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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,111 posts.
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It’s OK to block ads (2015)
Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop most ads from appearing when you use websites or apps that would…
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ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL UPDATE performance comparison
See how ClickHouse’s update speed stacks up against PostgreSQL on the same data and hardware.
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Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration
Node.js® is a free, open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that lets developers create servers, web apps, command line tools and scripts.
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Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
Toothpaste made from your own hair may offer a sustainable and clinically effective way to protect and repair damaged teeth.
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Best Practices for Building Agentic AI Systems
Patterns that keep AI agent systems from falling apart in production: two-tier architecture, stateless design, orchestration, and lessons from UserJot.
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Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations
Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations. An update on our exploratory research on model welfare.
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Imagen 4 is now generally available
Discover Imagen 4 Fast, Google's new speed-optimized text-to-image model, now generally available with Imagen 4 and 4 Ultra in the Gemini API.
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Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?
Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control ...
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Time to End Roundtripping by Big Pharma
U.S. pharma companies should pay rather more of their corporate income tax in the U.S.—and start producing more of their best drugs in the U.S. as well.
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Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
We’re updating the language in our terms and policies to better explain our approach and provide more detail.
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Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
Explore Gemma 3 270M, a compact, energy-efficient AI model for task-specific fine-tuning, offering strong instruction-following and production-ready quantization.
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Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, or file for bankruptcy
Kodak clarifies it is not closing or filing bankruptcy; plans debt repayment and pension fund transaction for a stronger balance sheet in 2025.
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Jujutsu and Radicle
Sovereign code infrastructure.
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Why LLMs can't really build software
From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.
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Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US
Apple will introduce a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users.
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NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem
Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery.
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New protein therapy shows promise as antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning
Established in 1807, we are the fifth oldest medical school in the United States and the first in the country to institute a residency training program.
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Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court
A jury has ruled that Meta accessed sensitive information from women's reproductive health tracking app Flo without consent.
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PYX: The next step in Python packaging
pyx is a Python-native package registry from the creators of uv.
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April Fools 2014: The *Real* Test Driven Development (2014)
Update: APRIL FOOLS! by Kaue Silveira Here at Google, we invest heavily in development productivity research. In fact, our TDD resea...
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Nginx introduces native support for ACME protocol
Discover how native ACME protocol support simplifies SSL/TLS certificate management by enabling direct configuration within NGINX.
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New treatment eliminates bladder cancer in 82% of patients
LOS ANGELES — A new drug-releasing system, TAR-200, eliminated tumors in 82% of patients in a phase 2 clinical trial for individuals with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer whose cancer had previously resisted treatment. In the majority of cases, the cancer disappeared after only three months of treatment…
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Online Safety Act – shutdowns and site blocks
Report incorrectly blocked sites on UK ISP and mobile networks.
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A gentle introduction to anchor positioning
Anchor positioning allows you to place an element on the page based on where another element is.
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Go 1.25 Release Notes
The latest Go release, version 1.25, arrives in August 2025 , six months after Go 1.24 . Most of its changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries. As always, the release maintains the Go 1 promise of compatibility. We expect almost all Go programs to continue to compile and run as before.
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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million tokens of context—a 5x increase that lets you process entire codebases, synthesize extensive document sets, and build agents that maintain coherence across hundreds of tool calls.