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Any Nix package, live in your browser
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Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play
Collaborative Fund just bought into D.C. United and its stadium, with firm founder Craig Shapiro pitching it as a way to showcase for the firm's startups.
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Soft-deprecating re.match()
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Fastly Speedtest Test
The result should fairly accurately reflect cache fetch speed you’re going to get with the official Nix binary cache ;)
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Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year
Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.
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Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness and building businesses.
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Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify
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Gleam Gathering 2027
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(Re)introducing Developer Story
For the past few years, we’ve been looking at ways to bring a little more of the individual developer back to Stack.
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The Pulse #191: a new trend of CPU shortages
For compute-intensive services: it’s worth reserving more compute now. Also: growth dreams end for more COVID-era unicorns, engineers losing touch with systems when AI handles incidents, and more
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Neki – Sharded Postgres
Article URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-neki
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645686
Points: 188
# Comments: 97
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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
Article URL: https://cognition.com/blog/swe-2
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645443
Points: 339
# Comments: 140
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Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025)
https://dstretch.com/DecorrelationStretch.pdf
https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/nasa-...
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49645437
Points: 247
# Comments: 36
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How Fast Do You Actually Lose Strength? Slower Than You Think
You lose strength much more slowly than you probably think. A few days off changes basically nothing, measurable losses take roughly two to four weeks depending on the quality (muscle endurance fades first, maximal strength last). Muscle memory makes rebuilding faster than building the first time, a
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Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft
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Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs
The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak delivery.
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ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen
The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other government-issued identity documents.
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Snapchat takes aim at Partiful with new event-planning features
Snapchat says the new features can be used to organize everything from birthday celebrations and sporting events to study sessions and weekend hangouts.
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Package Manager Trends
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Announcing the first Guix-Science release
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Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Article URL: https://honestlyranked.com/guides/streaming-price-increases/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49641215
Points: 265
# Comments: 230
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What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?
Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49640646
Points: 190
# Comments: 90
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DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49639090
Points: 626
# Comments: 337
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Quoting Calif Research
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AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks
Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.
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Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
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.blend URL Viewer
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Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence
Mullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.
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OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors
Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.
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DIFF: A Relational Interface for Large-Scale Data Explanation
Abstract: A range of explanation engines assist data analysts by performing
feature selection over increasingly high-volume and high-dimensional
data, grouping and highlighting commonalities among data points.
While useful in diverse tasks such as user behavior analytics, opera-
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ID design and primary keys
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Better AI code comment detector
(I used both AI and vibecoding tags because the article describes training a logistic regression on LLM output. I thought there was a statistics tag that would have been appropriate but apparently not!)
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iPhone Duo
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630931
Points: 800
# Comments: 1572
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Apple Watch Series 12
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/introducing-apple-watch-series-12-with-the-all-new-health-sensing-system/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630566
Points: 190
# Comments: 214
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AirPods 5
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/09/apple-introduces-airpods-5-with-best-in-class-open-ear-active-noise-cancellation/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630253
Points: 350
# Comments: 290
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Building Codex with Tibo Sottiaux
OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux shares how Codex was built and how it’s reshaping software development.
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IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license
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AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee—AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.
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The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
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Analysing 2048 on a 3×3 board
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Introducing CUDA Rust: Two Tracks for Writing GPU Kernels
Note that a PDF also exists: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.15991
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Group of bipartisan lawmakers ask US government to ban several hack-for-hire firms
The three Indian companies are accused of using hackers to steal information used to sway litigation.
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Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine
Instacart is the latest app to bake a conversational AI assistant into its platform.
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I advertise malicious software on Google Ads
Article URL: https://xlii.space/eng/malicious-software-on-google-ads/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624856
Points: 161
# Comments: 77
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DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
DSeek plans to officially release the V4.1 Flash model around September 10, 2026 (Beijing Time). After extensive internal and external testing, V4.1 Flash has comprehensively surpassed V4 Pro across all key metrics, including performance, cost, speed, and task completion time. In keeping with our co
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Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/flock-wants-a-closely-surveilled-world-with-no-exit
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624394
Points: 406
# Comments: 313
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Java’s age is its AI superpower
Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java.
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Quoting Terence Tao
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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
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White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains
The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhere to be found after the Tetris Company posted that it takes "copyright infringement very seriously."
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Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
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How to build a f**king printer
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Rust: When Empty Isn't Bottom
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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers
Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.
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What makes $BigTechCompany's products bad, anyway?
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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market
Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.
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Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
Article URL: https://github.com/argonautlabsai/deltafin
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616257
Points: 193
# Comments: 95
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Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities
Article URL: https://ai.meta.com/muse/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615537
Points: 212
# Comments: 206
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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613262
Points: 1053
# Comments: 893
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What is happening with code reviews?
AI generates more code than devs can track in 2026, so will the code review process have to adapt – or is it doomed? A look into this decades-old practice and the approaches that could replace it
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Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic
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Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business
The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe and PSG Equity.
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A hacker stole $340M in a crypto heist, then returned most of it
The latest heist is one of the largest thefts of cryptocurrency to date.
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Nuclear startup Bluecore Energy raises $50M seed round, just two months after launch
Bluecore Energy announced Tuesday an oversubscribed $50 million seed round — just months after raising a $10 million pre-seed and coming out of stealth.
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Switching Password Managers in 2026
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CERN's migration path from CentOS Linux to Debian
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Replacing startplasma with shell scripts or dinit (Part 1)
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Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Article URL: https://ciphercue.com/blog/european-cdn-concentration-cloudflare-nine-in-ten
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49607443
Points: 287
# Comments: 234
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Scaling your money safely with AI
Ryan chats with Srini Venkatesan, CTO at PayPal, about validating AI-generated deterministic code for security, developing autonomous SDLC harnesses with iterative feedback loops, and creating a seamless headless checkout experience.
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My Feed, My Way
Article URL: https://www.pm.gov.au/media/my-feed-my-way
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605782
Points: 164
# Comments: 131
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Mistral raises €3B
Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605767
Points: 640
# Comments: 460
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llm 0.35
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Creepy crawlies
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Quoting Jakub Pachocki
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Hardening Container Images
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How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform
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Conquering Entropy: Cultivating Trust
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Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
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Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)
Article URL: https://lax-skyline.parcelscope.net/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49601655
Points: 185
# Comments: 92
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Video compressor
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A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," stunned Telluride audiences Sunday night with its generous access to the Theranos founder.
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What we expect from the upcoming Apple launch
While Apple's first foldable iPhone Ultra will headline the September 9 launch, we're also expecting news about AirPods and HomePods.
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What every kernel programmer should know about Jump Labels | Wander Lairson Costa
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Signing TLS handshakes inside a TPM
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Two Tiny Utils for the Result Pattern
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bzip3
Article URL: https://github.com/iczelia/bzip3
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49598291
Points: 364
# Comments: 104
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De-Brainrot Vacations
Article URL: https://devz.cl/posts/i-spent-my-vacations-de-brainrotting/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597907
Points: 238
# Comments: 92
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Smartphone makers don't bother to comply with EU repairability requirements
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/07/smartphone-makers-dont-bother-to-comply-with-eu-repairability-requirements/5294532
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49597189
Points: 154
# Comments: 70
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'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/nathan-fielder-surprise-film-telluride-elizabeth-holmes-1236853513/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596119
Points: 217
# Comments: 138
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Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics
Article URL: https://mathathonchallenge.com/index.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596055
Points: 215
# Comments: 76
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Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
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Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
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Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go
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Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans
Schiller reportedly had reservations about new CEO John Ternus' goal of bringing in more recurring revenue from the App Store.
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Have the frontier labs mixed up AI safety and security?
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Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlement payments.
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Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
https://xcancel.com/cdclegal
https://nitter.net/
https://xcancel.com/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588988
Points: 382
# Comments: 211
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Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business."
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An Alien Mind
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49588080
Points: 292
# Comments: 248
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The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
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A/I shuts down – Stay human
Article URL: https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49586898
Points: 487
# Comments: 349
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Who said a tech addict can't be comfortable far from home?
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Building a Brainfuck DSL in Forth using code generation
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See Windows CE Running On The N64
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There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
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Quoting Zach Kehs
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Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers
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Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.
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Controlling when CSS custom property values are computed
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Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/isar-aerospace-second-launch-norway-andoya-spaceport-spectrum-rocket
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49580369
Points: 277
# Comments: 134
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Hikers rescued after using Google Gemini for planning
The sheriff’s office said the hikers “were advised by Gemini to bring far less food and water than their group required."
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C++26: std::hive
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OpenAI confirms ‘wiki incident,’ says it’s ‘working on a framework’ for more disclosure
OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.
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Anatomy of a Test
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Using Blender with coding agents on macOS
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The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
Article URL: https://devquasar.com/hardware/the-60-gaming-pc-amd-bc-250/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576386
Points: 256
# Comments: 76
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Gleam and BEAM- Looking beyond the JVM
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Visualizing Rust's Vtables: How dyn Trait Works In Memory
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NYC PIT Crew
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AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
Article URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574167
Points: 214
# Comments: 194
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Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571634
Points: 339
# Comments: 125
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The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting
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Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Article URL: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/portal-by-spotify-cut-my-claude-code-token-usage-by-90
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571465
Points: 170
# Comments: 81
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XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation
The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth.
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OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them
OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.
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Mongotar: Files to prompt, and back
My custom take on this sort of tool. Exploring how much this "deserialize" approach helps compared to projects like files-to-prompt.
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AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing
Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.
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Exploring Mojo’s raw pointer type
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Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors
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Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568579
Points: 212
# Comments: 76
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Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/flt-anthropic-h...
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506
Points: 427
# Comments: 275
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OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
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Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
Hey all, i just launched my Eink Bike computer project and think it is cool.
Another tidbit, in the crazy things that AI has done... It has helped create a ANT (common sensor wireless protocol used in workout/biking) implementation for ESP32 by messing around with undocumented registers: https://git
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Less than 24 hours to apply for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Event
Less than 24 hours left to apply to host a Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and make your mark in the Silicon Valley scene. Apply before the application closes tonight at midnight PT.
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Collider: An experimental Minecraft server
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A defense of object-orientated programming
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US military disabled ad tracking on troops’ devices following reports of targeted attacks
A senator's letter confirms the U.S. military moved to prevent the tracking after foreign adversaries used location data to target troops.
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Surviving Code Reviews in the era of AI
My coworkers are all fully AI pilled. As a consequence, every PR that comes my way for review is on average ~6k lines of diff.
It's well established that even PRs an order of magnitude smaller than this are too big to be effectively reviewed. I'm still clinging to the idea that us humans should unde
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Feds launch investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab deployment
The investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin.
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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Article URL: https://collusion.wiki/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355
Points: 349
# Comments: 232
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Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge
Article URL: https://jestoph.com/2026/09/04/jane-street-challenge.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562657
Points: 172
# Comments: 48
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How to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent
Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how Anaconda is using strategic acquisitions to secure the AI software supply chain.
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Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year
Article URL: http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561320
Points: 344
# Comments: 140
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August newsletter is out
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Oura files to go public
The ring maker says that its business has shown significant revenue growth over the past year.
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Tesla is asking people if they want to buy and run Cybercab fleets
The company published a form on its website Thursday soliciting info from people who are interested in "Cybercab fleet vehicle purchasing."
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An image only some users can see
Try opening in different browser FF v Chrome. Or phone v desktop. Same image file but only sometimes renders.
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NES dumping over audio
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simple is not small
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Startup ARR is less secure than ever, new research shows
The AI era has completely broken enterprise buying patterns, and startups haven't yet figured out how to navigate.
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GPT‑6 Astra
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GPT-6 Astra
System Card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra
Related ongoing threads:
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691
GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556147
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Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Article URL: https://inference-docs.cerebras.ai/models/overview
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49554520
Points: 404
# Comments: 123
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The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models
Cost-saving efforts reveal that moving simpler workloads to open AI models is the easiest way to save ~50% on AI bills. Also: automated software maintenance experience, and more
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Elevating security, control, and accessibility: Stack Internal 2026.6
In our 2026.6 release, we are shipping updates across administrative security, programmatic API control, developer portal integrations, and platform-wide accessibility—ensuring both your engineers and your AI agents act on verified, decision-grade knowledge.
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K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models
Article URL: https://ifm.ai/blog/k2/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551760
Points: 238
# Comments: 79
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Announcing Rust 1.98.1
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Révo Programming language
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NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
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How to Guarantee You Never Ship
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Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston
Our rebranded Boston event, TechCrunch Founder Summit (formerly All Stage), is back on November 4th! And we are looking for some incredible volunteers to help us make this event happen. If you are interested in finding out what goes into building tech events, apply to volunteer. If you are selected,
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TikTok comments are getting more interactive with voice comments, polls, and more
TikTok’s comments section is getting an upgrade. The social network announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new features for its comment sections, including voice comments, comment polls, photo carousel comments, and Live Photo comments. With the additions, the app is borrowing features from mes
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Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion
Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.
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Audacity 4.0
Article URL: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-4.0.0
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49548395
Points: 425
# Comments: 106
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The economics of agent scale: tokens, ROI, and building platforms for AI-first teams (Part 2)
Andi Gutmans, head of Agentic Data Cloud at Google, returns for the second half of his Leaders of Code conversation to talk through the cost and infrastructure side of agentic development. ICYMI, part one covered judgment, code review, and data activation.
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Pre-Release of Polars 2.0
Article URL: https://pola.rs/posts/announcing-polars-2/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546753
Points: 272
# Comments: 84
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Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
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Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
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The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.
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Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say
The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
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CTTI is Exponential, RTTI is Linear
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Let's build a compressor from scratch
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I wanna live an NPC life
Article URL: https://signalundefied.bearblog.dev/i-wanna-live-an-npc-life/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541519
Points: 163
# Comments: 159
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Fable 5.1 World Modeling
Article URL: https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541458
Points: 298
# Comments: 84
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Muse Spark 1.3
https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-spark-1-3
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541256
Points: 331
# Comments: 234
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Check if a file was made with Claude
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llm-gemini 0.34
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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553
Points: 792
# Comments: 471
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Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
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Adobe acquires Indian market intelligence startup Rilo
This is Adobe's second acquisition out of India after Rephrase.ai in 2023
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Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent
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What will you do after tech?
I don’t know anyone who’s retired from the technology industry, do you? In my experience, it's very rare. It seems like most people burn out and then go and do something else.
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Norway considers ban on camera-enabled wearable ‘pervert glasses’
The Nordic country says wearable camera headsets need to be regulated given their privacy risks.
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Adobe is making its tools available in Slack
Users will be able to access Express, Premiere, and Acrobat in Slack
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New things for regular expressions in PostgreSQL (pg_tre and pg_re2)
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Firefox’s AI Switch Is Off. Telemetry Isn’t
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Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982
Article URL: https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533497
Points: 195
# Comments: 97
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Quoting Rick Brewster
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The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531651
Points: 218
# Comments: 73
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Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-probes-service-selling-153m-drivers-licenses/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621
Points: 307
# Comments: 171
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Reliance’s JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global — without sports
JioHotstar will only have entertainment content when it launches in the UK, Canada, and Singapore.
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Researchers use AI to ‘democratize’ 3D printing of crucial metal alloy
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RISC-V interpreter from the future
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Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’ name
Apple Maps is following President Trump's executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.
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BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?
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Hang on to Your Firefox
Article URL: https://www.newsonaut.com/articles/hang-on-to-your-firefox
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527748
Points: 204
# Comments: 101
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Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/31/apple-openai-forensic-macbook-evidence/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527573
Points: 155
# Comments: 108
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The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527396
Points: 203
# Comments: 104
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Codex bundles LibreOffice
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The pattern language of software architecture
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The Pragmatic Engineer: Five years
As the newsletter reaches its fifth birthday, we reflect on how the publication has changed, and what to expect. Also: the launch of the ‘How Software Engineering is Changing’ essay contest
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Quoting Tarn Adams
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Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!
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Waymo accelerates robotaxi expansion with launches in Denver, San Diego and Tampa
Waymo will begin inviting riders on a rolling basis and slowly ramp up access in the three cities, following its usual commercial playbook.
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Help build the future of startups: Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt is where those moments happen. And we can't pull it off without volunteers like you.
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India’s Unacademy sells to rival upGrad for $206M, about 94% less than its peak valuation
"We raised at a peak, but sold at a fraction of that," Unacademy co-founder and CEO Gaurav Munjal wrote. "I'm not going to dress these facts up."
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A bicycle for the mind
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Zuzai, a new word, indicates the absence of AI
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Fine, I’ll build my own text editor
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AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link
Article URL: https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/21656
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520022
Points: 415
# Comments: 101
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44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents
Article URL: https://mvakde.github.io/blog/44-on-arc-1/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519939
Points: 182
# Comments: 50
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The good ol’ days of building Java
Ryan sits down with Tim Lindholm, an early contributor to the Java language at Sun Microsystems, to chat about what it was like building one of the most popular programming languages ever at its inception, why it was strategically important for the Java team to create a cross-platform ABI to compete
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Restroom Archive
Article URL: https://restroomarchive.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517624
Points: 217
# Comments: 50
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Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year
Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to harvest wind energy to stay aloft for several months.
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Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI
Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data theft after learning he was under investigation.
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Janet 1.42.0
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Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI
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Introducing wrapture
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Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Donald Trump Jr.’s investment fund
The firm, 1789 Capital, led the funding round that reportedly will total around $1 billion.
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Quoting Andrew Digby
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Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Article URL: https://webiterate.dev/google-removed-extensions-ublock-origin-108/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514878
Points: 455
# Comments: 366
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V0.1.0.0 of ghcup-gtk released
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Are We Legacy Computing Yet?
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A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
ASCII City: Traffic and Detail Update - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRooHo_HSI
ASCII City Update: Interiors, Elevation and Skyscrapers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCKEDWowc0o
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49512975
Points: 193
# Comments: 28
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I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system
Article URL: https://jasontucker.blog/how-i-turned-my-security-cameras-into-an-automatic-bird-identification-system-with-birdnet-go/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49511856
Points: 353
# Comments: 92
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How to Start a Workout When You Really Don’t Feel Like It (The Bridge Task Method)
If you can’t get yourself to start a workout after a long day, the problem might not be the workout itself. It’s the gear shift from “couch” to “go.” A bridge task is a small, neutral action (not fun, not hard, just…meh) that you put in between the two so the jump is smaller. Below...
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