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Android developer verification: Early access starts
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,671 posts.
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Marble: A Multimodal World Model
Marble, our frontier multimodal world model, is available to everyone starting today
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GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients
In an analysis of more than 6,800 colon cancer patients across all University of California Health sites, researchers found that those taking glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) medications were less than half as likely to die within five years compared to those who weren’t on the drugs (15.5% vs. 37.1%
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GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
We’re upgrading the GPT-5 series with warmer, more capable models and new ways to customize ChatGPT’s tone and style. GPT-5.1 starts rolling out today to paid users.
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Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet
Digital ID is a new way for users to create an ID in Apple Wallet using their U.S. passport, and present it with the privacy of iPhone or Apple Watch.
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Anthropic invests $50B in US AI infrastructure
Anthropic is partnering with Fluidstack to build data centers in Texas and New York, creating roughly 800 permanent and 2,400 construction jobs.
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Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy
OpenAI is fighting the New York Times’ demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and accelerating new security and privacy protections to protect your data.
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Performance hacks for faster Python code
Learn practical optimization hacks, from data structures to built-in modules, that boost speed, reduce overhead, and keep your Python code clean.
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.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser
Avalonia is bringing .NET MAUI to Linux and WebAssembly, delivering on the community's most requested features since MAUI launched.
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Heroku Support for .NET 10
Deploy .NET 10 apps on Heroku with day-one support. Learn about the new LTS release , file-based apps , and SLNX solutions.
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Collaboration sucks
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go alone too. (mostly)
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Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"
It’s Already Inside Us Microplastics are not just an environmental problem affecting nature. They’re in our blood [1] , lungs [2] , placentas [3] , brains [4] , and breast milk [5] . Every human tissue scientists have tested so far has come back contaminated. In diseased tissue samples of people with chronic illnesses…
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We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models
We benchmarked OpenAI gpt-image-1, Google nanoBanana, and Seedream across 600+ real-world photo edits, see latency, cost, and quality by task
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Firefox expands fingerprint protections
With Firefox 145, we’re rolling out major privacy upgrades that take on browser fingerprinting — a pervasive and hidden tracking technique that lets we
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.NET 10
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
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iPhone Pocket
ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
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Zig / C++ Interop
Learn how we use macros to make it less painful to use Zig structs in C++ (and vice versa)
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The write last, read first rule
TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for correctness. Yet, building a correct system from correct components remains a challenge:
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Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025
A practical guide for hiring a developer as a small indie studio. How we, a three-person team, managed 159 applicants using a streamlined, time-efficient process. The article covers designing relevant take-home assignments and a simple Gmail labeling system for high-volume candidate triage.
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Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages
We’re introducing Meta Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition, a suite of models providing automatic speech recognition capabilities for over 1,600 languages.
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ClickHouse acquires LibreChat, open-source AI chat platform
We are excited to announce that ClickHouse has acquired LibreChat, the leading open-source AI chat platform.
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Benchmarking leading AI agents against Google reCAPTCHA v2
We evaluate three leading AI models—Claude Sonnet 4.5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and GPT-5—on their ability to solve Google reCAPTCHA v2 challenges and find significant performance differences, with success rates ranging from 28% to 60%.
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How cops can get your private online data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provider can take to improve online privacy.Law...
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Reminder to passengers ahead of move to 100% digital boarding passes
Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 airline, today (Thurs, 6 Nov) reminded passengers that from Wed (12 Nov) it will move to 100% digital boarding passes. This means that from Wed (12 Nov) passengers will no longer be able to download and print a physical paper boarding pass but will instead need to use the digital boarding pass…
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Run Nix Based Environments in Kubernetes
Run reproducible, immutable environments in Kubernetes without container images. Faster deploys, SBOMs-by-default, and zero drift with Flox.
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Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem
The software update includes a more unified user experience across connected devices, enhancements to AI Vision Inside™, expanded Knox Security and more
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About KeePassXC's Code Quality Control
KeePassXC Password Manager
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Using bubblewrap to add sandboxing to NetBSD
As of the time of writing, there is no real sandboxing technique available to NetBSD. There is chroot , which can be considered a weak sandbox because it modifies the root directory of the process, effectively restricting the process' view of the file system, but it doesn't isolate anything else, so all networking…
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Zensical – A modern static site generator built by the Material for MkDocs team
We are thrilled to announce Zensical, our next-gen static site generator that addresses and overcomes the technical limitations of MkDocs
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Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated
Largest systematic review of AI benchmarks highlights need for clearer definitions and stronger scientific standards.