2026-10-30 Discoveries

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A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W

Tiny world model generates games and stream ac plays them all on Pico 2W - SheepSeb/tinyworldformer

We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry

Swarms of Claude and GPT agents in Minecraft and Mindustry.

How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?

Astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how capturing the first image of a black hole required a telescope the size of the world, and why the next goal is to create a movie. The post How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Powered by Raspberry Pi – from Stockholm to Sydney, South Korea to Slovakia

From the practicalities of everyday life to creative endeavours, Raspberry Pi power is behind hundreds of products.

Replicating the Color-Changing Effect of the Lycurgus Cup

Although most archaeological finds from ancient civilizations aren’t quite as exciting as what you might expect from the movies, occasionally you come across something that’s truly special. The Lycurgus Cup …

You can now generate, preview, and edit documents, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets…

Generate, edit, and preview PDFs or Docs directly in Gemini. Use the new full-screen editor to refine your files today. See what's new in Gemini.

The Early Years of Electronic Pop: The Moog Craze, Psychedelic Experiments, and More

There’s a decent chance you’ve heard at least a couple of tracks from Wendy Carlos’ Switched-On Bach. But when was the last time you put on Switched-On Rock, Switched-On Country, Switched-On Santa, or Switched-On Bacharach? More likely than not, you’ve never even heard of those other albums, which…

Our Planet’s Lungs Are Suffering

Has the Amazon reached the dreaded tipping point?

An Attempt at a Useful Desktop OS For Microcontrollers

We’re living at an interesting time here in 2026, when microcontrollers are becoming powerful enough to surpass the capabilities of “real” computers from a time when those real computers were …

November 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

It's 2027 residency application season! 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 November 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists appeared first on…

StoreLocale

Translate app UI in App Store & Google Play screenshots

Surreal Pinscreen Animations Bring Kafka, Gogol & Mussorgsky to Life (1933–1972)

What do Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, and Modest Mussorgsky have in common? They stand alone among their peers for their darkly humorous sensibilities, fascination with the grotesque, imaginative takes on cultural traditions, and a predisposition for the proto-surreal. Like the odd figure lurching…

Colorado students joined a Google hackathon to tackle energy grid challenges.

Students at the Google Colorado Impact Hackathon built AI tools like SolarSnap to modernize the energy grid. See the winning innovations here.

2026 Hackaday Supercon: All the Speakers!

We announced our first round of speakers, and then the workshops, and we were going to dribble out updates on the rest of the speakers as they came in, but …

Dear Human, Poetry Might Save Us from the Apocalypse

How verse may move us when data doesn’t

Claude Duet is the first personal-assistant-type harness that feels useful

Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s Maximalist Paintings of Palatial, Art-Filled Spaces

Scherer's paintings of affluent homes, studios, and libraries appear to expand before our eyes. 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 Escape into Gretchen Scherer’s…

Gemini Notebook makes hundreds of textbooks available to help students learn even more.

Add textbooks from OpenStax and S Chand to Google Gemini Notebook. Generate custom study guides and quizzes now. See the available catalog.

Kin

The AI labs want to own you. Make them answer to you.

We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4

The weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) are now open. A 1T parameter multimodal model, and best open-weight model for coding, trained in Europe.

H.264 Is Magic (2016)

A high level walkthrough of the basics of video compression techniques used in MPEG, AVC/H.264, codecs.

Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow <app> to find devices on local networks?"

Auto-dismiss the macOS 'Allow X to find devices on local networks?' prompt. Presses Don't Allow for you, zero CPU idle, survives reboots. - johncassil/dontallow

Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance

How Does Ketamine Work?

Ketamine is often used in medicine as one of medicine's safest painkillers, but without safeguards, it can be very dangerous. So, what exactly is ketamine, and how does it work? #kurzgesagt #inanutshell #kurzgesagt_inanutshell…

Men Who Eat More Plant-Based Protein Have Higher Testosterone Levels

Revenge of the soy boys?

‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen

700+ cats. 1900+ film stills. 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 ‘The Encyclopedia of Movie Cats’ Is an Exhaustive Index of Every Feline to Prowl on Screen appeared first…

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