WASM 3.0 Completed

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Wasm 3.0 is released with 64-bit address space, multiple memories, garbage collection, typed references, tail calls, and native exception handling. Major web browsers and stand-alone engines are shipping or supporting Wasm 3.0.

A postmortem of three recent issues

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here are two concise English sentences summarizing the problem and solution. Infrastructure bugs between August and early September intermittently degraded Claude's response quality due to issues with routing, token generation, and XLA:TPU compiler bugs. The problems have been resolved with a fix deployed on September 4, and future incidents will be prevented with improved evaluations, ...

macOS Tahoe Incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra

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Upgrading a Mac Studio M3 Ultra to macOS 26.0 Tahoe is currently paused due to Apple engine driver errors. Apple advises users to wait for a new release supporting their most powerful Macs.

Apple Photos app corrupts images

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The user's Apple Photos app corrupts images when importing from their OM System OM-1 camera, especially when deleting photos after import. They've switched to using Darktable to cull photos and import them into Photos app without the issue, assuming the problem lies with the Photos app.

Optimizing ClickHouse for Intel's 280 core processors

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Intel's latest processor generations have led to unprecedented core counts, driving a paradigm shift from "faster cores" to "more cores." This trend poses scalability challenges for analytical databases like ClickHouse, which struggle to utilize hardware efficiently.

What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments

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C# 14's null-conditional assignment operator simplifies assigning values in C# projects. It checks if the object is not null before assigning the property, reducing the need for if statements.

DeepMind and OpenAI win gold at ICPC

These two tweets, beginning with "I'm [really] excited to announce/share", were posted 5 minutes apart: TL;DR Both Google Deepmind and OpenAI are claiming their models achieved gold-medal level performance at ICPC WF 2025.

Gluon: a GPU programming language based on the same compiler stack as Triton

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Tinycolor supply chain attack post-mortem

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A malicious GitHub Actions workflow stole a npm token from a collaborator's repository, then published tainted versions of 20 packages to npm. The issue was quickly remedied by GitHub/security teams unpublishing the malicious versions, followed by fresh verified versions being re-published to restore trust.

Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO

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Ton Roosendaal will step down as Blender chairman and CEO on January 1 2026, handing over to Francesco Siddi. Roosendaal announced current successors at the Blender Conference, including new board members.

YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers

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Many YouTubers reported major drops in view counts, possibly explained by YouTube not counting views from users with enabled ad blockers who account for 50% of computer views. YouTube hinted ad blockers impact view counts' accuracy.

Understanding Deflate

User compressed a string using GZIP and decoded it by hand to understand Deflate. Results showed a 30% reduction in data length from 24 to 16 bytes with literal symbols and copy commands.

Drought in Iraq reveals tombs created 2,300 years ago

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Archaeologists discovered 40 tombs in northern Iraq along the Mosul Dam reservoir after severe droughts lowered water levels, revealing sites more than 2,300 years old. The tombs are being excavated before the dam is flooded again and will likely shed more light on the causes of death and broader social context of these burials.

Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

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The serial killer mentioned is Jack the Ripper or Peter Sutcliffe, but no specific one is identified based on details and the serial murderer described is known as the terminator who is Thomas Neill Cream.

U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China

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Launch HN: RunRL (YC X25) – Reinforcement learning as a service

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Users submit custom prompts and define good/bad outputs for specific tasks. Our platform optimizes model performance using Deepseek R1 algorithms and user feedback.

Famous cognitive psychology experiments that failed to replicate

The field of psychology experienced a replication crisis in the 2010s where many initially believed results were later disputed or disproven. This list covers notable debunked studies including ego-depletion, glucose-enhanced willpower, and effects of posture, body scent, psychological distance, and facial expressions.

Event Horizon Labs (YC W24) Is Hiring

At Event Horizon Labs, you'll design and build scalable autonomous systems for AI trading, requiring distributed systems, containerization, and cloud expertise. EHL seeks top engineers to shape AI infrastructure, pushing boundaries at the intersection of AI and system design.

Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000?

You want enclosed 3D printer with durable materials, open-source firmware, and repairability, ideally offline capable.

DeepSeek writes less secure code for groups China disfavors?

Infinite Mac: Resource Fork Roundtripping

Google blocked access to its services due to unusual traffic from the user's network, likely caused by malicious software or scripts. Solving the CAPTCHA will allow access to resume once the block expires.

Depression reduces capacity to learn to actively avoid aversive events

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Depressive symptom scores in young adults are associated with difficulty in overriding prepotent responses to actively avoid aversive outcomes in the absence of reward. Active avoidance impairments are linked to higher depressive symptom scores in undergraduates.

Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20

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China's Pingtouge AI chip surpasses NVIDIA's A800 in key parameters like memory, bandwidth, and interface. The chip leads in most domestic AI metrics, with a 96GB HBM2e memory, reaching 700GB/s in inter-chip bandwidth.

Jqp: TUI Playground to Experiment with Jq

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Download a GitHub asset, unpack it, and build the jqp binary. Configure jqp with a YAML file or command-line flags for theme, configuration, and clipboard functionality.

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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Anthropic is facing hostility from the Trump administration due to its refusal to allow its AI models for US law enforcement surveillance. The company's limitations have created tensions with the White House, which expects loyalty from patriotic AI companies.

Tau² benchmark: How a prompt rewrite boosted GPT-5-mini by 22%

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Researchers discovered a 22.73% improvement in GPT-5-mini's success rate on the telecom benchmark by rewriting prompts into clear, simple instructions. This approach also unlocked previously unsolvable tasks, highlighting the potential for prompt optimization to boost smaller language models' performance.

Just for fun: animating a mosaic of 90s GIFs

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A former colleague's band won a Brisbane tech competition with visuals Alex created for their 90s and 2000s covers, using GeoCities-era GIFs. Alex shared the process of sourcing, sanitizing, and animating over 60,000 GIFs, displaying them in-browser with a p5.js grid animation.
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UUIDv47: Store UUIDv7 in DB, emit UUIDv4 outside (SipHash-masked timestamp)

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uuidv47 library stores UUIDv7 in databases with an XOR-masked, v4-looking facade. The façade uses SipHash-2-4 to non-leakably tie the key to the UUID's random bits.

How to motivate yourself to do a thing you don't want to do

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The author uses an air bike for exercise, but struggles with motivation to do it, often relying on a show to distract themselves and trick themselves into completing the workout.