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Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

Mostly vibe-coded Apple Containers front-end that I'd like to use myself.

Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?

From time to time, I check that our open-source project is still available to all users, and I've occasionally noticed…

Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.

Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app

The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.

AI Meets Cryptography 1: What AI Found in Cloudflare's Circl

zkSecurity's AI audit agent discovered seven real bugs in Cloudflare's CIRCL cryptography library, including critical…

Decrypting View State Messages

A security researcher describes how to decrypt encrypted ASP.NET view state messages using automatically generated…

Astro 7.0

Astro 7 has been released with significant performance improvements, featuring a rewritten Rust-based compiler, a new…

The Weather Channel increases streaming subscription prices by up to $20

Livestreaming the channel through its app now starts at $5 per month.

Local, CPU-Friendly, High-Quality TTS (Text-to-Speech) with Kokoro

Kokoro is a lightweight 82-million-parameter text-to-speech model that generates high-quality, realistic speech in…

Show HN: Docx-CLI: agents read/edit Word docs using 1/2 the time and tokens

Docx-CLI is a command-line tool that enables AI agents to efficiently edit Word documents by working with plain-text…

The Nintendo Switch's days are numbered—but what is that number?

Ars analysis suggests the 9-year-old console could keep selling for years.

Notes on Software Quality

# Summary The article outlines a framework for understanding software quality, defining it as "the absence of problems"…

A new runtime for k and q: l

A new runtime called "l" has been released that maintains full compatibility with k4 and q while providing optimized…

Peter Shor’s algorithm could break the internet – but he's not worried

Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quantum computing…

Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others

Netflix is bringing 2- to 20-minute videos to its platform through new partnerships with digital publishers, including…

Reducing Doom Loops with Final Token Preference Optimization

Researchers developed "Antidoom," a method that reduces repetitive text generation loops in language models by…

Jim's TrueType QR Code Font

https://qr.jim.sh/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820119 Points: 38 # Comments: 1

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished…

Alibaba Blocks Claude Code as Anthropic Dispute Deepens Over AI Distillation

Alibaba Group Holding has moved to block employees from using Claude Code at work, escalating a dispute with Anthropic…

MacSurf 1.68 – NetSurf on OS 9 Released

MacSurf 1.68, a native web browser for Classic Mac OS 9, has been released with major improvements including a new…

Facing US export controls, China's DeepSeek plans to make its own chips

It's early, but the plan is to reduce dependency on Nvidia and Huawei.

Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop

Claude’s desktop app is brilliant, but for our own daily work we kept wanting it to be less like a chat app and more…

30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format

Better Auth is joining Vercel

Better Auth, an open-source authentication framework, is joining Vercel to accelerate its development and expand its…

Why we built yet another Postgres connection pooler

Software Bonkers

Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software

X adds a video editor to encourage creators to post original content, not stolen reposts

X is rolling out a new video editor and recorder for iOS with multilingual captions, green-screen effects, and other…

Amazon without the knockoffs