IT

  • tode aka VS Code inside terminal.
  • A robot codenamed Lightning developer by smartphone company Honor, beat 100m world record at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games (red one in the video).
  • A short article about unlocking recently dropped electric scooters in Brazil with AI assistance.
  • OpenRouter & Stripe announced joining forces (discussion here).
  • Mojo v1.0 is officially released as open-source (repo, docs).
    • Why should you care? It compiles the code, meaning it forces some coding conventions (we like that), SIMD and most importantly, it should run on any platform without any additional intervention (utilizes MLIR for this, some posts already mentioned this as a positive).
  • If you’re looking for a rewrite of Logitech Options+ check out OpenLogi.
  • Hister turns the pages you visit and the files you keep into a private, full content search index that you control.
  • Pretty neat idea written by Hamilton on how to host a simple dashboard with precomputed metrics neatly packed in Parquet file.
  • Another goodie from Tailscale called tailcate is designed to create a secure connection between two devices.
    • The neat part is that connecting user doesn’t even need an account.
  • A new-ish skills DietrichGebert/ponytail has been circling the trending GitHub section for a while now (I haven’t tested it yet, there are mixed reviews online).
  • Two similar projects (lyogavin/airllm and drumih/turbo-fieldfare) solving similar problem of how to run billion param LLMs on a simple machine.
    • The main trick is not loading the whole model into memory, but access one layer at the time (or experts on demand). The main tradeoff is token generation, but hey, you can now load a hefty model. I’m including a very nice write-up by ArshTechPro about the trickery.
  • Short summary of some task runners by Ham.
    • My personal favorite is still just.

Science

  • A collaboration effort between Tempus and Microsoft Research (announcement) published in Vorontsov, Shaikovski, Casson et al., 2026 introduce slide-level foundation model which combines pathology slides and diagnostic description for cancer diagnosis.
    • One of the perks of this work is missing source code due to some proprietary packages and dependencies which makes the expansion with new data more difficult.
  • Podcast episode with Prof. Jure Leskovec about AI, its future and hypothesis generation.
  • Big news from Moderna & Merck with promising Phrase 3 trial focusing on personalized mRNA vaccine (intismeran) targeting melanoma.
    • In nutshell, intismeran is designed (proprietary DL model) against sequenced patient tumour sample. Then the vaccine is administered to the patient and the body retrains its immune system to attack the tumour (Nature).
    • We’re still waiting for final results/survival analysis, but I hope to see more examples of personalized treatments targeting more disease in future as mentioned in Reuters write-up.
  • DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team released humongous 5.6-trillion-pixel map of the universe (Viewer here).

TODO