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  1. ▲ 24A 17×17 physical Conway's Game of Life built with 289 tactile switches

    An engineer builds a physical Conway's Game of Life using a 17×17 matrix of illuminated push-button switches, each cell toggled by hand. The custom PCB and firmware drive the LEDs with multiplexed ro…

  2. ▲ 21Fable 5 crushes nanoGPT speedrun, closing 81.7% of the gap to human record

    Prime Intellect ran 153 autonomous runs across 18 frontier models on the nanoGPT optimizer speedrun. Fable 5, using Claude Code, achieved a record of 2,726, closing 81.7% of the gap to the human base…