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Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked
Mimicking the operation more accurately.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,237 posts.
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GPT-6.1 Terra
Delivering fast and capable computer use at scale
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Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model
Discover how untrusted open-weight AI models can potentially leak data, even when self-hosted. Learn the security risks and how to protect your enterprise.
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DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay
Plus: Recent deaths intensify need to make private prisons subject to FOIA
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New iPad mini
Apple unveils the all-new iPad mini, featuring an OLED display in a thinner design, a leap in performance with A20 Pro, and water and dust resistance.
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The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand
A factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand, in half the time of a typical Shenzhen quick-turn shop.
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Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM
Tool call accuracy is an important part of serving open-weight AI models. When your tool calls aren’t accurate, the model builds up on nonsensical context. We’ve been carrying our own fork of vLLM to hit 100% in tool call schema accuracy with Kimi and DeepSeek. Fortunately, vLLM 0.31 added support for constrained…
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Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.
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Pharo 14
Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful environment focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
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How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)
Growing chocolate at home might sound like a wild idea, right? Chocolate originates from cacao trees, which demand a tropical climate, specific growing conditions, and several years to reach maturity in order to flower and fruit to produce cacao pods. However, our CocoTerra founder, Nate Saal, took on the challenge…
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iPhone Duo Teardown
We took the Duo all the way down to the gears, followed glowing dust into its hinge, and put its crease-hiding nano-texture under the microscope.
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A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
I am a dermatologist. I tested the ability of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 to diagnosis skin cancer and found that they were less accurate than I expected. I compared to a 10-year old CNN and to my surprise found that this was superior.
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Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models
Learn how Cerebras maps trillion-parameter frontier models across WSE-3T wafers to deliver scalable inference at 1,000–2,000+ tokens per second.
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No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates.
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Dream-1
Today, we're releasing Dream-1, a World Action Model that controls robots it has never seen, performs tasks it was never shown, and runs from $3/hour.
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Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map
How bbtree, a drop-in replacement for std's BTreeMap, cuts cache misses, instructions and cache coherence traffic, and how it is kept correct.
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Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab
Roku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. With thousands of available channels to choose from.
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Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions
EPFL researchers have developed an implantable neural chip that tracks communication across brain regions, identifying cognitive and emotional states in real time.
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Securing our frontier model training environment
OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.
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Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro, our most capable 3T-class open-weight model with 1M-token context and major advances in coding, 3D modeling, and financial research.
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Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone.
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Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy
This is the fifth model in the ThinkingCap series. We reduced how much Google's gemma-4-26B-A4B-it thinks, without compromising the quality of its answers.
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Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene
Continuing our Gaussian splatting development series, Director of Technology Sam Birley breaks down how we bypassed GPU Scene instance caps, implemented PlayCanvas Streamed SOG LODs, and managed GPU memory budgets for production-ready photogrammetry… bringing us to a point where the renderer has fin
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Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers
Average home electricity price from 2020 to 2025: investor-owned utilities +34%, public utilities +19%, co-ops +19%, against +24% inflation. Investor-owned prices rose faster in 38 of 48 states. EIA annual data by state and utility since 2015.
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Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party
Germany's far-right AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party has confirmed that it has suffered a security breach, after a hacker published what appear to be hundreds of thousands of the controversial political party's internal emails.
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The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
Swedish AI provider Berget AI releases an open-source method for calculating the carbon emissions of every individual AI request, developed with researchers from SEI, WattTime and Klimatkollen — and customers can now follow their emissions per request in the console.
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This I Believe (1952)
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them. I believe in my neighbors. I know their faults, and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults.
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LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
Claude formally proved security properties in the compiled code of 123 open-source libraries. Along the way, it found bugs that had eluded detection for years.
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Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
Bill C-22, Canada’s Lawful Access Act, passed the House and is before the Senate. It threatens encryption and expands surveillance. Learn more + sign the petition.
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The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
Learn about the HTML-in-Canvas origin trial in Chrome, and how it can help bring the DOM to your Canvas-driven applications.