Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem

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Cloudflare experienced a significant network failure on November 18, 2025, due to a change in database permissions that caused a large feature file to be generated, exceeding the software's limit and resulting in system failure. The issue was resolved by stopping the propagation of the bad feature file and replacing it with an earlier version, and Cloudflare is now working to harden its ...

Multimodal Diffusion Language Models for Thinking-Aware Editing and Generation

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Researchers propose ParaBench to analyze performance degradation in thinking-aware generation due to error propagation. They introduce MMaDA-Parallel, a parallel multimodal diffusion framework that improves cross-modal alignment and semantic consistency.

Gemini 3

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Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3, its most intelligent model, combining all capabilities for state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal understanding. Gemini 3 is available in various Google products, including Search, AI Studio, and Antigravity, with enhanced safety evaluations and agentic capabilities.

Exploring the Limits of Large Language Models as Quant Traders

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Google Antigravity

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Google Antigravity's AI IDE offers a configurable agent with natural language code commands and tab autocompletion. It provides a central mission control view to manage multiple agents across workspaces.

Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body problem simulator

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Researchers Li and Liao discovered 10,059 new 3D periodic orbits in 2025. The three-body problem has no general closed-form solution, making numerical simulation the primary tool for studying complex gravitational systems.

I made a down detector for down detector

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Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2

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Even G2 smart glasses support prescriptions from -12.00 to +12.00 and offer single-vision lenses for myopia, hyperopia, and astigmatism. They feature brightness sensors, AI-powered features, and a 2-year warranty in Europe and 1-year warranty elsewhere.

Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward

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The user, Eric, is responding to false accusations made by Rebble, a non-profit organization that supports the Pebble community, and claims that Rebble is trying to create a walled garden around 13,000 Pebble apps and watchfaces. Eric wants to keep the Pebble ecosystem open source and create a free publicly available archive of the apps and watchfaces, and is calling on Rebble to tear down ...

I wrote a Pong game in a 512-byte boot sector

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User created a minimal Pong game that fits in a single floppy disk sector, using 510 bytes of code. The game runs in 80x25 text mode using BIOS interrupts and direct video memory access.

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Bluetooth Channel Sounding: The Next Leap in Bluetooth Innovation

Ultima VII Revisited

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To play Ultima VII: Revisited, copy original DOS files to /Data/u7 and run meson setup build. Use Visual Studio or command prompt to build and debug the game.

Mojo-V: Secret Computation for RISC-V

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Mojo-V is a RISC-V extension for privacy-oriented programming, enabling secure and efficient secret computation without software trust. It integrates into RISC-V with a mode bit and four new instructions, offering near-native speeds and 5-7 orders of magnitude performance improvement.

The code and open-source tools I used to produce a science fiction anthology

The author published a 16-story science fiction anthology, Think Weirder, using Python, YAML files, and LaTeX, despite having no professional publishing experience. They built an efficient publishing pipeline that automated repetitive tasks and used simple file formats for transparency and debuggability.

Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]

Gemini 3 Pro is a highly-capable, natively multimodal reasoning model that outperforms previous models in reasoning and multimodal capabilities. It was trained using Google's Tensor Processing Units and has been evaluated for safety and responsibility with improvements in tone and instruction following.

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.

Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS

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Strace-macos is a tool to trace system calls on macOS, installable via Nix or pip. It can filter syscalls by name, category, or output to file in JSON format.

A Rigorous Approach to the Algorithmic Composition of Iannis Xenakis(2009) [pdf]

“Perhaps we have grown too accustomed to the idea that it is necessary to exist. I think there is another way but I cannot see clearly, I cannot yet say what it is. There may be another reason for our life, our action than to strive for immortality, power or the jus- tification of existence [. . . ] There must be other reasons. [. . . ] [One] may die and disappear but that applies only to the ...

I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

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Mastodon's founder is stepping down as CEO after nearly 10 years, transferring ownership to a non-profit to ensure the project remains true to its values. He's proud of Mastodon's growth from a small project to a thriving community-centred internet platform.

OrthoRoute – GPU-accelerated autorouting for KiCad

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The author created an autorouter plugin called OrthoRoute to route a complex PCB with 8,192 airwires and 17,600 pads. The plugin uses a GPU-accelerated Manhattan lattice approach and the PathFinder algorithm to converge in minutes on boards that would take hours or days with CPU-based approaches.

Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'

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Google's Sundar Pichai warns of irrationality in AI boom, saying it can overshoot investment. He believes Google can weather an AI bubble burst due to its unique model and investments in the UK.

A down detector for down detector's down detector

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This site is not affiliated with DownDetectorsDownDetector. It just checks whether downdetectorsdowndetector.com is reachable from a few different locations. Created by paamayim1

Solving a million-step LLM task with zero errors

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Researchers created MAKER, a system that solves a task with over one million steps with zero errors. MAKER uses extreme task decomposition and multi-agent voting to correct errors, enabling scaling beyond current LLM capabilities.

Bild AI (YC W25) is hiring – Make housing affordable

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Roop and Puneet founded Bild AI to improve construction efficiency with AI and CV. We're looking for an applied CV/ML expert to build prototypes and drive growth.

Show HN: RowboatX – open-source Claude Code for everyday automations

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Rowboat instantly builds AI agents with natural language and one-click integrations. It automates workflows, deploys anywhere, and offers cloud hosting and customization options.

I just want working RCS messaging

User's iPhone 15 Pro has non-working RCS despite AppleCare+ and extensive testing. Apple blames carriers, but user has tested multiple carriers and devices, suggesting a Google Jibe RCS failure.

GitHub: Git operation failures

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GitHub's Status Page - Git operation failures.

What I learned about creativity from a man painting on a treadmill (2024)

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The author overcame fear of failure by embracing imperfection and taking creative risks, finding inspiration in the show Let's Paint TV. This show, hosted by John Kilduff, is a chaotic and often disastrous attempt at multitasking while painting, yet its message of perseverance and embracing failure is endearing and inspiring.

Rebecca Heineman – from homelessness to porting Doom (2022)

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Becky Heineman, a renowned video game developer, shares her experience porting Doom to the 3DO console under tight deadlines and challenging conditions. She had to simplify the game engine and optimize it for the console's lower memory constraints.