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MiMo-V2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price AnalysisArtificial Analysis benchmark and cost breakdown of Xiaomi’s open-weight flagship.
Artificial Analysis’s model page for Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro covers Intelligence Index score, throughput, pricing, and how the open-weight model sits on the intelligence-versus-cost frontier versus closed peers.
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Heretic tutorial: automatic censorship removal for language models
A hands-on tutorial for Heretic, an open-source tool that automatically removes refusal/censorship behaviors from language models—setup, workflow, and what to watch for.
7 min · 1,688 words
Open Source Maintainership in an LLM world
A couple of weeks ago I spoke about this topic at KC OSS Happy Hour and I wanted to turn the general ideas into a post I can point people at who are suffering from this problem. My slides were pretty good, if I do say so myself, so I grabbed the best images and put them into this post where appropriate.
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Protobuf, JSON Schema, and OpenAPI
Buf explains how Protobuf schemas can drive JSON Schema and OpenAPI via protoc plugins—extending one source of truth into documentation, validation, and HTTP APIs without maintaining parallel definitions.
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Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
FoxDev Studio rebuilds Visual FoxPro as a modern 64-bit runtime and IDE in Rust/WebAssembly: open old projects in place, keep .dbf data, bridge 32-bit libraries, and add FoxScript lambdas and HTTP routes.
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NobodyWho shows a local, 25-line Python sketch of Jev-style decision models: load a small GGUF, score labeled choices from logits, and print calibrated-looking probabilities without sending data to an API.
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Drop: A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support
Drop is a rootless Linux sandbox aimed at isolating coding agents and third-party programs, with OS-level permissions, optional gVisor support, and a workflow that stays close to a normal shell.
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PlayTaurus argues guitarists should buy hardware for what it is and run community firmware on it—ESP32-class chips are cheap enough, NAM models are open, and closed pedal firmware is the last proprietary lock.
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MiMo-V2.6: Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Self-Improvement
Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash after large-scale live RL (~$3.5M, 750k trajectories), claiming top open-weight AA Index scores, agent parity with frontier models, and 7k+ RL environments.
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Halo: Frontier-Lab Training for Everyone
White Circle open-sources Halo, a Hugging Face–native training framework claiming up to ~2.8× faster post-training than stock TRL with lower memory use—from single GPU to multi-node, keeping checkpoints in native HF format.
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A font that reads what you wrote
Rohan Adwankar introduces semfont: a small library that automatically highlights, colors, bolds, and italicizes text so typography tracks meaning as you write.
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Reducing Image Generation cost with AMD and the Luminal Compiler
Luminal engineers show Flux.2 Klein 9B image generation costs cut by up to 47% on AMD MI300X versus an Nvidia H200, using the Luminal compiler.
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The current balance of power in open modelsThe expanded form of a testimony prepared for Congress on open-weight models and U.S.–China competition.
Nathan Lambert’s congressional briefing notes on open vs open-weight vs closed models: where Chinese labs lead, what Western open weights still hold, and why policy should treat open distribution as a strategic variable—not a binary.
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Everything Is a Stream: runtime composability over compile-time plugins
Antigma Labs stabilizes Ante v0.2.0’s Unix-inspired wire protocol—operations in, events out over stdio, sockets, or WebSockets—so agent engines stay separate from UIs while SemVer locks the streaming contract.
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Kit Langton explains OpenCode 2’s hot-reload architecture: plugins register catalog transformations up front so models, tools, and configs update live across sessions without restarts or cache busts.
5 min · 1,112 words
How Google Agent Substrate Works: 250 Agents on 8 Pods
A technical breakdown of Google’s Agent Substrate: how it multiplexes hundreds of stateful agent sessions onto a handful of Kubernetes pods with fast suspend/resume.
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
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Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler
Oscar Toledo recounts porting his 1990s transputer C compiler from 32-bit DJGPP assumptions to a modern 64-bit Mac—fixing int/pointer aliasing, FILE*, and self-hosting constraints along the way.
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Introducing Strands harness: frontier performance with 28% lower token cost
Arron Bailiss introduces Strands harness: a fully assembled, customizable local/cloud agent that aims for Claude Code/Codex-like “it just works” behavior with about 28% lower token cost.
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PgDog’s Lev Kokotov on why engineers fix open problems they care about, why ownership beats closed-source support tickets, and how free-as-in-freedom Postgres sharding funds itself with enterprise SLAs.
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