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Hacker News

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• Nate Sutton▲ 39

Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop

If you have ever considered swapping out the API calls your coding harness is making for a local model it probably ended in disappointment. You ran a quick llama-bench and thought you were going to see X tokens/second. What that benchmark doesn’t tell you is how it actually feels to use these harnesses. The development experience is extremely variable. You might have sat there for minutes before seeing any response. Maybe you were getting somewhere and halfway through it started stalling. ‘Who is this prefill, taking all my time?’ It’s not your fault: most coding harnesses weren’t built with a local model in…

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• BBC▲ 174

Google will buy half the electricity from one of Finland's nuclear power plants

The US tech giant says the €13bn data centre project will create tens of thousands of jobs.

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• Upsocl▲ 124

Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds

Optimismo que nos une

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• OpenAI▲ 207

OpenAI Agents API

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• System76▲ 76

Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory

Accelerate Your AI Development with the Thelio Mira AI Linux desktop workstation

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• Auberon▲ 134

The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac

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• Anthropic▲ 108

Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026

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• Map-Yue2▲ 72

YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning

YuE2 unifies symbolic and audio music generation at frontier quality. Symbolic planning turns lyrics and style into an editable score, then a full song with vocals and accompaniment.

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• Google▲ 9

The Gemini app is now available for Windows

We’re launching the Gemini app for Windows, the new desktop app built to work alongside your favorite tools and daily applications.

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• Rust Foundation▲ 638

Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft

By now it’s no surprise that Rust is of strategic importance to Microsoft. From bold mission statements when Azure CTO Mark Russinovich outlined our future strategy for native code, to millions of dollars invested by Microsoft into supporting the Rust Project, over the following years. Watch Mark’s keynote from last…

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• Shopify Engineering▲ 933

Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.

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• Twitter▲ 958

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

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• Graybeard▲ 423

I have a theory that software drives people insane

I have a little pet theory that software drives people insane. Not in the "wash your hands every thirty minutes like Howard Hughes" kind of way, but more ...

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• Mathstodon▲ 766

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

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• Jim Nielsen▲ 418

Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

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• Cognition▲ 390

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Today we’re introducing SWE-2, our most advanced coding model yet. SWE-2 delivers highly competitive agentic coding performance across multiple effort…

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• Consumer Rights Wiki▲ 384

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

Four California buyers sued Sony in 2026, alleging the PlayStation Store's "Buy Now" button does not sell digital games, only licenses them.

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• Honestly Ranked▲ 371

The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

9 major streaming services cost $95.91/mo in 2021-03 and $154.41/mo today — up 61%, or $702 a year. Every change sourced.

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