Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Cloudflare and Stripe partnered to allow coding agents to provision Cloudflare accounts, subscriptions, and domains without human intervention. Agents can now deploy apps to production with zero friction for the end user.

StarFighter 16-Inch

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This laptop features a true matte display, haptic trackpad, and open firmware options for customization. It also includes a removable webcam, wireless switch, and durable ceramic coating for a secure and long-lasting experience.

CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”

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The user built CARA 2.0, an upgraded version of their quadrupedal robot CARA 1.0, with a goal of making it low-cost and durable, and achieved a significant reduction in cost while retaining dynamic functionality. The user rewound the motors to increase torque, modified the motor controller firmware, and redesigned the robot's leg and frame to improve its performance and aesthetics, ultimately ...

Batteries Not Included, or Required, for These Smart Home Sensors

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Researchers created metal tags with unique frequencies for smart home sensing and activity recognition. The tags can be attached to various objects to track activities, monitor usage, or trigger timers.

DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved

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DENIC eG is experiencing a DNS service disruption for .de domains causing DNSSEC-signed domains to be unreachable. DENIC's technical teams are working to restore stable operations as quickly as possible.

Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters

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We introduced Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for Gemma 4, delivering up to 3x speedup without quality degradation. MTP decouples token generation from verification, utilizing idle compute to predict future tokens and verify them in parallel.

Knitting bullshit

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The user discusses "knitting bullshit" as a type of discourse that lacks connection to truth and reality, exemplified by AI-generated podcast episodes and animated films that celebrate knitting without providing accurate information or engaging with the craft's history and practices. The user argues that this type of content degrades the knitting community and industry by parasitizing and ...

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Users are frustrated with YouTube's unreliable feeds in feed readers and lack of effort to surface links to these feeds. They want to follow their favorite creators without relying on the platform's algorithms and homepage feeds.

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

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You've released a full reverse-engineering of the 1998 Ultima Online demo server, translating 5,000 functions from MSVC x86 to portable C99. The result is an almost perfect replica of a 1998 Ultima Online server with some differences and new features.

Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents

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Telus is using AI to alter offshore call centre agents' accents in real time to reduce friction. Labour groups have called the practice deceptive and urged regulators to require customer disclosure.

Write some software, give it away for free

The author of Nonograph website opposes monetizing software development, as it turns passion into a job and leads to user-hostile features. They believe software development should be treated as a hobby, focusing on experience and discovery over financial gain.

245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

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Micron Technology announced the 245TB Micron 6600 ION SSD, the world's highest capacity commercially available SSD. It reduces rack space by 82% and power consumption by half compared to HDD-based deployments.

Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs

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We compared two AI agent approaches for operating an admin panel: vision agents and API agents. Vision agents are more expensive and less reliable due to the need for explicit UI walkthroughs and high input token counts.

The Boring Internet

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Twitter changed hands, changed names, and changed shape, and the version of it you knew is gone. Reddit went public. Google search now returns generated answers stapled to half a dozen ads. Instagram is bots making content for bots. Discord servers you joined in 2019 have gone quiet. The blogs you read in 2012 redirect to parked domains. The forums where you learned what you know got bought, ...

Three Inverse Laws of AI

The author proposes the Inverse Laws of Robotics to prevent humans from blindly trusting AI systems, which can lead to societal dangers, and emphasizes the need for humans to remain responsible and accountable for AI use. The three laws are: humans must remain responsible for AI consequences, not anthropomorphise AI, and verify AI output before accepting it as authoritative.

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]

Make some art with your phone sensors

tilt moves the pen — vertical position picks a violin note (pentatonic, snapped). sound input sets brush size and bow pressure (volume + brightness). camera sets ink color and the violin's tone (warm hues = darker, cool = brighter). connection speed tints the background and sets reverb size — slow & cavernous, fast & dry. Touch the canvas to override the pen.

Why most product tours get skipped

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Most users dismiss the first step of a product tour within seconds. Here is why that happens, what users do instead, and the one pattern that actually drives activation.

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

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The Pentagon fired the Stars and Stripes ombudsman without reason, citing non-grievability. This move comes as the Pentagon restricts editorial independence and attempts to control the newspaper's content.

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

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User tried replicating a retro multi-stroke text effect using CSS text-stroke property, but achieved desired result by varying text-stroke-width for stacked elements. Browsers automatically draw outlines of characters with different stroke widths, but performance is poor, especially with large font sizes.
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on users' devices without consent, violating Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR principles of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency. The model's environmental cost is significant, with estimated CO2-equivalent emissions ranging from 6,000 to 60,000 tonnes per model push, depending on the number of devices affected.

Wiki Builder: Skill to Build LLM Knowledge Bases

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The user created Wiki Builder, a Claude Code plugin that simplifies building LLM knowledge bases by scaffolding a clean folder layout and seeding prompts for compiling pages and linting the structure. The plugin is general and adaptable, allowing users to create different types of wikis with their own configurations and templates, and can be installed from the DAIR Academy Plugins marketplace.

Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

You've requested a page on a website (x.com) that tried to apply a rewrite rule, but that rewrite is not valid. If you are owner of this website log in to the dashboard and check the rewrite rules to make sure they produce valid rewrites.

Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks

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Browse, search, and filter beautiful color palettes inspired by the Old Masters.

I'm scared about biological computing

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The user is disturbed by a lab-grown neuron system trained to play DOOM, blurring the line between AI and human consciousness. They worry about the commercial incentives driving this technology, potentially leading to a human biocomputer trapped in a simulated hell.

Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

Michel, CEO of Airbyte, introduces Airbyte Agents, a unified data layer for agents to discover information and take action across operational systems, addressing issues with current MCPs. Airbyte Agents uses a Context Store to provide a structured way for agents to discover data, reducing API calls and improving performance.

Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python

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In this example, we are going to look at a program which simulates cooking an omelette: With only one cook, there is no problem. However, if we introduce a second cook into the kitchen, then we start having potential problems. In programming terms, if we make this single-threaded program concurrent, then the resources become shared, and we have to handle contention. After all, both cooks ...

Agents for financial services and insurance

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Claude releases 10 ready-to-run agent templates for financial services tasks, expanding its partner ecosystem and capabilities across Microsoft Office.

GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents

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GLM-5V-Turbo is a multimodal agent model that integrates perception and action capabilities. It achieves strong performance in multimodal tasks while preserving text-only coding capability.

How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website

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Company A needs to organize its sites for multiple products with different audiences, making it easy to find relevant product information and understand how products work together. To achieve this, define user goals, consider format, audience, and information receptiveness, group content by user goal, and use taxonomy to guide users and provide intuitive navigation.