AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed

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TensorZero is a unified API gateway for LLM providers, offering performance, incremental adoption, and compatibility with major providers. It enables companies to optimize complex LLM applications with production metrics and human feedback.

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

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Researchers at UC San Diego are building a 2,000-phone computing cluster to reduce carbon emissions from computing. The cluster will provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for researchers and students, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware.

An Interview with Intel's Kira Boyko: Xeon 6's Product Director

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Kira Boyko is the Product Director of Intel Xeon 6+, defining product features based on market requirements and customer needs. She discussed AET (Intel Application Energy Telemetry) and its benefits for tracking energy usage at a hardware core level.

Leaving Mozilla

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The user, a Mozilla employee leaving after 15 years, expresses concerns about the company's direction and leadership, citing a focus on chasing big ideas and emulating other companies rather than staying true to its open-source and community-driven roots. They urge Mozilla to refocus on its core strengths, shore up its core features, and reconnect with its community, rather than trying to be ...

Introduction to the experience of rendering Arabic typography&its technical debt

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A frontend ticket was incorrectly assigned to the user, who had to explain to the design team that the issue with Arabic text rendering was due to the lack of shaping engines in the web, not a bug in the stylesheet. The user then went on to explain the history of Arabic typography, the importance of shaping engines, and the challenges of rendering Arabic text on the web, including the use of ...

Electric motors with no rare earths

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Renault Group is a pioneer in electric motors without magnets, using electrically excited synchronous motors (EESM) technology. Their range includes 5A, 5AL, 6A, 6AM, and 6AK motors with outputs from 57 to 160 kW.

The state of building user interfaces in Rust

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Several Rust GUI frameworks exist, including Azul, CXX-Qt, Leptos, and Ribir, offering various features and performance. These frameworks aim to provide fast, cross-platform, and native GUI development for desktop, web, and mobile applications.

Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire

The map visualizes EDCS inscriptions with extracted personal names, allowing zooming and filtering by name, province, or date. Name extraction is 80-85% accurate, with errors that can be reported using the Flag this entry button.

CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers

Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have developed a CRISPR-based approach to selectively destroy cancer cells with a specific mutation in the p53 tumor suppressor gene. This method, called RNA-triggered chromatin shredding, can target "undruggable" cancers and potentially open up new targets for cancer therapy.

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

Arch Linux's AUR repository saw over 1,500 user-contributed packages compromised with malware. Developers have deleted all known malicious commits, but some affected packages may still exist.

Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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The US government has issued a directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 due to a potential jailbreak method, citing national security concerns. Anthropic is complying with the directive but disagrees with the decision, stating it's a misunderstanding and is working to restore access as soon as possible.

Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration

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Paca is a self-hosted project management platform that enables AI agents and humans to collaborate as equal teammates in a Scrum team. It offers a configurable and extendable workflow, data model, and UI via plugins.
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Open source AI must win

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The public risks losing operational freedom if AI access depends on closed institutions and shifting terms. America must maintain freedom to run, inspect, and modify AI infrastructure with global open standards.

The computer science degree isn’t dead

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Recent engineering graduates face a 6.1% unemployment rate, but underemployment is low at below 20%. Engineers rank among the top fields for overall labor market outcomes despite a mismatch between job postings and actual hiring.

Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the Most Dangerous AI Model

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User tested Anthropic model with a personal game idea, Shepherd's Dog, and it successfully generated a 2,319 line game in one shot. The model's output was a fun and accurate representation of the user's idea.

How to setup a local coding agent on macOS

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User upgraded Gemma 4 to MTP, achieving 72.2 tokens/second on an Apple M1 Max. MTP draft model improved performance by 24% with optimal settings found to be 3 draft tokens.

Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game

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A daily hole of mini golf. Same hole for everyone, new one at midnight Pacific.

Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware

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Malware developers added nuclear and biological text to spyware to evade AI security scanners. This highlights the need for balance between safety and functionality in AI models.

There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing

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The US government has banned access to Anthropic's Fable and Mythos models due to national security concerns, citing a potential method of bypassing the models. This move has sparked concerns about government regulation of AI and the potential restriction of strong language models for public use.

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

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Apple rewrote the TrueType hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift to improve security and performance, achieving a 13% speed increase and exact compatibility with the C implementation. The Swift interpreter's design and optimizations, such as using noncopyable structures and Span, demonstrate the language's ability to balance safety, ergonomics, and performance, making it suitable ...

Sam Bankman-Fried loses bid to appeal against fraud conviction in FTX case

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A three-judge panel upheld Sam Bankman-Fried's 25-year prison sentence for FTX's collapse, rejecting his appeal of a fraud conviction. Bankman-Fried is eligible for release in 2044 after stealing $8 billion from FTX customers.

Every Frame Perfect

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UI should be polished and consistent, with every frame mattering to build trust with users. A well-designed UI should look good in all states, not just start and end.

Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

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Depthfirst's autonomous security agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, including 8 with assigned CVEs, using a specialized security agent that analyzes code and generates concrete, reproducible PoC inputs. The agent found a heap buffer overflow in FFmpeg's AV1 RTP depacketizer that can be triggered by a single 183-byte packet, allowing an attacker to redirect execution and ...
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The House passed H.R. 6028, a bill that would change the US Copyright Office's structure and make it more political. The bill would transfer power from the Library of Congress to the Register of Copyrights, a presidential appointee.

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

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Generate dashboards and analysis in BitBoard using AI chat or coding agents to create connected assets. Store connections, queries, and code for reproducible analysis and collaborate with teams in the browser.

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

Show HN: Lightweight Task queue on Erlang/OTP, SQLite-backed, no overengineering

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EZRA is a persistent task queue backed by SQLite and powered by Erlang/OTP runtime, allowing services and workers to run in any language with a Redis client. It ensures tasks are never silently lost and can be retried with a visibility timeout.

Automating Myself Out of Development

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The user shares their experience with Claude Code, an AI-assisted development tool, and how they evolved their workflow to automate tasks, delegate thinking, and improve productivity. They emphasize the importance of understanding the limitations of AI and not delegating thinking, highlighting the need for human oversight and review to maintain code quality and prevent technical debt.

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

User upgraded from RTX 5080 to a refurbished RTX 3090 for AI experiments. They successfully set up both cards on an Asus Prime X570-Pro motherboard, achieving 80+ tokens/sec with Qwen 3.6 model quantized at q8.