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Electric motors with no rare earths
As a pioneer of electric motors using no rare earths, Renault Group is unique on the automotive market, a position reasserted for strategic reasons.
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,933 posts.
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Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
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A Modern Web App in C
A modern web app written in c and served the old way: CGI, SQLite and a single binary. No frameworks, no containers and no regrets.
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“It works better in the app”
The monkey-punchers at Google never quite seem to finish any of their apps. There's always some useful bit of work left undone, or showstopping bug which remains unfixed, a thousand jagged edges as yet unsolved by the greatest minds of their generation. I wanted to subscribe to an events calendar. I had a URl. I had…
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How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
The secret is humble UITextField.
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A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
In a post entitled, “How Institutional Failures Undermine Trust in Science: The Case of a Landmark Study on Sustainability and Stock Returns,” Andy King (my collaborator on the project on scheduled post-publication review ) tells a disturbing story of the failure of the scholarly publication process :
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The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
Back in March, I wrote about Bitwarden doubling their Premium price — and specifically how they did it. Buried in a feature announcement. Priced in fake...
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It's still ok to enjoy programming
Programming is fun!
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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.
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Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
See how Cerebras powers GPT-5.6 Sol in OpenAI's Ultrafast mode at up to 750 output tokens per second for time-sensitive AI and agent workflows.
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Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES
A series of unfortunate events.
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European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
European governments are rolling out digital identity wallets, which are to be used by citizens to access services, and to verify their age online. There is a serious problem with this: these wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple.
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Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …
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Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding
Kimi K2.6 advances open-source coding, featuring long-horizon coding, coding-driven design, agent swarms, proactive agents, and the Claw Groups research preview.
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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding and using the client as the primary means of communicating…
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Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
Meta fixed the bug that let anyone trick its Meta AI chatbot into resetting the password on Instagram accounts that didn't have two-factor authentication.
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Qwenputer: A functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5
I compiled a RISC-V CPU into Qwen 3.5 4B's weights, using its Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. It runs C and MicroPython inside the forward passes, and Qwen uses it for exact arithmetic.
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I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 — I found it buried in the CIA's Vault7 l...
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Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
The first images from the Meteosat Third Generation-Sounder satellite have been shared at the European Space Conference in Brussels, showing how the mission will provide data on temperature and humidity, for more accurate weather forecasting over Europe and northern Africa.
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Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k
Claude Code vs OpenCode token overhead measured at the API boundary. Out-of-the-box baselines, instruction file weight, MCP schema tax, subagent multipliers, and cache-write behaviour.
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I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day
Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months
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Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
Today we're announcing Bonsai 27B, our multimodal flagship: ternary at 5.9GB for laptops, 1-bit at 3.9GB for an iPhone 17 Pro, with a 262K-token context.
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Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
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AI makes you boring
This post is an elaboration on a comment I made on Hacker News recently, on a blog post that showed an increase in volume and decline in quality among the “Show HN” submissons. I don't actually mind AI-aided development, a tool is a tool and should be used if you find it useful, but I think the vibe coded Show HN…
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Our $445M Series D
Our Series D round of financing.
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It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
PlayStation announced that they will stop making discs. People are rightfully mad about this, but it's not actually about physical media. It's about owning your games.
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.