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New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Apple announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra, delivering a monumental leap in AI performance and even faster graphics.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,943 posts.
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Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Apple debuted M6 in the new Mac mini and M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio, providing an extraordinary leap in performance and AI capabilities.
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France's tax agency got hacked (in French)
Après l'ANTS, le piratage de la DGFiP marque un nouveau palier. Experts de l'État numérique, de la cybersécurité et du politique décryptent cet incident.
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How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer
As inflation-weary businesses raise prices to cover credit card interchange fees, the pain isn't universal, says research by Mark L. Egan.
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Windows 95 released August 24, 1995
People lined up around stores at midnight like they do for a new Apple product.
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Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents
Self-guided agents that think continuously
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Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Thomson, the company's proprietary LLM, was trained and is run at a fraction of the cost of comparable frontier models and remains fully owned and controlled by Thomson Reuters
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SQLite as a Document Database (2020)
However recently it added a killer feature: generated columns . (This was added in 3.31.0, released 2020-01-22.)
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Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
Long before the current kerfuffle about LLMs, Generative AI Artwork, and asking your tax preparation chatbot for a cookie recipe, the concept of artificial intelligence and synthetic life was a pervasive theme in creative and engineering works. We have the ground-breaking appearance of Rossum's Universal Robots (or…
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RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
I’m happy to announce that RISC-V platforms are now officially supported by CPython. 🎉 🚀
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LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
| Read on LessWrong | Comment on HN | Large language models often take actions running on one computer (via an agentic harness such as Claude Code or Codex), however the LLMs’ responses to prompts are computed on a different computer with GPU access.
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Anger, Anxiety and Agency
Who is the AI villain we should be angry at?
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Visualizing Binary Files
It's all black and white, basically. A while ago, Vim's xxd gained the ability to color the output (this is not included in Vim Classic , which I use):
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Tracking Costco gas prices
I reverse-engineered Costco's gas price API and built a live tracker covering every US warehouse, right as a Strait of Hormuz scare sent fuel prices climbing.
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Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe
Improving on a timeless recipe
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A Blackstone real estate company exposed SSN digits, DOBs, addresses and more
Update: This post received some attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.
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Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance
The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation.
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Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
Infrastructure “We should own our infrastructure.” A lot of people would instinctively nod in agreement with that statement. Yet who “we” refers to shifts depending on the type of infrastructure. Highways, railways, bridges, and ports require nation-scale efforts. The water supply is usually put into the hands of…
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IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled
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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images.
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OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Pricing information for the OpenAI platform.
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Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)
An interactive explaination of how QR codes work and techniques for rendering artistic QR codes
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Experiments with Plotter Art
Drawing procedural art with Inkscape and an Ender 3 printer
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What my dad taught me about AI coding in the 90s
It was a summer holiday, sometime in the late 1990s. I was a young kid, around 8 or so. My dad had taught me the rules of chess before and we played from time to time. But this time was different: As we were about to start he stood up and walked away from the board, sitting down in a chair across the room and facing…
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What's new in Emacs 31.1
Emacs 31.1 adds a slew of quality-of-life features. It retires its quirky unexec dumper; there are general improvements to tree-sitter, including a much-wanted auto-installer for grammars; and much more.
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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
European Union's new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation at risk.
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SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
Proofcraft’s Chief Engineer Rafal Kolanski has completed a major “architecture split” overhaul of the seL4 proofs, resulting in the removal of 250k lines of proof and strengthening the link between proofs on different architectures. These changes will significantly reduce future effort required to maintain and extend…
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Monzo Stand-In
Our customers reasonably expect to be able to spend on their card, make bank transfers and pay their bills 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Their lives don’t have downtime for maintenance so nor should we. We dedicate a lot of our engineering effort to minimise the risk of downtime during technical migrations and…