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Hacker News

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• Apple▲ 705

Apple HomeView

Apple HomeView is a smart display with Siri AI, Liquid Retina display, high-fidelity audio, FaceTime, smart home controls, built-in privacy, and more.

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• Mark Nottingham▲ 705

11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker

NoteGiven that this issue has been shared online and is currently getting quite a few visitors, here's some additional context. Rust's type system is intended to prevent memory unsafety.…

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• Mozilla▲ 692

Firefox Enterprise

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• Anthropic▲ 668

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in five months.

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• DeepMind▲ 1174

Gemini 4 Argon

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• OpenAI▲ 507

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

Federal prosecutors say an employee from Saudi Arabia planted an audio recorder and left another unattended in his bag.

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• Haku▲ 410

We turned EmbeddingGemma 2 into a speech-to-text model

An embedding model, turned into a speech-to-text model. An hour of audio in about 13 seconds on a base MacBook Air, on device.

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• Mozilla▲ 398

Thunderbird for iOS

The team has been working hard behind the scenes laying a strong foundation for the Thunderbird iOS app, building natively from scratch.

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• Guitoro▲ 372

Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

The most realistic and most complete virtual guitar online. Play it with your keyboard or by touch, slow songs down and see which strings each strum hits.

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• Bloomberg▲ 446

CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades

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• The History Blog▲ 353

Hittite royal archive found in Turkey

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• Apple▲ 322

New Apple TV 4K

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• Character.ai▲ 315

Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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HN — Best of the Week

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• Meta AI▲ 574

Muse Wonder

Muse Wonder is Meta's frontier AI model that keeps track of what matters to you with Active Memory & Active Focus to work towards your goals at work & life.

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• Tom's Hardware▲ 534

Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

A cyberattack has hit supermarkets in Europe, disabling refrigerators.

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• GitHub▲ 507

Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

What variant of Codex are you using? CLI — 0.157.0, installed via npm install -g @openai/codex, Linux (WSL2) What feature would you like to see? Please make daemon_auto_start opt-in…

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• Roy Fish▲ 706

Fingerprints are the new cookies

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• BBC▲ 595

Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

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• Ars Technica▲ 324

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."

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• GitHub▲ 303

Turn a WiFi 7 Router into a 320Msps Software Defined Radio Receiver

Contribute to h0m3us3r/w1700k-sdr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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• Michael Prophitt▲ 465

A Modern Web App in C

A modern web app written in c and served the old way: CGI, SQLite and a single binary. No frameworks, no containers and no regrets.

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• Yi-Hsin Yen▲ 299

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

A response to Rich Hickey's "'AI' is Not a Tool": automation and tool use can coexist, and wielding an LLM well requires skill, feedback, and judgment.

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