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Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
5 projects are awarded a total of $31K
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,244 posts.
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The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden
Swedish AI provider Berget AI releases an open-source method for calculating the carbon emissions of every individual AI request, developed with researchers from SEI, WattTime and Klimatkollen — and customers can now follow their emissions per request in the console.
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MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training
Through five intense months of meetings, research, and outreach across the MIT community, the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training sought to understand the role of generative AI in the life and educational mission of the Institute and recommend how to navigate its challenges and…
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Benchmarking OpenTelemetry: Can AI trace your failed login?
A lot of vendors pitch AI SRE. We tested 14 models across 11 programming languages; even the best ones struggle with instrumenting code with the leading open-source standard, OpenTelemetry.
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Why building a Rust LSP is hard
Rust LSP that doesn't eat memory for breakfast
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21 years and counting of 'eight fallacies of distributed computing' (2025)
Eight long held and common beliefs about the network have been shown, time after time, to be false. What are they, and what do they mean?
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How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?
The U.S. munitions industrial base should be rebuilt and recast for modern wars of precision and attrition. What is a realistic timeline for this goal? By analyzing DOD budget documents and industry announcements, this analysis provides a clearer picture of the planned future.
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The Agent SDK
The Agent SDK is the framework we use to build our own managed agents like Bugbot, Security Reviewer, and Rollouts. Define agents in code and deploy them with one command.
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They lied to you. Building software is hard
Every week there seems to be a new tool that promises to let anyone build applications 10x faster. The promise is always the same and so is the outcome.
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British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
This year, British Column has moved to year-round Pacific Time. How does that affect date data?
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OpenAI Frontier
OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and governance.
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An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
Thinking of using AI for your Shopify 3D models? Read this first. We compare AI-generated 3D 'slop' vs. handcrafted models to show why the human touch is very much required to attain positive ROI.
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Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials
A vulnerability in Ramp's Sheets AI allowed the agent to insert formulas that made external network requests without user approval, creating the risk of data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection.
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The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub
Today, we are excited to announce the Early Availability of the RISE RISC-V Runners , a free, managed GitHub Actions runner service that gives any open source project access to real RISC-V hardware in their CI pipelines. No emulation, no cross-compilation hacks, no waitlist. Install a GitHub App, change one line in…
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Announcing Rust 1.96
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell
We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.
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PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
First participants safely dosed in Melbourne, Australia, on August 31, 2026, in the first-in-human trial of our broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001.
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How Kubernetes Probes Work
Learn how probes work interactively on simulated Kubernetes clusters running in your browser.
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New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output
Explore new GCC 16 features for C++ developers. Learn about improved hierarchical error messages, updated SARIF output, and experimental HTML diagnostic tools.
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Racket v9.3
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `raco setup` command can generate markdown documentation, using the `--doc-mark...
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The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a Turing Award
What started as a conversation on the beach between two scientists led to the “Nobel Prize in computing“ decades later. More on Charles Bennet, co-recipient of the 2025 Turing Award.
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.
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Securing our frontier model training environment
OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.
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CachyOS June 2026 Release
Hyprland Noctalia, DNS-over-QUIC, GCC Branch Prediction
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The Little Bool of Doom (2025)
A short story about debugging and how sometimes what's true is false. Starring everyone's favourite uncle, Undefined Behaviour.
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Lix – universal version control system for binary files
Lix is a version control system you import as a library. It records semantic changes to enable diffs, reviews, rollback, and querying of edits.
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A good AGENTS.md is a model upgrade. A bad one is worse than no docs at all
We pulled dozens of AGENTS.md files from across our monorepo and measured their effect on code generation. The best ones gave our coding agent a quality jump…
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CoMaps integration with the wider FLOSS ecosystem
How we're integrating CoMaps with other FLOSS apps
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Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files
After quite a long while, Hyprland 0.55 is upon us! This is an enormous update by each measurable metric - commits, contributors, features and changes.