds in general: we are able to recover 90\% of performance improvements while training $1000x$ fewer parameters across a suite of more difficult learning-to-reason benchmarks such as AIME, AMC, and MATH500. Notably, we are only able to achieve such strong performance with RL: models trained using SFT require $100-1000x$ larger updates to reach the same performance.
Ah, yes, because nothing screams "cutting-edge technology" like needing an entire startup just to babysit other startups' AI blunders. ๐๐ค Apparently, the future involves a relentless loop of AI watching AI, while humans sit back and eat popcorn. ๐ฟ๐
https://www.sentrial.com/ #cuttingEdgeTech #AIWatchdogs #startupCulture #popcornFuture #HackerNews #ngatedSentrial
Monitor metrics, track success rates, and measure ROI for your AI agents
Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory
I can trace this recommendation that swap should be twice the size of the physical memory as far back as 1989, see SunOS 4 installation manual, page 37, but I wonder if there was ever any technical
In this week's installment of ๐ cutting-edge technology insights, behold the miraculous time machine: floppy disks as the ultimate TV remote for kids. ๐คฏ Because clearly, navigating a labyrinth of apps on a modern remote is so last century, and nothing screams "child-friendly" like a relic from the 1980s. ๐
https://blog.smartere.dk/2026/01/floppy-disks-the-best-tv-remote-for-kids/ #cuttingEdgeTech #timeMachine #floppyDisks #TVRemote #childFriendly #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngatedblog.smartere ยป Floppy Disks: the best TV remote for kids
Ah yes, the cutting-edge tech of 2023: unlocking the secrets of
#halobismuthate with the power of... JavaScript? ๐ค๐ฅด Nothing screams "revolutionary science" like needing cookies enabled to access groundbreaking research. ๐ช๐ฌ
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.5c15484 #cuttingEdgeTech #JavaScript #revolutionaryScience #cookiesEnabled #HackerNews #ngatedTiny Core Linux: because nothing screams "cutting-edge technology" like a
#GUI desktop that barely squeezes into the storage space of a 1990s floppy disk ๐พ๐. Perfect for those who believe in the philosophy of "less is more," or rather, "less is barely enough to do anything useful." ๐คก
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/ #TinyCoreLinux #CuttingEdgeTech #Minimalism #FloppyDisk #HackerNews #ngatedTiny Core Linux, Micro Core Linux, 12MB Linux GUI Desktop, Live, Frugal, Extendable
Welcome - Tiny Core Linux
Ah yes, nothing screams cutting-edge tech like animating 80-year-old math ๐ค. Enjoy watching lambda diagrams do the cha-cha while
#JavaScript holds your browser hostage ๐ป๐. Because who doesn't love mixing abstract algebra with forced web scripting? ๐
https://cruzgodar.com/applets/lambda-calculus #cuttingEdgeTech #lambdaDiagrams #abstractAlgebra #webScripting #humorousTech #HackerNews #ngated
Lambda Calculus
One of the most minimal Turing-complete languages, lambda calculus is a tiny programming language in which the only objects are...
๐ Oh, the cutting-edge tech of 2023! Apparently, even an atlas of North Korea requires
#JavaScript and
#cookies to reveal its non-existent secrets. ๐๐ Don't worry, folks, Kim Jong-un's favorite cookie recipe remains classified. ๐ช๐คฆโโ๏ธ
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/an-official-atlas-of-north-korea #cuttingEdgeTech #NorthKorea #techHumor #classifiedSecrets #HackerNews #ngated
An official atlas of North Korea
A North Korean atlas that shows the world from the perspective of one of the most isolated countries on the planet.
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