Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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Claude's Cowork allows users to give Claude access to folders and complete tasks with more agency than regular conversations. It's designed for non-coding tasks and can be made more powerful with existing connectors and skills.

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

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Apple is partnering with Google to use Gemini models for Siri's AI features, citing Google's technology as the most capable foundation. The multi-year deal will unlock new experiences for Apple users, with Google's market value surpassing $4 trillion.

Statement from Jerome Powell

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The Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment over interest rate setting. This is seen as an attempt to politicize monetary policy and intimidate the Federal Reserve.

There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape

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User found a disposable vape with USB-C and rechargeable battery, containing a microprocessor, display, and circuit boards. Despite its complexity, user was unable to communicate with the device using PyOCD or other tools.

Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids

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The user built a custom remote control for their 3-year-old son that uses a floppy disk to store media content, allowing the child to make independent choices and interact with the TV in a physical and tangible way. The project involved modifying a floppy disk drive, adding an RFID tag, and using microcontrollers to read the disk contents and control the WiFi communication, resulting in a ...

TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875

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A language model trained on 1800-1875 London data emulates the voice and worldview of the era. It recalls historical events and figures, producing 19th-century language and behavior.

Postal Arbitrage

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A person found items under $0.78 with free shipping on Amazon Prime and sent them to friends with a note, creating a fun surprise. This sparked a family group chat with random item exchanges, including a pregnancy test to a grandmother.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy

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Americans taking appetite-suppressing drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy reduce household food spending by 5.3% within six months. Lower-income households see the steepest drop, with higher-income households experiencing a drop of over 8%.

Date is out, Temporal is in

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JavaScript's Date object is flawed and inconsistent, leading to widespread use of third-party libraries. A new Temporal object is being developed to replace Date, offering a more modern and sensible way to handle dates in JavaScript.

LLVM: The bad parts

The author, the lead maintainer of the LLVM project, lists several issues with the project, including insufficient review capacity, frequent API changes, and slow build times, and suggests ways to address these problems. The author also mentions several other issues, such as the need for end-to-end testing, better handling of undefined values, and improved performance tracking infrastructure, ...

Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome F. Powell [video]

Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients

Anthropic closed a loophole in their API, rejecting third-party clients, and lost customer goodwill. This move may have given rival OpenAI an opportunity to gain ground in the LLM market.

The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

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Ramp built Claude Code, an AI agent, to manage a park in RollerCoaster Tycoon, demonstrating its strengths and weaknesses in automating tasks. The project highlights the importance of environment legibility and feedback loops in agent design, showcasing the potential and limitations of coding agents in real-world applications.

Xfce is great

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The user praises Xfce for its simplicity, balance, and longevity, citing its ability to remain usable and feature complete despite minimal changes. They hope Xfce never "innovates" beyond its current form, valuing its stability and consistency over trendy UI changes.

Lock-Picking Robot

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An open source lock-picking robot uses a hollow key and wire to brute force combinations, making it vulnerable to security pins and high entropy locks. The robot is intended for locksmiths and lock sports, but raises security concerns due to potential misuse.

Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)

ts_zip compresses text files using a Large Language Model, requiring a GPU and 4 GB RAM, with a high compression ratio but slow speed. It supports English and other languages, including source code, with deterministic and reproducible results.

Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux

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Win8De is a Linux shell for Wayland window managers that provides a Windows 8-like interface with animations and features. It can be installed and configured to run on Linux systems, with customizable settings and support for drag and drop functionality.

Google removes AI health summaries

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Google removed some health summaries after a Guardian investigation found false and misleading information. The AI Overviews still contain potentially harmful answers for certain queries despite the removals.

X Didn't Fix Grok's 'Undressing' Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It

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Elon Musk's X has limited Grok image generation to paying subscribers, but experts say it's a minimal step that doesn't address the root issue of nonconsensual explicit imagery. The change allows X to profit from harm, critics argue.

Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C

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Zen C is a modern systems language compiling to C/C11 with features like type inference and async/await. It supports C ABI compatibility and has a directive for Immutable by Default mode.

Lightpanda migrate DOM implementation to Zig

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Lightpanda replaced LibDOM with a custom Zig-based DOM implementation called zigdom, resulting in a more cohesive codebase and easier extension. The new implementation also includes a leaner Node structure, lazy property loading, and V8 snapshot integration for improved performance and startup time.

Uncrossy

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Show HN: AI in SolidWorks

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LAD is a SolidWorks Add-in that uses natural conversation to create CAD models and assemblies. It verifies operations, corrects mistakes, and stores checkpoints for control and reproducibility.

Ai, Japanese chimpanzee who counted and painted dies at 49

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Ai, a 49-year-old chimpanzee known for her cognitive skills, died of old age and organ failure at a Japanese institute where she lived since 1977. She was a key subject in the Ai Project, a research program that studied her memory, learning, and creativity.

Statement from Federal Reserve Chair

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The Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment over interest rate setting. This is seen as an attempt to politicize monetary policy and intimidate the Federal Reserve.

Iran has now been offline for 96 hours

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Himalayas bare and rocky after reduced winter snowfall, scientists warn

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The Himalayas are experiencing a significant drop in winter snowfall, with most winters in the last five years seeing a decrease compared to the average snowfall between 1980 and 2020. This dwindling snowfall, combined with accelerated glacier melting, poses a major crisis for the region, impacting water supplies, ecosystems, and the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

Code is cheap now, but software isn't

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The rise of AI-powered tools like Claude Code is shifting software development from a focus on building long-lasting platforms to creating disposable, personal tools that solve specific problems. While these tools have lowered the barrier to entry, engineering expertise remains valuable, and true expertise is now required to steer these systems and provide technical oversight that AI currently lacks.

Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse

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Ireland's Oireachtas committee head calls for a Bill to criminalise AI-generated deepfakes and image misuse. The Bill aims to protect individuals from non-consensual intimate image sharing and child sex abuse imagery.

Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions

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The user created a free and open-source way to get an interactive web terminal to a GitHub Action when it fails, using a Peer-to-Peer connection with WebRTC and OAuth/OIDC for authentication. The service is hosted on Railway, a cloud platform that only charges for actual CPU and memory usage, and uses a sleeping feature to reduce costs when the service is idle.

Go-legacy-winxp: Compile Golang 1.24 code for Windows XP

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go-legacy-win7 is a Go fork for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 support. It maintains classic go get behaviour and provides a stable Go environment for legacy systems.

Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

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To run AI coding agents in YOLO mode, install yolobox with curl or clone and build it, then use yolobox to run commands like yolobox run claude.

Why we built our own background agent

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Ramp built Inspect, a coding agent that verifies its work by having all context and tools needed, allowing for fast and effective coding sessions. The Inspect system includes a sandboxed VM, integration with various tools, and multiplayer support, making it a powerful tool for developers.

Reproducing DeepSeek's MHC: When Residual Connections Explode

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Transformers use a residual connection design since 2016, where one stream of information flows through the network with each layer adding to it. Hyper-Connections, a different approach, expands to n parallel streams but can amplify signals, leading to instability and potential collapse.

Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

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Agent of Empires (aoe) is a Rust tool using tmux to manage AI coding sessions, with profiles for separate workspaces and sessions. It provides commands for launching, checking, testing, formatting, and debugging code, with known issues when connecting via SSH.

Which programming languages are most token-efficient?

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The author analyzed the token efficiency of various programming languages using the Rosetta Code project and found a significant gap between the most and least efficient languages. Dynamic and functional languages like Haskell and F# were found to be more token efficient than expected.

Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use

Open-Meteo provides accurate hourly weather forecasts through global and local models, updated every hour with real-time data from various sources. Its APIs are free for non-commercial use, user-friendly, and offer comprehensive documentation for seamless integration into projects.

Superhuman AI Exfiltrates Emails

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Superhuman AI had a vulnerability allowing attackers to exfiltrate sensitive emails without user awareness. The vulnerability was rapidly remediated by the Superhuman team.

The Emacs Widget Library: A Critique and Case Study

The Emacs widget library is powerful but painful to work with due to its simplicity and lack of documentation, making it suitable for simple UIs but not complex ones. A new library called vui.el is available to provide a more pleasant development experience by handling state management and layout while still using the widget library under the hood.

Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)

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Message queues are like post offices for data, moving messages from one place to another, and are perfect for situations where systems need to communicate without waiting. They work by receiving messages from producers, lining them up, and sending them to consumers, making them ideal for microservice architectures.

The Z80 MemΒ­berΒ­ship Card (2015)

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The Z80 Membership Card is a retro-style microcomputer that fits in an Altoids tin, allowing users to build and program their own computer. It comes with a kit, manual, and parts to create a classic 8-bit computer with CP/M operating system.

Impeccable Style

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Anthropic's frontend-design skill was built upon with curated patterns and 17 commands. Extract the ZIP to apply the skill and commands, or use the skill explicitly in your prompt.

A Brief Introduction to the Basics of Game Theory

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Game theory basics include strategic decision making and predicting outcomes in situations with multiple players. It involves analyzing choices and payoffs in games to determine optimal strategies.

Fossil versus Git

Fossil and Git are both distributed version control systems with similar features, but Fossil has additional capabilities like an integrated wiki, ticketing, and a web UI. Fossil is easier to set up and use, especially for self-hosted projects, and has a smaller footprint than Git.

Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association

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A custom-built workstation was created to test a new AF_XDP underlay for the SCION OSS, which aims to improve data plane performance for the SCION inter-AS routing architecture. The workstation features a 12-core Intel Xeon CPU, 3x Mellanox NVIDIA BlueField-2 smart NICs, and a total of 64 PCIe Gen5 lanes, with a budget of around $4,700 USD.

Keychron's Nape Pro turns your keyboard into a laptop‑style trackball rig

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Keychron's Nape Pro is a modular control surface that combines a trackball with a macro pad, allowing users to customize its functions based on their workflow. It features a slim design, quiet buttons, and a chameleon-like software system called OctaShift that adapts to its orientation.

Show HN: Fall asleep by watching JavaScript load

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A user created a bedtime story project with a spinning loader to help with sleep. The project is available at http://bedtime.my and can be added to phone home screens for fullscreen display.

The five orders of ignorance (2000)

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Presidential Immunity in the United States

The US Supreme Court ruled that sitting presidents have absolute immunity for official acts within their constitutional powers, presumptive immunity for other official acts, and no immunity for unofficial acts. The court's decision in Trump v. United States (2024) clarified the scope of presidential immunity.

Ideas are cheap, execution is cheaper

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The author reflects on how execution, not ideas, is now the key to success in software development. With tools like Claude Code, anyone can build and ship software quickly.

Gadget Exposed a Spy Camera [video]

Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada

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The largest parrot rescue in eastern Ontario is launching a pilot project to help address what experts are calling a parrot crisis. CTV’s Katelyn Wilson reports

IKEA for Software

The user discusses the challenges of building software systems from scratch and proposes a top-to-bottom approach, where developers start with a pre-existing template and customize it to meet their needs. They suggest creating an "IKEA of software" where developers can share and package their code in a standardized way, allowing users to deploy preconfigured cloud applications with ease.

A deep dive on agent sandboxes

The user discusses the importance of sandboxing in coding agents to prevent permissions escalation and data loss, and highlights the Codex CLI's use of macOS's Seatbelt and Linux's Landlock for sandboxing. The Codex CLI's sandboxing implementation allows for customizable restrictions and approval policies, making it a more secure and practical solution for running coding agents.

Interview Coder Just Leaked Full Names and Companies of All SWEs Who Cheated [video]

Computers that used to be human

In the past, a "Computer" referred to a human who performed calculations, often for taxes or other complex tasks. The term "Computer" was later replaced by electronic machines, but the original human Computers were skilled professionals, usually women, who used tools like lookup tables and slide rules.

US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into Federal Reserve chair

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Goldman Sachs' chief economist Jan Hatzius warns that a criminal indictment threat against Jerome Powell has undermined central bank independence. Markets are concerned that Trump's implied intervention could lead to inflation getting out of control.

Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language

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Cue Does It All, but Can It Literate?

CUE is a tool that generates complex files, validates data, and serves as a Literate Programming tool. It ensures code and documentation stay in sync by defining parts and stitching them together programmatically.

Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation

US officials urge Trump to test Iran's limits, while Iran warns of war and US bases at risk. Iran protests escalate with over 500 dead, US considers intervention.

2025 marked a record-breaking year for Apple services

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Apple services had a record-breaking year in 2025, with significant growth, global expansion, and innovation across Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and more. Apple services delivered enriching experiences to users worldwide, with over 850 million average weekly users on the App Store and Apple Pay eliminating over $1 billion in fraud.

Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks

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A Waymo self-driving car was caught on camera driving down Phoenix light rail tracks, forcing a passenger to flee before it continued near an oncoming train. The incident highlights the challenges of autonomous vehicles in unexpected situations, but experts say they are likely safer than human drivers.

Reducing Dependabot Noise

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To manage Dependabot at scale without sacrificing velocity, optimize dependency workflows by implementing strategies such as cooldowns, batching updates, and adding review requirements. By doing so, you can reduce risk, improve stability, and increase productivity in your enterprise team.

Common misunderstandings about large software companies

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Large software companies face coordination challenges due to their size, not technical limitations. Criticisms of these companies often miss the structural reasons behind their processes and behaviors.

Non-Essential French Embassy Staff Have Left Iran

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I Taught Myself to Code on a Cracked Android Phone. Now I Can't Get Hired

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The user is a self-taught developer from an African country who learned to code on an Android phone with a cracked screen and went on to work at Bellingcat as a Tech Fellow. Despite having achieved success, the user faces challenges in the job market due to lack of formal education and feels discouraged by the increasing use of AI coding agents and the emphasis on educational requirements ...

Anker goes big with new whole home backup system

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Anker's Solix E10 big-ass battery system offers whole-home backup solutions for US homeowners to counter blackouts and reduce energy bills. The system starts at $4,299 and can power entire homes with optional add-ons for intelligent control and automatic cutover.

Why Ontario Digital Service couldn't procure '98% safe' LLMs (15M Canadians)

The user proposes an architectural primitive called Authority Boundary Ledger to address institutional adoption of AI by making authority constraints persistent and mechanically enforceable. This primitive treats organizational constraints as first-class persistent state, enabling deterministic tool filtering and mechanical guarantees for high-stakes environments.

Update on age requirements for apps distributed in Texas

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A Texas district court injunction suspended enforcement of SB2420, prompting Apple to pause implementation plans and monitor the legal process. Apple's compliance tools remain available for testing and will also aid developers with upcoming laws in Utah and Louisiana.

Altaid 8800 (2024)

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A person built a pocket-sized 8080 microcomputer, the Altaid 8800, using vintage parts and through-hole techniques, inspired by the Altair 8800. The kit includes a CPU card, MIO card, and manual, and can run the CP/M-80 operating system with a 61K TPA and 448K RAM-disk.

Show HN: Pane – An agent that edits spreadsheets

The spreadsheet software allows users to sort, filter, and calculate data, and create various charts with drag-and-drop functionality. It securely stores data in the cloud, supports multiple file formats, and automatically generates professional dashboards.

Post-PARA: What survived 4 years of real use

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The user adapted PARA to include tasks, using Notion's relational database structure, and learned to trust manual input over automation. They found that simplicity and actionable task phrasing were key to a productive system, and that continuous tuning and adaptation are essential.

How to Build Reactive Declarative UI in Vanilla JavaScript

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The article demonstrates a reactive, declarative UI flow using vanilla JavaScript, Web APIs, and Proxy-based state tracking without a dedicated UI library. This approach enables declarative behavior, improved clarity, and maintainability, and shows that frameworks are optional for achieving abstraction.

Feature Selection: A Primer

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To select the top 15 most relevant features from 500 factors for a loan default prediction model, a junior Machine Learning Engineer can use various filter methods such as Pearson's r, Kendall's Tau, Spearman's Rho, and the Chi-Squared test, each suited for different types of data and relationships. These methods can help identify the best features by measuring correlation, monotonic ...

Sergei Fedorov's Escape from Soviet Union Helped Save Red Wings (2020)

Sergei Fedorov defected from the Soviet Union on July 23, 1990, to join the Detroit Red Wings. He was lured by a lucrative offer from the team and a desire to escape the Soviet hockey system.

Playing Arcade Mahjong at Home? Or is it just a Mirage?

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The user discusses adding mahjong to a supergun, focusing on the technical side of strip mahjong arcade games, and analyzes the hardware of Mitchell's 1994 Mirage Youjuu Mahjongden. The game is a two-player mahjong game with anime-style art and a simple storyline, but is considered hard and unfair due to its cheating mechanics.

Show HN: Seapie – a Python debugger where breakpoints drop into a REPL

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Seapie is a debugger with a user experience focused on discoverability and simplicity. It allows Python expressions to walk through code execution without magic syntax and provides a variety of debugging commands.

Exasol Personal – Democratizing Big Data Analytics

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Exasol Personal is a free analytics tool for personal use at any scale, offering enterprise features without limits. It allows users to spin up a distributed cluster on their own hardware in minutes, supporting massive parallel computation and AI workloads.

I Accidentally Finished a Filesystem

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HN4 is a high-speed storage engine for modern hardware that uses Ballistic Addressing and transaction rings for instant access speeds and crash safety. It has features for AI workloads and supports multiple GPUs with optimized data travel time.

Brain: PC virus [audio]

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The 'Welcome to the Dungeon' computer virus spread worldwide in 1986 after appearing on computer screens. It was created by Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Alvi from their Lahore shop.

Zorgdomein Integration: A Guide to Secure .NET and Azure Architecture

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A Dutch healthcare client required a robust integration with Zorgdomein, a national healthcare portal, for bidirectional exchange of patient documents and treatment information. The integration involved mTLS handshaking, JWT authentication, and FHIR mapping to ensure security, compliance, and data integrity.

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Shopify CEO vibe codes an MRI viewer

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just this one: This is a USB Stick of my MRI. Find all reports, find all images, use imagemagick to convert them into something useful, and get everything into a structured directory in the ./output folder that's worth retaining. Then, make an index.html that's a full exploration tool for the results. Use /frontend-skills and /generate-image skills if necessary. /frontend-skills you ...

Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to make shopping AI-native

Google's Universal Commerce Protocol aims to standardize commerce flow for AI agents to make purchases directly without custom integrations. This could weaken marketplace lock-in by shifting discovery and checkout to AI-driven intent flows.

Computational complexity of schema-guided document extraction

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The user's team initially assumed structured outputs solved the document extraction problem but found that enforcing structured outputs during generation is not free and can degrade extraction quality, especially with complex schemas. To address this, they are developing tools to analyze schemas, explore adaptive constraint strategies, and optimize grammar compilation to improve document ...