ChatGPT Pro

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan offering unlimited access to advanced models and tools for researchers and experts. This plan includes a more powerful model, o1 pro mode, which provides more reliable and accurate responses to complex problems.

Diátaxis – A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring

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Diátaxis is a systematic approach to documentation that identifies four needs and forms of documentation: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference, and explanation. It helps maintainers organize and prioritize content for better user experience.

OpenAI o1 system card

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7 Databases in 7 Weeks for 2025

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Show HN: Banan-OS, an Unix-like operating system written from scratch

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The user's hobby OS, Banan OS, is written in C++ and supports x86_64 and i686 architectures. It requires specific packages and environment variables to build and run, with contributions welcome but requiring prior discussion with the author.

React 19

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Tsunami Warning for Northern California

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A court ruled that reviving a seized phone to search its contents is not a search under the Fourth Amendment. The government held the phone for over a year before successfully cracking it, raising questions about warrant extensions and government control over seized devices.

Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO

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Next stop: Miami

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Waymo One will expand to Miami in 2026, offering all-electric ride-hailing service via the Waymo One app. The service will provide safer, more accessible mobility to Miami residents and tourists with its autonomous driving technology.

Bringing K/V context quantisation to Ollama

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K/V context cache quantisation reduces VRAM usage in Ollama, allowing users to run larger models or use larger context sizes on existing hardware. It offers benefits like running larger models, expanding context sizes, and reducing hardware utilisation with minimal quality impact.

PaliGemma 2: Powerful Vision-Language Models, Simple Fine-Tuning

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PaliGemma 2 is a tunable vision-language model that can see, understand, and interact with visual input. It offers scalable performance, long captioning, and flexibility for fine-tuning on specific tasks and datasets.

I spent a year building an Android course for the elderly

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The user created a comprehensive video course to teach elderly people how to use Android smartphones from scratch, overcoming numerous challenges in development, marketing, and reaching the target audience. Despite the difficulties, the user remains committed to helping millions of elderly people who struggle with smartphones, offering a step-by-step guide from unboxing to using apps.

Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'

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People reacted with anger and frustration to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, sharing horror stories of being denied coverage by the company and making morbid jokes about the US healthcare system. The reactions felt like a significant shift in the tone of the country, with many embracing a nihilistic attitude and celebrating the CEO's death, despite the company's policies ...

Show HN: Replace "hub" by "ingest" in GitHub URLs for a prompt-friendly extract

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McKinsey unit will pay $123M to settle claims it bribed South African officials

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McKinsey & Company subsidiary agreed to pay $123 million to settle bribery claims in South Africa. Former partner Vikas Sagar pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Congo gov. says it's 'on alert' over mystery flu-like disease that killed dozens

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Multiple global events occurred including a 7.0-magnitude earthquake off California, a mystery flu-like disease in Congo, and a new report predicting rising food costs in 2025. Various arrests and incidents were reported including a masked gunman, a man wanted for deserting the US military, and a Catholic nun arrested for mafia-related crimes.

VectorChord: Store 400k Vectors for $1 in PostgreSQL

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VectorChord is a new PostgreSQL extension for efficient vector search, allowing users to store 400,000 vectors for $1. It uses IVF and RaBitQ quantization to optimize search speed and memory usage.

Hit men aren't what you think

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A gunman ambushed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan, firing multiple shots before fleeing on an electric bike. Experts say the shooting's details, including the use of a silencer and inside information, suggest a targeted attack rather than a professional hit.

An Interview with Bill Watterson (1987)

Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, was initially a political cartoonist but struggled to find success. He eventually turned to creating a comic strip and after five years of rejections, Calvin and Hobbes was accepted by Universal.

AmpereOne: Cores Are the New MHz

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AmpereOne A192-32X is a 192-core Arm server with 3.2 GHz clock speed and 8 channels of DDR5 ECC RAM. It offers high performance and efficiency, but has high idle power consumption and is late to market.

The “simple” 38 step journey to getting an RFC

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The author describes the process of creating an RFC (Request For Comments) document through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which took 3.5 years. The process involves drafting, submitting, and revising the document through the IETF system, with multiple stages and reviews before it becomes an official RFC.

Bitcoin is over $100k

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Bitcoin price surged to $99,329, boosted by comments from Jerome Powell, with a 135% rise this year and 40% since Donald Trump's election. The 30-day demand metric reached 27.15, suggesting potential for further price gains.

Message order in Matrix: right now, we are deliberately inconsistent

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The author argues that Matrix clients should display messages in a consistent order, as received from the server, to avoid confusing users. They propose changes to the Matrix specification to achieve this, including adding order numbers to events and allowing homeservers to send "deny" items to clients.

Researchers get 'compact' hard X-ray machine to work

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After years of research, TU/e scientists Jom Luiten and Peter Mutsaers and their team have successfully generated high-quality hard X-rays with a compact device.

Boeing plea deal over fatal 737 MAX crashes rejected by judge

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Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's Killing

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US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix

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The US government and its allies are now advocating for end-to-end encrypted communications due to recent cyberattacks on unsecured networks. They recommend using secure platforms like Matrix, which is end-to-end encrypted by default, to improve national security.

Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages

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Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history

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Bitcoin price reached $100,000 for the first time, driven by ETF demand, halving, and Trump's US election win. It has seen a 126% increase in value since January, reaching a $2 trillion market capitalization.

UnitedHealth's Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage

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UnitedHealth Group uses an algorithm to limit mental health coverage, targeting patients and therapists deemed to be overusing services. The company's practices have been deemed illegal in three states but continue due to a patchwork of regulation.

How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes

A user is trying to pack ternary weights of BitNet b1.58 into a binary format with high efficiency. They found a method to pack 5 trits into 8 bits with 99.06% efficiency using multiplication and division operations.

OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro

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OpenAI announced ChatGPT Pro, a $200-per-month subscription tier with unlimited access to its models, including the full version of o1 "reasoning" model. ChatGPT Pro users get an ostensibly better version of o1, called o1 pro mode, with more compute for the best answers to the hardest questions.

Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies

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Dark chocolate consumption is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, while milk chocolate consumption is linked to weight gain. The association between dark chocolate and lower diabetes risk is independent of established risk factors and is observed in younger individuals.

macOS Packaging for Ungoogled-Chromium

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To build Ungoogled-Chromium macOS, use a tag via git checkout or master, but note that master is for development and may not be stable. Notarized builds are available until October 14th 2025, and you can verify the signature of the binaries after downloading the .dmg file and running a command in Terminal.

FreeBSD OCI Container on Jails/Bhyve with Support for Podman

The Open Container Initiative is developing standards for cloud native containers on FreeBSD, with ocijail providing a lightweight OCI-compatible runtime for jails. ocijail offers efficient and isolated container management, ideal for microservices and modern architectures.

The Acton Programming Language

Acton is a compiled language that adds actors to Python for seamless distributed systems. It offers automatic persistence, redundancy, and live upgrades without RPC code or databases.

Exploring inference memory saturation effect: H100 vs. MI300x

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A benchmark evaluates the impact of memory saturation on LLM inference using NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, comparing performance and cost-effectiveness. Results show that 8xH100 outperforms 4xMI300x in online serving, but 4xMI300x is more cost-efficient for large prompts.

cli53 – Command line tool for Amazon Route 53

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cli53 is a command line tool for Route 53 management with BIND format import/export and simple domain management. It supports multiple profiles and roles, and can be installed from GitHub releases or built from source.

Surgeon General says loneliness is driving US into anxiety and pessimism

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US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy attributes anxiety and pessimism to social media amplifying negative emotions, lack of dialogue, and loneliness, which affects mental and physical health. He suggests building social connections as the solution to loneliness, which is essential for a highly functioning society.

Why overplanning makes projects fail?

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Success often shows up unexpectedly when we least expect it due to unplanned moments of curiosity and action. By embracing the unexpected and following our instincts, we can achieve greatness without overthinking or obsessing over plans.

More than 300 game developers lost their jobs in one day, weeks before Christmas

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Ubisoft laid off 277 people, closing its San Francisco and Osaka studios, while Sweet Bandits closed due to financial struggles. Torn Banner Studios also underwent a restructure, laying off an unspecified number of employees.

Memory is all we have

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Eric Kandel, a Nobel laureate, overcame trauma and adversity to make groundbreaking discoveries about memory and the brain. His work bridged psychology and biology, providing insights into memory disorders and paving the way for potential treatments.

How close is AI to human-level intelligence?

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OpenAI's latest AI system, o1, has a "new level of AI capability" but still falls short of true artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers say AGI might be imminent but is still elusive due to limitations in current large language models (LLMs).

Akamai Remembers Danny Lewin

Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

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Wubuntu is a Linux distro that mimics Windows 11 with custom themes and tools, but its identity and trademark usage are unclear. It's based on Kubuntu 24.04.1 LTS with additional proprietary components and themes.

All of Google Offline?

Google's DNS server 8.8.8.8 is down, causing domain resolution issues. DownDetector reports 7,419 users experiencing problems with Google services starting at 1:28 AM Pacific Time.

Show HN: Piazza, syncing the web in a vectorized DB

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Stay up-to-date with automatic synchronization from Wikipedia and trusted sources across the web.

AggiesBCI – brain-controlled wheelchair converts thoughts to real-world movement

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Developed a brain-computer interface system for wheelchair control using thoughts as inputs, winning 1st place at the Aggies Create Innovation Expo. Next steps include refining the system and exploring applications such as controlling digital interfaces and mechanical arms with mental commands.

Bitcoin surges past $100k for first time

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Bitcoin price broke past $100,000 mark, boosted by hopes of US crypto-friendly policies. The milestone has been especially anticipated, with Bitcoin's value rocketing 40% since election day.

US West Coast Tsunami Warning

A tsunami warning is in effect for California and Oregon due to a 7.3 magnitude earthquake. Evacuate inland or to higher ground immediately.

Over 21000 Workers Reported Dead in Saudi Arabia's NEOM Project

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A recent ITV documentary exposed alarming statistics of over 21,000 foreign worker deaths in Saudi Arabia's Vision 2030 initiative, including the NEOM project. Critics argue that the project's labor practices resemble slavery, prompting calls for accountability and sparking a broader conversation about human rights.

How One of the Richest Men Is Avoiding $8B in Taxes

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A16Z 2025 Big Ideas for Crypto

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a16z crypto partners predict AI agents will become more autonomous and useful in 2025, with potential use cases including AI-owned wallets and decentralized autonomous chatbots. The industry will also see advancements in decentralized governance, stablecoins, and tokenization of assets, making it more accessible to mainstream users.

Disposable Python environments for ad-hoc analyses

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The user discusses the juv package, which builds upon uv and enables specifying Python version and dependencies in a single-file Python script, making it easier to share and run notebooks with their own environments. The user also wraps juv inside pyds-cli, creating a tool for initializing and running notebooks with configurable and disposable environments.

Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime

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A police chief in Adair, Iowa, was convicted of conspiracy and selling machine guns for personal profit, sparking a nationwide investigation into law enforcement officers buying and selling firearms. Dozens of cases have been uncovered, with many officers selling restricted guns to violent felons and making large profits.