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Hey HN! I'm Lakshay. Raveen and I have built Cerulion, a ROS2-compatible robotics runtime written in Rust. We've worked hard on lowering IPC transport latencies without making…
Announcement: CONDUCTOR IS BACK We’ve decided to continue development of Conductor! Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated (by us). Regularly scheduled updates will…
AI summary Data centers strain U.S. energy grids, with lower-income and rural residents bearing most costs, according to a Cornell study.
AI summary A distributed ray tracer demo was created using Hatchet's features, allowing fast high-fidelity rendering across multiple nodes.
AI summary A new celestial object, 2026 ED138, was discovered, taking 281.1 years to orbit the sun and being 46 times farther from the sun than Earth.
Apify's Status Page - Security incident.
AI summary Google introduces Gemini 4 Hydrogen and a new model dropdown called Orchestrator, which combines Hydrogen with Gemini 4 Carbon for optimized performance.
AI summary Rust 1.100.0 is released, featuring the stable 'never' type, which completes a long-term project goal.
Language Stabilize never type Lint against repeated #[repr(..)] attributes Stabilize extern "custom" Extend dropping_references, dropping_copy_types and undropped_manually_drops…
AI summary A 22-year-old PostgreSQL bug was turned into a remote code execution vulnerability through type-confusion exploitation.
For the past 5 minutes all of our Microsoft Cloud connections are down. Anyone else? The Status page won't even load.
AI summary AgentRun is an open-source platform that enhances agents with self-improvement and efficient execution.
AI summary Singapore criticized the U.S. for not helping in its investigation into Alice Huang, a suspected spy linked to Nvidia's CEO.
Today, we’re introducing Gemini 4 Hydrogen, our daily driver for agentic workflows
Hey HN! We're Alireza and Majid building Leeroo (https://leeroo.com/). Previously we’ve built AI systems for products with millions of users, including at LinkedIn and Meta…
AI summary AI models fail to address Women, Peace and Security principles, creating a competence gap in their understanding of global issues affecting women.
AI summary Linux distributions audit binaries for absolute paths that may not work on user machines. GCC may optimize string constants, making them appear as prefixes accidentally.
AI summary A $300 embroidery machine required a subscription, so the creator built an app called ZigZag for editing embroidery designs.
AI summary AWS Lambda Web Functions continue billing memory for 5-7 minutes after the last request, leading to custom infrastructure development.
AI summary Nintendo sent DMCA takedowns to GitHub targeting Switch emulators and mod chip firmware, removing 144 repositories.
We used WordPress ourselves but struggled with ongoing maintenance. So we built an internal alternative CMS that met our needs. After two years of development, we decided to make…
Play 30+ browser games built autonomously by Claude Fable 5.2, many shipped as one self-contained HTML file. Read the exact prompts, inspect the source, download and remix.
AI summary ExcalidrawZ is a native app for Apple platforms that enhances Excalidraw with file management, iCloud sync, and AI features.
AI summary A 13-year-old iPad Air runs large language models with custom optimizations, achieving varying token speeds depending on model size.
AI summary A user configured four AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700s and two RTX 3090s behind a PCIe switch on Linux with 32 GB Resizable BARs.
AI summary On October 25th, the author noticed dead River Red Gum seedlings while driving and investigated further.
AI summary AI Red Lines lets users define actions that would prompt them to act on AI. It encourages sharing and reflection.
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