1921
Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice
Analysis of millions of human-agent interactions shows agent turns getting longer, with software engineering making up nearly half of tool calls.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,668 posts.
1922
Pebble Production: February Update
Mega update on Pebble Time 2, Pebble Round 2 and Index 01 Things are busy in Pebbleland! We’re getting close to shipping 3 new hardware products and all the ...
1923
Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
1924
Electrobun v1: Build fast, tiny, and cross-platform desktop apps with TypeScript
Two years in the making: Electrobun hits v1 with first-class macOS, Windows, and Ubuntu builds, tiny differential updates, and a framework that finally feels built for modern desktop apps.
1925
Step 3.5 Flash – Open-source foundation model, supports deep reasoning at speed
Scores represent the mean of the following eight benchmarks listed below, excluding xbench-DeepSearch. The Step 3.5 Flash score is derived under standard settings (i.e., $w/o$ Parallel Thinking).
1926
How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe
Artificial intelligence promises to reshape economies worldwide, but firm-level evidence on its effects in Europe remains scarce. This column uses survey data to examine how AI adoption affects productivity and employment across more than 12,000 European firms. The authors find that AI adoption increases labour…
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DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet, the DNS-01 challenge type has long been the only choice…
1929
Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
Work around hard NATs and tricky networks with production-grade connectivity nodes you control
1930
Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
The Stable channel has been updated to 145.0.7632.75/76 for Windows/Mac and 145.0.7632.75 for Linux, which will roll out over the coming d...
1931
AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation
If you compile your app for AVX2 and it runs on Windows ARM under Prism emulation, is it faster or slower than compiling for SSE2-4.x? I assumed it would be roughly the same — maybe slightly slower due to emulation overhead, but AVX2's wider operations would compensate. The
1932
Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project issued the following report on the eve of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony in the social media addiction trials. The report analyzes Zuckerberg’s testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2024 against newly unsealed documents that show Zuckerberg lied
1933
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
1934
Index, Count, Offset, Size
Wherein we make progress towards solving one of the most vexing problems of Computer Science — naming things.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
1937
Gentoo on Codeberg
News and information from Gentoo Linux
1938
Async/Await on the GPU
GPU code can now use Rust's async/await. We share the reasons why and what this unlocks for GPU programming.
1939
Using go fix to modernize Go code
Go 1.26 includes a new implementation of go fix that can help you use more modern features of Go.
1940
Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate
Optimisation of bloom filters in Floe using double bit setting with lightweight hashing.
1941
Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout
Your brain uses 20% of your body's energy just idling. Intense thinking barely adds to that. But the mental byproducts of a long cognitive day quietly sabotage your endurance in ways no amount of willpower can fix.
1942
Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
Learn how to run NanoClaw, a Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a Docker Sandboxes shell sandbox for stronger isolation and proxy-managed API keys.
1943
Rise of the Triforce
During the rapid technological advancements of the early 1990s, the video game industry was on the cusp of a massive addition - another dimension. With console shenanigans like the Super FX chip giving players a taste of 3D, hype was at an all-time high. But the games released for home consoles were nothing compared…
1944
State of Show HN: 2025
I downloaded every Show HN post since the site was launched and ran them through a hierarchical topic model. I set out to discover what the Hacker News community finds interesting but in the process I ended up uncovering macro-economic trends, evidence of voting rings/fraud, and subtle shifts in behavior over the…
1945
How not to answer the salary question
Before you read a single line more, I will give the usual but still important caveats – this blog is my opinion, based on my experiences. Take it with a big ol’...
1946
Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024)
Data migrations are a critical part of the database lifecycle, and are sometimes necessary for version upgrades, sharding, or moving to a new platform. In many cases, migrations are painful and error-prone. In this article, we walk through how migrations are performed at PlanetScale, and offer advice on how to improve…
1947
Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models
Our measurements of the time horizons for public frontier language models.
1948
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
1949
Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality
Potential sleep solutions like “pink noise” & other ambient noises worsened sleep quality, while earplugs protected sleep, in a study on the effects of aircraft noise on sleep.
1950
Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship
Magnus Carlsen (Norway) is the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Champion. A draw in the fourth and final game against Fabiano Caruana (USA) was enough to seal a 2.5–1.5 match victory in Weissenhaus, Germany.