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You only need the frontier model for one single edit
28 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake
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Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
71 points, 108 comments on Hacker News
Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources
273 points, 144 comments on Hacker News
Low Resource Computing 2026
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High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights
6 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning
Article URL: https://worldcrunch.com/focus/green-or-gone/global-warming-at-3c-by-2050-what-s-behind-the-new-german-climate-warning/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915244 Points: 69 # Comments: 66
TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
70 points, 30 comments on Hacker News
Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B
112 points, 63 comments on Hacker News
Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel
70 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
174 points, 64 comments on Hacker News
The Memory Heist
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LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros
68 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Who Is America's Homer?
48 points, 113 comments on Hacker News
Book prizes don't work how you think
18 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Probably check on your smart appliances
Article URL: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2026/check-your-smart-tv/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913457 Points: 33 # Comments: 14
Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks Extension Connects VS Code to Google Cloud's Jupyter Notebooks
The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code is a new tool that enables developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud. By Sergio De Simone
Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]
111 points, 64 comments on Hacker News
qr-swastika-avoider v0.1.0
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Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown
Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-cooldown/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913050 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Same model, same Q4_K_M label: 5.02, 5.07 and 5.27 bits per weight
Article URL: https://github.com/logxio/picchio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912947 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes
13 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
Microsoft Patches Record 622 Flaws, Including Two Zero-Days Under Active Attack
Microsoft shipped its largest Patch Tuesday on record today, and two of the fixes close holes that attackers are already exploiting. The release covers 622 of Microsoft's own CVEs by its Security Update Guide count, more than triple June's previous high of around 200. Those two live bugs are the ones to grab first. Microsoft credits incident responders for both. Both are
How I use HTMX with Go
Article URL: https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/how-i-use-htmx-with-go Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912175 Points: 12 # Comments: 0
StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stubhub-ceo-class-action-scalping-9.7268987 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48912100 Points: 52 # Comments: 19
I also filed the corners off my MacBook
189 points, 79 comments on Hacker News
Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb
103 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last month. Microsoft attributed the burgeoning patch counts to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence.
Blender 5.2 LTS
191 points, 76 comments on Hacker News
SAP Patches CVSS 9.9 NetWeaver ABAP Flaw That Could Expose or Modify Data
SAP has rolled out updates to address multiple vulnerabilities as part of its July 2026 security updates, including a critical flaw in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-44747 (CVSS score: 9.9), an out-of-bounds write flaw that allows an authenticated attacker to leverage logical errors in memory management to cause a memory corruption that could
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