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Agents Week: network performance update
By migrating our request handling layer to a Rust-based architecture called FL2, Cloudflare has increased its performance lead to 60% of the world’s top networks. We use real-user measurements and connection trimeans to ensure our data reflects the actual experience of people on the Internet.
Unweight: how we compressed an LLM 22% without sacrificing quality
Running LLMs across Cloudflare’s network requires us to be smarter and more efficient about GPU memory bandwidth. That’s why we developed Unweight, a lossless inference-time compression system that achieves up to a 22% model footprint reduction, so that we can deliver faster and cheaper inference than ever before.
Redirects for AI Training enforces canonical content
Soft directives don’t stop crawlers from ingesting deprecated content. Redirects for AI Training allows anybody on Cloudflare to redirect verified crawlers to canonical pages with one toggle and no origin changes.
Agents that remember: introducing Agent Memory
Cloudflare Agent Memory is a managed service that gives AI agents persistent memory, allowing them to recall what matters, forget what doesn't, and get smarter over time.
zmx - run local code agents on remote machines
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Isaac Asimov: The Last Question
11 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
HTTP desync in Discord's media proxy: Spying on a whole platform
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What are you doing this weekend?
Feel free to tell what you plan on doing this weekend and even ask for help or feedback. Please keep in mind it’s more than OK to do nothing at all too!
How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists into Exploited Gig Workers
32 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
Google Blocks 8.3B Policy-Violating Ads in 2025, Launches Android 17 Privacy Overhaul
Google this week announced a new set of Play policy updates to strengthen user privacy and protect businesses against fraud, even as it revealed it blocked or removed over 8.3 billion ads globally and suspended 24.9 million accounts in 2025. The new policy updates relate to contact and location permissions in Android, allowing third-party apps to access the contact lists and a user's location in
Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors
34 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Monumental ship burial beneath ancient Norwegian mound predates the Viking Age
26 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Collaborative Autoresearch on a Peer-to-Peer Network
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Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Built the Languages
125 points, 67 comments on Hacker News
How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll
77 points, 22 comments on Hacker News
An early look at tailscale-rs, a tsnet library in Rust
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FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
83 points, 38 comments on Hacker News
NIST Limits CVE Enrichment After 263% Surge in Vulnerability Submissions
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced changes to the way it handles cybersecurity vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) listed in its National Vulnerability Database (NVD), stating it will only enrich those that fulfil certain conditions owing to an explosion in CVE submissions. "CVEs that do not meet those criteria will still be listed in the NVD but will not
A history of teapots and UNIX
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PROBoter – Open-source platform for automated PCB analysis
Article URL: https://www.schutzwerk.com/en/blog/proboter-01/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802971 Points: 18 # Comments: 0
Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts
An international law enforcement operation has taken down 53 domains and arrested four people in connection with commercial distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) operations that were used by more than 75,000 cybercriminals. The ongoing effort, dubbed Operation PowerOFF, disrupted access to the DDoS-for-hire services, took down the technical infrastructure supporting them, and obtained access to
Folk Computer
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FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/fcc-exempts-netgear-from-ban-on-foreign-routers-doesnt-explain-why/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802394 Points: 21 # Comments: 4
git-kv: Key-value store attached to git commits using Git notes
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Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/913638/bluesky-has-been-dealing-with-a-ddos-attack-for-nearly-a-full-day Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802330 Points: 35 # Comments: 16
Human Accelerated Region 1
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_accelerated_region_1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802312 Points: 17 # Comments: 0
Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source
Article URL: https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802233 Points: 71 # Comments: 27
Apache ActiveMQ CVE-2026-34197 Added to CISA KEV Amid Active Exploitation
A recently disclosed high-severity security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ Classic has come under active exploitation in the wild, per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). To that end, the agency has added the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34197 (CVSS score: 8.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian
Substrate AI Is Hiring Harness Engineers
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/substrate/jobs/QJU9023-harness-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802016 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/us-bill-mandates-on-device-age-verification Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801991 Points: 77 # Comments: 29
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