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The "Windows XP Box" (2003)
I needed a small Windows XP machine and a Mini-ITX board was the obvious choice. So I decided to build my "Windows XP Box" in a Windows XP box. The external dimensions of the box are a tiny 243mm x 200mm x 48mm.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,243 posts.
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Where did all the starships go?
In this Weekly Chart, we look for sci-fi books and their changing titles.
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Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations
Ask Claude to explain a concept or analyze your data, and it can respond with interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations — rendered inline as part of the conversation.
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The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month
How close to zero can you get on a 100% EU infrastructure stack? A bootstrapper-friendly setup for under €10 a month.
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Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.
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BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time
+++ BMW Group bringing Physical AI to Europe +++ Pilot project at BMW Group Plant Leipzig +++ New “Center of Competence for Physical AI in Production” accelerates global integration of AI and robotics in production +++ First pilot deployment of humanoid robots successfully completed at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg, USA…
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Union types in C# 15
C# 15 introduces union types — declare a closed set of case types with implicit conversions and exhaustive pattern matching. Try unions in preview today and see the broader exhaustiveness roadmap.
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GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper
A real quarter of UK SME books, 59 transactions, 68 minutes, $2.73 of tokens — and a VAT return within 7 pence of the human-prepared one.
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Ternary Bonsai: Top Intelligence at 1.58 Bits
Today, we’re announcing Ternary Bonsai, a new family of 1.58-bit language models designed to balance strict memory constraints with high accuracy requirements.
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Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys
Clojure 1.13.0-alpha1 is now available! Find download and usage information on the Downloads page.
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AI for American-produced cement and concrete
Meta is continuing its long-term roadmap to help the construction industry leverage AI to produce high-quality and more sustainable concrete mixes, as well as those exclusively produced in the Unit…
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China DRAM Maker CXMT Targets $4.2B IPO as It Takes on Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron
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Chinese memory chipmaker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has filed for an IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market, seeking to raise up to CNY 295 billion (about USD 42.2 billion) to upgrade DRAM manufacturing, advance next-generation memory technologies, and strengthen China’s position in the global memory supply chain.
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Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer
For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the colors physically loaded on it? And we must say it right now: This is a...
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Rune is now open source
Rune is now open source under the GPLv3. A native, keyboard-driven IDE written primarily in Go is ready for Go developers to inspect, change, and help build.
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Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
Tove Jansson illustrated books of other appreciated authors during her career. One of them was J. R. R. Tolkien's classic The Hobbit.
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Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
The final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including…
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Why DuckDB 2.0 is faster
DuckDB 2.0 alpha vs 1.5.5 on one laptop: recursive CTEs up to 90x, VARIANT 6x faster than JSON text, async I/O 2.4x on S3. What changes, and how to model data to get the speedup. | Reading time: 15 min read
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints
Postgres 19 brings plan advice: the query hints the Postgres community held off on for 15 years. Shaun Thomas covers the 15-year debate, pg_plan_advice, pg_stash_advice, and how to use them.
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Conductor is joining Meta
We launched Conductor a lifetime ago, in the distant past of July 2025. Writing most of your code with agents (let alone a team of coding agents) felt crazy back then. You trusted us to come along for the ride, and we cannot thank you enough!
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Supabase is acquiring Turso
Supabase is acquiring Turso to build the database infrastructure for agentic AI
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Rust SIMD on the GPU
At VectorWare , we are building the first GPU-native software company . Today, we are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust's portable SIMD ( core::simd ) on the GPU. This milestone marks a significant step towards our vision of enabling developers to write complex, high-performance applications that…
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The Beauty of Bonsai Styles
The way in which a tree grows is often determined by their environment, and as a bonsai artist, I look to honor that environment, and the way in which that tree would grow in nature, when determining how to shape and style a bonsai.
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606
Welcome to the Progress Report for Dolphin Release 2606. We usually prefer to launch toward the beginning of the month, but a slew of important, large, and technically challenging changes had us working overtime. Strap in, because we have a lot to cover! For April Fool's we teased that Dolphin now had support for the…
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OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber
OpenAI introduces new Daybreak tools, including Codex Security and GPT-5.5-Cyber, to help organizations find, validate, and patch vulnerabilities at scale.
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Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability
Zero tenant isolation, exposed military training data, and a five-month responsible disclosure timeline.
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Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition
Unmatched accuracy and speed. Transcribe converts your business’ audio data into precise text for search, analytics, and automation.
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Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.
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The new HTTP QUERY method explained
In this blog post, we take a deep dive into the new HTTP QUERY method, explaining the history behind it as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using it.