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Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
A 4B open-source model post-trained with Castform retrieved search results as accurately as GPT-5.6 Sol, while costing 100x less.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,950 posts.
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Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
Atlassian AI ‘Rovo’ is susceptible to zero-click data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection, bypassing organization-level web search controls.
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I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.
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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
Today, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared some changes with Google DeepMind teams.
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Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
Scientists using the NSF Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz instability on the Sun, shedding light on solar activity and space weather.
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The “mechanical miracle” that ruined Mark Twain’s life
Learning from the automation dreams of the first Machine Age
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The Valley of Webhooks
I've built the same webhook consumer three times at three companies. The fourth time, I want a better primitive.
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Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Resize or consolidate your free instances before they're terminated.
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The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
A fabulously gay blind Romance author.
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Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
Find the latest news, events and updates from Campion College on our blogs page. Read about student life, future students, Campion's brag, podcasts and more.
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Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field
A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region of sky known as the COSMOS field. Located in the constellation Sextans, COSMOS is one of the most observed patches of the Universe — and Rubin’s new image adds a powerful new view of this well-known cosmic landmark.
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Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
Confessions of a naive hamster: why the smartest people in the room keep missing that intelligence is often not the main bottleneck in the real world
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The Entropy of a Markov Chain
A more explicit example
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Cloudflare OS is an open-source platform that lets everyone in your company build apps, automate work, and safely access internal systems, shaped around what your organization knows and how it operates.
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Building an Advanced Agentic Harness
From a single pilot to an air campaign: planning, parallelism, memory, verification, and observability for production-shaped agents.
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Painting with Gaussians
Dmitri's blog about programming, Clojure, and software development
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TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
TIME is now serving two different versions of its website. Humans get the magazine. AI crawlers get a stripped down markdown copy with ads baked in that no person will ever see. I fetched one ordinary…
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Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
Most guys my age have "the chat". The one with your college buddies that only exists to share memes, argue, bully, and occasionally announce that you got a promotion or had a kid. I am like most guys.
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Making difficulty curves in games
David Strachan’s website for games, game development,…2026173 points91 commentsGames & Graphics details
Making difficulty curves in games - Just Things Made By Dave
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Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
A casual, roughly bimonthly Sunday coffee meetup for Hacker News posters in Helsinki. Open to anyone with 64+ HN karma.
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Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
Want to follow along with Rust development? Curious how you might get involved? Take a look!
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The Grid That Doubles the Strength of the Ground
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] The Port of Long Beach in Southern California is the second-busiest container seaport in the United States, a major gateway for goods flowing to and from the west coast. Together with its next door neighbor, the Port of Los Ange
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IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
WebKit-based browsers on iOS and macOS can be configured to route all web traffic through proxy servers, which is how Tor browsers on iOS and our own Psylo work. We found three WebKit features — DNS prefetching, WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, and WebTransport — that bypass the configured proxy and send traffic…
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libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license .
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Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
How Pi's minimal harness improves coding-agent cost and performance, with examples from Databricks and Shopify's pi-autoresearch extension.
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DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)
A well-written, *FAST* data science database for your laptop.
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Gödel, Escher, Elisp: The Beauty of Macros
If you are an Emacs user with a keen eye, you will have noticed that in Emacs Lisp, code is data. After all, 'Lisp' is shorthand for 'List Processing'. One of E...
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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
In remembrance of his beloved and brilliant wife, Elise Cawley, and their 36 years together, Stephen Wolfram shares memories of their family and home and relates Elise's many accomplishments and contributions to mathematics.
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Waymo in Dallas
Starting today, anyone in Dallas can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride.