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Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite
Google is releasing updated Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite preview models with improved quality, speed, and efficiency.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 31,671 posts.
2912
ChatGPT Pulse
Today we’re releasing a preview of ChatGPT Pulse to Pro users on mobile. Pulse is a new experience where ChatGPT proactively does research to deliver personalized updates based on your chats, feedback, and connected apps like your calendar.
2913
This month in Servo: variable fonts, network tools, SVG
Servo’s biggest month by far, with everything from IndexedDB improvements to favicons in servoshell.
2914
Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
2915
PostgreSQL 18 Released
The [PostgreSQL Global Development Group](https://www.postgresql.org) today announced the release of [PostgreSQL 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html), the latest version of the world's most advanced …
2916
Raspberry Pi 500+
A complete desktop PC built into a high-quality mechanical keyboard, with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD for high performance under heavy load.
2917
The "Wage Level" Mirage: H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US talent
How DHS’s H-1B proposal could help outsourcers and hurt US-trained talent
2918
CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells
Lumafield’s Battery Quality Report exposes hidden risks in 18650 cells; 1 in 13 low-cost units have dangerous defects. See how CT helps enforce safety.
2919
Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing
The critical section may be an old dog, but it's still learning new tricks.
2920
Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based
From the Zed Blog: We're moving Zed AI from prompt-based limits to token-based pricing.
2921
New bacteria, and two potential antibiotics, discovered in soil
To find bioactive molecules with the potential to become new drugs less prone to antibiotic resistance, the researchers sequenced bacterial DNA extracted from soils from Rockefeller’s field center in upstate New York. (Brady lab)
2922
SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust
Apache Sedona is a cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data. Sedona extends existing cluster computing systems, such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, with a set of out-of-the-box distributed Spatial Datasets and Spatial SQL that efficiently load, process, and analyze large-scale…
2923
Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
With AI workloads on the rise, the demand for Python support on WebAssembly on the Edge has grown rapidly. However, bringing Python to WebAssembly isn'...
2924
Rights groups urge UK PM Starmer to abandon plans for mandatory digital ID
Big Brother Watch and other human rights, civil liberties, digital rights, and racial justice organisations have written to the Prime Minister urging him to abandon plans for a mandatory digital ID. The letter comes just days before an expected statement from Keir Starmer announcing the rollout of a mandatory digital…
2925
Python developers are embracing type hints
What is Typed Python? Why is it important for Python developers today? How to can you get started?
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2927
Traefik's 10-year anniversary
10 years ago, I made a small reverse proxy project public. Fast forward to today and Traefik has 3.4B downloads and 56k GitHub stars. See how it unfolded.
2928
From Rust to reality: The hidden journey of fetch_max
Tracing Rust AtomicU64::fetch_max from macro expansion and rustc intrinsics through LLVM atomicrmw umax down to the final x86-64 CAS loop.
2929
Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons
This post shares the local optima Manus arrived at through our own "SGD". If you're building your own AI agent, we hope these principles help you converge faster.
2930
Qwen3-VL
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
2931
Podman Desktop celebrates 3M downloads
We reached 3,000,000 Downloads of Podman Desktop. Let's celebrate.
2932
Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos
We’re expanding the ability to edit your images by simply asking in Google Photos to Android devices.
2933
From MCP to shell: MCP auth flaws enable RCE in Claude Code, Gemini CLI and more
How MCP authentication flaws enable RCE in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and more.
2934
MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data
The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) recommended MrBeast update advertising and data collection practices.
2935
Permeable materials in homes act as sponges for harmful chemicals: study
Permeable materials in homes can retain volatile organic compounds for up to a year
2936
OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
OpenAI and NVIDIA announce a strategic partnership to deploy 10 gigawatts of AI datacenters powered by NVIDIA systems, with the first phase launching in 2026.
2937
UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals
The number of millionaires widely reported in the news to be leaving countries in "exodus" represented near-0% of all millionaires.
2938
A New Internet Business Model?
Cloudflare launched 15 years ago this week. We like to celebrate our birthday by launching new products that give back to the Internet, which will do a lot of this week. But on this occasion we've also been thinking a lot about what's changed on the Internet and what has not.
2939
PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA
PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.
2940
Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers
Cap'n Web is a new open source, JavaScript-native RPC protocol for use in browsers and web servers. It provides the expressive power of Cap'n Proto, but with no schemas and no boilerplate.