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sshole | EP #215

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AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt | EP #214

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Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data | EP #213

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Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen | EP #212

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Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN | EP #211

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HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN | EP #210

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Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace | EP #209

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Patrick Stewart has died | EP #208

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Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons? | EP #207

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Ghostty 1.4 | EP #206

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Anthropic S-1 | EP #205

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A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis | EP #204

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Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin | EP #203

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Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you | EP #202

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Quad9 to exit France | EP #201

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PHP 8.2.35 | EP #200

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DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models | EP #199

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It's still ok to enjoy programming | EP #198

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Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text | EP #197

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DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 | EP #196

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Tesla Roadster | EP #195

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Muse Spark Open | EP #194

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Things to know when you get cancer | EP #193

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Redesigning source control at Anthropic | EP #192

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Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe | EP #191

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Passkeys are a trap | EP #190

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2D Vehicles | EP #189

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Cloudflare acquires Deno | EP #188

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Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? | EP #187

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Margaret Hamilton has died | EP #186

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Mistral Large 4 | EP #185

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Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge | EP #184

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Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s | EP #183

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We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything | EP #182

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Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility | EP #181

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Pi 1.0 | EP #180

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Gemini 4 Argon | EP #179

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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price | EP #178

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Sonnet 5.5 | EP #177

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When did Google get so weird? | EP #176

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PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock | EP #175

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Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face | EP #174

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F-Droid 2.0 | EP #173

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Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy | EP #172

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Claude Opus 5.5 | EP #171

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MiMo v2.6 | EP #170

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Qwen Image 2.1 | EP #169

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AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible | EP #168

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Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP | EP #167

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Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep | EP #166

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Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust | EP #165

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Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations | EP #164

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XCancel service is suspended until further notice | EP #163

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Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher | EP #162

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We must pace the frontier | EP #161

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A misalignment of AI in mathematics | EP #160

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Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin | EP #159

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iPhone Duo | EP #158

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Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf] | EP #157

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216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] | EP #156

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Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice | EP #155

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Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns | EP #154

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Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board | EP #153

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.name Termination | EP #152

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Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | EP #151

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Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 | EP #150

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Playa Phone | EP #149

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Creepy Crawlies | EP #148

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Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux | EP #147

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GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven | EP #146

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Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache | EP #145

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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B | EP #144

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Dolly Parton has died | EP #143

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How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs | EP #142

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typ.ing | EP #141

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ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs | EP #140

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Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results | EP #139

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AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint | EP #138

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A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare | EP #137

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The Amazon tax | EP #136

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AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) | EP #135

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Claude: System Prompts | EP #134

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AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain | EP #133

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Qwen 3.8 27B | EP #132

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Gemini 3.7 Flash | EP #131

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Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug | EP #130

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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs | EP #129

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Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows | EP #128

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How I use LLMs to learn complex topics | EP #127

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Fastmail offers EU data region | EP #126

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What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers | EP #125

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Mario Meets Pareto | EP #124

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Discovery Loop | EP #123

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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years | EP #122

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LLMs reward expertise | EP #121

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Don't be a meat proxy | EP #120

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How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) | EP #119

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Elevators | EP #118

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UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions | EP #117

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Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac | EP #116