AWS Acquires DuckDB

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DuckLabs is joining Amazon Web Services (AWS) in early September, allowing the DuckDB project to reach a broader audience and pursue new ideas. The open-source components of the "Duck Stack" will remain free and open source under the MIT license.

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

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The author advises against over-engineering AI retrieval systems, recommending a tailored approach based on data freshness requirements, corpus characteristics, query patterns, scale & performance, and team capabilities. A recipe book is provided to guide the process.

A curmudgeon tries a language server

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The author has adopted a workflow similar to Lisp development, using Haskell's language server (hls) and Emacs' Eglot client to edit code directly in the editor without compiling or executing it. This allows for hot-swapping of code and automatic reloading of tests when changes are made.

Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project

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Sanborn Insurance Maps are valuable historical resources for geographic data in the US from 1867 to 1960s, now accessible through OpenInsuranceMap (OIM). OIM hosts over 1200 maps and allows users to request their city's map be added, with a strong community of volunteer georeferencers.

Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children

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Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights

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Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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You can view public Twitter profiles and tweets without a login by entering a username, tweet, or URL. Twitter Viewer is a free online tool that allows anonymous browsing of public content with no tracking or personal info required.

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Apple has introduced M6 and M5 Ultra chips in the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, offering significant performance gains and AI capabilities. The chips provide industry-leading power efficiency, enabling users to run demanding workloads with ease.

Beyond Recall and the Illusion of Competence

AI-assisted programming can be beneficial when used to augment human understanding, not replace it. By leveraging AI for boilerplate code and tedious tasks, developers can focus on high-level decisions and system architecture.

Proliferate (YC S25) Is Hiring

Proliferate is an open-source AI IDE that enables team collaboration with agents, aiming to revolutionize the future of work. The company hires exceptional founding engineers to build and own major parts of the product, offering a unique culture and benefits.

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video]

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

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Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada

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US and Canada are in a trade war, with tariffs on goods like toilet paper, liquor, dairy products, and cars. The dispute threatens to increase prices for North Americans as both countries retaliate against each other's products.

Value Classes Still Need Compiler Sympathy

The JVM's value class feature offers more optimization opportunities, but its impact can be complex and dependent on the specific use case. Value classes give up identity, allowing the JVM to choose a suitable representation for a particular situation.

Queryable Executables

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The author's article "Your executable is a SQLite database" explores the idea of using a SQLite database as the format for an executable program, allowing it to store and manage its own state. This concept enables self-contained applications that can run from a single file, alleviating the need for separate filesystems or databases.

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

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OpenAI has developed a highly efficient inference chip called Jalapeño, which outperforms other top accelerators in various benchmarks. The chip's design focuses on eliminating memory movement and fixed latencies to achieve closer-to-roofline performance across all areas of the pareto curve.

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

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Apple has announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips for AI performance and graphics. The Mac Studio offers up to 4.3x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and 1.8x faster graphics compared to previous models.

Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War

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The US National Security Agency's Harvest computer was a highly specialized, 1960s-era machine that processed sensitive intercepts at an unprecedented rate. It ran continuously for nearly two decades, processing massive amounts of data and revolutionizing the field of signals intelligence.

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

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The center of a black hole is not a single point, but rather a surface where two observers who fall in at different angles lose contact with each other. This surface, which exists even for rotating black holes, marks the boundary beyond which nothing can escape and has implications for our understanding of quantum gravity.

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

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Apple has released the new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, offering improved performance and versatility in its compact design. The new models feature up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and graphics capabilities.

Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

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This is a community fork of Maiao, which enables stacked pull requests on various git hosting providers. It allows breaking large features into small, reviewable commits with auto-detection and control via git config.

Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)

⌖ Allow location to find nearby buses Or move the map to search somewhere else.

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python

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Python's IDNA 2003 implementation uses str.lower() which may not be consistent with the required Unicode version, causing a vulnerability. A fix was implemented to create new exceptions for specific codepoints to ensure consistency with the specification.

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

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The author built a backyard office in Portland, Oregon, to improve their remote work experience and stay productive with their toddler at home. They chose a 8x10 foot shed conversion using Tuff Shed's Premier Pro Tall Ranch model and added features like windows, electricity, flooring, and AC for an overall cost of under $20k.

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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LibreOffice 26.8 Released with Many Nice Improvements

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Anubis is a website protection system that prevents AI scrapers by requiring proof of work, causing temporary downtime. Users can reload the page or disable plugins like JShelter to access the site.

Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

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The author fixed a tooltip issue on their website by adding a 200ms transition delay, but it created another problem with multiple logos next to each other.

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

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The author guides readers through setting up OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4.24/month, starting with creating a custom image and droplet, then configuring the server and installing basic packages. After installation, users can SSH into their new server and follow the OpenBSD Handbook for post-installation configuration to secure their system.