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Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,669 posts.
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iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Apple today introduced iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, featuring Apple Intelligence and innovative pro camera features.
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Startup Ideas
Hey, my name is Kyle Corbitt and I’m a software developer at Y Combinator. I spend most of my time creating software to support our founders as they build their businesses. Before joining YC I ran my own startup. When I was in high school, I sometimes got the frustrating feeling that all of the good startup ideas had…
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Oxide raises $200M Series C
Raising our Series C round of financing
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Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam
Apple today announced it has completed the acquisition of Shazam, one of the most popular and highly-rated music apps, used by millions worldwide.
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Keybase is not softer than TOFU
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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Meet the People Taking over Hacker News
I did several different things while I was working on Hacker News, and these will now be taken over by different people. Kevin Hale (HN id kevin) will be in charge of design. I don’t think he plans to change much about the appearance of the site, but users will be happy to hear he has a plan to make it work better on…
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Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
Get more out of Claude Code: tell Claude what it can't see, give it a check to run, and enforce the rules that can't have exceptions.
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A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
Pingora handles 35M+ requests per second, so saving a few microseconds per request can translate to thousands of dollars saved on computing costs. In this post, we share how we freed up over 500 CPU cores by optimizing one function and announce trie-hard, the open source crate that we created to do it.
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The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
Not because there aren’t people who actually enjoy working in an open office, there are. Quite a few, actually. But they’re in the distinct minority. The vast majority of people either dislike the …
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The EARN IT Act: how to ban end-to-end encryption without banning it
Stanford Center for Internet and Society2020613 points234 commentscited by 8Society, Policy & Culture details
The story so far: In the ‘90s the Internet was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. (with apologies to Douglas Adams)[1] There’s a new bill afoot in Congress called the EARN IT Act. A “discussion draft”
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SQLite small blob storage: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
SQLite reads and writes small blobs (for example, thumbnail images) 35% faster¹ than the same blobs can be read from or written to individual files on disk using fread() or fwrite().
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.NET 10
Announcing the release of .NET 10, the most productive, modern, secure, intelligent, and performant release of .NET yet. With updates across ASP.NET Core, C# 14, .NET MAUI, Aspire, and so much more.
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Apple is open sourcing Swift Build
Swift continues to grow in popularity as a cross-platform language supporting a wide variety of use cases, with support on a variety of embedded devices, form factors that encompass wearables to server, and a wide variety of operating systems. As Swift expands, there’s value in investing in matching cross-platform…
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Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone
We’re announcing new updates to Gemini 2.0 Flash, plus introducing Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite and Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.
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Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
Apple today unveiled the new AirTag, now with an expanded finding range and a louder speaker.
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Matt Godbolt sold me on Rust by showing me C++
Looking at C++ from another angle can create new possibilities using Rust.
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Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
Announcing Entire with $60 million seed round and shipping our first product, called Checkpoints.
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Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study
In a double-blind controlled study, high doses of magnetic brain stimulation, given on an accelerated timeline and individually targeted, caused remission in 79% of trial participants with severe depression.
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DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
Earlier this year we announced that we're using Apple's MapKit JS framework to power our mapping features. Today, we're excited to show you some new improvements.
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What Claude Code chooses
Benchmarking and Ground Control for developer tool providers. Understand agent choices and test what helps them succeed.
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Give up GitHub: The time has come
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge, proprietarized all their code — never to make it FOSS again. Major FOSS projects slowly left SourceForge since it was…
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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.
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Malicious attack on Wikipedia – what we know and what we’re doing
Today, Wikipedia was hit with a malicious attack that has taken it offline in several countries for intermittent periods. The attack is ongoing and our Site Reliability Engineering team is working hard to stop it and restore access to the site. As one of the world’s most popular sites, Wikipedia sometimes attracts…
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