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Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of t
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,672 posts.
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Alexa+
Powered by generative AI, Alexa+ is your personal AI assistant that gets things done—she’s smarter, more conversational, more capable, and free with Prime.
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The Miserable State of Modems and Mobile Network Operators
This is a story of the complexities of cellular connectivity, the perils of closed ecosystems, and how to debug what you cannot see.
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EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
EdgeDB is now Gel. New identity, renewed focus on delivering the best PostgreSQL data platform in the world.
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Certificate Transparency in Firefox
Certificate Transparency (CT) has been one of the biggest advancements in web security, keeping users safe from threats such as certificate fraud and…
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Resident physicians' exam scores tied to patient survival
New analysis finds tests for new doctors can measure what matters — the life and health of patients
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DeepSearcher: A local open-source Deep Research
In contrast to OpenAI’s Deep Research, this example ran locally, using only open-source models and tools like Milvus and LangChain.
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Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine
Introducing Python interpreter embedded in Elixir and a Fine way to write your NIFs.
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How Core Git Developers Configure Git
What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
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Stone Soup AI (2024)
For some time, I’ve argued that a common conception of AI is misguided. This is the idea that AI systems like large language and vision models are individual intelligent agents, analogous to human agents. Instead, I’ve argued that these models are “cultural technologies” like writing, print, pictures, libraries…
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History of CAD
The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering and Manufacturing. A "Brief" History of CAD by David E. Weisberg
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Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
Today, we’re announcing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, our most intelligent model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model generally available on the market.
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Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities
A Penn State engineering student's work on a century-old math problem that expands research in aerodynamics, unlocking new possibilities in wind turbine design, was recently published in Wind Energy Science.
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MongoDB acquires Voyage AI
MongoDB to integrate Voyage AI's industry-leading embedding and reranking models, delivering highly accurate and relevant information retrieval to power sophisticated AI use cases NEW YORK , Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB), the leading database for modern applications,
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Utah bill aims to make officers disclose AI-written police reports
A bill headed to the Senate floor in Utah would require officers to disclose if a police report was written by generative AI. The bill, S.B. 180, requires a department to have a policy governing the use of AI. This policy would mandate that police reports created in whole or in part by generative...
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The $1.5B Bybit Hack
The $1.5B Bybit Hack demonstrates how the Era of Operational Security Failures has arrived, and most cryptocurrency companies are not prepared for its implications.
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Who needs a sneaker bot when AI can hallucinate a win for you?
AI tried to take launch results into their own... hands? And it caused some heartbreak.
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The Profitable Startup
For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. Profitability was seen as unambitious or even wrong – something to worry about when you hit scale. Why focus on profits when money and valuations were easy to come by?
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I found a backdoor into my bed
Eight Sleep smart bed found to contain an exposed AWS key and a likely backdoor that allowed engineers to remotely access users' beds
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I ate and reviewed every snack in our office kitchen
Office Snacks ranked from banana to jerky to grapes. See which boost productivity, which wreck your desk—and why snacks reveal more than you think.
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Keeping our free tier sustainable by preventing abuse
A free tier allows people to try a SaaS without paying first, but it opens up the service to bad actors. Here's how we balance preventing bad actors while still supporting legitimate users.
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Obsidian is now free for work
Starting today, the Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore organizations that support Obsidian on our new Enterprise page.
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Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications