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Jfrog▲ 706

SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?

The JFrog security research team recently identified a supply chain attack targeting the `xinference` package on PyPI. Versions 2.6.0, 2.6.1, and 2.6.2 were compromised and yanked by maintainers after users reported suspicious behavior. If you installed or imported these versions, you must assume your environment is compromised.

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Qwen▲ 1064

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

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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Gruhn▲ 1715

Don't be a meat proxy

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Jfrog▲ 701

LLMs reward expertise

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Seangoedecke▲ 557

Devtools must be open source

The age of personalized software is here.

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Mertbulan▲ 458

More German than many Germans

I just wanted to do an internship in Europe so it would be easier to find a job after graduation. That internship completely changed my life.

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Intellinews▲ 341

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

More of Germany

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Isopolis▲ 334

Show HN: Isopolis – Isometric pixel map of SF

San Francisco as one giant isometric pixel painting. Pan the city, open the tours, send a postcard.

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OpenAI▲ 508

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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Ankur Sethi▲ 441

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code

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Janestreet▲ 325

Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library

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Andy Pavlo▲ 295

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs

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Marlerblog▲ 286

Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

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HN — Best of the Week

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Andrej Karpathy▲ 516

Karpathy’s Pelican

We're starting to leave the territory where you'd test an LLM by e.g. "create an svg of pelican on a bicycle". As one idea to generalize it, I was interested what Opus 5 would do if I gave it the first paragraph of the Lord of the Rings, a 1M token budget (~$10) and asked for

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Qwen▲ 307

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

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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Wafer AI▲ 204

Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300

The fastest open source LLMs for enterprise.

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Mark Nottingham▲ 202

Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM

Userspace macOS translation layer for Linux ARM64. Contribute to wie-project/kakehashi development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Meshdiff▲ 199

How the words we teach English language learners changed

Differences between “essential vocabulary” lists, 1953 vs. 2023

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VictoriaMetrics▲ 348

Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

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Wikipedia▲ 184

Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side

See exactly what changed between two 3D model versions — added material, removed material, dimensional drift. Free, in-browser, STL/3MF/OBJ.

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Linuxiac▲ 173

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

The EU’s age verification project confirms hardware-bound attestation is mandatory, raising concerns over Linux, custom ROMs, and open-source access.

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