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Z.ai’s GLM-5.2 is the new #1 open-weight model — 753B params, MIT license, a 1M-token context and a real architecture trick (IndexShare). But the weights are 1.51TB. What owners and the benchmarks actually say, and the honest hardware reality of running it at home.

TechCrunch spoke to investors to find the hottest startups in the Spring 2026 YC batch. Some of them commanded valuations of over $175 million, VCs said.

An agentic design tool with a time machine for taste. 127 years indexed (1900-2026).

Mean squared error and mean absolute error are usually compared by how they handle outliers. But how often do you think that MSE predicts the conditional mean and MAE the conditional median? And if you do, how often does Gauss or Laplace come to mind?

I read Amy Goodchild’s blog post about digitizing her handwriting in JavaScript a while ago and couldn’t stop thinking about it. I didn’t end up digitizing my own handwriting, but it pushed me toward a smaller idea: clamp a ballpoint pen to my 3D printer and let it write postcards for me. This post is the story of getting there, including the part where my printer almost drove the pen straight through the bed.