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Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Resize or consolidate your free instances before they're terminated.
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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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DOJ says presidents should be able to sell secrets on eBay
Plus: Recent deaths intensify need to make private prisons subject to FOIA
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We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable
That cheapo cable you bought online? Probably a counterfeit. We x-rayed a suspicious cable to show you exactly what that means, and why counterfeits work worse and wear out faster.
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How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD?
Asking nicely, and asking a lot of people.
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Bluesky Trademarks ATProto
Bluesky now owns the trademark for AT Protocol to shield the ecosystem and make sure it can be used as widely as possible.
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Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
In Brief: Two motions regarding
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Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
Our new decision-scoring model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform both LLMs and other decision models.
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SeL4 security proofs now complete on AArch64
Proofcraft’s Chief Engineer Rafal Kolanski has completed a major “architecture split” overhaul of the seL4 proofs, resulting in the removal of 250k lines of proof and strengthening the link between proofs on different architectures. These changes will significantly reduce future effort required to maintain and extend…
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DMARC has been public since 2012 but most company domains still don't enforce it
DMARC has been public since 2012. We checked 67,336 domains: 68.4% still have no policy or one that does not enforce it.
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Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety.
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Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code
Dynamic workflows in Claude Code let Claude tackle the most challenging tasks by executing across 10s to 100s of parallel subagents, and checking its work before anything reaches you.
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We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85%
Zone setting changes used to rebuild entire DNS zones, even ones with tens of millions of records. Here is how we built a planner that picks the smallest safe build, cutting full builds by 40%, peak memory by 85%, and halving build delay.
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How Passive Radar Works
Passive radar is radar that doesn't need a transmitter; it uses existing broadcasts of opportunity.
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NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
They want to shut down our right to be heard in the first place.
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We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
We signed a 3 year lease and gave it to an AI
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Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig
We replaced LibDOM with a custom Zig implementation for better cohesion across events, Custom Elements, and ShadowDOM. Here's how we built it and what we learned along the way.
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Intel Arc Pro B70 Review
How does Intel's new Arc Pro B70 32GB professional GPU stack up against the competition in media editing, rendering, AI, CAD, and BIM applications?
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Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations
How customer needs shaped Oxide's Kubernetes integrations.
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Workers Cache
We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers
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Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition
Wikipedia workers in Britain request union recognition with UTAW, national branch of the CWU
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An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
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VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents
You can no longer assume a mere VM will contain a sufficiently advanced AI agent.
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Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray
New therapy is turning back the clock in aging brains, healing inflammation, restoring memory and reshaping the future of brain age-related therapies.
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Python Polars Cheatsheet (based on our O'Reilly book)
Quick reference guide for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing data with Python Polars.
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Omacom Foundation launches with $8M
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future…
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AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release
AISLE's autonomous analyzer found all 12 CVEs in the January 2026 coordinated release of OpenSSL, the open-source cryptographic library.
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Working With AI: A concrete example
In this essay, Carson Gross walks through a concrete bug fix in hyperscript to show where AI helped, where it fell short, and why keeping a knowledgeable human in the loop is what kept complexity in check.
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June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
We now have a new way for you to help us write the monthly updates :)