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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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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,111 posts.
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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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Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4
AWS’s Sergey Melnik, along with HN commenters matashii and Ants Aasma, have identified the cause of Long Fork in PostgreSQL clusters. As described a 2013 mailing list post , the order in which a PostgreSQL primary makes transactions visible is determined by an in-memory lock. Secondaries, however, make transactions…
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Core Devices keeps stealing our work
Edit (November 26th, 2am Pacific): This post was originally titled “Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work”. We’ve had a bit of time to reflect on this blog p...
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TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
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Rust running on every GPU
I've built a demo of a single
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Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics
When a government contractor pays a company for "Takedown Services" to prevent transparency in government
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Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector
Fil-C uses a parallel concurrent on-the-fly grey-stack Dijkstra accurate non-moving garbage collector called FUGC (Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector). You can find the source code for the collector itself in fugc.c , though be warned, that code cannot possibly work without lots of support logic in the rest of the…
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Evolving OpenAI's Structure
An update from the OpenAI board on transitioning its for-profit entity to a Public Benefit Corporation, reinforcing its mission-driven structure under nonprofit oversight while enabling greater impact and long-term alignment with the public good.
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Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
Explore Gemma 3 models now offering state-of-the-art AI performance on consumer GPUs with new int4 quantized versions optimized with Quantization Aware Training (QAT).
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Say No to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox
On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new terms of use (TOU) and privacy notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our
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So you want to build your own data center
When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.
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Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
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Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain
Catch your best ideas before they slip through your fingers Do you ever have flashes of insight or an idea worth remembering? This happens to me 5 10 times e...
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Introducing deep research
An agent that uses reasoning to synthesize large amounts of online information and complete multi-step research tasks for you. Available to Pro users today, Plus and Team next.
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How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
Learn how we tracked a performance bottleneck to a 15-year-old Git function and fixed it, leading to enhanced efficiency that supports more robust backup strategies and can reduce risk.
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Anthropic raises $13B Series F
Anthropic has completed a $13 billion Series F led by ICONIQ, co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed, valuing the company at $183 billion post-money.
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GPT-5.2-Codex
GPT-5.2-Codex is OpenAI’s most advanced coding model, offering long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code transformations, and enhanced cybersecurity capabilities.
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SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That’s why today, Kagi Search introduces the first community-driven system to...
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Coursera to combine with Udemy
Highly Complementary Capabilities Will Create a Leading Technology Platform, Redefining Skills Discovery, Development, and Mastery for Learners and Organizations at Scale Unites Udemy’s Dynamic AI-Powered Skills Development Marketplace with World-Class University and Industry Brands Under the Coursera Ecosystem…
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Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame
One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
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By default, Signal doesn't recall
Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows 11. If you’re wondering why we’re on...
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Tree Borrows
external page Neven Villani , external page Johannes Hostert , external page Derek Dreyer , external page Ralf Jung
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The Anthropic Economic Index
Announcement of the new Anthropic Economic Index and description of the new data on AI use in occupations
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6 weeks of Claude Code
It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled…
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Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage…