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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.

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 ...

Rebecca Heineman has died

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Rebecca Heineman, a 62-year-old game developer, has died after a cancer diagnosis. She was a pioneer in the industry, credited on 67 games, and co-founded Interplay.

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.

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Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright

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A UK study found 97% of drivers are distracted by oncoming vehicles and 96% think headlights are too bright. The government will review car and headlamp design to address the issue.

Core Devices keeps stealing our work

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Rebble is at an impasse with Core Devices over access to their data and control of the Pebble ecosystem. Rebble wants to give Core access to their data but wants a guarantee that Core won't build a walled garden app store.

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.

How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

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id Software's Quake game was able to run on both MS-DOS and Windows 95 by using a single executable, quake.exe, which utilized a DPMI client and server to communicate with the Windows 95 TCP/IP stack. Quake also had a third option to run on Windows 95 through a batch file, q95.bat, which used Mpath's proprietary Chunnel technology to connect to the game's online multiplayer service.

Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to

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Cloudflare's outage is a single point of failure for many sites, demonstrating the importance of decentralization. Small sites should consider hosting a backup server to avoid relying on centralized services.

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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 ...

GitHub: Git operation failures

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Gemini 3 for developers: New reasoning, agentic capabilities

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Gemini 3 Pro is a highly intelligent AI model that surpasses previous versions in coding and agentic workflows. It enables developers to bring ideas to life with a single prompt, automating complex tasks and coding details.

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.

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I caught Google Gemini using my data and then covering it up

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You discovered Google Gemini's Personal Context feature and are concerned about its secrecy and potential dishonesty. You think a truth-seeking AI like Gemini should prioritize transparency over hiding its capabilities.

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.

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.

Oracle is underwater on its $300B OpenAI deal

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Oracle's stock lost $315bn in value since its $300bn deal with OpenAI, mainly due to investor unease over debt-financed investments. The deal has raised questions about Oracle's financial risks and the value of announcing an OpenAI agreement.

The surprising benefits of giving up

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Researchers found that adjusting goals in response to stress or challenges is often a more beneficial response than persisting with impossible goals. This approach can lead to reduced stress, anxiety, and depression, and is associated with high social and physical functioning.

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.

Google Antigravity

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Google Antigravity is a new agentic development platform that enables agents to autonomously plan and execute complex software tasks. It provides a browser control capability, asynchronous interaction patterns, and an agent-first product form factor for trust, autonomy, feedback, and self-improvement.

Ruby 4.0.0 Preview2

Ruby 4.0.0-preview2 updates Unicode to 17.0.0 and includes new JIT compilers YJIT and ZJIT. It also removes RJIT and refines Binding and nil behavior.

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.

Short Little Difficult Books

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The author discusses the benefits of reading "difficult" books, which challenge readers and provide unique experiences. They recommend short novels with unusual structures, styles, and subjects, such as Georges Perec's "The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise" and Thomas Bernhard's "The Loser".

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.

Monotype font licencing shake-down

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A Monotype representative sent a LinkedIn message claiming the user's company was using unlicensed fonts, but the user investigated and found the claims to be false, with the fonts actually being licensed or free. The user exposed Monotype's aggressive and potentially scammy tactics, advising others to avoid licensing fonts from Monotype and instead get them directly from the original ...

A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center

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I visited Hetzner Online's data center park in Falkenstein, Germany, which showcases impressive industrial precision, technical depth, and logistical sophistication. The site features a highly structured layout, modular data centers, and in-house server production, demonstrating Hetzner's focus on practicality and efficiency.

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.

Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark

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The user had preview access to Gemini 3, a model with 1 million input tokens and 64,000 output tokens, and multimodal inputs. It scored higher than Claude 4.5 and GPT-5.1 on standard benchmarks.

The Miracle of Wörgl

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The town of Wörgl in Austria successfully implemented a local currency experiment during the Great Depression, reducing unemployment from 30% to near zero. The project's success was replicated in other towns but was eventually banned by the central bank, leading to a return to high unemployment and social unrest.

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.

New EU Chat Control proposal moves forward

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The EU's revised Chat Control proposal removes mandatory scanning but introduces a 'risk mitigation' clause that could lead to scanning of private messages. This could severely limit anonymity and expand monitoring across the EU's 450M citizens.

Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions

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Rust is a fast, memory-efficient language with a rich type system for critical services and embedded devices. It offers comprehensive documentation, diagnostics, and tooling for high productivity.

Court settlement calls for NPR to get $36M to operate US public radio system

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NPR receives $36 million in grant money from a court settlement with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The settlement resolves a dispute over funding and declares Trump's executive order against NPR unconstitutional.

Multiple Digital Ocean services down

DigitalOcean services are experiencing disruptions due to an upstream provider incident, affecting Gen AI tools, App Platform, Load Balancer, and Spaces. Engineers are working to restore normal operations with signs of recovery appearing.

Experiment: Making TypeScript immutable-by-default

The user attempted to make TypeScript immutable by default without changing the language itself, successfully making arrays and Records immutable but unable to achieve this for regular objects. They used a test-driven development style and defined custom types for arrays and Records, but were unable to figure out how to make regular objects immutable by default.

5 Things to Try with Gemini 3 Pro in Gemini CLI

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Gemini 3 Pro is now integrated into Gemini CLI, offering state-of-the-art reasoning for executing commands and enhancing support for complex engineering work. It enables smarter workflows and is available to Google AI Ultra subscribers and paid Gemini API key holders.

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.

Show HN: Guts – convert Golang types to TypeScript

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guts is a Go library that converts Go types to TypeScript for consistent type definitions. It parses Go packages, traverses the AST, and generates TypeScript AST with minimal type conversion.

Google Brings Gemini 3 AI Model to Search and AI Mode

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Google introduced Gemini 3, a state-of-the-art model in Google Search, with powerful reasoning and multimodal understanding capabilities. It brings interactive tools and simulations to Search, allowing users to explore topics in a more dynamic and actionable way.

Mathematics and Computation (2019) [pdf]

The author thanks many people for their help in writing a book on computational complexity theory. The book explores the history and development of the field, its connections to mathematics and computer science, and its practical applications.

GoSign Desktop RCE flaws affecting users in Italy

A critical vulnerability in gosign desktop <= 2.4.0 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system through insecure updates. this qualification enables public administrations to adopt certified solutions for safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring continuity of essential services. since the manifest is not digitally signed, it protects at most against accidental integrity ...

Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean

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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai warned of irrationality in the AI market, comparing it to the 1990s Internet boom. He believes AI will be profound but also expects excess investment to lead to market turbulence.

Only Criminals Don't Want to Be Gassed by the Government

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The US Attorney's Office in California charged Alejandro Orellana with distributing face masks to protestors, claiming it's a conspiracy to promote civil unrest. The affidavit relies on vague allegations and government propaganda to justify the charges.

Strix Halo's Memory Subsystem: Tackling iGPU Challenges

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AMD's Strix Halo tablet form factor delivers high CPU and GPU performance with a 32 GB LPDDR5X memory subsystem. Its memory system design prioritizes the GPU, making tradeoffs that may hurt CPU performance in latency-sensitive workloads.

LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics

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Researchers developed LeJEPA, a theoretically grounded training objective for Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures. LeJEPA offers numerous benefits, including a single trade-off hyperparameter and linear time complexity.

Comparing Android Alternatives: Lineage OS, ∕E∕OS, and Graphene OS

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The article compares three open-source Android-derived firmwares: Lineage OS, ∕e∕OS, and Graphene OS, each with its own strengths and weaknesses in terms of privacy, security, and convenience. The best choice depends on individual needs, with Lineage OS suitable for technically-sophisticated users, ∕e∕OS offering a more user-friendly experience with Murena services, and Graphene OS providing ...

How long can it take to become a US citizen?

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Becoming a US citizen involves a lengthy process, typically starting with a green card, which can take years or even decades due to visa limits and processing times. The journey to citizenship varies depending on the applicant's country of origin, relationship to a US citizen, and employment status.

Show HN: A subtly obvious e-paper room air monitor

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The user built an e-paper room air monitor to track indoor air quality, which helps maintain a healthy climate by alerting users when CO2 and humidity levels exceed safe thresholds. The device provides a dashboard and a Telegram bot to raise awareness and encourage users to improve air quality habits through regular airing and ventilation.

'Fear really drives him': is Alex Karp of Palantir the world's scariest CEO?

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Alex Karp, Palantir's CEO, believes his company is the most important software company in the world, but some see it as a tool for state surveillance.

Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue (2024)

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You saved a 35-year-old Lucent 5ESS switch from the University of Arizona, a massive project requiring planning and muscle to move 40 frames of equipment. You're now working to restore the system, starting with booting the Administrative Module using a DC rectifier and UNIX-RTR operating system.

Ford can't find mechanics for $120K: It takes math to learn a trade

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Ford CEO Jim Farley says US employers have over a million job openings due to lack of skilled workers. The problem is not a lack of trade schools, but rather students lacking literacy and math skills to learn skilled trades.

A 'small' vanilla Kubernetes install on NixOS

The user set up a self-managed, multi-node Kubernetes installation on NixOS, using Wireguard for network connectivity and manually configuring the bridge interface and Kubernetes components. The setup is functional but lacks some features, such as an Ingress controller and storage provisioner, and the user suggests simplifying Kubernetes for smaller installations by reducing complexity and ...

The obvious economics of preserving the Amazon

Brazil's farmers rely on the Amazon for water and carbon storage. The Amazon rainforest is being cleared for cattle grazing and open spaces.

Show HN: Optimizing LiteLLM with Rust – When Expectations Meet Reality

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Fast LiteLLM is a Rust acceleration layer for LiteLLM providing 2-20x performance improvements with zero configuration required. It seamlessly integrates with existing LiteLLM code and can be configured via environment variables for advanced use cases.

According to a Google leak, we’re all to blame for poor quality search results (2024)

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Google's search algorithm depends on user interactions, and poor search results are a result of the internet's content quality, which is often driven by marketers prioritizing views and conversions over user needs. To improve search results, marketers should focus on creating high-quality content that builds trust and serves the audience, rather than relying on tactics like affiliate ...

Meta acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp did not violate antitrust law: Judge

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Don't blindly trust what AI tells you, says Google's Sundar Pichai

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Google's CEO Sundar Pichai warns people not to blindly trust AI tools due to their prone to errors. He urges users to use AI alongside other tools and fact-check their output.

Chris Simpkins (designer of the Roboto font) has passed away

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Chris Simpkins, a former organ transplant surgeon and Google Fonts program manager, has passed away unexpectedly at 51. Colleagues and friends remember him as patient, kind, and a great person to work with.

My Next Chapter with 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.

Do (human) readers prefer AI writers?

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Researchers compared AI models with expert writers in emulating 50 authors' styles, finding AI-generated text was initially disfavored but improved with fine-tuning. Fine-tuning reduced AI detectability and increased reader preference, suggesting it could be a viable option for non-verbatim AI writing.

Oracle's $300B OpenAI deal is now valued at minus $60B

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Oracle's stock lost $315bn in value since its $300bn deal with OpenAI, mainly due to investor unease over debt-financed investments. The deal has raised questions about Oracle's financial risks and the value of announcing an OpenAI agreement.