The Hacker Times

• Corner of Fifth▲ 90

Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf

A viral TikTok sardine diet and warming oceans have collided to create a real canned-sardine shortage — and it's not ending soon.

• Antithesis▲ 82

Breaking the WAL

I did this from a lawn chair on the Sunshine Coast.

• Adapt▲ 68

Build Wide, Ship Narrow

Splitting a finished branch into small PRs used to be the expensive part, so we decided the boundaries before the code existed. That cost collapsed. Now the code can tell you where to cut…

• Y Combinator8d ago

Reflex (YC W23) Is hiring Growth and GTM Roles

You will own Reflex's go-to-market motion end-to-end, strategy through execution. We have strong product-market signals (1M+ apps built, 28k+ GitHub stars, Fortune 500 adoption) but no…

• Google▲ 737

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Gemini 3.7 Flash is our most intelligent workhorse model yet for coding and agents.

• GitHub▲ 555

Spaghettifying DRAM

Unlocking _everything_ on the CPU with DRAM scrambling - xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts

• Cerebras▲ 522

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

Cerebras powers OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast in the OpenAI API, delivering frontier intelligence at real-time speeds for critical AI work.

• Traders Union▲ 394

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

Deutsche Bank gains a European yuan clearing role as China expands renminbi payment infrastructure.

• McFunley▲ 303

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

• Mistral AI▲ 294

Mistral OCR 4.1

Our latest OCR service powering our Document AI stack, with native paragraph-level bounding box extraction, structural block labels, and block-level confidence scores.

• Current▲ 285

Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

Nine PBS seeks return of more than 50 terabytes of data that represents “70 years of our organization's history.”