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The tech industry has seen numerous lead-swaps and changing of the guard across various fields including cloud platforms, AI, programming languages, frameworks, and more. Key players like Cloudflare, Vercel, OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD, and others have vied for dominance in their respective areas over the years.

Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors

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Deno 2.9

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Deno 2.9 introduces deno desktop, a new way to build native desktop applications from the web stack, and improves performance with faster startup, memory use, and HTTP throughput.

Zig's New BitCast Semantics and LLVM Back End Improvements

The Zig compiler has made several improvements in 2026, including a new ELF linker with fast incremental compilation, improved LLVM backend, and enhanced build system. These changes aim to improve performance, usability, and stability, with features like incremental compilation, lazy type analysis, and better error messages.

You can't unit test for taste

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The user built an app called In the Long Run, which allows users to virtually run famous routes worldwide and view points of interest along the way. They used GeoNames data, Python, and DuckDB to create a pipeline that enriches the app with relevant points of interest, overcoming challenges with AI hallucinations and biases.

Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%

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Half-Life 2 in a Browser

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Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking

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tw-fade is a Tailwind CSS v4 plugin for scroll-edge fading with CSS masks. Add fade-y or fade-x so content dissolves into any surface with zero JavaScript.

Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

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Show HN: Turn native language audio into flashcards and shadowing practice

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Comprehensible input that sticks. Turn the audio you study into native-voice Anki cards.

LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

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LastPass users are warned about stolen personal data due to a breach at market research firm Klue, which exposed customer contact information and support case data. LastPass has notified law enforcement, revoked employee access, and recommended customers be vigilant of phishing attacks.

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.

Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

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Windows 10's Extended Security Updates program now ends on October 12, 2027, giving users more time to update to a newer OS or hardware. Users can enroll in ESU until then, with existing enrollments automatically continuing through the new end date.

SoftBank 2026 AGM [pdf]

SoftBank Group Corp. presentation does not constitute investment solicitation and contains forward-looking statements with known and unknown risks.

Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition

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British Wikipedia workers are seeking union recognition with the Communication Workers Union, citing concerns over transparency and the WMF's future direction. Over 1000 volunteers have signed petitions in support of the workers, who are longtime contributors to the Wikimedia movement.

Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

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Cloudflare upgraded its OAuth engine to improve performance and security. The upgrade allowed for self-managed OAuth, enabling customers to create and manage their own OAuth clients.

Puzzling Success of Overparameterization: Lottery Tickets or Escape Dimensions?

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Overparameterized neural networks succeed due to increased dimensions for optimization, not by containing a well-initialized subnetwork. Widening networks makes it easier to escape bad local minima and find good ones.

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.

Lianda and the Long March

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RSS Feed In 2018, former journalist Yang Xiao walked 1,000 miles from Changsha to Kunming. He was following a trek taken by hundreds students and a few adventurous faculty of three elite Chinese universities in 1938. In the face of the Japanese invasion, they united into one school (Lianda, 臨大, a shorthand for Provisional University) and moved their campus deep into the mountains of southern ...

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.

LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions

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Joshua Wang, a neuroscientist, notices unreliable studies on TriNetX, a research platform, due to inexperienced users and AI assistance. TriNetX papers often have similar flaws, including bias and cherry-picked results, which can mislead doctors and patient care.

Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub

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Bohemia Interactive releases Poseidon game engine source code under GPL-3.0-or-later with additional terms. The code is free, but trademarks and game data are not, and come separately under APL-SA license.

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.

Dostoyevsky isn't difficult

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The author had a difficult time reading War and Peace as a teenager due to Russian names but later found Dostoyevsky's works readable and enjoyable. Dostoyevsky's stories endure due to their simple yet beautiful prose and relatable descriptions of human nature.

Show HN: StartupsBR – A map of Brazilian startups

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O mapa vivo do ecossistema de startups do Brasil

Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on

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secs-man is a tool for managing backups of secrets with tool-independence in mind. It allows users to export and encrypt files from a given source directory and recover them by importing to the same directory.

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.

Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks

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A benchmark like ClickBench can be misleading due to its rules and assumptions, such as forcing a cold run by restarting the server, which can favor hosted systems over self-managed ones. Changing the benchmark's rules, such as keeping a process alive or increasing the number of iterations, can significantly alter the ranking of different database engines, highlighting the importance of ...

Tell HN: OpenAI has started putting ads on paid programs

You were on a £6.99/month plan with ads, which is explicitly stated on OpenAI's pricing page. The ads you saw were relevant to your conversation about mobile games, but not integrated into the chat.