Gym App Reverse-Engineered to Ditch Social Feed
A gym member reverse-engineered the gym's Flutter app with LLM help, extracting the encryption keys from a plain-text log on a rooted phone and building a web app that generates valid check-in QR codes locally, no social feed required. — shayon.work
H3 Ripple LoRA Carries Edits Across Video Shots
H3 Ripple is a LoRA for the MiniMax H3 FL2VA video model that propagates edits made to selected anchor frames across the rest of a shot, with ComfyUI nodes and support for local image-editing models. — huggingface.co
AI-First Company Hires Human to Fix Agent Failures
A startup that runs nearly everything through AI agents is hiring a human "line specialist" to close the final 0.5% of issues that stump its agents, with a debugging exam that must be passed without any AI assistance. — lovro-bikic.github.io
Baidu Releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base Weights
Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base, an open-weight sparse mixture-of-experts language model that activates a small fraction of its parameters per token and supports a million-token context, letting developers fine-tune it for their own domains. — huggingface.co
Ultra-Low-Complexity Codec Brings Opus-Quality Audio to N64
The Ultra Low Complexity Codec, a transform codec created for the Game Boy Advance, now decodes CD-quality stereo music on the N64's RSP coprocessor at near-Opus bitrates while using only about 4% of the CPU time, and the port helped squeeze all of Half-Life's audio into one cartridge. — phoboslab.org