A training-free method called ledger-based zero-shot self-orchestration lets fresh instances of one model coordinate through a shared filesystem. On 100 hard LiveCodeBench problems, orchestrated Qwen3.8 Flash Next hit 93.0% pass@1 versus Fable 5's 90.4% at 9% of the cost, and Qwen3.8-27B rose from 66.8% to 92.4%, though some models saw no gain or got worse.

— via Hacker News (top 30), rzk

A car entered the Muni Metro tunnel at Embarcadero on Saturday afternoon, closing the Market Street subway between Van Ness and Embarcadero for the night for inspection and repairs. SFMTA turned trains back at Church Station and ran shuttles, while commuters were left confused.

— via Mission Local, Andrea Jiménez and Marina Newman

A hands-on look at the iPhone Duo, Apple's $2,000 foldable, argues its appeal grows through developers who tailor apps to its two screens and hinge positions. Netflix, Deck-Man, TypeDraw, Wakeout and Flighty are among the favorites, while many mainstream apps remain unoptimized.

— via TechCrunch, Sarah Perez

The Justice Department sent letters to at least 18 California counties demanding, within 48 hours, voter information on suspected noncitizens and the sequestering of ballots whose citizenship cannot be verified. California officials oppose the demand, arguing the data is unreliable and could delay certification and disenfranchise citizens.

— via PBS NewsHour, Safiyah Riddle, Associated Press

Zelenskyy said Ukraine's Starlink and Starshield speeds are back to pre-restriction levels after more than a week of disruption that hampered drones and front-line logistics. Questions remain over who ordered the limits, amid renewed US-brokered diplomacy and a localized ceasefire near Oleshky.

— via PBS NewsHour, Susie Blann, Associated Press

A 63-patient trial (SCRATCH-HTN) of a self-administered ear-clip device delivering mild electrical pulses found it safe and practical at home. It did not significantly lower blood pressure overall versus a sham device, though patients with more severe hypertension showed a greater reduction, which needs confirmation in larger studies.

— via ScienceDaily

Google ran Gemini 4 Argon unattended for 11 hours against its 200k-line Agent Development Kit codebase. Two optimizations were accepted, cutting session-preparation overhead by about 40% and package import time by 21%, while four other changes were rejected in review.

— via InfoQ, Sergio De Simone

A developer describes how working in the Linux terminal taught them about the filesystem, processes and ports, file permissions, networking checks with dig and curl, and reading errors carefully. The main takeaway is learning to investigate problems rather than memorize commands.

— via dev.to, Jessica Doering

A developer built a browser-based day-book for a Port Harcourt POS operator that turns pasted Moniepoint alert emails into ledger rows, with code handling the money and a local Gemma 3 1B model reading customer names. On her real alerts, code classified 5 of 5 kinds and Gemma read 4 of 5 names.

— via dev.to, Daniel Nwaneri

The author built a low-cost stereo vision board around the Rockchip RV1103 SoC, running Linux via Buildroot with the vendor's out-of-tree kernel drivers. Depth is computed from two OV9281 cameras using the chip's hardware SAD block-matching engine; the write-up also lists first-revision PCB mistakes.

— via Hacker News (top 30), machinehum

Agent retry failures in production are distributed-systems problems, not model-reasoning problems. A timeout doesn't prove an action failed, so state-changing calls need application-owned idempotency keys, durable intent records, an explicit "unknown" state, and reconciliation instead of blind retries.

— via dev.to, Dimitris Kyrkos

A developer tested Gemini 4 Argon by having it build a 60 FPS 3D kart racing game in Flutter with no external assets, using 15 prompts and about 3.5 hours of active time. The model self-corrected visuals from screenshots, built audio from macOS's MIDI bank, and shipped to WebAssembly, with 96.7% of the code shared across platforms.

— via dev.to, Jhin Lee

slothd is an open-source, local-first file organizer that activates when the user is idle. A fast tabular triage flags clutter, then local Gemma 3 via Ollama classifies documents. Moves are logged in an SQLite WAL manifest with crash reconciliation and an undo command.

— via dev.to, Dhruv Jani

A software engineer argues that colleagues who relay AI-generated answers in technical discussions add latency but no judgment. He says AI belongs in preparation and stress-testing ideas, but people must form and defend their own positions, since team decisions need real human reasoning.

— via dev.to, Adam - The Developer ✨

DocuMentor AI is an open-source Google Docs add-on that uses Apps Script, the Docs API v1 and Gemini models to propose edits as suggestions with attached reasons and learning points rather than overwriting text. It also reviews tables and figures and produces a learning summary dialog.

— via dev.to, Tanaike

An NBER working paper analyzes more than 20,000 calendar entries from Fed Chairs Bernanke, Yellen and Powell. All spent over 30% of documented meetings with Fed staff, media contact grew, and Powell met lawmakers notably more often than his predecessors.

— via Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen

Luke Glendening, a 37-year-old veteran of 934 NHL games, debuted for the Rangers in a 7-4 loss to the Senators after converting a tryout into a one-year, $850,000 deal. Coach Mike Sullivan also said rookie goalie Dylan Garand will get some rest after seven straight starts.

— via NY Post, Mollie Walker

A paper by Louis Henderson and Jane Humphries estimates the value of unpaid breastfeeding relative to national income across five centuries. Maternal nursing mattered more economically in the past, likely being the largest human capital investment in early modern England, and breastfeeding rates probably fell as incomes rose.

— via Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen

PingCAP, the company behind the TiDB database, confirmed unauthorized access to internal systems and theft of source code and customer-related data. Extortion group FulcrumSec claims 10.6 TB was taken, but these claims are unverified, and PingCAP says it has no evidence that data stored in TiDB was affected.

— via InfoQ, Renato Losio

OneBC interim leader Dallas Brodie lost badly in Vancouver-Quilchena, with preliminary Elections BC results showing 803 votes against 10,913 for Conservative Carson Binda. Brodie won the riding in 2024 as a Conservative, was ousted in 2025 by John Rustad, and co-founded OneBC with Tara Armstrong.

— via Daily Hive Vancouver, DH Vancouver Staff

Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson won a strong majority in British Columbia's election, vowing to boost investment, expand natural gas output and cut taxes. Outgoing Premier David Eby accepted responsibility for the NDP's defeat and announced he is resigning as party leader.

— via Daily Hive Vancouver, Kenneth Chan

David Ellison's Skydance has closed a $110bn merger of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, leaving staff bracing for restructuring as it aims to cut $80bn+ in debt and find $6bn in savings within three years. Questions remain over declining cable channels, CNN and CBS editorial independence, and the film output pledge.

— via The Guardian: Culture, Mark Sweney

An NYPD officer shot and wounded a woman in a Queens home on Friday night after she moved toward officers with a knife during a chaotic scene following reports of a home invasion and stabbing. She is in stable condition, police do not believe she was behind the initial stabbing, and the Force Investigation Division is reviewing body-camera footage.

— via Gothamist, Ryan Kost