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Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
Selfie video gives you more options if you’re ever locked out or don’t have access to your usual phone or computer.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,664 posts.
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A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements
Rare earth elements like lanthanum, neodymium, and dysprosium are used to build the electric motor in your car, the LED lights in your house, and the MRI machine at your doctor’s office.
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Rethinking legal education in the AI era
OverviewArtificial Intelligence is already impacting higher education and the legal profession, and the pace of change appears only to be accelerating. It is thus critical for us to use this moment to carefully reflect on how legal education should adapt. This memo describes the approach we are taking to legal…
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JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)
Define a simple, standard API for parsing and generating JSON documents so that doing so does not require an external library. Enable many JSON processing tasks to be accomplished with little coding. This is an incubating API .
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I learned PCB design, 3D printing and C just to listen to music
I always liked to see and touch the cover artwork of the CDs and LPs I bought in the past, but in the end the convenience of digital streaming won me over and I accepted no (or stamp-sized) artwork. Lately I’ve been missing this more and more and ultimately decided to try to do something about it. So I built a…
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Astronomers may have found the first exomoon
Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown…
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Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages
Animate compact tetrahedral cages and reuse static mini-BLASes to ray-trace hundreds of millions of triangles in real time, dramatically cutting per-frame update and memory costs for dense foliage, grass, and crowds.
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Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
In Brief: Two motions regarding
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SIMD for Collision
In a previous post SIMD Matters I discussed the big wins I got from graph coloring to make the contact solver faster. That same approach exists in Box3D. I like to call this approach “wide SIMD”. The idea is to process multiple work units at the same time. In the contact solver this means solving four contact points…
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An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener
A new system developed at MIT CSAIL helps users design three-sided fasteners called “Y-zippers,” then 3D prints them. The devices can be attached or embedded to camping equipment, medical gear, robots, and art installations, seamlessly switching each item between soft and rigid.
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Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
Is it Cut 'n' Paste, like Fish 'n' Chips?
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Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers
But a Redfin analysis found that AI data centers have benefits: In northern Virginia, taxes on data center equipment are likely contributing to a surge in education spending.
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The startup's Postgres survival guide
A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.
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Marimo now runs in PyCharm
Bring reactive notebooks into your Python projects, without leaving your IDE
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Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Kimi K3 matches Fable 5 on SWE tasks (92.4% vs 92.6%) at up to 50x lower cost on Fireworks. See where each model wins and how routing beats both.
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"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok
Four frontier models, a blank canvas, and colored pencils. We tracked every stroke, dollar, and output as they tried to draw the Mona Lisa.
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OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
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Firefox Containers Preview
Today, we’re excited to announce the Preview of Containers in Firefox version 153, which lets you keep separate parts of your online life (work, shopping
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Laguna S 2.1
Today we’re releasing Laguna S 2.1, a significant step forward in our development of models that pursue longer horizon work and make effective use of reasoning.
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Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
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Claude Is Not a Compiler
Or: the difference between vibe-coding and vibe-engineering.
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New US homeownership measure puts people first
An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track
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Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
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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VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide
While Japanese agencies continue to dominate the industry, non-Japanese VTubers are forging their own unique paths to success.
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Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations
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Agent swarms and the new model economics
We compared old and new agent swarms building SQLite from scratch and found that better coordination delivers similar quality at a fraction of the cost.
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Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
After quite a long while, Hyprland 0.55 is upon us! This is an enormous update by each measurable metric - commits, contributors, features and changes.
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GC and Exceptions in Wasmtime
The Wasm GC and exceptions proposals are both enabled by default in today’sWasmtime 47 release! We are excited to help bring more languages to WebAssemblyand everywhere that Wasmtime runs. Getting to this point involved large Wasmtimecha...
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How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks
I scored the full text of over 12,000 arXiv papers from 2021 to 2026 across ten different fields and found that about a third of the papers currently…