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The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,664 posts.
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Ten years of ClickHouse in open source
ClickHouse was released in open source on Jun 15 2016, ten years ago. Since then, it became the most popular open source analytical database with more than 2000 contributors.
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Claude Corps
Claude Corps is a national fellowship for early-career people passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.
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To study how chips work, MIT researchers built their own operating system
The new "Fractal" operating system kernel, developed at MIT, gives researchers a clearer look at how computer chips work internally. It was used to study the branch predictors inside Apple's M1 processor, where it revealed a potential vulnerability to major speculative attacks.
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Iroh 1.0
Iroh 1.0 is out. Now is the time to build.
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Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6B
Acquisition will bring Fin’s customer agent platform to companies of all sizes, accelerating time-to-value and expanding Salesforce’s ability to deliver
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21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)
Eight long held and common beliefs about the network have been shown, time after time, to be false. What are they, and what do they mean?
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Perlisisms (1982)
2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming process.
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Formal methods and the future of programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods.
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Phoenix LiveView 1.2
LiveView 1.2 is a small release that adds support for colocating CSS.
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Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has issued an export control directive suspending all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by foreign nationals inside or outside the US.
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Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg
depthfirst's production autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, after intensive security analysis by Google and Anthropic. Moving beyond theoretical analysis, our agent produces concrete, reproducible PoC inputs to confirm its findings at a fraction of the costs ($1k vs. $10k)…
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Electric motors with no rare earths
As a pioneer of electric motors using no rare earths, Renault Group is unique on the automotive market, a position reasserted for strategic reasons.
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Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter
TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low-resolution…
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time
Postgres 19 brings native temporal table support. Shaun Thomas covers WITHOUT OVERLAPS, FOR PORTION OF, and temporal foreign keys - and what's still missing.
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WASI 0.3
WASI 0.3 is official, and async is now native to WebAssembly Components. The WASI Subgroup voted to ratify WASI 0.3.0, rebasing WASI onto the WebAssembly Component Model’s async primitives. The 0.3.0 specification is now stable, and runt...
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The Future of Email
As AI starts reading and actioning our inboxes, email authentication becomes the trust layer that the future of email depends on.
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A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
The advance in fabric technology comes alongside a new benchmark for atmospheric water harvesting.
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Formal Methods and the Future of Programming
I’ve been telling people for the last 25 years that Jane Street as an organization was just not interested in formal methods.
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The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE
Large DELETEs add work instead of reclaiming it. Structure your database so deletion becomes DROP TABLE or TRUNCATE.
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Software is made between commits
From the Zed Blog: Agents turned the conversation into the real source of our software. DeltaDB is the version control built for it.
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Waymo Premier
As we scale and bring our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to more people across the globe, we continue to refine the Waymo experience and deliver more for our riders. You spoke, and we listened to how we can offer an even more elevated experience for you, our top riders. Introducing: Waymo Premier.
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Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
We benchmarked Claude Fable 5 on 200 real-world coding tasks for the Agent Security League.
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Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future
Today we present Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring, our anniversary release. Discover all the new features and get started with the new Nextcloud Hub.
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Cohere's First Model for Developers
Meet North Mini Code, Cohere's first open-source agentic coding model: a 30B MoE that codes strongly on minimal hardware.