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Julia 1.12 highlights
Highlights of the Julia 1.12 release.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 6,220 posts.
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The RSS feed reader landscape
More than a feed reader, a content curation system to find the top articles of all sources
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Now open for building: Introducing Gemini CLI extensions
Make Gemini CLI uniquely yours by connecting it to your everyday workflows and the tools you use most.
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We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler
84 million requests a second means even rare bugs appear often. We'll reveal how we discovered a race condition in the Go arm64 compiler and got it fixed.
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Hacking the Humane AI Pin
On February 18, 2025, Humane announced it would be shutting down all services for the always online Humane Ai Pin in ten days, following a sale to HP . I had been vaguely aware of the Ai Pin, definitely more so than the average tech person, as I have a close friend who was one of the earliest adopters and eventually…
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The weaponization of travel blacklists
[A Federal Air Marshal (FAM) tasked with surveillance of an airline passenger targeted by Quiet Skies lists and/or rules followed the traveler out to the curb and recorded the license plate number of the vehicle in which she left the airport, so that her airline reservations could be integrated with license plate…
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The email they shouldn't have read
A real-world horror story about contracts, control, and the dark side of managed open source.
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Scaling request logging with ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector
How we solved request logging at scale by moving from MariaDB to ClickHouse, Kafka, and Vector after our deprecated database engine couldn't keep up with billions of monthly requests.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"
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The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps
A new Yale study reveals the brain's internal map doesn't just track one’s current location, it constantly "flickers" between the present space and remembered
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Synthetic aperture radar autofocus and calibration
3D trajectory position error estimation autofocus, antenna pattern normalization, and polarimetric calibration for drone mounted SAR radar.
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Become unbannable from your email
You don't own your email; you rent it. This vulnerability leaves your entire digital life at risk. Read how to seize back control of your most critical online asset by switching providers and setting up your own unbannable email server.
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Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
Today we are releasing the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model via the API, which outperforms leading alternatives at browser and mobile tasks.
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Putting a dumb weather station on the internet
After all, why not? Why shouldn't I put a dumb Temu weather station on the Internet?
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Eliminating contrails from flying could be cheap
Could we halve aviation's climate impact at a fraction of the cost of sustainable aviation fuels?
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How Apple designs a virtual knob (2012)
💡 Author's note: This unpublished post was originally written in May 2012, and refreshed for publication in November 2022.
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Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study
University of Surrey research finds solar is now the lowest cost electricity source in sunniest regions. Discover what this means for the global energy future.
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Less is more: Recursive reasoning with tiny networks
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The World's 2.75B Buildings
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Doing Rails Wrong
What is a Banana Curving Machine? Well it's a fantastic apparatus that does what it says. Curves Bananas.
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Seeing like a software company
The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…
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The Flummoxagon
We’re excited to announce Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexa…
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Vibe engineering
I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …
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Erlang ARM32 JIT is born
A modular embedded ecosystem—bare-metal hardware, software stacks, and a cloud platform for real-time IoT and distributed systems.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"
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Hardware Stockholm Syndrome
2025-10-05
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RediShell: Critical remote code execution vulnerability in Redis
A 13‑year Redis flaw (CVE‑2025‑49844) allows attackers to escape Lua sandbox and run code on hosts. See Wiz Research’s analysis and mitigations.