OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

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OpenAI's chip, Jalapeño, shows better performance-per-watt than current alternatives. It's designed for inference, reducing costs for running AI models in real-time.

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

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RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers

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RubyLLM is a single Ruby framework for various AI providers. It simplifies AI development with a unified interface for GPT, Claude, and local Ollama.

We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Bunny.net's mission is to make the internet faster by building a massive global network and advanced routing engine, Bunny DNS. Bunny DNS is now free, with no query limits or usage-based charges, making it accessible to everyone.

PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s

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Rahul from Greptile observed a surge in OpenClaw pull requests, mostly low-effort AI-generated submissions, with a 9.3% merge rate. To address this, solutions like Vouch and reputation systems are being developed to filter out malicious or unqualified contributors.

Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

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Gemini 3.5 Flash now natively supports computer use for improved performance in tasks like automation and knowledge work. This feature is available via the Gemini API and Enterprise Agent Platform, with safety measures in place to mitigate risks.

The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader

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The Xteink X4 is a £40 e-ink reader that's small and lightweight, with a crisp display and instant page turns. It's highly portable and can be improved with custom firmware like CrossPoint or Inx.

Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]

Researchers developed a method to crawl BitTorrent's DHTs to create and populate torrent search engines quickly, allowing new sites to spring up almost immediately when existing ones become inaccessible. They also showed that content owners can use related techniques to monitor pirates' behavior in preparation for legal attacks, effectively negating any perceived anonymity of the ...

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

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id Software's early days were marked by technical ambition and overwork, leading to mistakes in game development and corporate management. Quake's success was marred by poor incentives, unrealistic expectations, and infighting among designers.

Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt

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“I often get carried away with work and end up with strained eyes, and LookAway has been a huge help.” “This is by far the most polished and well-executed app in this category I have ever used.”

Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js

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Nub is a TypeScript-first Node.js runtime that provides a faster alternative to existing tools. It offers a package manager, native watch mode, and Node version management.

45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

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NVIDIA's AI servers use 45-degree Celsius liquid cooling, making them more energy efficient and reducing cooling energy consumption by up to 40%. This technology enables data centers to save millions annually in cooling-related energy and water costs.

Stealing Is a Skill

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You're developing a list of advice including a creative mindset, radical transparency, and writing down what makes you happy. You also advocate for "stealing" or building upon others' work, like Virgil Abloh's 3% approach, to learn and create efficiently.

Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model

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Researchers developed Krea 2, a series of foundation models for creative image generation that can produce diverse and controllable images. The models were trained using a large-scale data infrastructure and a multi-stage pipeline that includes pretraining, midtraining, and supervised finetuning to achieve high-quality and stylistically diverse results.

How the Fifth Lateran Council unlocked financial theory

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Medieval economic theory, particularly the Salamancans and Franciscans, laid groundwork for modern finance. The Bishop of Málaga in 1612 created a sophisticated non-profit financial plan using Monte di Pietà and juros to fund charitable causes.

I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?

The user is trying to remove unnecessary functionality from a Linux live image to make it smaller. They are using NixOS to create a minimal virtual machine.

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io

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Crates.io requires a GitHub account for publishing Rust packages, which is seen as a problem due to GitHub's lack of trustworthiness. A roadmap for fixing this issue exists, and volunteer contributions are welcome to help with the necessary work.
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We're taking legal action against Fender's cease and desist demands to protect brand diversity and innovation in the guitar industry. We believe Fender's copyright claims to the Stratocaster's body shape stifle creativity and harm competition.

Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK

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UK government policies threaten online freedom and privacy, prompting concerns about censorship and data storage. The author may consider hosting internet services outside the UK to maintain access to the web.

Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine

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The user successfully ported Wine to their hobby OS Astral, enabling it to run 32-bit Windows games like Cogmind and Deltarune. They also implemented WoW64 support to run 32-bit code on a 64-bit OS, but still face issues with Wine-mono and Steam compatibility.

A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding

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SSH port forwarding explained in a visual way, including local and remote port forwarding, and dynamic port forwarding using the -L, -R, and -D flags. SSH tunneling allows accessing private services from a local machine, exposing local services to the public, and creating SOCKS proxies for flexible network access.

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents

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Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open model that's outperforming closed models. This marks a significant shift in the AI landscape, with open models offering credible alternatives to closed models.

Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

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Monolisa is a typeface built for you, the developers and creatives. it improves code legibility and provides san serif for all design tasks. after using this font for just two days it's grown on me - i really like it. if you need emojis, you can find them in the font's character set. the characters are easy to read, and the style is very clean.

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Johnson and Johnson web apps

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The user found vulnerabilities in two Johnson & Johnson web apps, a college campus recruiting system and an internal audit system, exposing sensitive information of nearly 1,000 students and 13.6k employees. Despite reporting the vulnerabilities in October 2025, Johnson & Johnson only resolved one of them, requiring press involvement to address the second vulnerability.

I taught a bucket to speak Git

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The user created a pure Go library called objgit that allows for a git server to be hosted in object storage without relying on the local filesystem, using the go-git library and the billy filesystem abstraction. The user encountered several challenges and implemented workarounds to optimize performance, including caching pack files and fixing issues with ListObjectsV2 calls, and is now ...

Self-Harness: Harnesses That Improve Themselves

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Researchers introduced Self-Harness, a paradigm where LLM-based agents improve their own operating harness without human engineers. Self-Harness increases held-out pass rates by 21.4% to 61.9% across three diverse base models.

NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute

The National Security Agency lost access to a powerful AI model developed by Anthropic due to export controls imposed by the Trump administration. The AI model, known as Mythos 5, was able to break into classified systems in hours, impressing and alarming N.S.A. analysts.

Big AI labs are hiring philosophers

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The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind T ago, as the revolution was gathering pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make themselves employable, they should “learn to code”. That may have been bad advice. These days, it is programmers who are nervous about taking their jobs.

Why eval startups fail (2025)

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AI eval startups face significant challenges including talent attrition, difficulty finding customers, and immense optimization pressure from model developers, making it hard for them to succeed outside the safety evals niche. However, safety eval startups may have a better chance of survival as they can provide services to technical clients and policymakers, and are less vulnerable to Goodharting.

Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis

A curator arranged a field trip to the Dinosaurs Of China exhibition at Wollaton Hall in 2017. A stitched photo of the Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis skeleton was created from a sequence of photos taken by Matt.