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Thunderbird for iOS
The team has been working hard behind the scenes laying a strong foundation for the Thunderbird iOS app, building natively from scratch.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,238 posts.
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A global workspace in language models
Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
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Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
An open letter from the technology industry, and the launch of Akrites - a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in the open source software the world runs on.
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What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients. This post explores the technical root cause, examines the source code of affected resolvers, and dives into the inherent ambiguities of the DNS RFCs.
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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
Every language pitches async/await as synchronous-looking code, and the same two keywords appear everywhere. But behind the shared syntax hide nine independent design decisions, and no two of seven modern runtimes agree on what even the simplest async programs should do! In this paper we map the design space of…
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How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
Sweden - The product names of IKEA may sound strange even to us Swedish speakers. In other parts of the world, they are basically incomprehensible, but fun! He
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We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
In the past few months the MetaBrainz team has been fighting a battle against unscrupulous AI companies ignoring common courtesies (such as robots.txt) and scraping the Internet in order to build up their AI models . Rather than downloading our dataset in one complete download, they insist on loading all of…
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Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library
The PyPI package lightning was compromised in versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 with Mini Shai-Hulud themed malicious code to execute credential-stealing malware on import.
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Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements
The latest update of Firefox, version 148, introduces a much-anticipated "AI kill switch" feature, allowing users to disable AI functionalities such as chatbot prompts…
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Cloudflare Email Service
Agents are becoming multi-channel. That means making them available wherever your users already are — including the inbox. Today, Cloudflare Email Service enters public beta with the infrastructure layer to make that easy: send, receive, and process email natively from your agents.
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Date is out, Temporal is in
Temporal is the Date system we always wanted in JavaScript. It's extremely close to being available so Mat Marquis thought it would be a good idea to explain exactly what is better about this new JavaScript date system.
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1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
Today we're releasing Bonsai Image 4B, compact 1-bit and ternary diffusion models built on FLUX.2 Klein 4B that run image generation on laptops and phones.
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First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
Apple spent five years building hardware and software to make memory corruption exploits dramatically harder. Our engineers, working together with Mythos Preview, built a working exploit in five days.
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The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. How to apply the lessons we learned to your own context engineering in Claude Code and with your own agents.
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DuckDB 2.0.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”
The DuckDB team is happy to announce that today we're releasing DuckDB version 2.0.0 LTS, codenamed “Cinnamon Teal” (Spatula cyanoptera). This is our biggest feature release so far, and it ships a polished version of the Quack protocol, asynchronous I/O, a first-class VARIANT type, agent mode, triggers, an extensible…
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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website
A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now.
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Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution
Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution
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LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
One of the simplest tests you can run on a database:
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Firefox Containers Preview
Today, we’re excited to announce the Preview of Containers in Firefox version 153, which lets you keep separate parts of your online life (work, shopping
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Let's make quality the norm again
A more circular economy is not only important for the environment. It can also strengthen consumer rights and improve societal resilience. In this report, we show how consumer policy can make circular choices easier, safer and more attractive for consumers.
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All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)
When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive and nasty particles, but how toxic is it for humans?
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LineageOS 24
You know what's funnier than 24?
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Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
Railway experienced a platform-wide disruption after Google Cloud incorrectly suspended our account, temporarily taking down all GCP-hosted infrastructure.
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Unrolling the Codex agent loop
A technical deep dive into the Codex agent loop, explaining how Codex CLI orchestrates models, tools, prompts, and performance using the Responses API.
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PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
Core PHP engine flaws enable remote code execution and Heartbleed-style memory disclosure across the web.
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Git for the US Code
Lawyers should be able to read a statute as it stood on any date and see which law wrote each phrase. A history of nine titles of the US Code, built by replaying every amendment, as the example.
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Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
An overview of Google’s eighth generation TPUs, built for the agentic era.
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Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
A seven-month-old arbitrary code execution vulnerability remains present in Cursor, leaving 1 million daily users to rely on public disclosure after months of unsuccessful attempts to obtain remediation updates.