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Better Batteries

The quality of a programming language's standard library depends not on its size but on the social and organizational…

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

Sid Meier's Pirates!

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

Encore, a backend application builder, has spent four years requiring engineers to develop on a shared remote Linux…

Stop Making TUIs

The author argues that developers should prioritize building native graphical user interfaces instead of…

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

Seed is a minimal AI agent framework consisting of a single small loop (seed.py) that connects a language model to a…

After 100 Hours of 3D Printing, a Student Built a Modular Arm for His Sister

More than 100 hours of 3D printing went into a modular prosthetic arm that Vitaliy Bondarchuk, an engineering student at…

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

Micron Technology announced a $10 billion investment over the next decade to establish Micron Research Labs, a…

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

A bug in AWS Bedrock's Codex integration is causing users to be charged approximately 10x more than expected because the…

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

AI companies, including Anthropic through its "Project Panama," are secretly purchasing millions of secondhand physical…

Berkeley Law prohibits AI use in classes (by default)

Berkeley Law has implemented a policy effective Summer 2026 that prohibits students from using AI tools for…

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

Amazon is purchasing rare books in bulk, destroying them by cutting off their bindings to scan them for AI training…

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

As AI coding agents become more prevalent, software teams will need to adopt highly modular architectures like Uber's…

Tesla, Uber, and Waymo all get the OK to operate thousands of robotaxis in Nevada

Together, these permits would allow up to 8,000 robotaxis to be deployed over the next 12 months.

Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU

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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom

Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.

Show HN: ParqDB – Vector search in the browser from Parquet over HTTP"

ParqDB enables vector search directly in the browser by hosting Parquet-indexed data on object storage, allowing users…

Stealth Model

Ox Alpha is a reasoning model developed by an anonymous third-party provider and available through OpenRouter, designed…

Learn what VCs actually want, from a founder who’s raised $1B

Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business.

Detecting scraper bots through scroll behaviour

Researchers can distinguish between human users and scraper bots by analyzing scroll behavior patterns using burstiness…

OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates

Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both…

ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin

Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you?

US distributor of China’s most popular humanoid robots pivots after US ban

FCC ban on foreign-made robots accelerated RoboStore’s US manufacturing plans.

Citizen Devs: Everyone is an engineer now

Citizen developers—employees outside formal IT departments who build software tools to solve immediate business…

Code as an Artifact

As agentic LLMs increasingly write code, the traditional role of source code as the end product of software engineering…

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted and driven to suicide for downloading 70 gigabytes of academic articles from JSTOR, facing…

Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure

A hacker pretending to work for a leading cryptocurrency news website targeted several cybersecurity professionals using…

GitHub, autoscaling, and the component substitution fallacy

GitHub experienced an outage caused by an Istio sidecar pod that reached its concurrency limits and failed to autoscale…

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

GitHub experienced a 7-hour 47-minute outage on August 17, 2026, caused by a critical infrastructure component in its…