Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

A utility company's website had a big problem with a lengthy application process. The solution was to build a new version using Astro, an HTML-first approach, which doubled the company's users overnight.

Textbooks Should Be Free

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This article is a short (well, not that short) summary of our experiences in writing a free online text book known as Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (OSTEP for short, and sometimes pronounced "oh step"). It has been developed by myself (Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau) and my wife (Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau) over the past many years while teaching CS 537, the undergraduate Operating Systems ...

I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

Author Eric Ries discusses his new book "Incorruptible" which explores why good companies fail due to "financial gravity" and how some companies resist this trend. He aims to provide insights on how to prevent this from happening.

PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you

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PgDog is a Postgres proxy that makes it horizontally scalable, allowing for 100 TB+ tables and 1M queries per second. It's open source, with over 1.4M Docker pulls, and a growing community for support.
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Postgres by Example

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PostgreSQL is a powerful open-source relational database. It requires installation and a running server to use.

Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications

Burr is a Python framework for building AI applications with state management and debugging tools. It provides a robust framework for designing complex behaviors and is easier to use than other platforms like LangChain.

Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor

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Mercedes-Benz starts large-scale production of its electric axial flux motor at its Berlin-Marienfelde plant. The motor is used in the new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe and marks a technological innovation in electromobility.

macOS Container Machines

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Container machine provides a seamless Linux environment on Mac, offering fast, lightweight, and persistent integration. It allows users to access their Linux environment from any terminal, edit on Mac, build inside, and test applications across various distributions.

All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

Japan's railway network expanded from a single line in 1872 to over 9,000 stations by the 21st century. The map shows stations opening over time, revealing Japan's geography through railway development.

Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway

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DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation

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DiffusionGemma is an experimental open model that generates text 4x faster than typical LLMs by processing entire blocks simultaneously. It's designed for researchers and developers exploring speed-critical workflows, but has lower output quality than standard Gemma 4 models.

Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage

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HelixDB: a graph-vector database for knowledge graphs and AI memory. Built from scratch in Rust. HelixDB is a database that makes it easy to build all the components needed for AI applications in a single platform. You don't need a separate application DB, relational DB, vector DB, graph DB, or application layers to manage the multiple storage locations. HelixDB gives your agents ...

Who Runs Your Rust Future? Hands-On Intro to Async Rust

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The user discusses the importance of understanding async programming in Rust, particularly the Future, poll, and Waker concepts, and how they can be used to build a one-shot channel for sending and receiving values between threads. The user provides a step-by-step implementation of a one-shot channel using the standard library and the three pieces of the async puzzle: the Future, its poll, ...

A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent

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Blue41 helped Bunq secure its AI assistant against spearphishing risks by identifying an indirect prompt injection vulnerability. The issue is a broader architectural challenge for financial institutions deploying AI assistants that process untrusted inputs.

The Last Evolution, by John W Campbell Jr. (1932)

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Last Evolution, by John Wood Campbell This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Last Evolution Author: John Wood Campbell Illustrator: Leo ...

'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings

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Diego Garate Maidagan, a professor of prehistory and Palaeolithic art, is studying the cave paintings at Altamira in northern Spain, which date back 34,000 years. He believes the paintings were made by early Homo sapiens who used sophisticated techniques to create vivid images.

Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster

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Speedrunner SHiFT shares a dirty tactic to beat SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom in record time by smudging the game disc. This method involves strategically placing smudges to cause lag clipping, but risks damaging the game or console.

Who's the Smartest Corvid?

Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for decades and stripping them for parts. And now, the thing that’s making all publishers wring their hands is AI – publishers are seeing massive drops to their web visits as AI scrapes their content and ...

Reviving Papers with Code

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Recent AI systems have achieved strong results on various benchmarks but lack economically meaningful deployment across many professional domains due to evaluation problems. Researchers have proposed several solutions, including Agents' Last Exam (ALE), RLinf-VLA, SkillOpt, Harness-1, SCAIL-2, WhisperKit, Mirage, SearchSwarm-30B-A3B, Docling, Agent Lightning, MinerU2.5, GLM-4.5, and Cosmos 3, ...

Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?

Large companies often prioritize performative actions over actual progress, creating a demoralizing work environment. This can be seen in excessive 1:1 meetings and focus on superficial tasks rather than meaningful contributions.

AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models

Anthropic requires 30-day data retention for Mythos-class models on Bedrock for misuse detection. Data is deleted after 30 days, except in safety investigations or legal cases.

The iPad was on Tailscale: a WebRTC debugging story

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A developer encountered a blank page issue with their p2claw app on an iPad, but not on other devices. The issue was caused by a combination of a hardcoded constant in webrtc-rs and a design decision in Tailscale that dropped IPv6 fragments.

Claude Fable 5

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Claude Fable 5 is a state-of-the-art AI model with exceptional performance in various areas, but it comes with risks and requires safeguards to prevent misuse. The model is released with conservative safeguards that trigger in less than 5% of sessions, and a trusted access program will be expanded to allow more users to access its capabilities.

Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12

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npm v12 introduces security changes to npm install, requiring explicit opt-in for scripts and Git dependencies. Upgrade to npm 11.16.0, review warnings, and use npm approve-scripts to allow trusted packages.

US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%

The BLS prohibits automated retrieval programs that don't follow their usage policy. This is to ensure timely access to information for all customers.

Show HN: Ustps (UDP Speedy Transmission Protocol Secure) and USSH

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USTPS does not implement congestion control. If the network is congested, USTPS does not try to slow itself down like TCP. It is intentionally speed-first and UDP-like in that respect. USTPS is no longer just a proof of concept. It is currently in the Beta phase. If --cipher is omitted or set to auto, the server uses the cipher requested by the client. TOFU (Trust On First Use) is enabled on ...

Hacking for Defense Stanford 2026 – Lessons Learned Presentations

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Hacking for Defense, a class at Stanford, teaches students to solve national security problems using Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps methodology, with 70 universities participating worldwide. This year's teams used AI tools to build minimal viable products and interviewed 1132 beneficiaries, stakeholders, and industry partners to understand and help solve complex national security problems.

German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews

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A German court ruled Google directly liable for its AI search overviews, not just a list of search results. The court found Google's AI made false claims about two publishers, which Google couldn't verify or correct.

Magnetoelectric antennas could transform how underwater robots talk

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Researchers at the University of Florida developed BlueME, a new underwater communication system that lets AUVs exchange data reliably at distances of up to 730m using 10 watts of power. BlueME uses magnetoelectric antennas that improve in performance when submerged, allowing for real-time autonomy and potential applications in fleet navigation and seafloor mapping.