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Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 31,671 posts.
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100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons have launched Grant for the Web, an ambitious initiative to empower individual creators and galvanize an alternative business model for online content
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Significant breakthrough in search for Parkinson's biomarker
We are charting the path to a future free from Parkinson’s. Your support will get us there.
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Gone in Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
[This is a guest post by Vitaly Shmatikov, professor at Cornell Tech and once upon a time my adviser at the University of Texas at Austin. — Arvind Narayanan.] TL;DR: short URLs produced by bit.ly, goo.gl, and similar services are so short that they can be scanned by brute force. Our scan discovered a large […]
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Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27
Elixir v1.17 released: set-theoretic data types, calendar durations, and Erlang/OTP 27 support.
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Ikea Vindriktning Air Quality Sensor Review and Accuracy
How accurate is Ikea's Vindriktning air quality sensor? This review covers PM2.5 behavior, limitations, and how it compares with better monitors.
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Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required
Game Builder is an experimental game-building sandbox available now for free on Steam for PC and Mac.
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A Quantum Leap for the Web
Over the past year, our top priority for Firefox was the Electrolysis project to deliver a multi-process browsing experience to users…
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Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
Apple today announced iPhone 16e, a new addition to the iPhone 16 lineup that offers powerful capabilities at a more affordable price.
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Experts explore new mushroom which causes fairytale-like hallucinations
Between traditional folklore and modern biology, the wild forest floor and the sterile scientific laboratory, lies the story of the lilliputian mushroom.
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Yamaha MOTOROiD
the Next Phase of Jin-Ki Kanno: Like a Living Creature
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Form a California LLC in 10 minutes for $70
Own this domain today. We make your shopping experience easy. Friendly and quick customer service.
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Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes
Instant NeRF is a neural rendering model that learns a high-res 3D scene in seconds — and can render images of it in a few milliseconds.
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YC's Winter Reading List
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation [https://www.amazon.com/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/0143122797] “It’s amazing how prolific Bell Labs was — the transistor, information theory, Unix, amongst other creations — but it’s fascinating to understand it as an organization…
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Hello Dolly: Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models
Introducing 'Hello Dolly,' a project to democratize AI by integrating ChatGPT and open models, making advanced AI accessible to everyone.
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How I Took an API Side Project to 250M Daily Requests
My company IPinfo.io started as a response to a question on Stack Overflow.
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Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems
In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Google Assistant, Genspark, and other production AI systems. We’ll also explain how to mitigate and defend against these attacks, and we’ll introduce Anamorpher, our open-source…
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Turbo, an Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization
Posted by Anton Mikhailov, Senior Software Engineer, Daydream False color maps show up in many applications in computer vision and machine learni...
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Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
More than one million formerly broken links in the English Wikipedia have been updated to archived versions from the Wayback Machine, thanks to a partnership between the Internet Archive, volunteer…
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Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
Millions are exploring European alternatives for privacy-friendly tech. Which are the top categories, top tools, and the global demand driving this shift.
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Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
Apple and Google have teamed up to deliver support for unwanted Bluetooth tracking alerts in iOS and Android.
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Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
After my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it, Apple refused to unlock it. Only after emailing Tim Cook could I get it unlocked.
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Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.
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W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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Claude is a space to think
Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a helpful AI assistant.
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Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
The Nobel Peace Prize 2026 was awarded to Navanethem Pillay "for her efforts to promote peace and international law"
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Hey advertisers, track this
If it feels like the ads chasing you across the internet know you a little too well, it’s because they do (unless you’re an avid user of ad blockers, i