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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,111 posts.
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Windows ML is generally available
The future of AI is hybrid, utilizing the respective strengths of cloud and client while harnessing every Windows device to achieve more. At Microsoft, we are reimagining what’s possible by bringing powerful AI compute directly to Windows devices,
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Ollama Web Search
A new web search API is now available in Ollama. Ollama provides a generous free tier of web searches for individuals to use, and higher rate limits are available via Ollama’s cloud.
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Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
Google is releasing updated Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite preview models with improved quality, speed, and efficiency.
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ChatGPT Pulse
Today we’re releasing a preview of ChatGPT Pulse to Pro users on mobile. Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar.
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This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG
Servo’s biggest month by far, with everything from IndexedDB improvements to favicons in servoshell.
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Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
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PostgreSQL 18 Released
The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html), the latest version of the world's most advanced …
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Raspberry Pi 500+
A complete desktop PC built into a high-quality mechanical keyboard, with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD for high performance under heavy load.
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The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US talent
How DHS’s H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US-trained talent
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CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells
Lumafield’s Battery Quality Report exposes hidden risks in 18650 cells; 1 in 13 low-cost units have dangerous defects. See how CT helps enforce safety.
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Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing
The critical section may be an old dog, but it's still learning new tricks.
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Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
From the Zed Blog: We're moving Zed AI from prompt-based limits to token-based pricing.
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New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil
To find bioactive molecules with the potential to become new drugs less prone to antibiotic resistance, the researchers sequenced bacterial DNA extracted from soils from Rockefeller’s field center in upstate New York. (Brady lab)
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SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust
Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of out-of-the-box distributed Spatial Datasets and Spatial SQL that efficiently load, process, and analyze large-scale…
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Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
With AI workloads on the rise, the demand for Python support on WebAssembly on the Edge has grown rapidly. However, bringing Python to WebAssembly isn'...
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Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID
Big Brother Watch and other human rights, civil liberties, digital rights, and racial justice organisations have written to the Prime Minister urging him to abandon plans for a mandatory digital ID. The letter comes just days before an expected statement from Keir Starmer announcing the rollout of a mandatory digital…
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Python developers are embracing type hints
What is Typed Python? Why is it important for Python developers today? How to can you get started?
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Traefik's 10-year anniversary
10 years ago, I made a small reverse proxy project public. Fast forward to today and Traefik has 3.4B downloads and 56k GitHub stars. See how it unfolded.
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From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max
Tracing Rust AtomicU64::fetch_max from macro expansion and rustc intrinsics through LLVM atomicrmw umax down to the final x86-64 CAS loop.
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Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons
This post shares the local optima Manus arrived at through our own "SGD". If you're building your own AI agent, we hope these principles help you converge faster.
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Qwen3-VL
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads
We reached 3,000,000 Downloads of Podman Desktop. Let's celebrate.
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Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos
We’re expanding the ability to edit your images by simply asking in Google Photos to Android devices.
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From MCP to shell: MCP auth flaws enable RCE in Claude Code, Gemini CLI and more
How MCP authentication flaws enable RCE in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and more.
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MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) recommended MrBeast update advertising and data collection practices.
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Permeable materials in homes act as sponges for harmful chemicals: study
Permeable materials in homes can retain volatile organic compounds for up to a year
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OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
OpenAI and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters powered by NVIDIA systems, with the first phase launching in 2026.
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UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals
The number of millionaires widely reported in the news to be leaving countries in "exodus" represented near-0% of all millionaires.