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Hacker News

hnrss.org14 items
• GrapheneOS▲ 715

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. https://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/37.1/changes

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• arXiv▲ 78

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between LLMs (2025)

Multi-LLM systems harness the complementary strengths of diverse Large Language Models, achieving performance and efficiency gains that are not attainable by a single model. In existing designs, LLMs communicate through text, forcing internal representations to be transformed into output token sequences. This process both loses rich…

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• arXiv▲ 63

The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security

LLMs are trained to generate natural language. However, various strands of evidence indicate that an LLM's externalized linguistic outputs and mechanistically-extracted linguistic features can be an unreliable lens for understanding internal model computation. We introduce the term ``linguistic illegibility'' to broadly refer to…

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• Claude▲ 601

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

Release notes for Claude Code, including new features, improvements, and bug fixes by version.

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• Science Is Open Software▲ 50

Science Is Open Software

TL;DR I claim that modern science is synonymous with open source software. This post explains why, why it matters, and what you can (and should) do next. Why do you care about (open source)…

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• Cloudflare▲ 304

Saving another 100TB of RAM

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• IEEE▲ 98

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

AI drastically shortened its design time; it will only get faster

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• Alibaba▲ 91

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions

Tested on nearly 40,000 real-world exams, the model outperformed most radiologists, according to a new study published in Science.

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HN — Best of the Week

hnrss.org14 items
• GrapheneOS▲ 705

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. https://developer.android.com/sdk/api_diff/37.1/changes

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• TechCrunch▲ 876

Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

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• Hawksley▲ 752

I don't like passkeys

Why passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows.

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• Claude▲ 596

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

Release notes for Claude Code, including new features, improvements, and bug fixes by version.

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• CNN▲ 433

US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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• Cloudflare▲ 648

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels

Localhost, meet the Internet. Turn the server on your laptop into a public, encrypted URL on Cloudflare

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• OpenJev▲ 593

OpenJev

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• Korea JoongAng Daily▲ 297

Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

Companies behind major negligent data leaks can now face fines of up to 10 percent of annual revenue under revised privacy rules.

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• Cloudflare▲ 296

Saving another 100TB of RAM

Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we…

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