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The Gemini app is now on Mac
Google is bringing the Gemini app to macOS as a native desktop experience.
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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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Can you use autoregressive diffusion to generate market data?
The following is part of a series of posts about 2026 summer intern projects – for more, see “What the interns have wrought, special jumbo 2026 edition”
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Bun v1.3.9
Fixes 23 issues (addressing 13 👍). Run multiple scripts in --parallel or --sequential. bun:test mock & spyOn get Symbol.dispose support. ESM bytecode compilation. Faster Bun.markdown. Faster RegExp, String.prototype.trim, String.prototype.startsWith.
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Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU
Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and Allied Signal). Why would a National Laboratory need the capacity to do this? To provide components that were not…
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Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects
If you've ever clicked on a search result only to land on a version of a site you don't prefer, Kagi's URL Redirects (also known as URL Rewrites) puts you in control by automatically rewriting search...
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Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue
The trademark infringement issue has now been resolved. The author of the website and project in question has removed all uses of the Notepad++ trademark from his product, website, and related materials. The unauthorized references have been taken down, and the trademark infringement is no longer ongoing.
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//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner
How Go 1.26's source-level inliner works, and how it can help you with self-service API migrations.
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NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute
NanoGPT Slowrun is an open effort to implement data-efficient learning algorithms; 5.5x data efficiency in the first week and improving.
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Two Bits Are Better Than One: making bloom filters 2x more accurate
Optimisation of bloom filters in Floe using double bit setting with lightweight hashing.
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CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem
Time to upgrade
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How to build a diffusion language model
An introduction to diffusion language models and the research advances that underlie today's diffusion LLMs. We describe the building blocks of recent open-source models, starting from simple masking diffusion, and including techniques for iterative refinement, post-training, and variable-length generation. Material…
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Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)
Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the Defense Department has increasingly…
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Airbus is preparing two uncrewed combat aircraft
Airbus is working at full throttle to offer the German Air Force an operational Uncrewed Collaborative Combat Aircraft (UCCA) system by 2029.
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Replacing Protobuf with Rust
Forking pg_query.rs to replace Protobuf with bindgen-generated direct C-to-Rust struct mappings, yielding 5x faster query parsing and 10x faster deparsing in PgDog.
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Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from
We asked five AI assistants 200 questions that call for a number and followed 1,285 of the statistics they cited back to the source.
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120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
Starting 2027, Google will block apps on Android devices whose developers have not registered with Google, paid, and given their ID. It’s fair to say that Google is becoming Apple: Your device, their rules.
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Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks
This guide is written for practitioners wanting to create disk images of floppy disks with the intention of preserving them for the long-term. This guide will focus on 8-inch, 5.25-inch, 3.5-inch and 3-inch floppy disks and will only focus on getting material from these disks and will not cover writing disks. Other…
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Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero
After frontier AI systems came up empty, AISLE surfaced six CVEs in curl, one of the world's most audited codebases. Its maintainers patched all six.
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How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster
How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.
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The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal
Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the type and bounds of every memory access in hardware, garbage-collected its own heap in silicon, […]
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Model Training as Code
Model training has grown complex enough to require many specialised stages and teams, and manual coordination between them doesn’t scale. At Aleph Alpha, we’ve built Savanna, a model factory that implements the entire training pipeline in code.
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Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Cunyan Ma’s interactive tool exposes the power structure that extracts low-wage labor from data workers in the Global South to make everyday AI algorithms function.
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The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox
Two architectures for running agent harnesses, the tradeoffs between them, and how we make skills and memories work when the harness isn't local.
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Crystal 1.22
We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.22.0 with several new features and bug fixes.
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Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)
A configuration mismatch in GLM 5.3 on Workers AI triggered an SGLang bug that exposed KV cache pages across requests. Here is how we addressed the issue.
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Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home
Fragment of the Hillsborough meteorite, broken on impact, with fusion crust from passing at high speed through the Earth’s atmosphere.
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Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained
Almost every traditional database keeps its write-ahead log and data files on one machine's disk, which is the root cause of data loss risk, expensive read replicas and high-availability clones, and analytics queries that drag down transactions.
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9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
More than 93,000 visible appearances of brands promoting unhealthy food and drink, alcohol, gambling and speculative products were recorded during coverage of the largest FIFA World Cup in history, new research has found. Unhealthy food and drink brands accounted for more than seven in ten, with 65,722 appearances.
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I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
How I burned a full Claude limit in 30 minutes and built my own deep research pipeline instead: 3 subscriptions, shared memory, a clear role for each model. You can build the same from what you already pay for.