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Post #232503 2.75K Sep 19, 2026, 14:11 UTC

What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
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besok What Zig felt like, coming from Rust What Zig felt like, coming from Rust Intro I’ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and I’d like to think I’ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the functional…

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Post #232502 3.06K Sep 19, 2026, 11:50 UTC

Laya the open source version of Jev
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Convaiinnovations Laya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine Evaluates typed decisions (choice, score, noul) over 100+ languages in a single forward pass with calibrated probabilities. Outperforms TypeSafe Jev.

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Post #232501 2.98K Sep 19, 2026, 11:16 UTC

Dear Customer, Fuck You
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Post #232500 2.91K Sep 19, 2026, 10:02 UTC

AI posters don't have to be horrible
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‘ERE I AM - JH! AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible Why AI-generated event posters all look alike — and how naming a design style and era, from Bauhaus to punk fanzine, gets far better results.

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Post #232499 2.94K Sep 19, 2026, 08:49 UTC

Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7
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Geekbench Mac18,6 - Geekbench Benchmark results for a Mac18,6 with an Apple M6 Pro processor.

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Post #232498 3.15K Sep 19, 2026, 07:40 UTC

Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
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WIRED Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.

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Post #232497 3.13K Sep 19, 2026, 07:20 UTC

Gemini hacked three companies in first known breakout by Google's AI
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Post #232496 2.83K Sep 19, 2026, 07:10 UTC

GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
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Prinzai GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher Scienceblogs.de, a German science blogging portal, includes a relatively famous list of 50 unsolved ciphers, which range from cryptograms published by serial killers to the famous Voynich manuscript.

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Post #232495 2.56K Sep 19, 2026, 06:42 UTC

If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
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What's new If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it [This is a guest post by Grant Sanderson. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] A sentiment echoing throughout the mathematics communit…

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Post #232494 2.54K Sep 19, 2026, 06:03 UTC

Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
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News Center Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.

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Post #232493 2.54K Sep 19, 2026, 05:08 UTC

NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model
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USRA Contributes Planetary Science Expertise to NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model Open-source artificial intelligence model combines diverse lunar datasets to support scientific analysis of the MoonThe NASA-IBM model reproduces patterns of lunar ice prospectivity (scaled from blue to yellow), shown at four locations (left) near the Moon’s…

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Post #232492 2.38K Sep 19, 2026, 04:59 UTC

Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die
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GitHub GitHub - jasonepage/Seal Contribute to jasonepage/Seal development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Post #232491 2.3K Sep 19, 2026, 04:41 UTC

San Francisco Onion Futures Company
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Post #232490 2.46K Sep 19, 2026, 03:30 UTC

Alibaba open-sources AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
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South China Morning Post 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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Post #232489 2.26K Sep 19, 2026, 02:59 UTC

How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?
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Daniel Lemire's blog How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years? People still tell me that CPUs are boring. That nothing much happens anymore. Let us look at AMD Ryzen 7 processors from 2022 to 2024: the 5800X3D (Zen 3), the 7800X3D (Zen 4) and the 9800X3D (Zen 5). They are comparable 8-core chips with 3D V-Cache. I have…

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Post #232488 2.16K Sep 19, 2026, 02:52 UTC

SDCC – Small Device C Compiler
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Post #232487 2.26K Sep 19, 2026, 02:33 UTC

The Contract on America
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3 Quarks Daily The Contract On America - 3 Quarks Daily by John Ambrosio

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Post #232486 2.21K Sep 19, 2026, 02:32 UTC

Science Is Open Software
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Jens Egholm Pedersen 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) software? - Everyone I spend a lot of my time working on software.…

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Post #232485 2.35K Sep 19, 2026, 02:13 UTC

Show HN: LiveWorld – Every 24/7 YouTube live camera on one globe
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LiveWorld LiveWorld — live cameras around the world Rotate the globe. Pick a live camera. Chat with the people watching now.

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Post #232484 2.39K Sep 19, 2026, 01:10 UTC

We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient
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GitHub GitHub - browserbase/stagehand: The SDK to extract data and interact with any site on the web. Get started with Claude Code, Codex… The SDK to extract data and interact with any site on the web. Get started with Claude Code, Codex, Eve, Mastra, and more. - browserbase/stagehand

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