Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Scores 51% SWE-Bench Pro with Just 5B Active Params

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MAI-Code-1-Flash helps with complex coding tasks, reducing debugging time. Using this site collects data for Microsoft product improvements.

A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle

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This walking tour in downtown Seattle aims to expose the hidden layers of surveillance technology in the city, including cameras, license plate readers, and data collection systems, and to raise questions about their use and impact on society. The tour highlights various surveillance tools and sites, including Amazon Go, Acyclica, the Washington State Fusion Center, and a peering site, and ...

QBE – Compiler Back end: Version 1.3

QBE 1.3 is a significant release with 7k new lines of code and 1.5k deleted ones, featuring a new IL matching algorithm and optimizations. It achieves 63% of commercial compiler performance on coremark and 33% improvement on the Hare test suite.

Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target

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GitHub Copilot App

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User is considering GitHub Copilot preview, and agrees to share info for personalized communications and targeted ads. GitHub Copilot is currently available to existing Pro users, with future access for free users and new customers.

Launch HN: Rudus (YC P26) – AI for concrete contractors

Hi HN, we’re Rishi and Sahil. We’ve developed Rudus (https://www.rudus.ai/), an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform built for concrete subcontractors. Takeoff is the process of measuring and quantifying materials from concrete plan sheets. Rudus identifies every concrete structure (footings, walls, columns, slabs), pulls in related details, and eliminates hours of manual quantity ...
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Adafruit received a letter from Flux's counsel demanding they stop publishing an article about Flux's intellectual property and user base. Adafruit has temporarily stopped publishing to consider their response to the demand.

Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)

FidoNet is a point-to-point email network that uses modems to connect over 20,000 nodes worldwide, allowing users to send and receive email and news. The network was developed in 1984 and has a unique addressing system, with gateways to the Internet and other networks, and a strong focus on user autonomy and minimal technical support.

Why Janet? (2023)

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The author promotes Janet, a small, easy-to-learn Lisp dialect with a simple syntax and powerful features like macros and implicit serialization. Janet is ideal for writing command-line apps, scripting, and embedding in other languages due to its ease of use and flexibility.

Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)

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My father shared a three-part rule about honesty and deception. The rule states that lying to those who want lies gets you rich, telling the truth to those who want it gets you a living, and telling the truth to those who want lies gets you broke.

Expanding Project Glasswing

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Project Glasswing is expanding to 150 new organizations in 15 countries to secure software with AI. The goal is to adapt to AI's changing cybersecurity landscape and prevent catastrophic attacks affecting over 100 million people.

Rethinking Search as Code Generation

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Perplexity Computer introduces Search as Code (SaC), a new reference search architecture that empowers AI models to directly control search operations. SaC exposes the components of the search stack as primitives within an SDK, allowing models to assemble retrieval pipelines tailored to specific requests.

Coreutils for Windows

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Coreutils for Windows provides native support for Linux commands on Windows. It ships with some conflicts and limitations due to Windows differences.

BQN: What Is a Primitive?

The author discusses the design of primitives in BQN, arguing that they should be discovered rather than invented, and that they should have a fixed role and be represented by symbols.

Love systemd timers

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Systemd timers are a modern alternative to traditional cron jobs, offering more flexibility and features such as stdout and stderr output control and calendar versus time span units. They can be configured to run at specific times, intervals, or relative to other events, and provide a clear picture of scheduled tasks with the list-timers subcommand.

On the nature of autobiographical memory

The author has a remarkable memory that allows him to recall scenes from his past with vivid detail, while his brother has a poor memory and feels disconnected from his past. The author's memory is a result of a condition called highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), which is a rare neurological phenomenon.

Show HN: RePlaya – self-hosted browser session replay with live tailing

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Self-hosted session replay built on S2. Each session is stored as one S2 stream, and that stream is the whole backend — there's no separate database, message bus, object store, or search index. Because an S2 stream can be tailed as it's written, RePlaya can replay a session live, while the visitor is still on the page, as well as play back finished ones. Add the recorder snippet to ...

Stop Ruining It

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Paul McGowan's insight is that quality is what remains when flaws are removed. He suggests that customer delight, curiosity, satisfaction, and trust are all preserved if not ruined by external factors.

Trump signs downsized AI order after weeks of reversals

President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing AI-driven cyber threats with a voluntary review process for AI companies. The order aims to enhance national security and global AI dominance while avoiding heavy federal oversight.

Key chemistry question answered, no quantum computer required

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Garnet Chan and his team used classical methods to understand the enzyme nitrogenase, which converts atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia, and achieved a major breakthrough. This result challenges the idea that quantum computers are necessary to solve complex chemical problems.

Great Question (YC W21) Is Hiring Applied AI Interns

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Great Question is hiring an AI-native Software Engineering intern for a 3-month summer program. The intern will work on real AI-focused projects, own a project from day one, and collaborate with the CTO as a mentor.

Bringing Up DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD MI300X

Doubleword is building an inference cloud using AMD's MI300X, a high-end AI accelerator. The MI300X is underappreciated due to software issues, but it offers 192GB of HBM3 and comparable FP8 compute to NVIDIA's H100 at a lower price.

Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?

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SpaceX plans a $75bn stock market debut on Nasdaq, followed by AI firms Anthropic and Open seeking up to $60bn each. The three listings could add $4trn to US market value.

CSS-Native Parallax Effect

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CSS Scroll-driven animation timelines enable parallax effects without JavaScript, improving performance and simplicity. A utility class uses a single block of declarative styles to create a parallax animation with a variable offset and scale.

Show HN: Eyeball

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eyeball is built for precision clicking with a mouse or trackpad. you can play on touch, but finger taps aren't accurate enough to really compete.

Reviving Teletext for Ham Radio

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The author created a ham-radio version of teletext called Spectel, using the AX.25 protocol to transmit digital information over radio waves. Spectel uses Python and was assisted by AI, but the author remains ambivalent about the use of vibe coding in the project.

Pyro Caml Continuous Profiler for OCaml

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The core SAST engine of Semgrep is written in OCaml. There are a lot of good technical and historical reasons for this that I’ll leave for another time. An important consequence of using a language with a (relatively) small ecosystem like OCaml is that there aren’t a lot of libraries for things like observability, which are critical for running industrial software like Semgrep on hundreds of ...

Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15 countries

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Anthropic expanded access to its powerful AI model Claude Mythos to 100 organizations, including governments and companies, to scan for vulnerabilities. The model can identify thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities and a successful attack could affect over 100 million people.

Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares

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The .NET file format's custom attribute storage mechanism is poorly designed, causing significant complexity and performance issues due to its reliance on Fully Qualified Names (FQNs) and lack of deduplication. This design choice is unnecessary and inefficient, especially considering the existing database system for storing metadata references efficiently.

Squillions: How money laundering won

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The value of cash in circulation is rising sharply worldwide, but no one knows where most of it is or what it's used for. Money laundering is a massive, largely invisible industry, with estimates suggesting it's worth between $2-5 trillion annually.