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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
Microduck
Small Models Have Arrived
507 Mechanical Movements
Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
The turbulent AI era is here
Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
Emacs 31: An unofficial guide to Markdown-ts-mode
Show HN: We built open OpenRouter that turns usage into a better model
Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance
M5Stack Launches PaperMono
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal
AI Engineer Notebooks – free, framework-free RAG/agents/evals on Colab
Is ChatGPT Changing How You're Writing?
AI's Memory Crunch Is Coming For Android Apps
OpenAI Is Developing a 'Persistent' AI Agent
Ring Says New Encryption Limits What It Can Give Police
Claude, Codex, and Hermes Installed Unowned Code Inside Corporate Networks
Trump Declares National Emergency to Ban Some Foreign Grid Equipment
Panic Passes Trump Tariff Refunds Back to Playdate Customers
Nvidia Agrees to Acquire Hugging Face For $13 Billion
Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter
How Meta's Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart
More Than 100 Water Systems Were Hit In July Cyberattacks
Radiation Link In Flight Attendant's Breast Cancer, French Court Finds
Bill Gates Proposes Major Limits On AI Development
OpenAI Releases Its Official Report On the Hugging Face Breach
China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing
Changes to SourceHut's terms of service regarding LLMs
Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV
UNIX V4 workshop at Low Resource Computing
Announcing our first Maintainers in Residence
Ardour 9.8 released
A Million Kakapos
tailcat: like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane
Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak
Nitter, XCancel Shutdown Over Cease-And-Desist
The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25
Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 7.2
Nebula Sans
Why Free Software usability tends to suck (2002)
Haiku R1/beta6 released
If I release it, you won’t get the same experience I get
Merchants of Insecurity
What happens when a GPU reads memory
Dissectingthe Apple M1 GPU, the end (2025)
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Simon Peyton Jones on Functional Programming, Thinking in Types, Useless Languages
Challenges when writing gren-format
Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits
DuckLabs to Join AWS, Projects to Remain Open Source
The turbulent AI era is here
Talk is Cheap. Code is Cheap. Show me the Source
Pikachu Visits Apple Park, Meets Tim Cook and John Ternus
Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO Next Week: 15 Years in Quotes
2025 vs. 2026 Mac Studio Buyer's Guide: All Upgrades Compared
LG Labor Day Sale Brings Major Discounts on OLED TVs and Monitors
Apple Event: Six New Products to Expect on September 9
Apple's New Macs to Ship With macOS Golden Gate
2026 MacBook Pro Sees Up to $500 Discounts at Amazon and Best Buy
Apple Announces Sneaky Sasquatch Updates, Files New Trademarks
Apple Event Logo Hints at Two iPhone 18 Pro Features
Apple Announces New Education Center in Vietnam
'Exclusive Red' iPhone Ultra Images Not What They Seem
Apple's iPhone Event Tagline is Different in Every Country
Astropad Launches Rock Paper Pencil 4.0 With New Graphite Apple Pencil Tip
Meta Agrees to Limit Teens' Time on Facebook and Instagram, Calls on TikTok and YouTube to Match
Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 251 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
iOS 27: 13 Ways the Messages App is Smarter and Less Annoying
Apple Event Livestream: Where and When to Watch on September 9
1-800-APL-CARE Now Connects You With AI Assistant Instead of Human
Leaked Images Give First Look at Apple's AI Servers
Bun 1.4 is (finally) fresh out of the oven
Node 26.8 reads and writes ZIP files
Funding better evaluations of AI’s impact on wellbeing
Expanding our support for scientists
Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training
Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil
Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts
Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead
How loveholidays is making everyone a builder with Codex
The full stack behind abundant intelligence
Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference
Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia
Introducing the Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex
Advancing price-performance for developers with GPT‑5.6 in Kiro
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control
Piloting the world's first double-blind AI evaluations
Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe
From Atari to EVE Online: Building on 15 Years of AI Research in Games
Training and Finetuning Multi-Vector Embedding Models with Sentence Transformers
Granite 4.2 LLMs: How They're Built
Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original
Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio
Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Quoting Paul Dix
EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!
llm-anthropic 0.27
Your executable is a SQLite database
Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Quoting Drew Breunig
Quoting Linus Torvalds
llm 0.33
More than just code review
llm 0.32.1
llm-openrouter 0.7
Stop Making TUIs
Quoting Matt Webb
[AINews] NVIDIA buys HuggingFace for $13B, as OpenAI publishes their HF incident retro
[AINews] Hot Chips: OpenAI’s Jalapeño, Cerebras CS-5, Groq 3 LPX, Apple M6
Lovable CTO: The Future of SaaS Is Apps That Agents Can Use
🔬“We have foundation models for language, not for physics” — Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor of Computing
[AINews] Andrew Ng gets into AI Engineering
[AINews] 10% worse, 100x cheaper, 10000x faster: Why Simulation is taking over
The Evolution of the Agent Harness
Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
A Tale of Two Flink Autoscalers
How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
The Cloudflare Blog – Brought to you by EmDash
Say it once: introducing Bot Preference Sync
MetaRoCE: A New RDMA Transport Built for AI-Scale Ethernet
MTIA 300: Meta’s First Training Chip with Built-in NICs and Communication-Offloading Engines
OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
How to evaluate LLMs before production
Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.
Better label management on issues is generally available
Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities
Actions retention will cover checks, workflow runs, and statuses
Close all open contributions authored by a blocked user
Enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces
Global model policy generally available
GitHub Apps can now access enterprise billing data
Rule insights dashboard generally available
GitHub Copilot app Customize tab is generally available
Block users directly from security advisories
Run Claude Managed Agents with Chat SDK
Cursor is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
Find deployments faster with redesigned filters
The best workflow engine is a programming language
Ling 3.0 Flash Fin now available on AI Gateway for free
Muse Image now available on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe now available on AI Gateway
Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
GLM 5.3 Flash now available on AI Gateway
Vercel Security Dashboard is now generally available
Python projects now support routing rules
Vercel applications are protected from Next.js August 2026 security vulnerabilities
Speed Insights now has a free tier
Introducing Run SDK: secure eval for your agents
The end of credential sprawl for agents
MiniMax M3 and M2.7 are free on AI Gateway
Wan 3.0 now available on AI Gateway
AI Gateway now supports asynchronous video generation
Vercel Connect is now generally available
Chat SDK now supports Slack Enterprise Grid
Vercel Connect now supports Linq
Bring your agent to Notion with Chat SDK
Chat SDK now supports XChat
Elastic build machines now use Turborepo cache hits to prevent downgrades
Vercel Sandbox is now globally available
Environment variables now use Config and Secret types
Bun runtime now supports large functions and extended max duration
Connect v0 apps to Slack, Google, and 100+ other services
How Ora benchmarks every major AI agent on Vercel
Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize
How to evaluate session replay software: a developer's guide
Node.js 26.8.1 (Current)
Node.js 26.8.0 (Current)
Node.js 24.20.0 (LTS)- @shaundai.com on AI hype: stop waiting for the model to save you.
- You already pay for more than one agent.
- @shaundai.com's product habit: walk the feature as a user first.
- I actually strive for perfect clarity with my color theme pickers.
- Website I recently visited.
- She was bluegrass when bluegrass wasn't cool, they said.
- Some weekend thoughts on how LLMs change the way we start new projects.
- Minecraft and pi are a good match.
- Some thoughts of anger vs anxiety for people in tech when it comes to what AI do…
- just got a tentative confirmation from a mathematician that i was able to get a…
- prediction: Lean usage will explode in serious software projects in the next fiv…
- i'm formalizing React in Lean (???)
- Happy birthday @chriscoyier.net 🎂🎂🎂
- WebMCP landed in ChatGPT today Websites expose tools, your agent can use them, o…
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- a few weeks ago I recorded an updated Svelte(Kit) workshop with @frontendmasters…
- It's rate to see a non-AI frontier lab build an in-house AI coding tool that wor…
- til `set -e` is “exit immediately” and `set -x` is “print commands before execut…
- Only one year in, I have finally found the final shape for the example project o…