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Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

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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.

Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

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Cloudflare upgraded its OAuth engine to improve performance and security. The upgrade allowed for self-managed OAuth, enabling customers to create and manage their own OAuth clients.

Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion

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Animation starts with defining the canvas in the .markdy file. Actors are placed with at (x, y) and can have optional modifiers, with special functions like var, def, and $ for referencing and creating templates.

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

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This is an umbrella issue for the LuaJIT 3.0 syntax extensions. The documentation will be evolved and updated in the first comment below. 1 Please feel free to discuss the choice, design and semantics of syntax extensions in this issue. ...

Blogging can just be stating the obvious

John Gruber criticizes annoying website popups and meta comments on blogging. He suggests a key ingredient to blogging is stating obvious truths that others are not saying.

Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley

F roam Silicon Valley. Locals are familiar with the unicorn, a startup valued at more than $1bn, the centaur (worth $100m) and the decacorn ($10bn). Lately another creature has been stalking the land: the “zombie” unicorn: a firm once worth $1bn-plus but now a mere shadow of its former self—a prospect to keep venture capitalists (s) awake at night.

Dostoyevsky isn't difficult

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The author had a difficult time reading War and Peace as a teenager due to Russian names but later found Dostoyevsky's works readable and enjoyable. Dostoyevsky's stories endure due to their simple yet beautiful prose and relatable descriptions of human nature.

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

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Mixing Visual and Textual Code

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Hybrid ClojureScript is a new programming language that combines textual and visual syntax for geometric ideas. It allows developers to add interactive visual elements to their code without disrupting their workflow.

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.

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.

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: Write SaaS apps where users control where their data is stored

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LinkedRecords is a NoSQL database that can be connected to directly from a single-page application without backend code. It provides a simple, flexible, and decoupled architecture with built-in authorization.

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.

Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?

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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.

Matt's Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped the Web

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A high schooler named Matt Wright launched a website in 1995 sharing basic website tools, including the popular web forum app WWWBoard. His site, Matt's Script Archive, inadvertently highlighted the gap between user needs and developer perspectives, leading to widespread use of poorly designed but functional software.

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.

15 sorting algorithms in 6 minutes (2013) [video]

Ending respiratory infections

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Intercept is a $500 million philanthropic initiative that aims to develop broad-spectrum preventatives and air cleaning technologies to reduce the global burden of respiratory infections. The goal is to catalyze the development of safe and tolerable preventatives that will prevent more than 75% of symptomatic respiratory infections and deploy air cleaning technologies that safely reduce ...

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.

The Unbearable Cheapness of Open Weight Models

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You're concerned about high costs of Anthropic and OpenAI models, comparing them to cheaper alternatives like DeepSeek and Xiaomi's Mimo. You worry they may be using luxury branding to restrict access to competition.

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 ...

Optimizing [sqlx:test] rebuild time

The author of a Rust project encountered slow rebuild times due to sqlx tests, which generate a lot of code. They found that loading migrations at runtime instead of compilation time significantly reduced rebuild times.

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.

Exploring the internal representations of Pangram 3.3.2

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Pangram's AI detection model uses a bucket-based classification system and internal representations to distinguish between human and AI text. The model's activations reveal structure, including model-family information and humanized text occupying separate regions of activation space.

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.