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.

Elevated Errors for Multiple Models

Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors for multiple models.

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 The major version bump allows Polars to remove outdated design decisions and introduce stricter behavior for error handling and data type conversions.

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).

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.

What I Learned from My Mom (1941-2026)

Mom Gets 6-Mo Suspended Sentence for Letting 5-Year-Old Walk to the Pond

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A Virginia mom was convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for allowing her 5-year-old son to walk alone in their gated community. She faces a six-month suspended jail sentence and will remain on the child abuse registry for seven years.

Intrusive Linked Lists

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Intrusive linked lists are used in Linux to manage processes, reducing memory allocations and cache thrashing. They are mainly used for short or rarely traversed lists.

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

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Gemini 3.8 introduces two variants, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, offering significant improvements in software engineering, agentic tasks, and critical reasoning at the same speed and low cost as version 3.7 Flash.

Muse Spark 1.3

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring in Austin, TX

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The team ships hardware on software tempo, focusing on real deployment, short iteration loops, and hands-on ownership of specs. They prioritize user needs, iterating based on data and affordability, not just roadmaps.

ICE Has a $2M Contract for Spyware That Can Hack Phones Without a Click

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Paragon's Graphite spyware can infect smartphones without user interaction, targeting journalists and activists in Europe. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has a $2 million contract with Paragon, raising concerns about potential misuse of the technology.

Fish Bad, Sugar Good and Other Medieval Ideas About Food

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Medieval people recognized the importance of food for health and categorized foods as hot/cold and wet/dry to understand their effects on the body. They believed that cooking methods and food combinations could change the properties of a food, and moderation was key to maintaining good health.

Nvidia to Acquire Hugging Face

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NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, expanding access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide. The platform will remain open, allowing developers to choose models, frameworks, clouds, and computing platforms they prefer.

Amazon Stonehenge: Parque Arqueológico do Solstício

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The Parque Arqueológico do Solstício, also known as Amazon Stonehenge, is a megalithic site in Brazil featuring 127 granite blocks standing upright in a circle. Archaeologists believe it was built for astronomical and ceremonial purposes around 500-2000 years ago by an indigenous culture.

Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

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Two web-grounded models were asked to provide recommendations in 380 software categories, with 7,534 citations retrieved from their URLs. The majority of these citations point at domains ranked lower than #100,000 or not in the top million.

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

A federal judge ruled that Google must change its advertising technology practices to benefit competitors, but did not need to break up the business. The ruling prevents significant changes to Google's $4.1 trillion power over the internet despite two previous court rulings declaring it a monopolist.

The Computer Museum of America reclamation project

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The Computer Museum of America's collection has been preserved at San Diego State University since 2004, containing a vast array of computer artifacts and archival materials. The collection is being indexed and promoted to serve as a resource for understanding the impact of technology on society over the past 70 years.

Holden's Lightning Flight

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Walter "Taffy" Holden, a 39-year-old RAF engineer, accidentally flew an English Electric Lightning without proper training or equipment on July 22, 1966. He successfully landed the aircraft after aborting two initial attempts and was later cleared of any wrongdoing by an inquiry.

Fuck Off as a Service (Foaas)

FOAAS is a service providing modern, scalable solutions to tell people to 'fuck off' in various formats. It supports JSON and HTML outputs with optional filters and translation options.

Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?

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Users can opt out of Mistral's model training programs at any time, with Vibe users opting in by default and Enterprise customers opted out by default. Users can disable the toggle to prevent data sharing for both Vibe and API services.

Fable 5.1 World Modeling

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This project creates browser-native reconstructions of real places using autonomous agent swarms and open data, with 5.1 worlds available to explore in San Francisco's Union Square area. The code is open-source under the MIT license, derived from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)

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Three Irish teenagers, Émer Hickey and her friends Ciara Judge and Sophie Healy-Thow, discovered that soil bacteria can help improve cereal crop growth by up to 74%. They tested this idea over three years with 13,000 seeds and proved that it works.

Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex

Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

Lloyd, co-founder of RonanRx, is building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, and manufacturing. He aims to connect the disconnected pieces of pharmaceutical manufacturing through his experience in mask production and software development.

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them

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Older adults' brains may blend memories together, causing mix-up errors, rather than simply losing memory accuracy. This blending effect is linked to stronger similarity in brain patterns between learning and recall phases.

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.

A dark horse enters China's AI race: StartLux

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StartLux, a new Chinese company, has developed a local model that surpassed DeepSeek-V4-Pro in the CAICT MCP specialized test with 1.6 trillion parameters. The model's success lies in its ability to complete tasks efficiently and effectively without relying on cloud computing.

Wendell Berry has died

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