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The double standard of webhook security and API security
Explore the surprisingly different security standards we apply to webhooks versus traditional API requests.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,111 posts.
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Visual Reasoning Is Coming Soon
From silly cat costumes to world-changing innovations, OpenAI's latest release marks the beginning of something extraordinary. The fascinating world of visual reasoning is emerging, where AI models will soon think in pictures and solve complex spatial puzzles, transforming how machines understand and interact with the…
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Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human
Today we’re sharing a human rights impact assessment on AI/ML to help Wikimedia understand effects on human rights.
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Measuring political bias in Claude
We introduce and open-source an automated evaluation for political even-handedness, testing six models across 1,350 prompt pairs.
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The road that killed Legend Jenkins was working as designed
When a child is killed on a street like West Hudson Boulevard, it’s not a tragic fluke. It’s the outcome we designed for.
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$20K Bounty Offered for Optimizing Rust Code in Rav1d AV1 Decoder
In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during the process. Today rav1d works well—it passes all the same…
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Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference on April 29
We’re here with a couple save the dates to reserve some space on your calendars.
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Migrating to React Native's new architecture
Shopify successfully migrated two of its largest apps, Shopify Mobile and Shopify Point of Sale (POS) to React Native's New Architecture while maintaining weekly releases and serving millions of merchants. This migration involved a complex codebase with hundreds of screens and native modules, extensive custom…
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Critical vulnerability in AI coding platform Base44 allowing unauthorized access
New discovery underscores security implications of AI-powered development and the rise of Vibe Coding Platforms.
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Microplastics: No longer a "maybe"
It’s Already Inside Us Microplastics are not just an environmental problem affecting nature. They’re in our blood [1] , lungs [2] , placentas [3] , brains [4] , and breast milk [5] . Every human tissue scientists have tested so far has come back contaminated. In diseased tissue samples of people with chronic illnesses…
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Alignment is not free: How model upgrades can silence your confidence signals
Delegate investigative work to AI agents, from L1 to L3 reviews, with consistency, auditability and traceability.
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QVQ-Max: Think with Evidence
QWEN CHAT GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Introduction Last December, we launched QVQ-72B-Preview as an exploratory model, but it had many issues. Today, we are officially releasing the first version of QVQ-Max, our visual reasoning model. This model can not only “understand” the content in images and videos…
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Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting
The following guest post from digital humanities scholar Nichole Misako Nomura is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. Read more essays online or download the full report now. Punch cards are a fascinating binary data storage format that aren’t…
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A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps
Most browser agents forget what they’ve done. This one remembers, adapts, and learns, redefining how AI agents get work done.
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450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown
Introduction Readyset is designed to serve queries from cached views with sub-millisecond latency. This post focuses on the cold path—cases where a cache miss forces execution against the base tables. In these scenari...
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How Potatoes Evolved
Crisps and mash owe their existence to a series of precise events that took place nine million years ago.
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CheerpJ 4.1: Java in the browser, now supporting Java 17 (preview)
The latest release of our state-of-the-art Java runtime that runs completely in the browser via WebAssembly, is now available. Supports up to Java 17.
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Tailscale 4via6 – Connect Edge Deployments at Scale
In this post, we’re highlighting 4via6 subnet routing — a powerful way to extend Tailscale’s mesh across entire edge or customer networks. It’s ideal for scenarios where traditional VPNs struggle, like fleets of robots, sensors, or isolated cloud environments.
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Mullvad VPN present And Then? (Chat Control is back on the menu)
Chat Control is back on the menu. To highlight the corruption behind the proposal, Mullvad VPN now presents "And Then?"
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A kernel bug froze my machine: Debugging an async-profiler deadlock
How I investigated and worked around a kernel bug that caused async-profiler to freeze my machine whenever I tried to use a profiler.
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LLM-D: Kubernetes-Native Distributed Inference
Introducing llm-d: Kubernetes-native distributed LLM inference with KV-cache routing, disaggregated serving, and SOTA performance per dollar. Built on vLLM.
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Context Engineering for AI Agents: Lessons
This post shares the local optima Manus arrived at through our own "SGD". If you're building your own AI agent, we hope these principles help you converge faster.
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MongoDB acquires Voyage AI
MongoDB to integrate Voyage AI's industry-leading embedding and reranking models, delivering highly accurate and relevant information retrieval to power sophisticated AI use cases NEW YORK , Feb. 24, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDB), the leading database for modern applications,
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Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
Instead of letting their commercial buildings sit empty, surely it would be better for landlords to lower the rent and got some use out of the building, right? Wrong. Here’s why.
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ClickHouse raises $350M Series C
ClickHouse, Inc., a leader in real-time analytics, data warehousing, observability, and AI/ML, today announced it has raised $350 million in Series C financing.
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Worlds first petahertz transistor at ambient conditions
In a groundbreaking international effort, researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously.
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'Sticky thinking' hampers decisions in depression
New study finds rumination can cause those with depression to get ‘stuck’ on thoughts, limiting their ability to mentally juggle options available to them when making decisions.
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Performance hacks for faster Python code
Learn practical optimization hacks, from data structures to built-in modules, that boost speed, reduce overhead, and keep your Python code clean.