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Audio is the one area small labs are winning
The story of Gradium, the anatomy of audio AI models, and why smaller labs continue to edge out larger ones when it comes to voice.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,240 posts.
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How Monero’s proof of work works
Monero does not use a simple fixed hash like Bitcoin. Its proof of work, RandomX, turns mining into running random CPU-friendly programs over a large memory dataset, which is why it behaves so differently from ASIC-first systems.
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The human-in-the-loop is tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
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"cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2
Turning "cat readme.txt" into arbitrary code execution in iTerm2.
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Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
News post: Gleam v1.19.0 released!
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Python 3.15
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3
Today, the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, comes to the end of an extraordinary chapter in its scientific journey. Following its final physics run , the accelerator has been switched off to begin CERN’s Long Shutdown 3 (LS3), a major programme of maintenance…
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Fearless SIMD v1.0
Fearless SIMD v1.0 is here
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Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
FLUX 3 is running robots. Built with mimic and deployed at Audi, FLUX-mimic shows content creation and physical AI share one foundation: a model that understands the world.
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AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up
We cut PR wait time and running costs by rethinking CI as a system, from the infrastructure underneath it to how work gets scheduled and tests get parallelized.
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Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale
AI coding tools deliver immense value: at Databricks, agentic coding has measurably improved every velocity metric we track and, in some teams, driven an order-of-magnitude gains in output. But nearly every company deploying AI tools at scale has hit the same wall: exponentially growing costs.
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Can you reverse engineer our neural network?
A lot of “capture-the-flag” style ML puzzles give you a black box neural net, and your job is to figure out what it does. When we were thinking of creating o...
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EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
Under the new rules, businesses must prioritise keeping products in use by selling them or preparing them for reuse.
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Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
Apple rejected WhisperPad under Guideline 2.4.5 for using the accessibility API to paste transcribed text. After an appeal that ended in another rejection, I split it into two versions — a compliant one on the App Store, and the original auto-paste version, direct.
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Bringing uv and ty together
Experimental uv-ty integration enables first-class support for Python scripts on the CLI and in the editor, and a unified uv check command.
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TALA Is Open-Source
Seven real-world layout comparisons and eleven original diagrams, including two with selective TALA positioning.
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Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
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Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company
Exploring how agents become multipliers, not replacers.
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I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue
Rails 8 eliminates Redis from the default stack. Learn how SolidQueue, SolidCache, and SolidCable replace Redis for job processing, caching, and real-time updates—powered entirely by PostgreSQL. Explore the true cost of Redis, how SolidQueue works, when it scales, and how to migrate from Sidekiq to a simpler…
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Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran
Fortran : High-performance parallel programming language
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Pebble Production: February Update
Mega update on Pebble Time 2, Pebble Round 2 and Index 01 Things are busy in Pebbleland! We’re getting close to shipping 3 new hardware products and all the ...
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Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
USA and their friends in the surveillance alliance Fourteen Eyes have demonstrated that they have the capacity, the desire and the experience to monitor who they want, when they want, anywhere in the world.
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The Zulip Foundation
Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company to a newly created, independent, nonprofit Zulip Foundation. …
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Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support
Libreboot – Libreboot 26.10 “Ominous Olive” released! With full UEFI support.
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ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree
We need to have a hard look at the surveillance industry. It is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, and it continues to be used by aspiring autocrats to threaten our very democracy. As long as it exists, the surveillance industry, and the data it generates, will be an…
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GitHub Copilot code review will start consuming GitHub Actions minutes
Developers and engineering teams worldwide use GitHub Copilot for high-quality, agent-powered code reviews on every pull request. We understand that any change is significant to our customers, especially when it…