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VOL. I·NO. 01
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2026
  1. 001Hacker NewsOCT · 09English

    Liquid AI d1: open decision models that answer in one forward pass

    Liquid AI released d1 decision models that answer questions in a single forward pass without generating tokens. d1-3B achieves the best performance under 10B parameters on the Decision Index and supports text and images with inference speeds under 50ms on edge devices. d1-omni-600M is a smaller multimodal variant supporting text, images, and audio.

    By Aurelien Lac; Fernando Fernandes Neto; Edoardo Mosca; Maxime Labonne; Leonie Monigatti
  2. 002Hacker NewsOCT · 09English

    Show HN: Fruit Inspector – Real-time YOLO tracking at 40 FPS on old CPUs via Nim

    Fruit Inspector is a real-time conveyor belt inspection system using YOLO object detection and LightGBM classification to grade fruit quality at 40 FPS on standard CPUs. It tracks fruit movement through a control zone on the belt, running inference via ONNX Runtime with support for CPU, OpenVINO, and CUDA backends.

    By olesha-ai