2026-08-14 Discoveries

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

Cerebras powers OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast in the OpenAI API, delivering frontier intelligence at real-time speeds for critical AI work.

How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]

Get started with LiteRT on Raspberry Pi

Install and run high-performance on-device AI using the LiteRT CLI tool on Raspberry Pi.

Troubleshooting Video Delay On The Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers are great little devices, and they can do great things with cameras and video. However, there can be a fair bit of latency …

When the US Mail Was Delivered Underground at 35 MPH Through a Network of Pneumatic…

Twenty years ago, United States senator Ted Stevens drew long-lasting online ridicule by describing the internet as “a series of tubes.” While some commentators noted that the analogy wasn’t quite as outlandish as it seemed, most reacted with nothing more than amused bafflement. Where had Stevens…

Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.

Sprinting vs. Jogging: The Benefit Is in the Blood

Live fast, die old

Tearing Down A Cheap Digital Caliper

Most hackers and makers end up with a cheap pair of calipers in the toolbox at some point or another. [DiodeGoneWild] decided to take a particularly cheap plastic pair and …

Bring your spreadsheet data to life with Sheets canvas

Sheets canvas turns data into interactive dashboards, custom study trackers, seating charts, and more, all with a simple prompt.

‘Turn the Volume Up!’ Highlights the History of Speaking Out for Change in America

The exhibition opens at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University on August 27. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article ‘Turn the Volume Up!’ Highlights the History of…

WebBrain

The sidebar agent for the rest of us

One of the Best Preserved Ancient Manuscripts of The Iliad Is Now Digitized: See the…

Each time I sit through the end credits of a film, I think about how weird auteur theory is—that a work of cinema can be primarily thought of as the singular vision of the director. Typical examples come from artier fare than the usual Hollywood blockbuster in which crews of thousands of…

Bridging Older Tasmota Hardware Into Apple Home

The Tasmota firmware is a popular choice for flashing to a range of Espressif microcontrollers to turn them into smart home devices. If you have such devices in your house, …

The Quest to Understand the Forgotten Psychedelic

One of the first brain scans of mescaline suggests it travels a different path

Kitbitz

2K+ free hand-drawn illustrations for your projects, CC0

The Ocean Photographer of the Year Finalists Highlight the Sorrowful and Sublime

"These photographs don’t just capture what’s beneath the surface; they surface the stories our planet most needs us to hear," says founder and director Will Harrison. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as…

Get updates while your Pixel 11 Pro is face down with HiLight.

HiLight, a new Pixel 11 Pro feature, gently glows to notify you of timely updates — keeping you informed when your phone is down.

DeepSeek Harness developer preview

DeepSeek Harness is now available in developer preview to developers building agent harnesses worldwide, with the source code released at the same time. Every agent capability is implemented as a plugin that can be swapped or recomposed.

Spaghettifying DRAM

Unlocking _everything_ on the CPU with DRAM scrambling - xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts

Watch: Australian Dolphin Filmed Catching Fish with Shells

Yet another example of dolphins’ exceptional cognitive abilities

Caveman

why use many token when few do trick

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

The coding agent that gets out of your way.

AI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps

data centers are so cool there should be one in every house

Mistral OCR 4.1

Our latest OCR service powering our Document AI stack, with native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores.