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New
The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,667 posts.
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Researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals textile revolution
UA researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals key aspects of textile revolution in the Bronze Age
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Agents of Chaos
Natalie Shapira 1 Chris Wendler 1 Avery Yen 1 Gabriele Sarti 1 Koyena Pal 1 Olivia Floody 2 Adam Belfki 1 Alex Loftus 1 Aditya Ratan Jannali 2 Nikhil Prakash 1 Jasmine Cui 2 Giordano Rogers 1 Jannik Brinkmann 1 Can Rager 2 Amir Zur 3 Michael Ripa 1 Aruna Sankaranarayanan 8 David Atkinson 1 Rohit Gandikota 1 Jaden…
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15 Years of Forking
Today marks 15 years of Waterfox!
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Claude Code Historical Performance
Historical Claude Code performance tracker across model generations on SWE-Bench-Pro.
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We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
Learn how AI was used to rewrite JSONata into a faster Go library, reducing costs and improving data processing performance.
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CERN to host a new phase of Open Research Europe
In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE) , an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations. Aligned with the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (2022)…
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Building FireStriker: Making Civic Tech Free
A solo developer watched his community lose a fight because they didn't have the right tools at the right time. So he started building.
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OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha
Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that the Profiles signal has officially entered public Alpha, and we are…
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My minute-by-minute response to the LiteLLM malware attack
The full Claude Code transcript from discovering and responding to the litellm 1.82.8 PyPI supply chain attack on March 24, 2026 — from mysterious process explosions to malware identification to public disclosure.
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The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub
Today, we are excited to announce the Early Availability of the RISE RISC-V Runners , a free, managed GitHub Actions runner service that gives any open source project access to real RISC-V hardware in their CI pipelines. No emulation, no cross-compilation hacks, no waitlist. Install a GitHub App, change one line in…
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LibreOffice and the art of overreacting
A donation banner is not an attack to users The announcement that LibreOffice 26.8 will feature a donation banner in the Start Centre has prompted a flood of responses, ranging from positive from many FOSS supporters, who understand the need for funding, to mild apprehension to extreme alarm from others. Some articles…
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Swift 6.3
Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs.
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The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
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FreeCAD v1.1
After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amo…
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Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
From April 24 onward, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out.
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Quantization from the Ground Up
A complete guide to quantization: how LLMs store parameters as floats, why shrinking them to 4 or 8 bits barely hurts accuracy, and how to measure the tradeoff.
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Earthquake scientists reveal how overplowing weakens soil at experimental farm
In a new study, University of Washington researchers examine the impact of tilling on soil moisture and water retention using methods designed for monitoring ea
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Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app
Introducing Ensu, our first step toward a private, personal LLM app that runs on your device and grows with you over time.
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I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job
Not a shadowing day or research interview - a real job. What I learned working as a pest control technician.
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Arm AGI CPU
Arm introduces the Arm AGI CPU to power agentic AI infrastructure with rack-scale performance, efficiency and scalable compute for next-generation data centers.
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Apple Business
Apple today announced Apple Business, a new all-in-one platform that allows companies to manage devices and reach more customers.
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Hypothesis, Antithesis, synthesis
Introducing Hegel, our new family of property-based testing libraries.
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So where are all the AI apps?
Practical AI R&D
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NanoClaw Adopts OneCLI Agent Vault
Every NanoClaw agent will access external services through OneCLI's Agent Vault, a gateway that handles credential injection, access policies, and approvals so agents never hold raw API keys.
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Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem
"A Ramsey-style Problem on Hypergraphs" — a problem from FrontierMath: Open Problems, Epoch AI's benchmark of unsolved research mathematics.
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The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M
Web3 security lessons from the Resolv hack: how a compromised key enabled a $23M exploit, what went wrong, and how DeFi protocols can prevent similar attacks.