Gemini 3 Flash offers frontier intelligence at a lower cost, combining Pro-grade reasoning with Flash-level latency and efficiency. It's available in the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, and developer tools like Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.
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AWS CEO Matt Garman argues that companies should not cut junior developer roles as they are most experienced with AI tools and can work more efficiently. He believes this approach will help companies build a strong talent pipeline and adapt to future changes in the tech industry.
Mozilla's new CEO Enzor-DeMeo considered blocking ad blockers in Firefox for profit but decided against it due to being off-mission. This decision may disappoint loyal users who value Firefox's commitment to open standards and ad blockers as a security feature.
HN experienced a 502 Bad Gateway error on all authenticated requests, while still responding to some unauthenticated requests with outdated cached pages. The outage likely occurred at 1:41:58 PM GMT based on comment timing.
Coursera and Udemy have merged in an all-stock transaction, creating a combined company valued at approximately $2.5 billion. The merger aims to redefine skills discovery, development, and mastery for learners and organizations at scale.
The user's server was compromised by a cryptocurrency miner due to a Next.js/Puppeteer RCE vulnerability in their Umami analytics container. They were able to contain the issue by deleting the container and hardening their firewall, but learned the importance of monitoring and updating dependencies.
Researchers at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology discovered Ewingella americana, a bacterium from Japanese tree frogs, with potent anticancer activity. A single administration of E. americana achieved complete tumor elimination in a mouse model with 100% response rate.
Docker is making Docker Hardened Images (DHI) freely available and open source to secure the software supply chain. DHI provides a secure, minimal, production-ready foundation for developers to build on.
SQLite has a robust testing strategy with four independent test harnesses and over 590 times more test code than its core library. It achieves 100% branch test coverage and uses fuzz testing to ensure robustness against malicious attacks.
OBS Studio's new Metal backend is an experimental alternative to OpenGL on macOS, offering better performance and efficiency. It requires fundamental changes to how OBS interacts with the GPU, adapting to modern APIs like Metal.
Doublespeed, a startup backed by a16z, was hacked, revealing AI-generated social media accounts promoting products without disclosure. The hacker gained control of over 1,000 smartphones powering the company's phone farm.
Author uses AI to analyze notes and insights, revealing patterns and connections previously unknown. This approach enables faster problem-solving, better decision-making, and retrieval of forgotten expertise.
The author discusses the issues with Passkeys, including vendor lock-in, lack of education, and poor communication about where Passkeys are stored. They recommend using a Credential Manager you control and can backup.
ChatGPT now accepts app submissions for review and publication, allowing developers to extend conversations with new context and actions. Users can discover apps in the app directory, which is accessible from the tools menu or chatgpt.com/apps.
PornHub is being extorted by ShinyHunters after a Mixpanel data breach, which exposed search and watch history of Premium members. The breach occurred in November 2025, but the stolen data is from 2021 or earlier, and passwords and payment details remain secure.
Tesla's Robotaxi fleet in Austin has reported an 8th crash, keeping its accident rate alarmingly high compared to human drivers. The fleet crashes roughly once every 40,000 miles, 10x more often than the average human driver in the US.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said the agency is not independent, contradicting its website. This statement reflects a broader trend of regulatory agencies losing power to the executive branch.
User is frustrated with Hacker News' unclear dynamics and rules, seeking genuine understanding from others. They want to know the real factors that influence HN's success and what people consistently misunderstand.
Mozilla's new CEO plans to integrate AI into Firefox over three years, making it optional. The move has sparked backlash on social media, with many users expressing concern about the direction of the browser.
Recent research has led to significant advancements in AI coding tools, with median PR size increasing 33% and lines of code per developer growing 76% from March to November 2025. Various models and frameworks have been developed to improve efficiency, scalability, and context handling in coding agents, including DeepSeek-V3, Qwen2.5-Omni, RetroLM, and MEM1.
The author provides a set of heuristic principles for designing distributed systems, emphasizing the importance of abstraction, omission, and declarative specification, as well as the need to check for failures, message reordering, and other edge cases. The principles are based on the author's experience in the field and are intended to help designers think critically about their systems and ...
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The first CVE vulnerability has been assigned to Linux kernel's Rust code due to a race condition in the Android Binder rewrite. This issue can cause a system crash in Linux 6.18 and newer versions.
This course, CS 4973, is an introduction to software development tooling at Northeastern University, teaching four fundamental categories of tooling: the command line, version control, build systems, and correctness. Students will learn industry-standard tools through hands-on projects and exploration of existing codebases.
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Landlords in high-priced metros keep commercial real estate empty due to "extend and pretend" strategy, where they wait for market to change rather than lowering rent and facing foreclosure. This is because lowering rent would make the building worth less than the loan, causing the owner to be underwater and the bank to take a loss.
Internet traffic growth continued in 2025 with Google at the top, followed by Instagram and YouTube. Cloudflare Radar analyzed various trends, including AI bot traffic, HTTP versions, and IPv6 adoption, to provide insights into the Internet's evolution.
The user discovered a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in PostHog by chaining together several issues, including a forgotten webhook URL validation, no SSRF protection on an internal worker, and a Clickhouse PostgreSQL escaping mistake that led to SQL injection. The user was able to exploit these vulnerabilities to gain RCE and execute a reverse shell on the PostgreSQL instance, and ...
Companies are using AI to spy on consumers, track their shopping habits, and raise prices. This has led to calls for regulation, but so far, efforts have been met with resistance from the government and Big Tech.
The WaveletMatrix and DynamicWaveletMatrix structures are implemented in Rust for fast rank/select and range queries with optional dynamic updates. They support various operations like finding occurrences, quantiles, and top-k values.
Lingoku helps you learn Japanese naturally by reading in context with i+1 content and spaced repetition. It uses AI to parse context, highlight relevant words, and provide ultra-fast translations for smooth learning.
The technique involves adding a simple programming question to the application process that only unqualified developers will struggle to solve manually. This helps filter out unqualified candidates and saves recruitment time.
User experienced website outage on Hacker News, unsure if isolated issue. Website uses CDN/cache for logged out users and sometimes displays maintenance messages.
Microsoft will ask for consent before AI Agents access your files in Windows 11's known folders. You can customize file access permissions for each agent, choosing to allow, ask, or deny access.
The user is learning Fortran, a language for high-performance computing, and is using GNU Fortran (gfortran) compiler. They are writing a simple calculator program in free form Fortran.
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A loyal Apple customer had their account locked after a $500 gift card purchase, blocking access to their digital life and devices. Apple's lack of empathy and unclear reasons for the lockout have frustrated the customer and raised concerns about gift card security.
Caroline Ellison, ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, has been transferred to community confinement after serving 11 months of her 2-year prison sentence. Her projected release date is February 20, 2026, nearly 9 months early.
Researchers thank Maximilian Worth and others for assistance and comments on their study on US midlife mortality. The study, supported by grants, explores widening mortality divides in the US.
Researchers argue that AI systems like LLMs are fundamentally different from humans in their computational architecture, data, time, and algorithmic constraints, making them less human-like as they scale. To evaluate human-likeness in AI, a process-focused framework is proposed, involving tools that reveal how LLMs form decisions, update beliefs, and navigate uncertainty, rather than just ...
Kenobi is a platform that adds AI-based content personalization to websites, changing content based on visitor input. It's a pivot from a previous idea, Verdn, and has seen 3x response rates from personalized experiences.
Two engineers at Bell Canada created LANPAR, the first spreadsheet, in 1971. It used a grid of cells with forward references, allowing users to create calculations that referenced yet-to-be-resolved values.
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Ansys Maxwell is used to simulate the magnetization of a specific permanent magnet, the N48SH, using its manufacturer datasheet. The simulation accurately predicts the magnet's operating point, validating the workflow against Maxwell's built-in N48 material.
Netflix is releasing a new FIFA football simulation game exclusively on its platform, allowing users to play solo or with friends online. The game will be available for free to Netflix members and marks a new era of digital football.
GitForms uses GitHub Issues as storage for contact forms with zero monthly costs and automatic notifications. It's suitable for MVPs, side projects, and prototypes with low submission volumes.
P is a state machine based programming language for formally modeling and specifying complex distributed systems. It helps developers reason about correctness and find bugs early through automated analysis and model checking.
Ford initially planned to build electric trucks at BlueOval City in Tennessee but has scrapped those plans, instead opting to build gas-powered trucks there starting in 2029. The company is shifting focus to higher-return opportunities, including electric vehicles with a small gas engine onboard for extended range.
Valmi is a billing system for AI agents that measures outcomes and tracks costs to provide proof of value and expose margin contraction. It helps AI developers onboard customers and set prices for their agents, supporting hybrid billing models and customer dashboards.
Jakarta is now the world's most populous city with 42m people, surpassing Tokyo. Dhaka and Delhi also rose in the rankings, while Tokyo fell to third place.
User sets up deploy keys for Git repositories to avoid credential mix-ups. They paste a private key into the .git directory and add its public key as a deploy key to the remote repository.
The author moved to Latvia for faster and cheaper internet, allowing them to watch Steve Jobs' 2007 iPhone keynote. This sparked the idea for SugarBank, a platform for adult content creators, which ultimately failed due to the author's perfectionism and lack of experience as a CEO.
Mephisto is a privacy-first email service that generates disposable email addresses to protect users from online tracking and data profiling. It uses ephemeral SMTP servers and secure tunnels to ensure anonymity and prevent cross-site correlation attacks.
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The user optimized a SQL query in Scour by using an uncorrelated scalar subquery to skip a correlated subquery, reducing the query time by 17% for users without excluded domains. This approach can help avoid unnecessary subqueries and speed up average case performance, especially when dealing with multiple subquery filters.
To identify and address RC4 usage in Windows Server, enhanced Security Event Log and PowerShell auditing scripts are available in Windows Server versions 2019, 2022, and 2025. These tools help identify accounts using RC4 and provide steps to remediate the issue.
User updated extension settings and reminded to regenerate Access Tokens. User can view the extension in a browser and access help commands.