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Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all
29 points, 6 comments on Hacker News
Zombie unicorns are haunting Silicon Valley
9 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
Grab Builds Secure Agentic AI Workload Platform
Grab's security team built Palana, a Kubernetes-native secure execution platform, to run autonomous AI agents safely. Unlike deterministic software, model-driven agents exhibit unpredictable tool-use, code-writing, and prompt injection risks. Palana contains these threats at the infrastructure level using isolated namespaces, out-of-process control planes, and proxy-mediated, Vault-backed secrets. By Patrick Farry
How agents are transforming work
A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.
Writers and Drugs
Article URL: https://lithub.com/are-writers-intrinsically-vulnerable-to-alcohol-and-drugs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667853 Points: 8 # Comments: 5
Bible as RAG Database
59 points, 35 comments on Hacker News
Exploring the internal representations of Pangram 3.3.2
Article URL: https://www.pangram.com/pangram-space Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667761 Points: 14 # Comments: 4
Ending All Respiratory Infections
75 points, 30 comments on Hacker News
Mixing Visual and Textual Code
21 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
What I'm Finding About LLM Code Style and Token Costs
17 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions
87 points, 50 comments on Hacker News
Are We GlobalShortcuts Yet?
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Blogging can just be stating the obvious
114 points, 45 comments on Hacker News
Anthropic Lead: HTML Increasingly Better Than Markdown at Keeping Humans Engaged in Agentic Loops
Thariq Shihipar, engineering lead for the Claude Code team, recently published a blog post (Using Claude Code: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML) arguing that HTML, with its richer visualizations, color, and interactivity, improves the productivity of human-agent communication in many settings, especially when compared to default Markdown outputs. By Bruno Couriol
Elastic lays off 7% of employees
Article URL: https://www.elastic.co/blog/ceo-ash-kulkarni-announcement-to-elastic-employees Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666100 Points: 158 # Comments: 142
Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
20 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
Scaling Rails: 41M Req/Hour, 8 DBs, disable_joins: true
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Sacr3d: A rendering engine toolbox to do 3D graphics in Scheme
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Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
149 points, 275 comments on Hacker News
Ignore DNSSEC if you like MITM attacks
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GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io
65 points, 26 comments on Hacker News
Thomann takes legal action against Fender
150 points, 89 comments on Hacker News
Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
22 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
I Fed the People Building the Metaverse
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Google OpenRL is an Experimental Self-hosted API for LLM Post-Training Fine-tuning
Google's GKE Labs has introduced OpenRL, an open-source project that provides a self-hosted API for post-training and fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on standard Kubernetes clusters. By Sergio De Simone
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
377 points, 256 comments on Hacker News
Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
118 points, 67 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: DBOSify – Drop-in Temporal replacement built on Postgres
34 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
CISA Warns Critical Lantronix EDS5000 Flaw Is Being Actively Exploited
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation of a critical security flaw impacting Lantronix EDS5000 Series devices, urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by June 26, 2026. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-67038 (CVSS score: 9.8), a code injection flaw that could result in the execution
Big AI labs are hiring philosophers
https://archive.is/T1FJG Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662452 Points: 84 # Comments: 66
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