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.

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

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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.

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. ...

Qualcomm to Acquire Modular

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We’re making Bunny DNS free

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Bunny.net's mission is to make the internet faster by building a massive global network and advanced routing engine, Bunny DNS. Bunny DNS is now free, with no query limits or usage-based charges, making it accessible to everyone.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elastic lays off 7% of employees

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Elastic announced a 7% workforce reduction due to industry changes and the need to move faster and operate leaner. The company is shifting its pace of innovation, simplifying operations, and investing in new skills to lead in the changing technology landscape.

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.

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.

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 ...

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days

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id Software's early days were marked by technical ambition and overwork, leading to mistakes in game development and corporate management. Quake's success was marred by poor incentives, unrealistic expectations, and infighting among designers.

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.

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.

Stealing Is a Skill

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You're developing a list of advice including a creative mindset, radical transparency, and writing down what makes you happy. You also advocate for "stealing" or building upon others' work, like Virgil Abloh's 3% approach, to learn and create efficiently.

I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs?

The user is trying to remove unnecessary functionality from a Linux live image to make it smaller. They are using NixOS to create a minimal virtual machine.

Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt

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“I often get carried away with work and end up with strained eyes, and LookAway has been a huge help.” “This is by far the most polished and well-executed app in this category I have ever used.”

It's Only When You Look Back

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The user reflects on the rapid changes in technology over their lifetime, from 8-bit computers to modern laptops and the internet, and shares their personal experiences with various technologies and trends. They look back at their website's 25-year history, recalling their early days with HTML, Linux, and Unix, and how their interests and expertise evolved over time.

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.

PostgreSQL is enough (2024)

Robotics Teams Are Rebuilding the Data Stack from Scratch

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Robotics teams face a "data layer tax" due to immature data infrastructure, hindering progress in robot learning. This tax compounds with data scale, source variety, and curation sophistication, affecting iteration speed and model performance.

GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io

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Crates.io requires a GitHub account for publishing Rust packages, which is seen as a problem due to GitHub's lack of trustworthiness. A roadmap for fixing this issue exists, and volunteer contributions are welcome to help with the necessary work.

How the Fifth Lateran Council unlocked financial theory

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Medieval economic theory, particularly the Salamancans and Franciscans, laid groundwork for modern finance. The Bishop of Málaga in 1612 created a sophisticated non-profit financial plan using Monte di Pietà and juros to fund charitable causes.

Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

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The author used Traefik for a short time but encountered issues with routing and dropped requests during a rolling deploy. They switched to HAProxy which solved their problems with its redispatch feature.

Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK

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UK government policies threaten online freedom and privacy, prompting concerns about censorship and data storage. The author may consider hosting internet services outside the UK to maintain access to the web.

Dostoyevsky isn't difficult

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When I was twelve or fourteen I got halfway through War and Peace. Unfortunately, the vagaries of Russian names befuddled me, and pretty soon I didn’t know what was going on and didn’t really care. But for a long time after this point, I carried the fat paperback around, and read it ostentatiously at the coffee shop where the pretty barista worked. (For the record, this gambit was not ...

Show HN: Monolisa v3 – a typeface for developers and creatives

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Monolisa is a typeface built for you, the developers and creatives. it improves code legibility and provides san serif for all design tasks. after using this font for just two days it's grown on me - i really like it. if you need emojis, you can find them in the font's character set. the characters are easy to read, and the style is very clean.