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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
Small programming tricks
Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard
AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
Performance Improvements in .NET 11
Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
Backups Aren't Simple
Reversing Factorio's RNG
Breaking the 1.58-bit Barrier for Ternary LLMs
The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes
Reverse-engineered Jev-like model
DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
Adafruit's New CircuitPython 'Turbo' Brings Native Code To Tiny Boards
As Part of California's Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste?
Anthropic Commits to Independent AI Evaluators, Wants Slower Development. Nvidia's CEO Wants It 'As Fast as You Can'
Firefox Touts Lower CPU Use for Large JPEGs, Faster PDF Viewer Startup (and AI Controls)
America's Cryptocurrency 'Clarity Act' Fails Spectacularly, Despite Hundreds of Millions in Industry Lobbying
Ubuntu's 'Rust-ification' Hits New Milestone: Coreutils Migration is Complete
While Hollywood Fears an AI Future, China's Film Industry is Embracing It
Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects 'Unlike Any They Have Seen Before'
Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg'
Math Professor Accuses OpenAI of Copying His Work, Says AI Compute Power Makes Racing to Publish 'Pointless'
ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court
Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?
A Visit to San Francisco's AI-run Store: No Customers, Nothing Useful, And Losing Money Fast
No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage
Union Contract with Microsoft Ratified by 1,900 Blizzard Developers and Workers
The end of verygoodsoftwarenotvirus.ru
Introducing GNOME 51
A/I Shuts Down
Forgery of C2PA on a Pixel 10
How to get a DOI for your blog posts
Why i'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes
OSRS Wiki and RuneLite are increasingly under strain from low-effort AI development
C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
Unicode 18.0.0
Reinventing issue tracking: Local-first and Git-native
Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ‘broken wide open’ after 26 years
Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils
Why building a Rust LSP is hard
Some things Veloren does differently
The smallest possible Linux distribution
Reversing Factorio's RNG
Replacing Pull Requests with Delta
Tilia—a new formatter for Haskell
Style Guide for Online Hypertext (1992)
Maintaining the love for coding in the time of AI
GEFS on OpenBSD: A very early preview
Why .tar.gz files can't be combined with cat
Small Programming Tricks
JDK 27 has been released
XApp — Apps that work everywhere
Everything New in iOS 27.2 Beta 1
Tim Cook to Attend White House State Dinner for Xi Jinping
Hands-On With the Redesigned Health App in the iOS 27.2 Beta
iOS 27.2 Could Save Your Marriage
Apple Seeds First macOS Golden Gate 27.2 Beta to Developers
Apple Releases First iOS 27.2 Beta
iPhone 18 Pro vs. iPhone Duo Buyer's Guide: Which Should You Choose?
iOS 27.2 Adds Profiles to Apple TV App
iOS 27.2 Adds Siri AI in New Languages
Here's Why Apple Just Released an iOS 27.2 Beta Instead of iOS 27.1
iOS 27.2 Beta Previews New Apple Intelligence Health App
Apple Releases First watchOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2 and visionOS 27.2 Betas
iOS 27 to Offer New Way to Redeem Apple Gift Cards
Here's Why a New Apple Watch Charging Puck Was Just Released
Apple Memory Supplier Explores U.S. Manufacturing With Intel
Get In On Pre-Order Discounts for the New Mac Mini and Mac Studio Before They Launch Next Week
iOS 27: Use Visual Intelligence in the Camera App
iPhone 18 Pro Reviews: Excellent Yet... Meh?
Apple Announces iPhone 18 Pro Photography Exhibition
Apple May Return to Server Market With Nvidia Technology
Functional programming jargon, mapped out
Why Shopify is moving off React Native
Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
Reimagining advertising with AI
How to connect AI usage to business value
Our framework for reporting model misalignment
How workers are unlocking new ways of working
How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra
How a researcher uses Codex and ChatGPT to search for new antimicrobial molecules
Now everyone can put data to work
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?
datasette 1.0a40
datasette 0.65.5
Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude
Quoting Mustafa Suleyman
Gemini Live audio
The contagion of fear
What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
Quoting Laurie Voss
commit-rewriter 0.1
shot-scraper 1.12
Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
California Brown Pelican
Quoting Paul Ford
OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
So you want to use OpenRouter?
Quoting Boris Cherny
Feeling sad about AI
Quoting huggingface.co/security.txt
Soft-deprecating re.match()
Don't sleep on wrapture
Datasette 1.0a39 and 0.65.4 security releases
datasette-publish-fly 1.4
github-to-sqlite 2.9.1
datasette 0.65.4
datasette 1.0a39
Any Nix package, live in your browser
Native is now the future of mobile at Shopify
Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC
[AINews] Jev: a “System One Model” that only decides/classifies/routes/scores — >100x faster, >200x cheaper than small frontier LLMs
Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?
[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign
Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive
The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right
[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale
What Stripe data shows about fraud at AI startups
When scanners miss the attack: how Cloudflare Client-Side Security protects storefronts
Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
Give every teammate and agent the right level of access to your Workers
Introducing automatic remediation policies with Cloudflare CASB
1.1.1.1 now supports post-quantum DNSSEC, all 2,420 bytes of it
Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
Marketing ops as code: Automating events from planning to follow-up on GitHub
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Using the diff, terminal, and browser
Automate SSO authorization for classic PATs and SSH keys
SCIM user responses now include a profileUrl attribute
Copilot budget increase requests are generally available
Code scanning AI Scan no longer requires CodeQL default setup
Enforce GitHub Advanced Security configurations
GitHub Copilot suggests custom properties definitions
SHA-1 in HTTPS on GitHub sunset
Configure cost and quality in Copilot auto model selection
Profiles now show your highest achievement badge tier
Add VS Code Agents to Copilot usage metrics
Hobby projects now retain fewer deployments to free up storage
Secure Compute and Static IP builds start 64% faster
Mem0 joins the Vercel Marketplace
TypeSafe AI's Jev now available on AI Gateway
Is Agentic now tailors its audit by site type
How Delphi ships 100 times a day with its Python backend on Vercel
Gemini 3.8 Live models now available on AI Gateway
AI SDK harness layer now supports native subscription authentication
Vercel Sandbox now provides 64 GB of storage
How Featured's users make 100K media pitches per month on Vercel
How Tailscale built a customer-facing model router on AI Gateway
Control who can manage connectors in Vercel Connect
GitHub Copilot is now available in the AI SDK harness layer
FastAPI frontends and static files served from the CDN
Adding the Discord Updates YOU Want to See
Beyond the model: Engineering AI infra with scientific judgement
Debugging our AI search assistant with agent tracing
Node.js 26.9.0 (Current)- Wow.
- "For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine w…
- This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an add…
- Journal: Stalling installing Trying to get past Webkit’s blockage at the W3C.
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22763
- Even a stopped watch is right twice a day.
- You would be surprised how many people never click through the feature they just…
- The hard product conversation lands on a foundation of trust.
- The PM is the compass.
- Boooo.
- zero barrels i knew it
- This GIF from @joshwcomeau.com's last email is mesmerizing.
- This is the type of post I might regret later, but I really had an urge to rant…
- David Sacks' complaint about Pangram giving his longform tweet a 100% AI rating…
- Lobsters broke their Anubis rollout and now you can't upvote or message the mode…
- monads are awesome.
- understated but both of these are kinda huge.
- i like to think of monads as middleware for semicolons
- Has webkit ever kept CSS features under wraps until after an Apple product annou…
- This short story (by the "there is no anti-memetics division" guy) is fantastic…
- *takes a glance at my GitHub inbox* I’m gonna block so many accounts once I’m ba…
- sure love living in the future mail.python.org/archives/lis...