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RelaxAI – UK sovereign LLM inference at 80% cheaper than OpenAI/Claude
13 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks
Article URL: https://github.com/Andyyyy64/whichllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48146369 Points: 260 # Comments: 58
Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
34 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Community building at the edge of the Internet
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SolidJS 2.0 Beta: First-Class Async, Reworked Suspense and Deterministic Batching
SolidJS 2.0 Beta introduces significant changes in async handling and reactivity. Async is now a first-class feature, enabling direct use of Promises within the framework. The update includes new primitives for mutations, altered state handling, and significant breaking changes. It is designed for improved developer experience while maintaining fine-grained reactivity without a virtual DOM. By Daniel Curtis
Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
Is it possible? Do you know success cases w/o spending 20+k $ on auditors? My customers bombards me with question about certification of my app Perfect Wiki, I need help with finding the best way to show them that my app could be trusted. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145524 Points: 31 # Comments: 36
PyCon US 2026 Typing Summit Recap
Just published my notes from this year's Python Typing Summit at PyCon US. If you've ever been curious what one of these is like from the inside: intersection types, constraint sets in ty, tensor shapes in Pyrefly, Guido on direction. Comments
On-Prem Microsoft Exchange Server CVE-2026-42897 Exploited via Crafted Email
Microsoft has disclosed a new security vulnerability impacting on-premise versions of Exchange Server that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42897 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been described as a spoofing bug stemming from a cross-site scripting flaw. An anonymous researcher has been credited with discovering and reporting the issue. "
CISA Adds Cisco SD-WAN CVE-2026-20182 to KEV After Admin Access Exploits
The U.S.Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a newly disclosed vulnerability impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to remediate the issue by May 17, 2026. The vulnerability is a critical authentication bypass tracked as CVE-2026-20182. It's
Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management
27 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
How Claude Code works in large codebases
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/how-claude-code-works-in-large-codebases-best-practices-and-where-to-start Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144494 Points: 166 # Comments: 118
Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms
71 points, 59 comments on Hacker News
Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha
144 points, 38 comments on Hacker News
Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
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Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
117 points, 34 comments on Hacker News
Find vendors used by any company
Article URL: https://sub-processors.com/subprocessor/elasticsearch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143617 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
linux 0-day, access root-owned files as an unprivileged user
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Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints
16 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
UFerris a Versatile Learner Board for Rust Embedded Beginners
13 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
Velonus – Open-source AppSec scanner that deduplicates SAST noise
Article URL: https://github.com/AliAmmar15/Velonus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143235 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?
Curious what others think about this recently popular lifestyle shift. I love my coding, selfhosting, and useful tools but I’ve found myself moving towards “low” tech solutions such as pen and paper or just micro, iPod, a physical calendar versus all these different SaaS and selfhosted services.
How business operations teams use Codex
See how business operations teams can use Codex to create initiative briefs, strategy updates, leadership decision packets, progress updates, and more from real work inputs.
Databricks brings GPT-5.5 to enterprise agent workflows
Databricks uses GPT-5.5 for enterprise agent workflows after the model set a new state of the art on the OfficeQA Pro benchmark.
A new personal finance experience in ChatGPT
Preview a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT for Pro users in the U.S. Securely connect your financial accounts and get AI-powered insights and guidance grounded in your financial context, goals, and priorities.
How sales teams use Codex
See how sales teams can use Codex to create pipeline briefs, meeting prep packets, forecast reviews, account plans, and stalled-deal diagnoses from real work inputs.
How data science teams use Codex
See how data science teams can use Codex to build root-cause briefs, impact readouts, KPI memos, scoped analyses, and dashboard specs from real work inputs.
A Simple Runtime Invariant Miner
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LLM Policy for Rust Compiler
Article URL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge/pull/1040 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142650 Points: 24 # Comments: 7
UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system
213 points, 76 comments on Hacker News
More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions
134 points, 58 comments on Hacker News
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