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Superconducting Circuit Design Advances Topological Quantum Computing

Researchers have successfully demonstrated a new superconducting quantum circuit architecture that achieves a critical gauge symmetry. This specific symmetry is a fundamental requirement for the devel...

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AirMeter: Stream an AN870 Multimeter's LCD to Your Browser

Want live multimeter readings on screen during a build video without fighting glare, focus hunt, and awkward camera angles? You can, and the parts list is short: an ANENG AN870 meter (any clone built...

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Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The s...

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Probabilistic Graph Neural Inference for circular manufacturing supply chains during mission-critical recovery windows

Probabilistic Graph Neural Inference for circular manufacturing supply chains during mission-critical recovery windows Introduction: A Personal Learning Journey It started with a failure....

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On the run for 20 years, most-wanted fugitive caught hiding as a biotech exec

Ronald Fischer, aka Richard Graydon, was arrested in New York last week.

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The Silent Vector Contamination Bug: Why Your Concurrent Embeddings Might Be Lying to You

TL;DR: If you run concurrent inference (e.g., via OpenVINO AsyncInferQueue or custom threading) for text/code embeddings, your tests might show 0 exceptions and 0 errors, while silently returning embe...

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Volkswagen Thinks Your E-Bike Needs a Pair of Smart Glasses

The German automaker licensed its name to two new e-bikes made by n+.

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Gemini for macOS gets Neural Expressive, AI Mode on Android redesigned

In addition to 3.6 Flash, Google today is also updating Gemini for macOS with the Neural Expressive redesign.

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Tracing and Resolving a Critical Security Bug in Smart Contract Analysis

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. During a recent security review, I identified a critical flaw where specific edge-case input vectors could bypass auto...

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LongCat-Video-Avatar 1.5 cuts inference to 8 steps — here's

Meituan's LongCat team shipped a quiet but meaningful update to its open-source talking-avatar stack: version 1.5 swaps the audio encoder, distills sampling down to 8 steps, and adds an INT8 path to f...

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AI Didn't Kill Software Engineering. It Made It More Valuable Than Ever.

We've Been Asking the Wrong Question For years the industry asked: "Will AI replace software developers?" Now we know that isn't the right question. The better question is: What becomes valuable whe...

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A IA não matou a Engenharia de Software. Ela a tornou mais importante do que nunca.

Durante anos fizemos a pergunta errada "Será que a IA vai substituir os desenvolvedores?" Hoje sabemos que essa não era a pergunta correta. A pergunta correta é: O que passa a ter valor quando escre...

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Poolside drops Laguna S 2.1, an open-weight coding model that beats rivals 10x its size

Poolside, the San Francisco AI lab that has spent most of its three-year existence quietly selling coding models to governments and defense agencies, released its most capable model to date on Tuesday...

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Getting Started with Sinch Functions

I've built a lot of voice integrations. Every single one needed a deployment whose only job was to talk to the Sinch API: receive the callback, translate it into SVAML or a Conversation API call, hand...

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OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. | Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writ...

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Show HN: Computable – Buy, sell, and redeem GPU for the exact weeks you want

Hey we are Computable. We spent years building trading infrastructure at Jump Trading and Coinbase. From that point of view, compute looks like energy markets before 2000: everything trades through pr...

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I Built STRMSTRM: A Terminal UI for Searching Movies

I Built STRM: A Movie Search TUI for the Terminal I recently built STRM, an open-source terminal application that lets you search for movies without leaving the command line. Why I...

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How to Build an AI Agent for Code Monitoring and Security Analysis

Monitoring code quality and detecting security vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle is essential for building robust software. In this post, I want to highlight the core ideas behind bui...

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France will ban social media for children under 15

The country's new law also bans the use of mobile phones in schools.

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Why More Web Tools Are Moving Processing to the Browser (And How to Build One)

A few years ago, almost every "online tool" worked the same way: you upload your file to a server, wait for a response, then download the result. Simple, but it has real costs — server bandwidth, stor...

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Samsung’s First Credit Card Launches in the US

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Google Introduces Gemini 3.6 to Remind You It Has an AI Model, Too

Plus: 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

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The Urgency to Close the AI Gender Divide Before It Affects the Pay Gap

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Apple shares true story video on how Apple Watch helped rescue an injured cyclist

From time to time, Apple shares real-life stories of users who received potentially life-saving help from the Apple Watch’s safety features. Today, the company published a new video recounting how Fal...

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Stop adding more GPUs: Weka's new storage platform reduces load by caching 100% of an AI model's pre-calculated tokens

GPU memory is the most expensive resource in production AI, and it's also the one running out fastest. Long context windows and multi-turn conversations force AI models to repeatedly recompute inform...

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US Treasury Chief Threatens Sanctions on Chinese AI Labs Over ‘IP Theft’ Concerns

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed action in the coming days or weeks.

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"Drawing" the Mona Lisa with GPT-5.6, Claude, Gemini, and Grok

Article URL: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-drawing-arena-colored-pencils-claude-gpt-grok Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998404 Points: 17 # Comments: 4

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: As AI companies search for more training data to improve their models, one company is offering old, printed books as an ideal source because they ar...

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Firefox 153 Released

Longtime Slashdot reader williamyf writes: FireFox 153 was released today. The most important user-facing changes are improvements to PDF handling (you can now merge PDFs and add images to them), and...

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A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample

Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998362 Points: 40 # Comments: 2

2h ago

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and ex...

2h ago

Jump into Junior Engr.: Your Web Development Journey with ReactJS (AI-Augmented Edition)

#webdev #react #ai #learning The web dev landscape has shifted — junior developers today are expected to work with AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor), not just write code from scratch. This u...

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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

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"The Night the Sovereign Cloud Almost Died: A Tale of Latency, AI, and Kubernetes Survival"

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. خلال 15 ثانية فقط، قفز معدل استهلاك المعالج إلى 95%، وتصاعد استهلاك الذاكرة بشكل حاد، فيما توقفت خدمة الذكاء الاصطناعي...

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Garmin’s New Screenless Wearable Could Be a Serious Whoop Competitor

Garmin's new Cirqa band tracks and analyzes your workouts, heart rate, and sleep—all without a subscription.

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Gboard rolling out M3 Expressive redesign of shortcuts on Android

After months of testing, Gboard is now rolling out a redesign of the shortcuts page that leverages Material 3 Expressive.

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Prompt Injection Isn't Fixed by a Filter. It's Fixed by Architecture

A language model writes twenty question-and-answer pairs for a product page in under a minute. The trouble starts right after. For the answers to be correct, the model needs the company's facts: price...

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Building a Secure Infrastructure Dashboard with React 18, Tailwind v4, and Local Sovereign LLMs

Building a Secure Infrastructure Dashboard with React 18, Tailwind v4, and Local Sovereign LLMs When architecting cloud dashboards for enterprise or government sectors, traditional development patte...

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2026 LG OLED evo TVs are getting a new Creator Original picture mode

The elevated streaming experience is happening in collaboration with Prime Video.

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Mickey Mouse Sells a Bundle

Article URL: https://www.marginpoints.com/essays/mickey-mouse-sells-a-bundle-hn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998082 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Catch token-cost regressions in CI before they ship

Last year a team shipped a "small prompt improvement" on a Friday. By Monday their Claude bill had jumped 40%. Nobody caught it in review — the diff looked fine. The tokens were invisible. We wrote ab...

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From Tables to Insights: A Beginner's Journey into SQL

SQL is at its heart, the way we communicate with data. The first step is designing the "shape" of our data, which is frequently achieved using the CREATE TABLE statement: we define the columns and wha...

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iPhone Air 2 is coming, here’s everything we know so far

Apple is working on a second-generation iPhone Air, and it could address several key limitations of the current model. Here’s everything we know about the iPhone Air 2, including features, release dat...

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The Debugger Is Lying to You Sometimes

Debugging should feel like the safest part of programming. Sometimes it does, but sometimes the debugger makes everything look fine while the real bug is hiding somewhere else, which is one of the mos...

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Apple TV drops trailer for Women in Blue’s second season

With the premiere just a few weeks away, Apple TV today released the trailer for Women in Blue season two. Watch it below.

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Starting My Frontend Development Journey: Day 3 of #100DaysOfCode 💻🚀

Hey Dev Community! 👋 Continuing my #100DaysOfCode journey, today I deeply practiced all essential JavaScript Arithmetic Operators (+, -, *, /, %, **, ++, --) using real-world scenarios like shopping...

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Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition drops to a record low price for summer

Upgrade your reading game

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Shop Best Buy’s Black Friday in July Sale 2026 Before Fall Chaos

The discounts may not beat Prime Day, but I found worthwhile prices on WIRED-approved TVs, laptops, tablets, speakers, and other home gear.

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I Built an Instagram Bot Cleaner in Python Here's the Architecture

https://github.com/Saqlvation/instapurge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vW7f2HbNiA TL;DR class InstagramBridge: init(self, session_file: str): def get_followers(self, username: str) -> Iterator[Prof...