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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Troy Hunt▲ 122

Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned

Today, we welcome the 47th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Nepal. Their National Cyber Security Centre now has access to monitor Nepalese government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives the NCSC the ability to identify exposure across government email addresses and respond

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• The Register▲ 518

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second

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• Herdr▲ 179

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime is Apache-2.0 and stays open, and here is what the funding is actually for.

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• Not A Shelf▲ 318

Taste Is All That's Left

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• Bethesda Softworks▲ 257

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.

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• OpenAI▲ 199

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users

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• Science Daily▲ 87

Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising…

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• Aleksa Gordic▲ 85

Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)

From paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale.

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• Wired▲ 46

Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids

Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled…

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• Mark Nottingham▲ 18

Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money

The comments may be seen as ironic coming from Dario Amodei, considering Anthropic offers some eye-watering salaries for jobs that typically pay much less.

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• Framework▲ 9

Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day

I just received an email about a limited data breach, leaking customer information (no billing info though). Do you guys think Framework is handling this well? The email looked very…

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Mayerowitz▲ 964

Mario Meets Pareto

Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other key stats to help you beat your friends on the race track.

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• The Register▲ 520

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second

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• Artificial Analysis▲ 473

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

Comparison and analysis of AI models and API hosting providers. Independent benchmarks across key performance metrics including quality, price, output speed & latency.

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• GitHub▲ 370

GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions.

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• Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't▲ 662

Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't

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• ScaleX▲ 277

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

Results from AI agent permission game: which attacks beat human reviewers, and which safe commands got blocked instead.

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• RunArcn▲ 443

I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux

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• Sydorets▲ 318

Almost no skill required to cook a steak

Why AI can make software development faster without replacing the judgment and understanding needed to build consistently good software.

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• Bethesda▲ 257

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update

To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.

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• Electronic Materials Office73d ago

Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

Hi HN, today I’m revealing Altar II, an ultra-low profile (4.75mm) mechanical keyboard designed to replace your Magic Keyboard. It’s the keyboard I wish Apple made.Altar II has fully…

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