| 1. | Half-Life 2 in a Browser(hl2.slqnt.dev) |
| 447 points by panza 8 hours ago | 183 comments | permalink | |
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| 2. | Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities(reuters.com) |
| 599 points by htrp 19 hours ago | 967 comments | permalink | |
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| 3. | OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom(techcrunch.com) |
| 758 points by jamdesk 21 hours ago | 437 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: OpenAI announced "Jalapeño," its first custom inference chip, developed with Broadcom and reportedly designed with help from OpenAI's own AI models. The chip targets inference workloads (not training) and claims significantly better performance-per-watt than current alternatives, following a similar custom-silicon path taken by Google and Amazon to reduce Nvidia dependence. Training-heavy workloads will likely remain on Nvidia GPUs, but cutting inference costs could meaningfully improve OpenAI's economics. | |
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| 4. | Blogging can just be stating the obvious(blog.jim-nielsen.com) |
| 337 points by Curiositry 15 hours ago | 105 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Riffing on a John Gruber post about user-hostile popups, the author argues that good blogging often just means stating what seems obvious but goes unsaid. Writers frequently dismiss their own posts as too self-evident to publish, but those "emperor has no clothes" observations—backed with real examples—are often the most valuable. The takeaway: be willing to say the obvious thing, or just link to someone else saying it. | |
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| 5. | 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero(blogs.nvidia.com) |
| 409 points by nitin_flanker 1 day ago | 327 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: NVIDIA's Rubin AI infrastructure uses 100% liquid cooling with coolant running up to 45°C, enabling closed-loop systems that can operate without chillers or evaporative cooling in favorable climates—cutting water use from ~2.6M gallons/MW/year to near zero. The higher operating temperature allows outdoor dry coolers to reject heat efficiently year-round, eliminates fans entirely, and triples rack density (6U servers fit in 2U). Since cooling accounts for up to 40% of data center power, a 50MW facility could save over $4M annually. | |
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| 6. | GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents(interconnects.ai) |
| 297 points by vantareed 2 days ago | 180 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Z.ai's GLM-5.2, released under MIT license, is the first open-weight model that credibly competes with Claude Opus 4.5 in coding agent workflows, landing roughly 6.8 months behind the closed frontier and drawing comparisons to the DeepSeek R1 moment. Its arrival pressures Anthropic's pricing and revenue (especially with Claude Fable 5 export-banned) and boosts open inference providers like Fireworks and Together. The release also sharpens looming policy questions about whether the US government will eventually move to restrict Chinese open-weight models as capabilities approach "Mythos-class" thresholds. | |
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| 7. | RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers(rubyllm.com) |
| 416 points by doener 1 day ago | 70 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: RubyLLM is a unified Ruby framework that provides a single interface for working with major AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Ollama, etc.), with only three dependencies (Faraday, Zeitwerk, Marcel). It supports chat, vision, audio transcription, document analysis, image generation, embeddings, tool calling, agents, structured output, and streaming. The framework includes Rails integration via `acts_as_chat`, generators for chat UIs, and a registry of 800+ models with capability and pricing detection. | |
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| 8. | PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s(greptile.com) |
| 246 points by dakshgupta 1 day ago | 143 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: After OpenClaw went viral, weekly PRs jumped from 2 to 3,400 while merge rates collapsed from 48% to 9.3%, with much of the influx being AI-generated slop (one user submitted 106 PRs in a day). The author argues this mirrors early-2000s email spam and will require sender-reputation systems like Mitchell Hashimoto's Vouch, and notes that AI homogenizes contributions—multiple users independently submitted identical PRs. Refactors that require deep codebase understanding merge at 35% vs. 9% for features, suggesting human judgment still beats agent-generated novelty. | |
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| 9. | Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash(blog.google) |
| 232 points by swolpers 21 hours ago | 154 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Google has integrated computer use as a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, allowing developers to build agents that interact with browsers, mobile, and desktop environments without relying on the previous standalone Gemini 2.5 computer use model. To address prompt injection risks, Google added adversarial training plus optional enterprise safeguards like requiring user confirmation for sensitive actions and auto-stopping tasks on detected injections. It's available now via the Gemini API and Enterprise Agent Platform. | |
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| 10. | The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader(blog.omgmog.net) |
| 288 points by felixdoerp 22 hours ago | 167 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: The Xteink X4 is a £40 pocket-sized e-ink reader with a crisp display, instant page turns, and a MagSafe mount, though its stock firmware is bare-bones. Custom firmwares forked from CrossPoint (Papyrix, Inx, MicroSlate, TernOS) unlock the device's potential, adding features like Knuth-Plass typography, Calibre/KOReader sync, reading statistics, and even writing or PalmOS-style modes. The author concludes that for pure reading, the X4's extreme portability beats larger or colour e-readers like the Kobo Clara Colour or Bigme B6. | |
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| 11. | Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js(github.com) |
| 257 points by colinmcd 1 day ago | 73 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Nub is a Rust-written, Bun-like toolkit that augments stock Node.js rather than replacing it, bundling a TypeScript-capable file runner, script runner, package runner (nubx), package manager, watch mode, and Node version manager into one CLI. It claims significant speedups over existing JS-based tooling (e.g., ~24× faster than `pnpm run`, ~19× faster than `npx`, 2.5× faster installs than pnpm) while maintaining flag compatibility with npm/pnpm and reading incumbent package managers' config files. Distributed via curl, Homebrew, or npm, with a GitHub Actions integration drop-in for `actions/setup-node`. | |
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| 12. | A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding(labs.iximiuz.com) |
| 360 points by signa11 5 days ago | 67 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A hands-on guide to SSH port forwarding covering four modes: local (`-L`) exposes a remote service on a local port, remote (`-R`) exposes a local service on a remote port, and dynamic (`-D` or `-R` without destination) turns either side into a SOCKS proxy for accessing entire networks through one tunnel. Each mode is demonstrated with lab examples using a bastion/jump host setup, and the author offers a mnemonic: `-L local:remote`, `-R remote:local`, with the left side always being the port that opens. | |
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| 13. | Krea 2: SOTA open-weights 12B image model(krea.ai) |
| 399 points by mattnewton 1 day ago | 44 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Krea released Krea 2, a 12B open-weights diffusion transformer for text-to-image generation that ranks in the top 10 on Artificial Analysis's leaderboard and 2nd among independent labs. The model uses a multi-stage pipeline (pretraining, midtraining, SFT, preference optimization, and RL with multiple reward models) on a curated dataset that explicitly excludes AI-generated images, paired with Qwen3-VL as text encoder, GQA with gated sigmoid attention, and a custom STPO variant of DPO. It ships with a prompt expander and style-reference system aimed at creative exploration rather than a single default aesthetic. | |
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| 14. | There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days(twitter.com) |
| 544 points by shadowtree 22 hours ago | 268 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Carmack reflects on id Software mistakes: Quake was technically over-ambitious (Doom++ would've sufficed for multiplayer/modding before pursuing full 6DOF), he pushed the team too hard at unsustainable startup intensity, and the founders' stock buy/sell arrangement created bad incentives versus standard vesting. He also acknowledges that requiring level designers to have both gameplay and strong visual design skills was reasonable, but the company should have paired artists with designers sooner instead of letting infighting fester. | |
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| 15. | We’re making Bunny DNS free(bunny.net) |
| 887 points by dabinat 1 day ago | 264 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Bunny.net has eliminated DNS query fees for Bunny DNS, offering free hosting for up to 500 domains per account with no query limits or paywalled features (subject to their standard $1/month minimum account spend). The service includes smart routing, health checks, JavaScript-based logic, DNSSEC with NSEC Black Lies, IPv6, and modern record types like HTTPS/SVCB and TLSA. They've also added automatic zone scanning for migrations and 1-click integration with their CDN and Shield products. | |
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| 16. | Stealing Is a Skill(ben-mini.com) |
| 240 points by bewal416 1 day ago | 141 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: The author advocates for "stealing" as a deliberate creative skill, drawing on Virgil Abloh's "3% approach"—rebuilding an admired work almost exactly, then changing only ~3%. To redesign their startup Kibu's marketing site, they cloned Mintlify's site pixel-by-pixel, which forced them to understand every design decision and ultimately led their own instincts to drift toward ~50% original work. The takeaway: originality is overrated; efficient problem-solving means finding who's done it well before you, copying it deeply, and letting your meaningful deviations emerge naturally. | |
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| 17. | "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds(gist.github.com) |
| 219 points by retroplasma 1 day ago | 102 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A workaround for cursor lag on the new MacBook (likely related to ProMotion/variable refresh behavior) by running a tiny background app that continuously captures a 1x1 pixel region of the screen every 10 seconds via ScreenCaptureKit, forcing the display into a higher refresh state. The provided bash script compiles a Swift menu bar app ("Unlag Neo") that handles permissions, login-at-startup, and optional pausing during fullscreen apps. Frames are immediately discarded; the capture exists solely as a side effect to keep the cursor responsive. | |
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| 18. | Slate EV truck starts at $24,950(slate.auto) |
| 280 points by cobri 1 day ago | 433 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Slate's new EV pickup starts at $24,950 and ships as a bare-bones "Blank Slate" two-seater that buyers can customize with 200+ accessories (80% under $500), wraps, and conversion kits to turn it into a 5-seat SUV or fastback. It's designed for DIY ownership with swappable panels, accessible parts, and free manuals, and charges via standard 120V outlets, 240V dryer outlets, or Tesla Superchargers. | |
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| 19. | NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute(nytimes.com) |
| 254 points by thm 1 day ago | 268 comments | permalink | |
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| 20. | Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite(thinkgeoenergy.com) |
| 216 points by Jimmc414 4 days ago | 119 comments | permalink | |
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