firethering (@firethering@mastodon.social)
There's a quiet assumption baked into how most people think about AI models. Bigger means better. More parameters means more capable. If you want the best results, you run the biggest thing you can afford.
Qwen3.6-27B makes that assumption uncomfortable. It's a 27B dense model, fully open source under Apache 2.0, and on agentic coding benchmarks it beats Qwen3.5-397B, a model nearly fifteen times its size across every major test.
https://firethering.com/qwen3-6-27b-coding-model/
#opensource #ai #technews #llm #qwen
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nelfan (@nelfan@gotosocial.social)
The global awareness on the need to throw the dominant system off is now spreading to the educational world and a good opportunity to reach a concrete picture on that matter is about to happen in Brussels between the 4th and 6th of July :
https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/35030
The event aims to provide a meeting place around the open source in schools and gather teachers and already experienced and existing solutions to go forward.
Don't worry if you aren't a native French-speaker, send us any idea, suggestions or questions to orga@educalibre.eu . Participations in English or in Dutch can be foreseen.
#education_is_a_right #teachingopportunity
#opensource #educationalinitiative
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kiltedtux (@kiltedtux@mastodon.social)
Phoronix: FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q1-2026-Progress
#linux #opensource #tech
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jaenatech (@jaenatech@mastodon.social)
Anker Thus: чому ваші наступні навушники будуть розумнішими за деякі ноутбуки #technology #it #opensource #freeinternet' - https://gagadget.com/uk/gadgets-and-accessories/706276-anker-thus-chomu-vashi-nastupni-navushniki-budut-rozumnishimi-za-deiaki-noutbuki/
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jeremy (@jeremy@mapstodon.space)
RE: https://mapstodon.space/@douggreenfield/116448827835423427
ESRI 
bills more than doubling in two years time 🤑
👏 GO 
OPEN 
SOURCE 
GO 👏
#qgis #esri #opensource #arcgis
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kiltedtux (@kiltedtux@mastodon.social)
Hackaday: Repairing a Mercedes EQC 300 BEV Battery
https://hackaday.com/2026/04/22/repairing-a-mercedes-eqc-300-bev-battery/
#linux #opensource #tech
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Pulrepo (@Pulrepo@mastodon.social)
🚀 This Week in AI Frameworks & SDKs: Fastest-Growing Projects — April 22, 2026
This week in the AI Frameworks & SDKs space, we're seeing a surge in interest around tools that enable developers to build and deploy AI models more efficiently. The top-growing repositories are focus...
Read full report → https://pullrepo.com/report/this-week-in-ai-frameworks-sdks-fastest-growing-projects-april-22-2026-2
#AI #OpenSource #GitHub #Tech #AIFrameworkSDK
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feed (@feed@igeek.gamer-geek-news.com)
🐧 11 bit studios are totally remaking This War of Mine
Much like 11 bit studios are doing with the original Frostpunk, they're going back to their roots with a complete reimagining of This War of Mine.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.
📰 Source: GamingOnLinux Latest Articles
🔗 Link: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/11-bit-studios-are-totally-remaking-this-war-of-mine/
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posthole (@posthole@social.posthole.net)
THE POSTHOLE
Wednesday, 22 April 2026 · Midday Edition · Vol. 1 No. 133
MJD 61152.64
LEAD — STATE & LOCAL
Cover Me Impressed: Are We Living Through a Twin Cities Cover-Band Boom?
-- Racket
We talk with bands, bookers, authors, and academics to better understand the economics and philosophies around playing somebody else's hits.
INTERNATIONAL
▸ EU agrees to unblock €90bn loan for Ukraine after Hungary lifts veto
-- The Guardian
Agreement for urgently needed loan reached after Ukraine resumed pumping Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia Europe live –...
▸ I was wrong about the danger of smartphones in schools. It’s far, far worse than I thought | Lola Okolosie
-- The Guardian
▸ À Liévin, le maire RN annule la cérémonie du 1er-Mai, trop «politique»
-- Mediapart
IN BRIEF
• Dropbox Collaborates with GitHub to Reduce Monorepo Size from 87GB to 20GB -- InfoQ
• Presentation: Panel: Building a Culture that Works -- InfoQ
• Cloudflare Sandboxes Reach General Availability, Giving AI Agents Persistent Isolated... -- InfoQ
• Article: When a Cloud Region Fails: Rethinking High Availability in a Geopolitically... -- InfoQ
• Cloudflare Outlines MCP Architecture as Enterprises Confront Security and Governance Risks -- InfoQ
SECTIONS
Tech Talk: The best time to post on Hacker News #tech
Politics Fightbox: Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment #politics
Travel Trail: Airlines are cutting routes in response to high fuel prices —... #travel
Account Avoidance: A purring can heal everything #opensource
Science Showcase: Plants can ‘hear’ rain coming, spurring them into action #science
Music Hotline: “I Was Never Interested in Being Owned”: An Interview with... #music
Guns Galore: M26 MASS (Modular Accessory Shotgun System) #firearms
USA News Firehose: Family throws surprise birthday party at Eagles tailgate for... #USnews
Comic Collection: Hark, A Vagrant: Away From Desk #comics
Podcast Pack: The Acoustic Worlds of Radiolab Creator Jad Abumrad #podcast
Full broadsheet: https://posthole.net/
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9to5linux (@9to5linux@floss.social)
#Linux 7.0.1, 6.19.14 (EOL), 6.18.24, and 6.12.83 kernels are now available for download at https://www.kernel.org
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tkuenneth (@tkuenneth@mastodon.social)
Excited to share that the widget picker in Be nice 2.0.5 will get quite an upgrade. Selecting and sizing a widget is easy, and looks pretty cool 😎. You also get haptic feedback when you try to pick a size that's not supported by the widget.
The app is of course #OpenSource. Besides Google Play, you can can also grab it from here: https://codeberg.org/tkuenneth/benice
Be nice is an #Android Launcher written in #Kotlin #JetpackCompose and #Material3 and supports smartphones, tablets and foldables
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kiltedtux (@kiltedtux@mastodon.social)
LWN: [$] Dependency-cooldown discussions warm up
https://lwn.net/Articles/1068692/
#linux #opensource #tech
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