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Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 80,793 posts.
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Zohran and the Short Link
I’m a big fan of the Zohran Mamdani administration.
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Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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Stripe acquires Clerky
We're happy to announce that Clerky has agreed to join Stripe!
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IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
The new processor is being developed to allow organizations to run Arm-native Linux environments simultaneously with z/OS and Linux on IBM Z, while benefiting from IBM’s established security, reliability, and scale.
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Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)
Actinide becomes the first startup to enrich natural uranium into HALEU, advancing a secure, scalable fuel supply for next-generation nuclear reactors.
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The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
OpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment.
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The Harness Is the Thing
Models are commodifying. The harness - skills, extensions, a scriptable app - is where the work and the leverage now live.
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It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI
Everyone is using Obsidian for AI, or wants to use it to become more productive. But I think it's a dead end.
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Hunting Down a Go Runtime Bug on 32-Bit Embedded Systems
A customer's Go application kept crashing on a 32-bit embedded Linux system. We traced the fatal netpoll error to a pointer aliasing bug in the Go runtime.
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VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
You can no longer assume a mere VM will contain a sufficiently advanced AI agent.
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PageRank explained
Picture this, the year is 1996. You find yourself frustrated with the incumbent search engines like AltaVista, which primarily does a content-based search (it'll give you an article on "Hotels for Chickens" if you search "Hotels" because the word matches). There's gotta be a better way, right? Well, in hindsight, of…
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Taylor Farms: How One Company's Reach Became a National Risk
Our report examines how Taylor Farms became one of the largest produce suppliers in the U.S. and what its power means for food safety, farmers, and workers.
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11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey
A unique statue depicting a human sitting on the back of a leopard has been unearthed from the Neolithic site of Karahan Tepe near Şanlıurfa, southern Turkey. The figure is 70 cm (27.6 inches) high and was discovered in what archaeologists believe was its original location: on a stone platform along the wall of a…
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AWS Acquires DuckLabs
DuckLabs is the team behind the open-source Duck Stack: DuckDB, DuckLake, and Quack.
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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A curmudgeon tries a language server
I write code roughly the same way I did ten years ago 1 1 Well, this was true when I started drafting this article. I have since adopted robots to do much more of the actual typing of code, unless it’s a project where (a) I care about code quality, or (b) I try to learn something. : I make edits in my text editor, I…
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Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
First, a PSA: Do NOT use Omarchy if you care about security of your machine even a little bit. You can't polish a turd Omarchy 4.0 shipped with a collec...
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Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence
The important question about AI-assisted programming isn't who writes the code. It's who understands the system.
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Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project
OSM US is incredibly excited to announce the latest Charter Project: OldInsuranceMaps.net (OIM)!If you’re a map nerd you’ll remember ever seeing a Sanborn Insurance Map in person. They often come in absolute...
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RAG Is Simpler Than You Think
Six approaches to retrieval-based AI, from minimal to elaborate
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More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding
Many people in the U.S. believe that their statistical knowledge is limited, but they would rely on statistics for decision-making more if they understood statistics better, according to a new study led by a Penn State researcher.
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Actually Queryable Executables
I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see that my article ‘Your executable is a SQLite database’ resonated with people. It is a format I have been thinking about for a while, and the idea seems to have struck a chord with others.
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Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
python has 6 pre-declared "constants": True , False , None , __debug__ , Ellipsis (or equivalently ... ), and NotImplemented . but they all behave slightly differently, for some reason.
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When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python
Some internet standards only support ASCII characters, but the world uses much more than the Latin alphabet. Thus, a mapping from Unicode to ASCII for use in domain names is required. NamePrep was...