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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• theguardian.com -> The Guardian▲ 1363

Dolly Parton has died

Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes

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• github.com -> GitHub, Inc.▲ 765

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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• fda.gov -> United States Food and Drug Administration▲ 339

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System for people aged 2 years and older living with diabetes.

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• arxiv.org -> arxiv.org▲ 17

Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems

Production AI agents' failures are less often due to an inability to reason well and more often because they cannot manage what is in their reasoning context: conversation histories, large…

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• groups.google.com -> Google LLC▲ 330

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

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• sethmlarson.dev -> Seth Larson▲ 92

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson

Some internet standards only support ASCII characters, but the world uses much more than the Latin alphabet. Thus, a mapping from Unicode to ASCII for use in domain names is required.…

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• nil.wallyjones.com -> Wally Jones▲ 144

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

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• fzakaria.com -> Muhammad Zakaria▲ 82

Queryable Executables

I was pleasantly surprised and happy to see that my article ‘Your executable is a SQLite database’ resonated with people. It is a format I have been thinking about for a while, and the idea…

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• studyarena.com -> studyarena.com▲ 16

Students prefer Gemini over ChatGPT and Claude for AI essays in blind tests

StudyArena analyzed 6,851 blind student votes across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other models. Gemini is our current pick for college essay help.

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• github.com -> GitHub, Inc.53d ago

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

I'm a master's engineering student and a big fan of LaTeX, which I used for my thesis and research articles. I have used Overleaf and that was fine until I wanted to git sync, which…

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org14 items
• The Guardian▲ 1356

Dolly Parton has died

Songwriter of I Will Always Love You, Jolene and 9 to 5 invested millions in child literacy, Covid-19 vaccine development and other causes

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• Google LLC▲ 764

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

https://web.archive.org/web/20260825143445/https://twiiit.com/ Every instance has the same Instance has been rate limited. error.

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• Apple Inc.▲ 736

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

Apple announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra, delivering a monumental leap in AI performance and even faster graphics.

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• Apple Inc.▲ 1048

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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• Apple Inc.▲ 465

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

Apple announced the new Mac mini with the all-new M6 and powerful M5 Pro, delivering a dramatic boost in performance and more versatility in its supersmall desktop design.

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• Semianalysis▲ 403

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

OpenAI’s self-designed ASIC compared with Rubin, Jalapeño’s TCO, throughput per MW, and spicy deets

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• U.S. Food and Drug Administration▲ 335

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System for people aged 2 years and older living with diabetes.

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• Kyle Lambert▲ 307

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

I wrote up my experience building a backyard office because I wish I had come across more articles like this when planning my build. I hope this post helps you

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• Aaron▲ 502

My Friend Aaron

This one is about my friend, Aaron. I met him at school, and in our first year when we were eleven years old I told him I wanted to be his best friend but he…

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