Cloudflare acquires Deno

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The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to further develop a shared platform for building servers, combining compute, storage, and communication capabilities. This move will simplify server software development and make it more accessible to users.

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

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Our $445M Series D

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Oxide, a computer hardware company, has reached a milestone by paying income tax due to its profitable operations. The company secured $445M in funding from investors including Atreides Management and AMD to satisfy its large order backlog and continue growth.

TypeSafe a Raises $870M at a $7.5B

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We raised a significant series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, which will be used to enhance Jev's features and infrastructure for building smart software. This investment aims to take the platform to the next level and provide better tools for creating effective AI solutions.

Triple-A Minesweeper

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Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.

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I Pointed AI at 400 Years of Archives. It Found a Forgotten Meteorites and More

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A software engineer used AI to search millions of historical records, uncovering a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions. The discoveries were made possible by an open-sourced research pipeline that utilized various AI models to filter results and automate manual steps.

Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

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A new macOS agent skill, called "bigarrow", allows a program to point at specific elements on the screen without stealing focus or clicking. It can be used for tasks such as guided setups and onboarding, debugging coordinates, and providing visual feedback.

You Might Want to Try Being Less Creative

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The author attended a jam session with friend Jon, realizing they'd been held back by fear of not being original and perfectionism. They learned to focus on the right creative choices within constraints, embracing abundance and collaboration.

Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 is awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law, recognizing her courage and integrity in combating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Navi Pillay's commitment to universal legal principles has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law.

Show HN: See *almost* any carriers phone settings

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News carrier-explode 2.0 has an improved backend, and users can contribute to decoders. The API provides JSON data or daily CC0 datasets for comparing carriers' features across different versions and networks.

Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape

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Germany's Lusatian Lakeland, a 14,000-hectare lake complex created from former coal mines, will be open for swimming and boating by April. The project has cost around €13.8 billion and aims to create Europe's largest artificial water landscape.

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Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

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The author has been using DeepSeek 4.1 Flash for a month, finding it comparable to Opus in terms of performance and cost-effectiveness. They praise the model's ability to handle complex tasks without significant differences from other models, making it an attractive option for developers on a budget.

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

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Whistle is a speech recognition model released for mobiles, wearables, and other devices with no dependencies or CPU usage. It supports 7 languages and provides word timestamps, speech embedding, and transcript output.

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

Training Text-to-Image Models Without a VAE

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Researchers propose the Pyramid-JiT (P-JiT) model, a decoder-only pixel space architecture that outperforms prior models in image generation. P-JiT achieves 11.3x fewer training samples and trains 4.3x faster than Linum v2, while generating better aesthetic samples and matching the underlying image distribution.

Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

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A man, Nomad, discovered his parents' coffee maker was uploading 1TB of data in 10 days and shared the issue on X. He found it caused saturation within their home Wi-Fi setup and decided to get them a new one due to potential security risks.

I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard

Yes, and

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Carson Gross, a computer science professor, believes AI will change programming but not dramatically. He advises juniors to write code themselves and use AI as a helpful tool rather than a code generator.

MXC - a sandboxed code execution system

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MXC is a sandboxed code execution system for running untrusted code on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It provides multiple containment backends with a unified model and typed SDKs for secure execution.

In Memory of Deno

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Today we learned that Deno, the user-friendly Javascript runtime & development environment, was acquired by Cloudflare and will be shut down over the coming year. Deno was my favorite programming experience in over 20 years of software development. Its ease-of-use, security model, portability, and overall philosophy struck a chord with me and some of my close developer friends. Compared ...

Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

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This post compares keyboard handling differences between Mac and Windows, including key names, modifier keys, and shortcut conventions. The main differences include the use of ⌥ (Option) instead of Alt on Macs and Ctrl on Windows.

Once: Cache CLI commands

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The once command executes a given command in the current directory, caches its stdout and keeps it in memory until an expiration time is reached. The cache key is generated using the tenant key, working directory, and command arguments.

Theranos.world

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An interactive simulation of Elizabeth Holmes' desk. Open her MacBook, scroll her iPhone, run the Edison machine. Every text and email is real, from the court trial, parsed by Extend.

Programming Isn't Special

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Many creatives reject AI due to concerns over copyright and artistic value, while programmers see it as a tool for functional programming.

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"

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Researchers at OpenAI were fired after allegedly sharing confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization, sparking concerns about the company's culture and treatment of employees. The researchers deny wrongdoing and claim their firing is part of a broader shift in OpenAI's culture that discourages open communication and collaboration with external experts.

Platforms' Violent Content Rules Are About to Meet The Pentagon's Firing Squad

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The Pentagon plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, raising concerns about platform policies and potential violations. Several social media platforms, including X, YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Truth Social may allow or ignore the livestream due to subjective policy interpretations.

Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

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The value of not getting to the point (2015)

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The author realized that conversation is often a warm-up process, and people may need time to feel comfortable discussing sensitive topics. This understanding came from their experience with their daughter and the limitations of language in expressing emotions.