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Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,667 posts.
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Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
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Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes
The UK new car market grew by 24.0% to reach 149,247 registrations last month, according to the latest figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). The increase reflects...
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Agents for financial services and insurance
Ten new Cowork and Claude Code plugins, Microsoft 365 integrations, new connectors, and an MCP app for financial services and insurance.
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Async Rust never left the MVP state
I've previously explained async bloat and some work-arounds for it, but would much prefer to solve the issue at the root, in the compiler. I've submitted a Project Goal, and am looking for help to fund the effort.
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Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight
This is the story of how our Developer Productivity team extended and rolled out rubyfmt, our Rust-based zero-config, ultra-fast autoformatter across the world's largest Ruby codebase.
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How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.
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Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
Zero tenant isolation, exposed military training data, and a five-month responsible disclosure timeline.
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Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
We’re raising $950 million from new and existing investors, at a valuation of over $15 billion. We have never had such conviction in the opportunity for Sierra and our customers.
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Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027
Starting in 2027, smartphone batteries will once again be replaceable in the EU. Learn all about the new regulation and what this means for users.
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How Monero’s proof of work works
Monero does not use a simple fixed hash like Bitcoin. Its proof of work, RandomX, turns mining into running random CPU-friendly programs over a large memory dataset, which is why it behaves so differently from ASIC-first systems.
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The bottleneck was never the code
The other month I finally ran an experiment we had been postponing for over a year at .txt.
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Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac
Several users have recently reported a website pretending to offer an official macOS version of Notepad++: notepad-plus-plus-mac.org
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Make your own microforest (2025)
The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.
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Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors
Engineering and computing researchers create simple metal tags with unique ultrasonic fingerprints to detect door openings and other movements.
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Bad Connection: Global telecom exploitation by covert surveillance actors
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private…
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Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases
Wiki Builder is an open-source Claude Code plugin that turns the LLM-knowledge-base workflow into a one-command setup. Scaffold a configurable wiki, point Claude at sources, and let the agent compile durable pages, indexes, and concept maps for you.
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Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery
Preview, IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Round 4, Laguna Seca
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A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.
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Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
5 projects are awarded a total of $31K
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The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
Two architectures for running agent harnesses, the tradeoffs between them, and how we make skills and memories work when the harness isn't local.
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This Month in Ladybird – April 2026
Inline PDF viewer powered by pdf.js, GTK4 frontend, browsing history, speculative HTML parsing, off-thread JS compilation, async DNS, CSS anchor positioning, and more.
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Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake
C3 is the ergonomic, safe evolution of C. Familiar syntax, full ABI compatibility, optionals, slices, contracts and zero-cost abstractions.
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NetHack 5.0.0
NetHack 5.0 is an enhancement to the dungeon exploration game NetHack, which is a distant descendent of Rogue and Hack, and a direct descendent of NetHack 3.6.
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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)
Parallel evolution.
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Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?
Wonder why chromax.black fans take longer to launch? Black colouring additives alter how advanced polymers mould, meaning they require entirely new toolings and months of testing.
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Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
Citadel Securities is an award-winning global market-maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity products.
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A physics engine with incremental rollback for multiplayer games
We want Easel to be powerful enough to make the kinds of games you would play for hours.