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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• Nixpkgs core team▲ 234

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 months, including reforming the committer delegation process and onboarding 19 new committers, empowering maintainers by extending the merge bot, re‐establishing contact with GitHub and securing the sponsored Enterprise Cloud upgrade, helping triage GHSA-67f2-674w-6g63 and track the...

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• Arc Prize▲ 549

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 reasoning variants across ARC-AGI-1, ARC-AGI-2, and ARC-AGI-3.

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• GitHub user▲ 295

Assembly Hall of Shame

Racing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.

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• Dealroom▲ 438

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

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• Databricks▲ 206

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

AI coding tools deli

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• Ancient Library▲ 180

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

Read the Greek and Latin classics in the original — 1,060 works with every word parsed, every form defined, and full dictionary entries from Lewis & Short and LSJ.

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• The Register▲ 164

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

Calling all defenders

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• NASA▲ 153

NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year

Voyager 2 would have had to shut down one of its last remaining instruments later this year, until NASA made some power changes.

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• GitHub user▲ 61

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

Psychological warfare in reverse engineering. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/REpsych development by creating an account on GitHub.

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• Web Archive▲ 38

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

Fixes #2 - discovery hangs when multiple default via routes exist. What changed defaultRoute() now parses all default routes and picks the lowest metric (ties: first seen) instead of…

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Dealroom.co▲ 437

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-generated material to repositories, pull requests, or other project channels. The policy contrasts sharply with Oracle's internal practices. Co-founder Larry Ellison recently declared that AI models now write Oracle's code, whilst co-CEO Mike Sicilia credited AI tools with enabling smaller engineering teams to deliver faster. Oracle is investing $70 billion this…

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• Nixos▲ 229

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 months, including reforming the committer delegation process and onboarding 19 new committers, empowering maintainers by…

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• Arc Prize Foundation▲ 546

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 reasoning variants across ARC-AGI-1, ARC-AGI-2, and ARC-AGI-3.

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• Noema Magazine▲ 529

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their…

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• BBC▲ 863

US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects

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• The Guardian▲ 747

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health

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• PatronView▲ 406

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what

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• NBC News▲ 341

U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal

In a troubling sign for the economy, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that it revised down the prior two months’ jobs by a combined 103,000.

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• GitHub▲ 295

Assembly Hall of Shame

Racing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.

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