Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s

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Cerebras offers free trial and pay-as-you-go models with rate limits, while dedicated endpoints provide reserved capacity and production SLAs. The company hosts original, unpruned open-source models from the community on its public endpoints.

.name Termination

A user's .name domain is set to be destroyed due to Verisign's proposal, causing their website and email address to vanish. This could lead to potential security risks as vacant 2nd-level domains may become available for registration by others.

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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OpenAI is rolling out its latest AI model, GPT-6 Astra, with enhanced cybersecurity features after a recent breach. The model will be available to select companies and users across various plans in the coming days.

K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models

IFM is releasing K2 Horizon, a connected fleet of six models with top-tier performance across various tasks. The models are released under the Apache 2.0 license and provide an open blueprint for understanding and advancing AI systems.

Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived

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You'll draw, step by step: a year, a place, a life, each taken at random from real data. Almost everyone who ever lived was born recently, because population grew exponentially, so a random birth is far more likely to fall near the present.

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

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The author of the game Babylonian Twins, built in 1993 on an Amiga 500, has had his original code ported to modern platforms using AI assistance. The port was done by running the original assembly code through a model that could understand and execute it.

Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

OpenAI and Claude experienced downtime, causing users to migrate to each other, resulting in a cascading effect of distributed system overload. This led to further denial-of-service (DOS) issues as users shifted between providers.

Artificial beaver dams saw juvenile coho salmon survival rates go from 8% to 60%

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Researchers built artificial beaver dams in northern California to recreate lost wetlands and boost coho salmon survival. The project, published in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, showed significant success with juvenile coho survival rates increasing from 8% to 60%.

Static Allocation, Constant Work

The author discusses the "hardest problem" in memory safety, which is avoiding use-after-free errors when using union types. They propose a solution by introducing object pools that track spare objects of different types, reducing type confusion and aliasing.

Audacity 4.0

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Audacity 4 rebuilds the interface on Qt with new features and improvements. It offers various quality-of-life changes, including clip editing, track management, and plugin support.

Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring – Founding Creative Engineer

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GooseWorks is building self-improving AI agents to run growth for consumer brands, and they're looking for someone to own growth and distribution. The ideal candidate will have a strong sense of design, technical AI video skills, and the ability to think in systems.

“We want it to really confuse people, but also really make people happy”

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The author discusses how they've been inspired by projects like Playdate, PICO-8, and Infinite Mac that blend old and new elements to create unique gaming consoles. These projects aim to avoid "design fatigue" by focusing on the right details.

GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet

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Scientists have discovered that a massive solar storm in November 2025 caused widespread disruptions to the US atmosphere, including coast-to-coast disturbances and significant errors in GPS positioning. The effects of this event could have been devastating for industries relying on precision navigation, such as autonomous vehicles and agriculture.

Unusual Suspects

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Google Antigravity TOS: 3rd party usage can get Google account suspended

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Antigravity's terms of service can suspend Google accounts for suspected third-party usage, potentially leading to account bans. Using Antigravity outside of official surfaces risks losing entire Google accounts and could be considered life-ruining.

Unified Arabic

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Nasri Khattar, a Lebanese architect, developed Unified Arabic in 1932 to simplify the complex writing system and make it more legible on typewriters. His project aimed to reduce the number of letter variations from hundreds to just 30 forms, making it easier for people to learn and read Arabic.

VC isn't VC anymore

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Venture capital has become corrupted by a small group of billionaire investors who use their funds to advance an agenda with no accountability. These "Cancer Capital" firms have warped the structure of venture capital into a form of oligarchy that concentrates power and wealth in their hands.

How to get a free .arpa domain

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A user can reserve .arpa domain space by registering an IPv6 address and its corresponding ip6.arpa records, allowing for a custom website. This is done through services like Hurricane Electric's tunnelbroker.net and deSEC, which handle DNS setup.

Launch HN: Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents

Ansh, Mireye founder, is building an AI infrastructure for agents to make decisions about physical places with data, enrichment tools and signals. He's testing it on various locations and gathering feedback from users who are using the API in innovative ways.

How to Talk About Murder: Edgar Allan Poe's stories are full of ghastly crimes

A thousand years older than Stonehenge: Archaeologists explore a Czech sanctuary

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Archaeologists have discovered a 6,500-year-old ritual center near Chleby in Central Europe that predates Stonehenge by 1,000 years. The site features a circular enclosure with entrances aligned to track solar and lunar cycles.

Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere

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Scientists have discovered a 10-sided polygon, or decagon, around Saturn's south pole, similar to the planet's six-sided hexagon at its north pole. The discovery suggests that Saturn may be prone to forming polygons in both hemispheres surrounding polar regions.

Pre-Release of Polars 2.0

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Polars 2.0 is released as a release candidate, featuring improved defaults and API changes for better performance and memory usage. The major version bump allows Polars to remove outdated design decisions and introduce stricter behavior for error handling and data type conversions.

Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap

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Shin Jin-seo, a 26-year-old South Korean Go grandmaster, defeated the world's top AI engine KataGo in a historic three-game series under a two-stone handicap.

The browser's main thread is expensive

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Frontend optimization involves managing the main thread, which handles tasks such as JavaScript execution, drawing, and event handling. To optimize performance, developers can use techniques like splitting tasks into smaller chunks (splitting), batching similar tasks together (batching), prioritizing and deferring non-essential work to free up resources for critical tasks (prioritizing and deferring).

My practical approach to surfing the web safely

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The author describes their setup for private and secure browsing using Firefox with enhanced tracking protection and uBlock Origin, while also exploring alternatives like Vivaldi and Ungoogled Chromium. They highlight the trade-offs between privacy, performance, and compatibility across different browsers.

Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face

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Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, expanding access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. The deal marks Nvidia's second-biggest purchase after its $20 billion acquisition of Groq assets last year.

Usbsid-Pico: Bridging Real Commodore 64 Sound to Modern USB

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LouD created USBSID-Pico, a USB-controlled SID device for Commodore 64 enthusiasts, using Raspberry Pi Pico microcontrollers. The project allows users to play SID tunes on real vintage hardware or modern replacements with precise timing and control.

Invisible Companies

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Steve Ross built Time Warner into a media giant by buying mundane companies, including funeral parlors and rental car services, which were easy to compete in. He used these businesses as stepping stones to acquire the legendary Warner Bros. movie studio.