Audacity 4.0

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Audacity 4 rebuilds the interface on Qt with new features and improvements. It offers various quality-of-life changes, including clip editing, track management, and plugin support.

Grok Outage

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.name Termination

A user's .name domain is set to be destroyed due to Verisign's proposal, causing their website and email address to vanish. This could lead to potential security risks as vacant 2nd-level domains may become available for registration by others.

K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open

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New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

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The New York Times union has rejected a potential partnership with The Athletic and Kalshi due to concerns over journalistic independence. A deal would integrate prediction market data into The Athletic's journalism, potentially undermining the company's commitment to fact-based reporting.

ChatGPT Is Throwing 404

Use ChatGPT to answer questions, write, create images, complete work, and code—all in one place. Get started for free or download the app.

Sony makes bold claim about game ownership

A gamer argues that Sony's claim of licensing software rather than selling it is a bold-faced lie, as customers expect to own the right to use the software for a reasonable period. The argument hinges on whether laws should require vendors to provide service or refund unused value after purchase.

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

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Polars 2.0 is released as a release candidate, featuring improved defaults and API changes for better performance and memory usage. The major version bump allows Polars to remove outdated design decisions and introduce stricter behavior for error handling and data type conversions.

Elevated Errors for Multiple Models

Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors for multiple models.

The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive

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Frontend optimization involves managing the main thread, which handles tasks such as JavaScript execution, drawing, and event handling. To optimize performance, developers can use techniques like splitting tasks into smaller chunks (splitting), batching similar tasks together (batching), prioritizing and deferring non-essential work to free up resources for critical tasks (prioritizing and deferring).

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down

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Several AI chatbots, including ChatGPT and Claude, are experiencing issues. OpenAI is introducing a new model for Free users and adding features like parental controls to its ChatGPT platform.

Invisible Companies

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Steve Ross built Time Warner into a media giant by buying mundane companies, including funeral parlors and rental car services, which were easy to compete in. He used these businesses as stepping stones to acquire the legendary Warner Bros. movie studio.

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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You'll draw, step by step: a year, a place, a life, each taken at random from real data. Almost everyone who ever lived was born recently, because population grew exponentially, so a random birth is far more likely to fall near the present.

Nobody Has Actually Built a Software Factory

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Uber and other companies are adopting "software factories" that use agents to automate tasks, but the human gatekeeper remains in control. The factory's output is only trusted when it meets a certain standard of correctness, which is set by humans.

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

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The team ships hardware on software tempo, focusing on real deployment, short iteration loops, and hands-on ownership of specs. They prioritize user needs, iterating based on data and affordability, not just roadmaps.

What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026)

Intrusive Linked Lists

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Intrusive linked lists are used in Linux to manage processes, reducing memory allocations and cache thrashing. They are mainly used for short or rarely traversed lists.

Codex Is Down

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The user is experiencing errors with the Codex App, specifically a session that failed after attempting to spin up a sub-agent. They are seeking help in resolving this issue and improving error handling within the app.

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

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Gemini 3.8 introduces two variants, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, offering significant improvements in software engineering, agentic tasks, and critical reasoning at the same speed and low cost as version 3.7 Flash.

Muse Spark 1.3

Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face

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NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, expanding access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. The platform will remain open, allowing developers to choose models, frameworks, clouds, and computing platforms they prefer.

Fish bad, sugar good and other medieval ideas about food

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Medieval people recognized the importance of food for health and categorized foods as hot/cold and wet/dry to understand their effects on the body. They believed that cooking methods and food combinations could change the properties of a food, and moderation was key to maintaining good health.

Amazon Stonehenge: Parque Arqueológico do Solstício

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The Parque Arqueológico do Solstício, also known as Amazon Stonehenge, is a megalithic site in Brazil featuring 127 granite blocks standing upright in a circle. Archaeologists believe it was built for astronomical and ceremonial purposes around 500-2000 years ago by an indigenous culture.

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

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Two web-grounded models were asked to provide recommendations in 380 software categories, with 7,534 citations retrieved from their URLs. The majority of these citations point at domains ranked lower than #100,000 or not in the top million.

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

Lloyd, co-founder of RonanRx, is building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, and manufacturing. He aims to connect the disconnected pieces of pharmaceutical manufacturing through his experience in mask production and software development.

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project

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The Computer Museum of America's collection has been preserved at San Diego State University since 2004, containing a vast array of computer artifacts and archival materials. The collection is being indexed and promoted to serve as a resource for understanding the impact of technology on society over the past 70 years.

Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence?

OpenAI and Claude experienced downtime, causing users to migrate to each other, resulting in a cascading effect of distributed system overload. This led to further denial-of-service (DOS) issues as users shifted between providers.

Texas Data Center Map: See where data centers are operating or planned

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Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

A federal judge ruled that Google must change its advertising technology practices to benefit competitors, but did not need to break up the business. The ruling prevents significant changes to Google's $4.1 trillion power over the internet despite two previous court rulings declaring it a monopolist.

Holden's Lightning Flight

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Walter "Taffy" Holden, a 39-year-old RAF engineer, accidentally flew an English Electric Lightning without proper training or equipment on July 22, 1966. He successfully landed the aircraft after aborting two initial attempts and was later cleared of any wrongdoing by an inquiry.