Ilia's Corner

I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam Website with Claude

This year's Space Jam website recreation attempt with Claude became a viral case study in AI limitations. An experienced engineer shared the humbling reality: even cutting-edge models struggle with seemingly simple tasks when given only a screenshot. The post reveals critical insights about prompt engineering, context interpretation, and the gap between human intuition and AI capability. For developers working with LLMs, this failure offers more valuable lessons than a dozen success stories.

hacker_news · 4 min read

Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein Relies on Open Source and Saves Millions

Schleswig-Holstein's government successfully migrated 80% of its workplaces from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, demonstrating that large-scale open source adoption can deliver immediate financial savings and operational independence for organizations of any size.

hackernews · 4 min read

At least 50 hallucinated citations found in ICLR 2026 submissions

GPTZero's analysis of ICLR 2026 submissions reveals a critical gap in AI detection capabilities: 50 papers contained obvious hallucinations that went undetected by 3-5 peer reviewers each, highlighting the urgent need for better tools and training in academic publishing.

hackernews · 3 min read

Scala 3 slowed us down?

This migration story reveals a critical blind spot in Scala 3 adoption: performance regressions can emerge from third-party libraries rather than the language itself. Despite smooth compilation and code modernization, the team discovered significant slowdowns traced to outdated dependencies still using Scala 2 optimization patterns.

hackernews · 7 min read

Java Hello World, LLVM Edition

This article demonstrates how Java can directly interface with LLVM's C API using the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API to generate and JIT-compile native code, transforming Java into a systems programming language capable of low-level operations.

hackernews · 6 min read

iced 0.14 has been released (Rust GUI library)

Iced 0.14.0 represents a major evolution in Rust GUI development, introducing reactive rendering and a comprehensive animation API that fundamentally changes how developers build dynamic user interfaces. This release makes Rust a serious contender for production GUI applications.

Building reactive, animated user interfaces in Rust

Rust · 46 stars

A two-person method to simulate die rolls

A two-person method for simulating fair die rolls using only a polar coordinate system and game theory principles. This elegant solution demonstrates how mathematical concepts can solve practical problems without digital devices.

Fair random number generation without digital tools

Algorithm · 41 stars

Hermes-4.3-36B-FP8

This release demonstrates that FP8 quantization can make massive 36B parameter models accessible on consumer hardware while maintaining performance, potentially democratizing access to high-end AI capabilities.

Deploying large language models on limited hardware

FP8 Model · 5 stars

Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory

Google's Titans architecture introduces MIRAS, a framework that gives AI models long-term memory without the computational overhead of traditional transformer attention mechanisms. This could fundamentally change how we build AI systems that need to remember and reason across extended contexts.

AI Research · Google Research · 6 min read

Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning

Nested Learning proposes a paradigm shift in machine learning, treating models as interconnected optimization problems at different timescales. This approach unifies architecture and algorithm design, potentially leading to more efficient continual learning systems.

AI Research · Google Research · 5 min read

Resolving Zadehs Paradox Axiomatic Possibility Theory as a Foundation for Reliable Artificial Intelligence

This paper presents a novel solution to combining uncertain evidence in AI systems using axiomatic possibility theory, addressing Zadeh's paradox that has plagued probabilistic approaches for decades.

AI Research · Research Team · 8 min read