Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,243 posts.
Coding agents working from code alone generate shallow hypotheses. Adding a research phase — arxiv papers, competing forks, other backends — produced 5 kernel fusions that made llama.cpp CPU inference 15% faster.
A three-month national investigation by Beyond Plastics found that not a single tracked Starbucks cold-beverage cup ended up at a recycling facility — even when the cups were placed in clearly marked recycling bins inside Starbucks stores.
A new home for the infrastructure Bluesky runs on the open network — including Jetstream v2 with network replay, a new Jetstream SDK, and a lex-based TypeScript SDK
Frontier image quality with the customization and speed of open weights: 5.6B parameters, first in text-to-image, multi-reference generation and editing.
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
Meet the RNGD Server, delivering scalable, energy-efficient AI inference at data center scale with FuriosaAI’s Renegade accelerator platform.
In a new study, University of Washington researchers examine the impact of tilling on soil moisture and water retention using methods designed for monitoring ea
This document describes how Fil-C supports longjmp , setjmp , setcontext , getcontext , makecontext , and swapcontext in a totally memory-safe way. In particular, no misuse of those APIs in Fil-C can lead to stack corruption or any other violation of Fil-C's capability model.
Modern browsers support reactive web interfaces without React, Vue, or Angular. Web components and shadow DOM make frameworks optional.
The Town of Atherton's lawsuit against Caltrain electrification is the clearest case study we have of how a tiny, wealthy minority can hijack a…
Astro 7.0 brings faster builds with Vite 8, a new Rust compiler, Advanced Routing, background dev server support, and structured logging.
Happy New Year and welcome to the State of the Fin!
I have never watched the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire, and for a long time I only knew the title, but nothing about the show. Something about it always reminded...
will go to Bletchly Park Trust if Keith wins, or The Internet Archive if Haughey wins.
The York University Computer Museum (YUCoM) is a historical collection and a research center for the history of computing in Canada. Computer museum Canada
TL;DR Introduction I first encountered the chatbot as a normal Eurostar customer while planning a trip. When it opened, it clearly told me that “the answers in this chatbot are generated by AI”, which is good disclosure but immediately raised my curiosity about how it worked and what its limits were. Eurostar…
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private…
Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the…
A look inside the gray-market reseller economy that gives mainland China cheap, structured, B2B-grade access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and beyond
As we scale and bring our fully autonomous ride-hailing service to more people across the globe, we continue to refine the Waymo experience and deliver more for our riders. You spoke, and we listened to how we can offer an even more elevated experience for you, our top riders. Introducing: Waymo Premier.
An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track
Blue41 helps regulated organizations monitor AI agent behavior, detect manipulation and misuse, and prove that sensitive workflows stay within safe boundaries.
Discover the Apple iPhone 18 Pro exceptional camera performance with a score of 172, featuring improved dynamic range, stabilization, and variable aperture.
Most users dismiss the first step of a product tour within seconds. Here is why that happens, what users do instead, and the one pattern that actually drives activation.
Julia, the programming language that originated as a research project at MIT, has gained a loyal following among scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others. The free and open-source language counts more than 1 million users, including people at thousands of companies and universities around the world.
Modular by design: Standalone UI Packages and Impeller on Desktop
Precursor, our new continuous behavioral validation engine for bot management, offers visibility into how humans and bots actually interact across the full user journey. By turning session-level behavior into bot detection signals, it identifies advanced automation with higher precision — while reducing friction for…
