Open models by OpenAI

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OpenAI models are supported by the Apache 2.0 license, allowing free use and customization without copyleft restrictions. They undergo thorough safety training and evaluation to keep users safe.

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

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Google DeepMind developed Genie 3, a world model that generates dynamic worlds in real-time at 24 frames per second. Genie 3 allows users to interact with the world and achieve complex goals, but has limitations such as a limited action space and inaccurate real-world location simulation.

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

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uBOL is a reliable content blocker based on uBlock Origin's default filterset, using browser resources for filtering. It's declarative, consuming no CPU/memory while blocking content, only requiring a service worker for popup interactions.

Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

The author experienced anxiety about being left behind in the field of software engineering due to claims of AI's 10-100x productivity gains. However, after trying AI coding tools, they found that AI's best use case is writing one-off scripts and that productivity gains are often exaggerated.

Claude Opus 4.1

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Claude Opus 4.1 is released with improved agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning, available to paid users and on various platforms. It advances state-of-the-art coding performance to 74.5% and improves research and data analysis skills.

Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI

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Frigate is an open source NVR using local AI object detection for real-time analysis. It integrates with Home Assistant and other systems for precise location-based notifications.

US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief

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US President Trump has proposed two conditions for Taiwan to reduce tariffs: TSMC must invest $400 billion in the US and buy a stake in Intel. TSMC is unlikely to agree due to Intel's financial struggles and the proposal's high financial burden.

PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator

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PHP 8.5 will introduce the pipe operator (|>) allowing for chained function calls in a single expression. This feature has huge potential and is similar to Unix/Linux command line pipes.

Ollama Turbo

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Ollama Turbo offloads large model processing from local computers to datacenter-grade hardware for faster performance. It includes hourly and daily limits with upcoming usage-based pricing for metered model consumption.

Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

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Researchers found that Ozempic, a diabetes drug, made participants 3.1 years biologically younger after 32 weeks. The anti-aging effects were seen in several organs and systems, with the most dramatic improvements in the inflammatory system and brain.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds

Researchers found evidence of a complex system involving paper mills, publishers, and brokers that churns out fake scientific publications. The number of fake papers is increasing at a rate far greater than the scientific literature, posing risks to fields like medical science.

Harmony: OpenAI's response format for its open-weight model series

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OpenAI's gpt-oss model requires the harmony response format for correct usage. The format enables output to multiple channels and tool calling, and is supported by the openai_harmony library in Python.

I dumped Google for Kagi

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The author is unhappy with Google's new AI-driven search results and has switched to Kagi, a paid search engine that offers a user-friendly experience and customizable results. Kagi's features include prioritizing or excluding specific websites, adjusting search settings globally, and a Privacy Pass option for secure searches.

Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys

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A colleague helped identify a base64 encoded JSON file by noticing patterns like "ey" for curly brackets and "LS" for TLS certificates. This trick can be used to spot base64 encoded files without decoding them.

AI is propping up the US economy

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Microsoft reached a $4 trillion valuation, largely driven by AI investment, but experts warn of a potential bubble. Professors and students are organizing against AI's encroachment in higher education, citing concerns over surveillance, job loss, and academic freedom.

Apache ECharts 6

Apache ECharts 6.0 is released with 12 major upgrades, including a new default theme, dynamic theme switching, and expanded data expression capabilities. It offers improved performance, flexibility, and customization options for data visualization, empowering developers to create stunning data stories.

Build Your Own Lisp

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This book teaches C programming and building a custom language in a few lines of code. It's free online or available for purchase in print or e-book formats.

Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year

Anthropic's credits expire after a year, creating accounting and legal issues. Providers should clearly disclose expiration dates to avoid confusion and potential financial trouble.

FCC abandons efforts to make U.S. broadband fast and affordable

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The FCC has failed to enforce Section 706 of the Telecom Act, allowing telecom monopolies to dominate the market and neglect affordable and reliable broadband access. This has resulted in a highly consolidated and uncompetitive US telecom sector, with the FCC's inaction exacerbating the problem under the Trump administration.

TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process

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TSMC fired employees who tried to steal trade secrets about its 2-nanometer chip process. The company is taking legal action and may prosecute the former employees for potential national security implications.

Why is GitHub UI getting slower?

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User is experiencing slow GitHub UI, particularly with tab switching and diff view. They suspect performance issues are related to client-side routing and rendering thousands of DOM nodes.

Eleven Music

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Eleven Music is a platform generating studio-grade music from natural language prompts for businesses, creators, and users. It offers cleared commercial use for various media and is available on the website with public API access coming soon.

GitHub pull requests are down

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Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

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Gemini app generates personalized storybooks with custom art and audio in over 45 languages. Users can describe any story, use personal photos and files, and choose from various styles to bring their ideas to life.

Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

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PNG read/write times are slow, new lossless codecs like Zstandard and LZ4 offer significant speedups. Adding Zstandard as an option to PNG could improve data processing pipeline efficiency.

Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released

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Proxmox VE 9.0 is released with a modernized core built on Debian 13, offering improved storage and networking capabilities. It includes features like snapshot support for thick-provisioned LVM shared storage and enhanced SDN capabilities.

Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting

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The author dislikes LLM-generated text because it lacks human intent and care, making it difficult to understand and trust. This lack of intent is what makes reading AI-generated text "revolting" and exhausting.

Introducing gpt-oss

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OpenAI released two state-of-the-art open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, which deliver strong real-world performance at low cost and are optimized for efficient deployment on consumer hardware. The models were trained using a mix of reinforcement learning and techniques informed by OpenAI's most advanced internal models, and they demonstrate exceptional capabilities in ...

US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible

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A new database on police use of force and misconduct in California

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A new database in California makes 1.5 million pages of police records searchable by the public for the first time. The database, funded by the State of California, contains records from nearly 12,000 cases, including police shootings, and will aid in holding law enforcement accountable.

HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

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Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game

Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second

Los Alamos scientists use dynamic imaging to study materials and explosive events without detonating actual weapons, informing computational models and analyses. Three key facilities, pRad, DARHT, and Scorpius, enable scientists to capture detailed images and data about materials under extreme conditions.

GitHub pull requests were down

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GitHub's Status Page - Incident with pull requests.

Where to find ideas

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To find a startup idea, focus on people with unavoidable priorities where current options are insufficient or unworkable, and design your product to fit their needs. Serious founders get firsthand experience by becoming their potential customers, not just relying on discovery interviews or whiteboarding.

EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy

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Itch.io seeks payment processors who work with with adult material

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Itch.io is seeking new payment processing partners to handle NSFW games after delisting many due to content restrictions. They're also refining their content classification and age-gating policies.

Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time

Kyoto University team develops pain reliever comparable to morphine

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A Kyoto University team developed Adriana, a pain-reliever comparable to morphine but without serious side effects. The drug works on a different mechanism and may help resolve the opioid epidemic by providing a safer alternative for pain control.

Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2025

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Backblaze reports on hard drive failure rates, with 321,201 drives under management as of June 30, 2025, and a lower annual failure rate this quarter. The 20TB+ drives show variable failure rates, with the 22TB WDC model performing well, while the 24TB Seagate model has higher failure rates.

No Comment (2010)

The author avoids comments on their site due to negativity in online technical discussions, preferring to focus on sharing experiences and learning from others. They find the photo-sharing site Flickr to be a positive community where people share and appreciate photos without negativity.

Can you block it? A simple Ad Block Tester

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Can You Block is a website testing ad-blocker effectiveness with various ad formats. It helps identify blocked or unblocked ads for popular ad networks and blockers like AdBlock and uBlock Origin.

OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are good

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OpenAI released two open-source models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, under Apache 2.0 licenses, achieving near-parity with proprietary models on core reasoning benchmarks.

SimpleW – Web Server Library .NET Core

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SimpleW is Web server Library in .NET Core. Powerfully Simple and Blazingly Fast. - stratdev3/SimpleW

More than two hard disks in DOS

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Microsoft's MS-DOS versions older than 5.0 had a bug that caused them to hang when booting with more than two hard disks due to a limitation in the INT 13h interface. This bug was fixed by IBM in Summer 1989 with Corrective Service Diskette (CSD) UR27164, which was later included in MS-DOS 5.0.

C10kday

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curl is celebrating its 10,000th day with stories of users' experiences and memories. Users are sharing their favorite curl moments, memories, and how curl has impacted their work, life, or business.

Google agrees to pause AI workloads when power demand spikes

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Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids during heat waves. The company will use demand response techniques to reduce power use and avoid brownouts or outages.

Welcome to the IPv4 Games

SAML Shield: Drop-in protection that works for any stack

SAML Shield secures stacks from vulnerabilities and assertion exploits. It validates assertions in real time and stops malicious ones before hitting application code.

What's wrong with the JSON gem API?

The author of the JSON gem is deprecating several APIs due to their global behavior and potential security risks, aiming to improve the gem's design and safety. The author recommends using the JSON::Coder API for local JSON generation configuration and provides alternatives for users who need to set options globally.

Small changes that made our daily stand-ups more useful

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The author transformed daily meetings into collaborative sessions by focusing on team goals, supporting each other, and uncovering blockers. They achieved this by keeping updates brief, using Jira filters, and reviewing open pull requests and bugs.

Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

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To use stagewise, start your app in dev mode and follow the CLI setup guide for your account. For non-AGPLv3 use cases or contributions, contact or check the CONTRIBUTING.md guide.

Show HN: I built a text-based birthday reminder app

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The user highly recommends Birthdays.app, a simple app that sends weekly reminders for friends' birthdays. It's a useful single-purpose app that has helped the user stay in touch with friends and family.

Plain Text. With Lines

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The user wants a plain text editor that also allows doodling. They created lines.love, a simple, open-source app that lets users draw lines and shapes using keyboard shortcuts while writing in plain text.

The 'Contrarian Friend' Is Real, and They're Driving Everyone Crazy

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A "contrarian friend" is someone who constantly disagrees and corrects you, often in a way that feels dismissive and exhausting. To spot one, look for signs like interrupting your happy moments, fixating on irrelevant details, and a tone that sounds smug rather than supportive.

GitHub CEO Warns Developers: "Either Embrace AI or Get Out of This Career"

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GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke warns developers to adapt to AI or risk career obsolescence. His research shows developers who integrate AI into their workflows have higher ambition and shift from code production to management.

Show HN: I built a tool to replace capcut audio transcription

Transcribe audio to text instantly with AI-powered speech recognition. Free, secure, and runs entirely in your browser with no uploads required.

A Danish zoo is asking owners of pets nearing life’s end to donate them as food

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Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta

The author predicts Rust, Python, and TypeScript will dominate programming due to AI coding's shift from tribal to fundamentals-based decisions. They favor these languages for their strong fundamentals and ease of use with dependencies.

Quantum machine learning via vector embeddings

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Researchers propose a quantum-classical pipeline combining class-balanced k-means distillation with Vision Transformer embeddings to achieve up to 8.02% accuracy improvements over classical SVMs. This pipeline leverages transformer attention and quantum feature spaces for scalable quantum machine learning.