Half of Europe’s towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago

vonLilith Grull,Ada Homolova,Frida Thurm Europe’s overall population has grown over recent decades – yet half of all cities and municipalities have lost residents. This is the finding of an analysis by CORRECTIV.Europe based onnew data from the European Union’s Joint Research Centre (JRC). Our map shows where populations have grown (in green) and declined (in … Devamını oku

Show HN: Mcptoon – MCP CLI client that cuts tool discovery tokens by 97%

MCP tool discovery costs 10,000+ tokens. mcptoon costs 350. One MCP client for every AI agent. Cross-platform. Zero dependencies. If this saves you tokens, please star the repo — it helps others discover it. English|中文文档|Report Bug|Request Feature Every MCP-enabled conversation burns tokens onsyntax, not data: On a 128K context window, that’s30-55% gone. Not on work. … Devamını oku

Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers

Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon. The project is being built as a sequence of working vertical slices: deterministic host/model metadata first, then portable Metal block parity, prompt encoding, prompt-to-video/audio, and first/last-frame conditioning and then ordered references. Prompt-to-video/audio, first/last-frame conditioning, and ordered Ref2VA image/video/audio references work end to end. The current work is incremental H3-specific … Devamını oku

The UK’s War on Anonymity Has Come to America

An Effort investigation has identified a coordinated operation to influence American lawmakers by five foreign non-government organizations and their US affiliates. These NGOs have converged upon a unified strategy: use the rhetoric of ‘child safety’ to advocate for digital ID laws that would prevent adults from using the internet anonymously. In Britain, they succeeded in … Devamını oku

How Claude marks AI-generated content

Anthropic has signed the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, as a provider of both generative AI models and generative AI systems. This article describes how we’re planning to put those commitments into practice, how marking works, and what its limitations are. We’ll update this article and publish … Devamını oku

Illinois Just Passed a Law That Puts Linux on the Hook for Age Verification

HB5511 is officially about TikTok and Instagram. Read past the press release and it’s also about your operating system. Governor JB Pritzker’s press release on HB5511 is thick with quotes from legislators and advocacy groups, and it names Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, Facebook, and Roblox specifically. Device setup gets one mention, framed as something a … Devamını oku

Rust SIMD on the GPU

AtVectorWare, we are building the firstGPU-native software company. Today, we are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust’s portable SIMD (core::simd) on the GPU. This milestone marks a significant step towards our vision of enabling developers to write complex, high-performance applications that leverage the full power of GPU hardware using familiar Rust abstractions. … Devamını oku

Learning more about Claude’s mathematical capabilities

Recently, a member of staff at Anthropic gave Claude an unreasonable challenge. It was about one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics:Take a real stab at the Riemann hypothesis. Claude did take a real stab, but as you might have expected if you’re familiar with the difficulty of the task (the Riemann hypothesis … Devamını oku

Launch HN: Stoa Markets (YC S26) – A Marketplace for GPUs and AI Servers

Buy and sell GPUs with verified counterparties and price discovery. OEM allocation, cloud capacity, brokers, operators, and secondary sellers each expose a different slice of the market. SKU, delivery timing, region, quantity, condition, financing, and urgency all change where GPUs actually clear. Buyers and sellers still rely on private quotes, stale lists, and partial broker … Devamını oku