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Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B , an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a reasonably specced laptop, and its predecessor Qwen 3.6 27B was impressive.
328 points · 110 comments on Hacker News
A public API for generating explorable 3D worlds from text, images, and video — bringing Marble's world modeling capabilities into your applications.
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evaluated and used in medicine, but clinical usefulness depends on answer accuracy and whether confidence tracks evidence quality and uncertainty. We developed a controlled, psychophysics-inspired clinical benchmark to test diagnostic choice and confidence behavior in a medical LLM.
The VTK release team is pleased to announce the release of VTK 9.7.0. This release brings improvements to rendering architecture, AMR processing, implicit arrays with NumPy integration, and interaction styles.
Recent 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has enabled efficient photorealistic view synthesis and is rapidly being adopted in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) systems for online mapping. In these systems, a Gaussian map must be expanded and refined incrementally while tracking runs in real time, so initialization and density control directly determine where limited computation and iterations are spent.
404 Media used an AirTag to follow bulk book purchases to an Amazon-linked AI training facility, turning speculation about physical training data collection into reported evidence.
87 points · 15 comments on Hacker News
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ggerganov/llama.cpp: v0.1.2 is a new upstream release; inspect the linked changelog and code before adopting it.
We are pleased to announce the release of Tomviz 3.0, the biggest release in the history of the project. Tomviz is a free, open source, cross-platform application for the reconstruction, visualization, and analysis of 3D tomographic data, developed openly on GitHub and distributed under the 3-clause BSD license.
403 points · 150 comments on Hacker News
Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.
Task: image-text-to-text · 12,854 downloads · 152 likes · gguf · llama.cpp · quantized · qwen3.8 · qwen3.5 · ridge · gated-deltanet · imatrix
How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.
Industrial networks used to have a fairly contained job: connect a few controllers, operator stations and plant systems, then keep them running for years. That model is changing quickly.
As robots become more intelligent, autonomous and connected, much of the attention naturally falls on increasingly powerful AI models. But underneath those models is an increasingly complex collection of sensors, processors, control systems and security hardware that must operate reliably – often within strict limits on power consumption, size and heat.
Two months, six updates worth talking about. From a dedicated search page and updated Comparison Viewer to a redesigned iOS app and new integrations, here’s what’s new in Frame.io.
JetPack 7.2.1 expands the video path used across robotics, industrial automation, healthcare, and remote operations, while adding agentic video skills and T3000 emulation.
Healthcare robotics cannot rely on internet-scale data collection or unlimited real-world experimentation. GPU-native medical physics simulation offers a safer path for training and validating embodied systems.
This week in FreeCAD development: Sketcher Part and PartDesign Assembly TechDraw CAM Numerous patches by tarman3, including but not limited to these: BIM FEM marioalexis84 added boundary conditions to magnetic 2D examples (PR#31690) and a magnetization 3D example for Elmer (PR#31856). He also made it possible to save Elmer eigen analysis as multiframes (PR#31851).
Geometry Nodes Physics in Blender 5.2 LTS and beyond.
Manyfold is an open source self hosted web application which you can use to organise and share your CAD files. There’s a public server over at 3Dprint.social and it’s well worth taking a look there to get an idea of how the platform looks and operates.
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