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Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power?
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,111 posts.
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Six Years of Gemini
It's been a quiet year at geminiprotocol.net thus far. I've let two "Apollo days" slip by without a word. I'm about as disappointed in myself for this as I expect many folks are unsurprised by it. I do still have plans and clear ideas for finalising the minor oustanding spec issues. I'd tell people to look forward to…
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Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices
We’re introducing an efficient, on-device robotics model with general-purpose dexterity and fast task adaptation.
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The GitHub Actions control plane is no longer free
GitHub is adding a $0.002-per-minute fee on all GitHub Actions usage, so the control plane is no longer free.
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Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated
Fastly’s survey shows senior developers trust gen AI tools enough to ship 2.5x more AI code, while juniors stick to traditional coding and caution.
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Uv overtakes pip in CI
An opportunity for more opinionated defaults
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Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
Composer is our new agent model designed for software engineering intelligence and speed.
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Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to resolve any…
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Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study
The blood pressure lowering effect of nitrate-rich beetroot juice in older people may be due to specific changes in their oral microbiome, according to the largest study of its kind. Researchers at the University of
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Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
Study shows how a dopamine circuit between two brain regions enables mice to extinguish fear after a peril has passed.
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AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
On a benchmark of real exploited contracts, AI agents found vulnerabilities worth a combined $4.6 million, underscoring the need for AI-powered defense.
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A lost decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
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Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates
Cloudflare is launching an experiment with Chrome to evaluate fast, scalable, and quantum-ready Merkle Tree Certificates, all without degrading performance or changing WebPKI trust relationships.
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Ruby on Rails Audit Complete
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Ruby on Rails . Ruby on Rails (or “Rails”) is an open source full stack web-application framework. Thanks to the help of X41 D-Sec , GitLab , and the Sovereign Tech Agency , Rails can provide more secure versions of the…
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Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC: In the past 18 months, we have been working on an ARM notebook based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X1 Elite SoC (X1E). At this point, we are putting the project on hold. There are several ...
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Fandom sells gaming media brand Giant Bomb to long-term staff
World’s Largest Fan-Generated Entertainment & Gaming Platform | Fandom Fandom’s brands help fans get more out of the entertainment and games they love,…
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Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license
Get the tools and support you need to transform your CAD and 3D data into immersive, interactive apps and experiences with Unity Industry.
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Everything we announced at our first LlamaCon
Here’s a look at what we announced at LlamaCon and how you can get started with our newest releases.
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Matt Trout has died
"No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away,"(Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett) It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Shadowcat co-founder, Matt S. Trout. Matt started Shadowcat Systems with Mark Keating in 2005 after a few years of each of them working for other people's…
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Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate
An exploration of how well AI generates system architecture diagrams
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Remote Prompt Injection in Gitlab Duo Leads to Source Code Theft
The Legit research team unearthed vulnerabilities in GitLab Duo.
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We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch
We’ve got an important update for the Glitch community today: We’ll be ending web hosting for your apps on Glitch.
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Claude for Financial Services
A comprehensive solution for financial analysis that helps finance professionals analyze markets, conduct research, and make decisions.
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Imagen 4 is now generally available
Discover Imagen 4 Fast, Google's new speed-optimized text-to-image model, now generally available with Imagen 4 and 4 Ultra in the Gemini API.
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Why we built Lightpanda in Zig
We chose Zig over C++ and Rust because we wanted a simple, modern systems language. Here's what we learned building a browser with it.
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Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)
An exploration of how .NET evolved from a distributed build system to Unified Build, dramatically reducing complexity and build times while improving flexibility and predictability for shipping .NET releases.
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A unique sound alleviates motion sickness
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