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Baidu's OCR Model: Trending on Paperwithcode
Baidu's Unlimited OCR scores 86.81 on text extraction but 0.97 on text formatting in the llamaindex/ParseBench benchmark — a near-zero score on the very structured output the name implies. The model replaces standard decoder attention with Reference Sliding Window Attention (R-SWA), holding KV cache at constant size s...
ocrdocument-parsingvision-language-modelresearch-paper
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CasaOS: Self-Hosted Home Server Dashboard for Raspberry Pi
CasaOS ships with Docker running as root, no HTTPS on the web UI, and root-level filesystem access through the browser — by default, with no warnings. It wraps Docker with a consumer-grade web UI so you can deploy Nextc...
self-hosteddockerhomelab
SmallestAi: Real-Time Text to Speech API with HIPAA Compliance
smallest.ai generates 10 seconds of speech in 100ms using less than 1GB of VRAM — the same GPU footprint as a lightweight browser tab. It's a full-stack voice AI platform with separate specialized models for speech-to-t...
voice-aittsstt
How to Get Census-Accurate Korean Personas for LLM Training
NVIDIA's Nemotron-Personas-Korea packs 7 million synthetic Korean-language personas into 1 million records — each built bottom-up from official South Korean government statistics (KOSIS, Supreme Court name registries, N...
synthetic-datakoreannlp
Penpot: The Open-Source Figma Alternative You Can Self-Host
For 11 years, every Penpot canvas render ran through the browser DOM — until version 2.16.0 shipped an opt-in WebGL renderer on June 11, 2026, directly addressing the memory crashes and stability failures that top-voted...
open-sourcedesign-toolsself-hosted
NVIDIA's 21M Indian Personas Run on 15-Year-Old Census Data
The '21 million personas' headline is a 3× multiplier on 3 million demographic records — each record generates 7 typed persona narratives, yielding 7.7 billion tokens across English (en_IN), Hindi Devanagari, and Hindi ...
synthetic-dataindiahindi
Outset AI: AI Research Platform for UX and Market Research
Outset reports 500K+ interview hours, 10K+ studies, and more than 50 enterprise customers. It is a SaaS platform that lets your research team create interview guides, recruit participants, run AI-led text, voice, video,...
aisaasux-research
Dalus AI for Hardware Engineering
Dalus targets aerospace, defense, automotive, robotics, and energy teams, but its privacy policy says you must not upload or process ITAR-controlled data through Dalus Platform services. It is a SaaS platform where you ...
aimbsesaas
The Privacy Gap Your Ad Blocker Ignores — and How to Fix It
Google's Manifest V3 removed the webRequest.filterResponseData API in mid-2025, making LocalCDN permanently Firefox-only — this is the single hardest limitation of an otherwise well-maintained extension. LocalCDN interc...
privacybrowser-extensionfirefox
Two EE Students Built an 8-Bit CPU From Raw Logic Gates
STEPLA-1's control unit contains no EEPROM, no microcode ROM, and no black-box ICs — every control signal is a physical AND/OR gate combination in a PLA-inspired matrix, which is unusual even among educational CPU desig...
cpu-designdigital-logiccomputer-architecture
What Is GLM-5.2? Z.ai's Open-Weights Model Explained with paper
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 ranks #1 among open-weights models on Artificial Analysis (Intelligence Index score 51, June 2026), yet scores 13.0 on SWE-Marathon — the hardest long-horizon coding benchmark in its own blog — against Cl...
llmopen-weightsmoe
Iroh: Connect Any Two Devices by Public Key, Not IP Address
Iroh shipped v1.0.0 on June 15, 2026 — stable API after 65 pre-release iterations and 4+ years of development. It is a Rust library that lets you address peers by a cryptographic public key instead of an IP address; the...
p2prustquic
RF-DETR: Object Detection + Segmentation + Keypoints
RF-DETR-N packs 30.5M parameters versus YOLO11-N's 2.6M at the same 2.3ms latency — the DINOv2 backbone costs 11.7x more memory to buy similar speed. It's a detection transformer from Roboflow and Carnegie Mellon, accep...
object-detectioncomputer-visiontransformer
Epic Games Releases Lore, an Open Source Version Control System
Epic Games' Lore started as 'Unreal Revision Control' inside Fortnite before going public as an MIT-licensed VCS on June 17, 2026 — it pulled 2.3k GitHub stars on its first day. Lore is a centralized, content-addressed ...
version-controlgame-developmentrust
Midjourney Medical: $65M bet on full-body ultrasound scanner
Midjourney's current prototype takes ~20 minutes to scan a body — not 60 seconds as the marketing claims — and no peer-reviewed clinical evidence backs the "MRI-quality" resolution assertion. David Holz announced Midjou...
medical-imagingultrasoundhardware
SWC: Rust JavaScript Compiler 20x Faster Than Babel
SWC already runs inside your project if you use Next.js — Vercel made it the default compiler when they hired its creator DongYoon Kang and shipped Next.js 12 in October 2021. It is a Rust-based JavaScript and TypeScrip...
rustjavascripttypescript
kage: Chrome renders it, then kage strips the JavaScript out
A Go tool that earned 693 HN points within 3 days of launch by solving a genuine gap: websites that use JavaScript to render their content cannot be archived by wget or HTTrack. kage opens each page in real headless Chr...
gocliweb-archiving
Union Protocol: Zero-Knowledge Blockchain Bridge for Cosmos & Ethereum
Union is a ZK interoperability Layer 1 with 73,964 GitHub stars and just 32 contributors — an unexplained ratio. It connects Cosmos (IBC), Ethereum, Bitcoin layers, and Sui without oracles, multisigs, or MPC: ZK proofs ...
zero-knowledgeblockchaininteroperability
How OpenVLA Works: Open-Source Robot Manipulation with Language Instructions
The base model runs at only 5 Hz — autoregressive prediction of 7 action tokens means 7 sequential LLM forward passes per control step — but the OFT companion paper (arXiv:2502.19645, February 2025) replaces that with p...
roboticsvlaopen-source
Chatwoot Review 2026: Open-Source Alternative to Zendesk and Intercom
Chatwoot reached 15,000+ businesses and $870K revenue in 2024 on a $1.6M seed from 2021 — no new funding raised in five years. It's a self-hosted customer support platform that routes email, WhatsApp, Instagram, Faceboo...
open-sourcecustomer-supportomnichannel
Agents' Last Exam: AI Benchmark for Real-World Professional Tasks
ALE (Agents' Last Exam) is a new benchmark from UC Berkeley where the best AI agent — GPT-5.5 via ALE-Claw — scores just 2.6% on the hardest tier, while Codex and Claude Code (Fable 5) both score 0.0% on that same tier....
ai-agentsbenchmarkresearch-paper
LLM Cost Optimization: The Case for Model Routing Over Caching
Even after getting 80%+ prompt cache reuse, your LLM bill stays high — because caching and routing address different cost drivers. This ByteByteGo article (June 8, 2026) covers Kilo's production architecture: signal-bas...
llmai-agentscost-optimization
Audio Interaction Model: An Always-On Listener for Audio LLMs
The public dataset card shows 381,177 rows, while the paper claims StreamAudio-2M has 2.6M items and 302k hours. Audio Interaction Model is a June 2026 research paper and open-source release that turns audio LLMs into a...
aiaudiollm
RunInfra: 2-person YC AI inference stack
RightNow is a 2-person YC Fall 2026 company, and RunInfra is its product for turning a plain-English AI workload into an optimized open-model API. It picks compatible Hugging Face models, benchmarks GPUs from L4 to B200...
aiinferencegpu
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