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Haunt 0.4.0 released
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GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
231 points, 118 comments on Hacker News
Goodbye, and thanks for all the Bikesheds
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Cache Directory Tagging Specification
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What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
197 points, 235 comments on Hacker News
NextBSD project revived: Apple's FOSS user-space tools on the FreeBSD kernel
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Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?
129 points, 48 comments on Hacker News
LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
608 points, 317 comments on Hacker News
PowerShell over SSH in 2026: OpenSSH on Windows, Key Auth, and PowerShell 7 Remoting
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Qubes OS Security in the Public Record
51 points, 9 comments on Hacker News
The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal
93 points, 18 comments on Hacker News
neither gcc nor clang are compliant with standard c++
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GitRoot
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Version Controlled SQL Database Dolt Releases 2.0 with Automatic Storage Cleanup and Compression
DoltHub has recently released Dolt 2.0, a major update to the open source version-controlled SQL database. The latest major version adds automatic storage optimization, including garbage collection and compression, along with improved support for large and vector data types. By Renato Losio
DOSBox on OpenVMS (Alpha CPU)
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Show HN: Find someone in the dark – light them or light yourself? (Three.js)
Article URL: https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/signal-in-the-dark Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48955740 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP
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How does Pangram work?
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Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index
39 points, 17 comments on Hacker News
Regressive JPEGs
343 points, 30 comments on Hacker News
Moonstone: Modern, cross-platform Lua runtime and package manager written in Zig
19 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
I Started a "Dirt Notebook"
28 points, 19 comments on Hacker News
DrDroid (YC W23) Is Hiring
1 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Stenchill: 3D Printable Solder Paste Stencil Generator
20 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
The Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine unlocks a new frontier beyond AlphaFold
50 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Another Taste of Verse
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Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse
370 points, 249 comments on Hacker News
Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B
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TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years
60 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Cloudflare WAF protects WordPress applications from two high-severity vulnerabilities
Cloudflare has deployed two WAF rules in response to high-severity vulnerabilities disclosed to us by the WordPress security team. The new rules protect all Cloudflare customers using affected WordPress versions, but customers should still update immediately to a patched release.
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