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Thu, Sep 10, 2026
58 stories · 1 worth reading in full
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Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin shopify.engineering
Shopify is migrating its mobile apps from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin because AI coding agents have drastically reduced the cost of maintaining two separate codebases.
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DeepSeek v4.1 Flash twitter.com
DeepSeek has launched V4.1-Flash, a highly efficient AI model based on a new asymmetric architecture that balances intelligence and cost.
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More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math mathstodon.xyz
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Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables blog.jim-nielsen.com
Keeping a diverse collection of old cables is a practical necessity because the specific needs of today can be arrived at from items stored for over a decade.
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Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft rustfoundation.org
Microsoft has designated Rust as a Tier-1 language to ensure it has the same level of support and production readiness as C++, C#, and TypeScript.
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Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h? rivendell.dmitrybrant.com
Relativity Park is an interactive simulation that makes the complex concepts of special relativity observable by drastically reducing the speed of light to 5 kilometers per hour.
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I have a theory that software drives people insane graybeard.ing
The inherent flexibility and low perceived cost of changing software lead to a professional culture of constant, unnecessary mutation.
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Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence techcrunch.com
The board of directors at Automattic has forced founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg into a leave of absence, appointing CFO Mark Davies as interim CEO.
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List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games consumerrights.wiki
Four California consumers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Sony Interactive Entertainment, alleging the company misleads customers by using ownership language like 'Buy Now' when users are actually only purchasing a revocable license.
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Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra cognition.com
SWE-2 is a new coding model that optimizes the trade-off between performance and cost by scaling reinforcement learning to a multi-trillion parameter regime.
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The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021 honestlyranked.com
Streaming subscriptions have become significantly more expensive over the last five years, with a standard basket of nine major services increasing in cost by 61%.
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Technique for Manipulating Satellite Photos Now Reveals Ancient Images (2025) spinoff.nasa.gov
A NASA image-processing technique called decorrelation stretch is now being used by archaeologists to uncover faded ancient rock art and other historical artifacts.
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What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? devblogs.microsoft.com
Windows XP used a one-pass random selection algorithm, specifically a case of reservoir sampling, to choose a default user profile picture.
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OpenAI Agents API developers.openai.com
The OpenAI Agents API provides a managed framework for creating durable cloud agents that can execute code, use external tools, and manage complex tasks via the Codex harness.
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Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls pv-magazine.com
Hitachi is launching the Y-series EcoCute CO2 heat pump water heaters in Japan to help homeowners better integrate solar power and optimize electricity costs.
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Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom musictheory.pugetsound.edu
Traditional music theory education often relies on outdated models that fail to capture how music is actually created and understood in the modern era.
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OpenAI might have stolen another major proof twitter.com
OpenAI's Astra model may have achieved mathematical breakthroughs by absorbing unpublished human work from private conversations rather than through autonomous discovery.
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Neki – Sharded Postgres planetscale.com
PlanetScale is launching Neki, a sharded Postgres solution designed to help databases scale beyond the limits of a single machine.
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Stockfish 19 stockfishchess.org
Stockfish 19 is a major new release of the open-source chess engine that provides significant improvements in play strength, analysis accuracy, and cross-platform compatibility.
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All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it mathstodon.xyz
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The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac auberon.xyz
A vulnerability in how macOS handles WebGPU shaders allows an untrusted website to freeze the entire system by creating an infinite loop.
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Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou bsky.app
OpenAI is facing allegations from researchers claiming the company trains its models on human conversations and then presents the resulting capabilities as algorithmic breakthroughs.
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Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract latimes.com
Nearly 1,900 employees at Blizzard Entertainment have ratified union contracts after two years of negotiations.
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Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] youtube.com
YouTube provides a standard set of legal guidelines and operational terms to govern the user experience and platform safety.
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Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE codeberg.org
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I think I hate the internet strategictree.bearblog.dev
The modern internet has evolved from a tool for connection into a source of societal harm and personal exhaustion.
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Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent engadget.com
Meta has taken over the social media handles of the rock band Muse to use for its new AI agent, echoing a pattern of the company seizing usernames from smaller entities.
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Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024) costsofwar.watson.brown.edu
The United States military-industrial complex is shifting from traditional defense contractors to Silicon Valley's big tech firms and venture capital-backed startups.
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OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof johndcook.com
The real significance of OpenAI's recent work on the Navier-Stokes equations is not the mathematical result itself, but the simultaneous release of a Lean 4 formal proof.
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Creativity is the new moat inventbuild.studio
In an era where generative AI makes it trivial to produce professional-looking but banal products and websites, the only sustainable competitive advantage is the habit of genuine creativity.
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Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening techradar.com
Apple's introduction of Siri Recaps and Live Rewind for the Apple Watch creates a risky precedent by turning wearables into always-listening devices.
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NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami ntsb.gov
The National Transportation Safety Board is analyzing flight data and cockpit audio to determine why a Boeing 767 cargo plane ran off the runway at Miami International Airport.
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Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography merybenavente.me
AI-generated imagery makes post-capture detection of fakes an impossible race, necessitating a shift toward proving authenticity at the moment of capture.
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Show HN: Compute polynomials twice as fast thomasahle.com
Polynomial evaluation can be performed more efficiently than the standard Horner's method by using rational preprocessing of coefficients.
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Larger Pacific striped octopus en.wikipedia.org
The Larger Pacific Striped Octopus (LPSO) is a unique cephalopod that defies traditional beliefs about octopus behavior.
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Factoring RSA 260 cognition.com
A Cognition researcher used an autonomous agent swarm to build a GPU lattice siever and factor RSA-260, setting a new public record for cryptographic challenges.
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Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 hugovergnes.github.io
It is now possible for a single engineer to train a meaningful, high-performing language model outside of a major research lab using modest compute budgets.
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ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol geo-tp.github.io
ESP32 Bit Pirate is an open-source firmware ecosystem that transforms affordable ESP32-S3 boards into a versatile multi-protocol tool for electronics debugging and learning.
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Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models magic.dev
Magic has developed a pretraining recipe that is over 10 times more compute-efficient than leading open-weight base models, allowing them to match or outperform high-end models with significantly fewer FLOPs.
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To write non-fiction, draw the trunk, then the rest of the tree devz.cl
Successful non-fiction writing requires a structured approach where the author first establishes a central theme and thesis to act as a 'trunk' for the piece.
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Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance lemire.me
While Python's set and dict structures are taught as having O(1) constant-time performance, this is a simplified model that fails in reality.
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JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation openjdk.org
Project Leyden introduces an AOT cache to store optimized native code generated during a training run, allowing Java applications to skip the slow interpretation and warmup phases during production starts.
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Recursion into madness blog.coredump.cx
Recursive AI rewriting leads to a degradation of meaning and a shift toward exaggerated, dramatic tropes.
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Version control second coming psantosl.github.io
The software industry is entering a second major revolution in version control, driven by the rise of AI agents and the need to manage massive monorepos.
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Neki is sharded Postgres by PlanetScale neki.dev
PlanetScale has launched Neki, a sharded Postgres solution that allows databases to scale horizontally to hundreds of millions of queries per second and petabytes of data.
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A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming slimemoldtimemold.com
AI alignment is difficult because agents often find creative loopholes or develop dangerous sub-goals like self-preservation to achieve their objectives.
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Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it mrdee.in
Mandala Studio provides a specialized set of tools designed to automate the creation of complex, symmetrical geometric art.
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Aardman (Wallace and Gromit) Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets gizmodo.com
Aardman Animation is celebrating its 50th anniversary by auctioning nearly 250 original production items, including puppets and props from its most famous films.
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PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in twitter.com
Hideo Kojima announced that after PlayStation Studios unexpectedly cancelled the PHYSINT project in mid-June, Kojima Productions spent three months searching for a new partner.
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What happens when a GPU writes memory blog.doubleword.ai
Writing data to global memory on an RTX 4090 is a complex, asynchronous process that moves data through a series of caches before it eventually reaches DRAM.
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Cognition's SWE-2 achieves 92.8 on Terminal-Bench 2.1 tokenstead.ai
Cognition has released SWE-2, a massive Mixture-of-Experts model based on Kimi K3 that utilizes advanced RL post-training to significantly improve agentic coding capabilities.
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Object storage is all you need tigrisdata.com
Ampbase replaces traditional relational databases with Tigris object storage by implementing essential database primitives—unique constraints, transactions, and indices—directly on top of strong read-after-write consistency and conditional writes.
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Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators thelec.net
Samsung is introducing next-generation 3D memory architectures, specifically zHBM and zNAND-O, to overcome the performance bottlenecks of traditional AI hardware.
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Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model usefeyn.com
MultiMatte is a specialized background removal model that allows users to isolate specific objects using text prompts.
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Casablanca: How an unproduced play marched into movie history thecollector.com
Casablanca is more than a romantic drama; it is a perfectly timed piece of propaganda and art that mirrored the United States' transition from isolationism to active participation in World War II.
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Liesegang Rings chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com
The author attempts to replicate Liesegang rings, which are geometrically spaced chemical patterns, using a safe and accessible set of reagents in a home laboratory setting.
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The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor taoofmac.com
The Kuycon P20 is an excellent alternative to the Apple Studio Display for users who prefer taller screen proportions and high resolution.
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Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres solidobjects.dev
Solid Objects implements the Durable Objects programming model as a library that integrates directly with existing SQL databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.