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Hacker News

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• Fireworks AI▲ 479

Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA

Benchmarking over 1,000 agentic tasks demonstrates that routing between the open-source Kimi K3 model and the closed Fable 5 model creates a new state-of-the-art (SoTA) approach that surpasses the performance of either model alone. While both models perform competitively in general benchmarks, they possess distinct specializations—K3 excels in terminal, symbolic math, and dev tooling, whereas Fable leads in web, data visualization, and multi-language breadth. By architecting a router to leverage these specific strengths, teams can achieve a 93% task accuracy rate and up to 50x better cost-efficiency compared to…

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• Google▲ 655

Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

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• Qwen▲ 553

Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and…

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• OpenAI and Hugging Face▲ 935

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

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• FreeInk▲ 485

FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers

Free Ink is an open-source collective building the software, firmware and hardware for e-paper readers — every layer ships in the open for anyone to pick up, extend and make their own.

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• TechRadar▲ 469

'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that publishers and VPN providers aren

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• ACLU▲ 460

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations

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• Eric Goldman▲ 393

Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM

This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary…

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• Nikkei Asia▲ 356

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding

Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows

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• OpenAI▲ 580

Advertise in ChatGPT

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• GitHub▲ 333

Incremental – A library for incremental computations

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• Yale University▲ 330

Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa

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• Runtime Wire▲ 289

Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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In Brief
Laguna S 2.1Poolside AIJudge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train ClaudeAP NewsA digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexampleTerence TaoICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud404 MediaMap of the world's great castles and fortressesThe Castle MapPCjs MachinesPCjsNew US homeownership measure puts people firstMinneapolis Federal Reserve"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and GrokTry AIRoblox Officially Supports GrapheneOSRobloxClaude Is Not a CompilerExe DevAI makes programming differently difficultACMAmid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes DarkThe Marshall Project

HN — Best of the Week

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• Werd▲ 1028

China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning

China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.

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• Risky Business▲ 614

Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

In other news: Graykey maker sues former employee for leaking exploit; Hugging Face was hacked using AI; unauth RCE finally found in WordPress.

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• Kimi▲ 467

Kimi Work

Download the desktop AI to automate workflows, organize files, & operate across the web. Empower financial research, analysis, & office tasks with 300 agents.

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• Apunen▲ 765

Airport Simulator

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• Kimi▲ 321

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling

Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 prove open models can reach the frontier. Why the economics of frontier labs favor infrastructure owners — and why Anthropic's model-only position risks unravelling.

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• Mark Nottingham▲ 281

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

It’s been an interesting few weeks for counterexamples. This post is basically my perspective of what has been going on in the world of formalization, AI tools and, in particular,…

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• EDRI▲ 487

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

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• Phoronix▲ 250

Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL

Mozilla has uploaded the Firefox 153.0 release binaries today for the newest monthly update to this cross-platform web browser

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• Jelly UI▲ 412

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for tactile product interfaces: soft-body physics, real form controls, dark mode, RTL and WCAG AA accessibility.

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