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Hacker News – 15 Nov 2025
Today at 10:03 AM
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Tech Innovations and AI Projects AI World Clocks A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform Programming Languages and Development Tools So, you want to design your own language? (2017) Ohm Editor Löb and Möb: Loops in Haskell Networking and Security The Internet Is Cool. Thank You, TCP No Leak, No Problem – Bypassing ASLR with a ROP Chain to Gain RCE SSL Configuration Generator AMD's GPU Developments AMD GPUs Go Brrr HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kern...Hacker News – 14 Nov 2025
Yesterday at 10:02 AM
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Testing and Optimization Tools RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web 650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark Creative Innovations Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation Blender Lab Historical Insights and Cultural Reflections What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review? Sarah Mason, inventor of the continuity script Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign How to Get a North Korea / An...Hacker News – 13 Nov 2025
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Android Developments Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project Gaming Innovations Steam Machine Steam Frame Security and Tech Insights Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper that uses 1 GB RAM when idle AI and Language Models GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT Continuous Autoregressive Language Models Miscellaneous The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia Human Fovea DetectorHacker News – 12 Nov 2025
Last Wednesday at 10:03 AM
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AI Innovations Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models' Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence Development Upgrades .NET 10 Heroku Support for .NET 10 .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser Tech Culture & Community Laptops with Stickers Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers Science & Technology X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch Stochastic computing Gadgets & Innovations A modern 35mm film scanner for home The history of Casio watchesHacker News – 11 Nov 2025
Last Tuesday at 10:02 AM
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Film & Nostalgia The 'Toy Story' You Remember When Soviet-made cars roamed Singapore roads Tech Innovations SanDisk launches dongle-like Extreme Fit USB-C flash drive with up to 1 TB AI documentation you can talk to, for every repo Creative Processes & Design Why Effort Scales Superlinearly with the Perceived Quality of Creative Work Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming Historical Discoveries Unix v4 Tape Found Real VT102 Emulation with MAMEHacker News – 10 Nov 2025
Last Monday at 10:02 AM
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Tech Tributes and Innovations XSLT RIP Realtime BART Arrival Display Beets: The music geek's media organizer Retro Computing Adventures Installing and using HP-UX 9 DEC64: Decimal Floating Point (2020) How the UK lost its shipbuilding industry Legislation and Digital Rights Montana becomes first state to enshrine 'right to compute' into law Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban Environmental Concerns and Innovations EU takes aim at plastic pellets to prevent their nightmare cleanup Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video] Computing Insights...Hacker News – 09 Nov 2025
Last Sunday at 10:02 AM
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Operating Systems and Security Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel Defeating Kaslr by Doing Nothing at All Runc breaks pods when CPU requests aren't multiples of 10 Programming Languages and Tools Marko – A declarative, HTML-based language Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language Control structures in programming languages: from goto to algebraic effects Unique Innovations and Studies Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated Study finds memory decline surge in young people Community Projects and Insights Open-source communications by b...Hacker News – 08 Nov 2025
11/08/2025
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Programming Languages & Frameworks Why is Zig so cool? Snapchat open-sources Valdi a cross-platform UI framework Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages Why I love OCaml (2023) Friendly Attributes Pattern in Ruby Software Development Practices Becoming a Compiler Engineer How to find your ideal customer, right away Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD Technology & Society YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' Apple's "notarisation" – blocking software freedom of developers and users Innovative Concepts Making Democracy Work: Fixing and Simplifying Egalitarian Paxos Local Fi...Hacker News – 07 Nov 2025
11/07/2025
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Impactful Departures and Innovations Leaving Meta and PyTorch A Fond Farewell A startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean Adventures in Software and Security Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site You should write an agent Two billion email addresses were exposed Cutting-Edge Developments in AI and Design Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model Game design is simple JermCAD: Browser-Based CAD Software Exploring Science and Technology Analysis indicates that the universe’s expansion is not accelerating Cryptography 101 with Alfred Menezes From web deve...Hacker News – 06 Nov 2025
11/06/2025
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Programming Innovations Erlang Meets Idris: Cure Programming Language Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops) The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025 User Experience and Community Dynamics What the hell have you built End of Japanese community Sustainability and Innovation Solarpunk is happening in Africa Scientists growing colour without chemicals Tech and Society ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair Cultural Reflections NY school phone ban...Hacker News – 05 Nov 2025
11/05/2025
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AI Trends and Innovations Developers are choosing older AI models, and the data explains why Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python Tech History and Legacy Mr TIFF This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm The Hackers Manifesto (The Conscience of a Hacker) (1986) Cutting-Edge Technology Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access ...Hacker News – 04 Nov 2025
11/04/2025
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Global Navigation Challenges You can't cURL a Border AI's Dial-Up Era Tech Deployment Insights Lessons from interviews on deploying AI Agents in production Pain Points of OCaml Software and Hardware Innovations Some software bloat is OK A friendly tour of process memory on Linux Creative Projects and Nostalgia Things you can do with diodes When stick figures fought Shoutouts and Humor Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gymHacker News – 03 Nov 2025
11/03/2025
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Electric Innovations Tiny electric motor outperforms record holder by 40% Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023) Historical Tech Marvels Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020) Web and AI Advances ECL Runs Maxima in a Browser Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch Programming and Methodology Insights Why don't you use dependent types? URLs are state containers Fun and Creativity Facts about throwing good partiesHacker News – 02 Nov 2025
11/02/2025
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Deep Learning Insights Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016) How I use every Claude Code feature Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography Operating Systems and Compiler Innovations Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997 Notes by djb on using Fil-C (2025) Database Management Tools CLI to manage your SQL database schemas and migrations AI and Content Creation Why do AI models use so many em-dashes? Pomelli Miscellaneous Tech Wonders Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 8088 Microprocessor FlightAware Map DesignHacker News – 01 Nov 2025
11/01/2025
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Math and Algorithms Show HN: Strange Attractors Beyond Smoothed Analysis: Analyzing the Simplex Method by the Book Retro and Programming Insights How I stopped worrying and started loving the Assembly Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches Security and Privacy Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors New Technologies and Innovations Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser Viagrid – PCB template for rapid PCB prototyping with factory-made vias [video] Startup Culture and Communication The profitable st...Hacker News – 31 Oct 2025
10/31/2025
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AI and Reasoning Models Reasoning Models Reason Well, Until They Don't Result is all I need Claude.ai Is Down Hardware Innovations AMD Could Enter ARM Market with Sound Wave APU Built on TSMC 3nm Process Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture Software and Tools Affinity Studio now free NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times Creative Tech and Culture Florian Schneider Collection: Instruments and equipment up for auction Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works Programming Philosophy<...Hacker News – 30 Oct 2025
10/30/2025
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Python and Development Tools Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres Iommi – your first pick for a Django power chord Cloud and Server Innovations Tell HN: Azure outage Tailscale Peer Relays IRCd service (2024) Gaming and Community Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition Environmental Tech China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990 Philosophy and Perception Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on rea...Hacker News – 29 Oct 2025
10/29/2025
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Android Control and Freedom Keep Android Open What we talk about when we talk about sideloading Health and Wellness in Tech Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste Innovations in Technology Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself? Powerful and precise multi-color lasers now fit on a single chip The Changing Landscape of Browsers and AI ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web Generative AI Image Editing Showdown Industry Updates and Reactions YouTube is taking down videos on...Hacker News – 28 Oct 2025
10/28/2025
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AI and Mental Health OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly Claude for Excel Tech Innovations and Tools MCP-Scanner – Scan MCP Servers for vulnerabilities JetKVM – Control any computer remotely Historical Insights and Nostalgia Picture gallery: Amiga prototype "Lorraine" at the Amiga 40 event Pyrex catalog from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf] Science and Society Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization Dust samples from moon's far side show debris from rare, water-rich meteorites Programming and Development Easy RISC-V Simplify your code...Hacker News – 27 Oct 2025
10/27/2025
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Travel & Adventure The last European train that travels by sea Tech & Security Insights Recall for Linux If Your Adversary Is the Mossad (2014) [pdf] Innovations in Media & Programming Why JPEG XL Ignoring Bit Depth Is Genius (and Why AVIF Can't Pull It Off) Show HN: Write Go code in JavaScript files Coding & Development Techniques How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist) Nostalgia & Reflections Ken Thompson recalls Unix's rowdy, lock-picking...Hacker News – 26 Oct 2025
10/26/2025
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Tech Innovations and Developments Pico-Banana-400k GenAI Image Editing Showdown D2: Diagram Scripting Language Cautionary Tales in Safety A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool Eavesdropping on Internal Networks via Unencrypted Satellites Cultural Reflections and Historical Insights Asbestosis Cubical Quad Antennas and Margaret's Letter Energy and Sustainability California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking Programming Insights The Journey Before main() Writing a RISC-V Emulator in RustHacker News – 25 Oct 2025
10/25/2025
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Cross-Platform Innovations The Swift SDK for Android Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways Health and Human Enhancement People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses Study: MRI contrast agent causes harmful metal buildup in some patients Emerging Technologies and Techniques Luau's Performance Context engineering is sleeping on the humble hyperlink Code Like a Surgeon Societal Impacts of Technology Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake...Hacker News – 24 Oct 2025
10/24/2025
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Tech Innovations & Updates Roc Camera Claude Memory JupyterGIS breaks through to the next level Gaming & Economics Counter-Strike's player economy is in a multi-billion dollar freefall Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18 Social & Cultural Commentary Britain's most tattooed man says UK's age check told him to "remove his face" Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023) Technical Challenges When is it better to think without words? How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go Sustainability & Innovation Can “second life” EV batteries work as g...Hacker News – 23 Oct 2025
10/23/2025
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Audio & Development Innovations VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT Programming with Less Than Nothing Scripts I wrote that I use all the time Security Concerns Google flags Immich sites as dangerous Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs Quantum Computing Breakthroughs Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware New Technologies & Tools TP-Link conducts Wi-Fi 8 trials, promises better reliability and lower latency JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart Fun & Games Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using...Hacker News – 22 Oct 2025
10/22/2025
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Satellite Connectivity & Open Source Concerns Greenland Ditches Starlink for French Satellite Service MinIO (apparently) becomes source-only Guitar Apps & Go Programming Insights Show HN: Cadence – A Guitar Theory App Go Subtleties You May Not Know Innovative Technologies & Engineering Marvels Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls AI Challenges & Security Discussions LLMs can get "brain rot" Ask HN: Our AWS account got compromised after their outage Software Development & Cost-Efficiency Show HN: Modshim – A new alternative to monkey-patching in Python Replacing a $3...Hacker News – 21 Oct 2025
10/21/2025
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Multilingual Innovations and Language Challenges Language Support for Marginalia Search Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system Web Development and Gaming Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia Tech Insights and Historical Reflections The Tyrrany of Literacy. On oral tradition and what is lost Human Error Cripples the Internet (1997) Performance and Optimization Challenges When Compiler Optimizations Hurt Performance My trick for...Hacker News – 20 Oct 2025
10/20/2025
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Emerging Technologies and Innovations DeepSeek OCR Forth: The programming language that writes itself Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware Cloud Services Outages Major AWS Outage Happening AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more Networking Insights Entire Linux Network stack diagram (2024) Give Your Metrics an Expiry Date Community and Learning Doing well in your courses: Andrej's advice for success (2013) Pointer Pointer Miscellaneous Tech News Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption Bat v0.26.0 Released Novo Nordisk's Canadian MistakeHacker News – 19 Oct 2025
10/19/2025
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Tech Innovations and Discoveries Show HN: Newcomer Ranking – Alternative to GitHub Trending for New Repos How does Turbo listen for Turbo Streams K8s with 1M nodes Cultural Reflections and Societal Trends GoFundMe CEO: economy is so bad his customers crowdfund to pay for groceries Why the open social web matters now Historical Insights and Scientific Breakthroughs Secret diplomatic message deciphered after 350 years Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site Creative Concepts and Design Exploration Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on r...Hacker News – 18 Oct 2025
10/18/2025
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Audio Innovations StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source AMD's Chiplet APU: An Overview of Strix Halo AI and Future Technologies Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP Software and Development Ruby Blocks Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support Culture and Society New Work by Gary Larson The pivot Miscellaneous Insights Live Stream from the Namib Desert 4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondenceHacker News – 17 Oct 2025
10/17/2025
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DRM and Content Access How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing AI Innovations Claude Skills Codex Is Live in Zed Social and Ethical Implications Ring to partner with Flock, a network of cameras used by ICE, feds, and police Meow.camera Data and Development Reworking Memory Management in CRuby Your data model is your destinyHacker News – 16 Oct 2025
10/16/2025
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Open Source Controversies Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019) Innovations in Coding New coding models and integrations Claude Haiku 4.5 Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development Tech Tools and Resources JustSketchMe – Digital Posing Tool Build a Superscalar 8-Bit CPU (YouTube Playlist) Hardware Highlights Apple M5 chip Are hard drives getting better? Social Issues in Tech Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules The Econ...Hacker News – 15 Oct 2025
10/15/2025
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Open Source & Software Freedom FSF announces Librephone project Interviewing Intel's Chief Architect of x86 Cores Updating Desktop Rust AI & Security Innovations Pixnapping Attack Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI How AI hears accents: An audible visualization of accent clusters Hardware Developments Nvidia DGX Spark: great hardware, early days for the ecosystem How bad can a $2.97 ADC be? Hacking the Humane AI Pin Cloud & Performance Benchmarks Unpacking Cloudflare Workers CPU Performance Benchmarks Just Talk to It – The No-Bs Way of Agentic En...Hacker News – 14 Oct 2025
10/14/2025
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AI Innovations and Challenges NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy Why the push for Agentic when models can barely follow a simple instruction? LLMs are getting better at character-level text manipulation Programming Language Insights Why Study Programming Languages Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial vali, a C library for Varlink Security and Technological Developments Modern iOS Security Features – A Deep Dive into SPTM, TXM, and Exclaves Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia First device based on 'optical thermodynamics' can route light without switches Health Tech and Societal Refl...Hacker News – 13 Oct 2025
10/13/2025
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PDF Tools and Innovations Spotlight on pdfly, the Swiss Army knife for PDF files MicroPythonOS – An Android-like OS for microcontrollers Networking and Security Wireguard FPGA A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler Programming and Development Tools Tauri binding for Python through Pyo3 MAML – A new configuration language Community Projects and Collaboration Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025) 3D-Printed Automatic Weather Station Tech in Culture Jeffrey Hudson the Court Dwarf of the English Queen Henrietta Maria of France HTTP3 ExplainedHacker News – 12 Oct 2025
10/12/2025
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AI Insights and Innovations Meta Superintelligence's surprising first paper Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial Paper2Video: Automatic Video Generation from Scientific Papers Database Developments Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18) I/O Multiplexing (select vs. poll vs. epoll/kqueue) Tools and Applications Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS Show HN: Sober not Sorry – free iOS tracker to help you quit bad habits Blossom – Heroku-like deploys on your servers; cheaper, no lock-in Privacy and Ethics Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year CBP En...Hacker News – 11 Oct 2025
10/11/2025
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Web Innovations HTML's Best Kept Secret: The Output Tag Intelligent Search in Rails with Typesense Gaming and Graphics AMD and Sony's PS6 Chipset Aims to Rethink the Current Graphics Pipeline OpenGL: Mesh Shaders in the Current Year Creative Technologies I Built Physical Album Cards with NFC Tags to Teach My Son Music Discovery Show HN: A Digital Twin of My Coffee Roaster That Runs in the Browser Codec Developments AV2 Video Codec Delivers 30% Lower Bitrate than AV1 Lánczos Interpolation Explained Curiosities and Oddities How H...Hacker News – 10 Oct 2025
10/10/2025
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Nobel News and Frameworks Nobel Peace Prize 2025: Mar\u00eda Corina Machado Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps Development Strategies and AI Vulnerabilities My approach to building large technical projects (2023) A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size Innovative Technologies and Programming Practices Parallelizing Cellular Automata with WebGPU Compute Shaders Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it? Consumer Awareness and Robotics I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played Introducing Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robotHacker News – 09 Oct 2025
10/09/2025
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Health and Nutrition Innovations First-in-the-nation law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches Tech Governance and Development The React Foundation: The New Home for React and React Native Talk Python in Production Mathematics and Theory The Unknotting Number Is Not Additive Software Development Trends The Debugging Book WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration Data Privacy and Industry News Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular dealsHacker News – 08 Oct 2025
10/08/2025
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Corporate Moves and Acquisitions Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS Sales Plummet Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino AI and Software Engineering Gemini 2.5 Computer Use Model Vibe Engineering Tech Innovations and Tools Working Pipe Operator Today in Pure JavaScript Show HN: Timelinize – Privately Organize Your Own Data from Everywhere, Locally Mathematics and Theoretical Breakthroughs Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos The Case for an Iceberg-Native Database Cultural Reflections IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021 A PhD in SnapshotsHacker News – 07 Oct 2025
10/07/2025
