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The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era
Open source software is the foundation of much of our digital infrastructure. However, is AI undermining the incentive structure? What needs to change?
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,244 posts.
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Claude for Creative Work
New connectors let Claude work inside Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Autodesk Fusion, SketchUp, and music production tools to support creative workflows.
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Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
From the Zed Blog: Delta is now in public beta. Replacing pull requests is our first step toward replacing GitHub.
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Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology
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Rethinking legal education in the AI era
OverviewArtificial Intelligence is already impacting higher education and the legal profession, and the pace of change appears only to be accelerating. It is thus critical for us to use this moment to carefully reflect on how legal education should adapt. This memo describes the approach we are taking to legal…
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Clojure: Transducers
Transducers are composable algorithmic transformations. They are independent from the context of their input and output sources and specify only the essence of the transformation in terms of an individual element. Because transducers are decoupled from input or output sources, they can be used in many different…
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Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol
Sovereign code infrastructure.
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Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6
With Claude Opus 4.6, finance teams get better reasoning on complex analyses, cleaner first-pass deliverables, and new tools built for where analysts actually spend their time.
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time
Postgres 19 brings native temporal table support. Shaun Thomas covers WITHOUT OVERLAPS, FOR PORTION OF, and temporal foreign keys - and what's still missing.
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Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) today announced that Energy Forge One LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary, has signed an agreement with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to develop a co-located power facility in West Texas that will provide dedicated electricity to a Microsoft-operated data center under a 20-year power…
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Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy
This is just a short description for your post which you can edit depending on your needs via the Framer CMS.
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EFF letter to FTC on X consent order [pdf]
Strong safeguards on our information require eagle-eyed oversight when that data is abused and misused for profiteering ventures. X’s actions not only showed us this in the past, but continue to do so in the present day.
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FreeBSD 14.4-Release Announcement
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE. This is the fifth release of the stable/14 branch.
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Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
Wait, that's not him.
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Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
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When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)
In the 1930s–60s, Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company offered trolley and bus riders a weekly burst of color and hand lettering. About 300 of these tickets are now in our collection.
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Jean-Pierre Serre turns 100
Jean-Pierre Serre is a French mathematician who has made important contributions to algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory. He was a member of Bourbaki.
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December in Servo: multiple windows, proxy support, better caching, and more
Come along and meet us at FOSDEM 2026 – we’re speaking there too!
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NRC issues first U.S. construction permit for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor
KNOXVILLE, TN (September 29, 2026) – GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GVH) today welcomed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) issuance of a construction permit to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at its Clinch River site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.The permit is the…
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Nonviolence
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute2026152 points148 commentsSociety, Policy & Culture details
As a theologian, Martin Luther King reflected often on his understanding of nonviolence. He described his own “pilgrimage to nonviolence” in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom , and in subsequent books and articles. “True pacifism,” or “nonviolent resistance,” King wrote, is “a courageous confrontation of evil by…
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Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production
Study finds that healthy but sedentary individuals show early decline in cellular energy production.
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ArXiv's Updated Rate Limit Policy
arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
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Proton Meet
Protect the conversations that matter with a secure, end-to-end encrypted video conferencing from Proton.
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U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a new class of cyberthreat that gives hackers more power and reach at far less cost. It can be built with free AI models. Every online device is a potential target. And current cyber defences are not yet ready for it.
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How We Pushed CDC into Postgres
Discover Snowflake Postgres Mirroring. Learn how push-based change data capture delivers transactional replication to your data lake with zero lag.
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Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework
Google DeepMind proposes a cognitive framework to evaluate AGI and launches a Kaggle hackathon to build capability benchmarks
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Pangram Image 1.0
Introducing Pangram Image 1.0, our AI image and video detector.