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NEXT.JS 15.15

Next.js 15.5 introduces beta Turbopack builds for faster performance and stable Node.js middleware. The release also includes TypeScript improvements for better type safety in routing and deprecates the `next lint` command in favor of ESLint or Biome.

EPICENTER

Epicenter is an open-source ecosystem of local-first apps focused on data ownership, allowing users to store their data in plain text and SQLite files. The project aims to replace siloed apps with interoperable alternatives. Current available tools include Whispering, a desktop transcription app, and epicenter.sh, a local-first assistant.

REUI

ReUI is an open-source React component library built with Tailwind CSS, Motion, and other technologies, with copy-and-paste components designed for customization, AI-optimization, and production use.

HOW WE EXPLOITED CODERABBIT: FROM A SIMPLE PR TO RCE AND WRITE ACCESS ON 1M REPOSITORIES

A vulnerability in CodeRabbit, an AI code review tool, allowed for remote code execution (RCE) on its production servers. By exploiting Rubocop, a static analysis tool integrated with CodeRabbit, the Kudelski Security team was able to inject malicious code and exfiltrate sensitive environment variables, including API keys and secrets. This access granted them potential read and write access to 1 million code repositories, including private ones, through the leaked CodeRabbit GitHub app private key. CodeRabbit quickly fixed the vulnerability by disabling Rubocop, rotating secrets, and implementing stronger security measures.

HOW TO THINK ABOUT GPUS

This article explains the architecture of GPUs, focusing on Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), CUDA Cores, Tensor Cores, and memory hierarchy, and summarizes the specifications of different GPU generations. It then compares GPUs and TPUs at the chip level and covers GPU networking, detailing intra-node and cross-node collectives and their performance implications.

WORKING OFFLINE IN NOTION—EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

Notion now has an offline mode to view, edit, and create pages on desktop and mobile.

THE STATE OF MCP SECURITY: HOW AI PLUGINS CREATE SILENT EXPLOITS

The combination of multiple MCP plugins in AI agents creates often overlooked security risks, allowing for exploits like code execution from untrusted inputs such as emails or web content.

ASK HN: HAVE ANY SUCCESSFUL STARTUPS BEEN MADE BY 'VIBE CODING'? (HACKER NEWS THREAD)

Vibe coding has been great for small, focused apps and fast prototyping, but it isn't as great when the codebase grows large.

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TESLA OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES MODEL YL WITH 6 SEATS, STARTING AT ~$47,000

Tesla has launched the Model YL in China starting at 339,000 Chinese Yuan, or about $47,000 USD. The model YL is a larger Model Y with six seats and a range of 751 kilometers. The vehicle has up to 2,539 liters of storage space and electric armrests in the second-row seats. Deliveries are expected in September. Images of the new version of the Model Y are available in the article.

IPHONE 17, THE ‘THINNEST IPHONE EVER,' AND EVERYTHING ELSE WE'RE EXPECTING OUT OF APPLE'S HARDWARE EVENT

Apple is expected to release its iPhone 17 lineup on September 9 along with updates for the Apple Watch and AirPods. There are many rumors circulating, including bigger screens and improved cameras for the iPhone 17 range and the introduction of an ultra-thin iPhone Air model. This article rounds up the news and rumors so far about the devices Apple plans to release in the coming weeks.

THE ATHLETES AT CHINA'S ROBOT GAMES FELL DOWN A LOT

The Humanoid Robot Games was a three-day event held in Beijing that featured more than 280 teams from universities and private companies in 16 countries. The games included soccer matches, sprints, kickboxing matches, and many other sports. China is trying to make rapid advancements in robotics, and the games were a test of cutting-edge advancements in robotics technology. They revealed limitations, but also possibilities - despite some falls, significant progress is being made in robot locomotion and balance.

THE WEIGHT OF A CELL

We know that a single yeast cell weighs about 100 picograms and a single E. coli bacterium weighs about one picogram. While we now have devices that can measure individual cells with femtogram precision, scientists decades ago had to make do with whatever was already in the lab. The weight of an individual yeast cell was first measured with little more than a microscope, sugar water, and a camera. Measuring E. coli required a completely different strategy. This post looks at these early experiments to show how phenomena that seem difficult to measure can be overcome through mathematics and first principles thinking.

INSIDE CLICKHOUSE FULL-TEXT SEARCH: FAST, NATIVE, AND COLUMNAR

ClickHouse completely rebuilt its full-text search to be faster, leaner, and fully native to the columnar database design. This article explains the new design, which enables high-performance search without having to leave the database. The new native text index makes search in ClickHouse fast, precise, and fully integrated. It allows users to run complex searches with the same efficiency as analytical queries.

ELOQKV

EloqKV is a fully featured key-value database that supports both pure in-memory caching mode and durable transactional mode. It has a Redis/ValKey compatible API that preserves Redis' simplicity and usability and offers features like ACID transactions, full elasticity and scalability, tiered storage, and session-style transaction syntax. EloqKV is a decoupled, distributed database built on Data Substrate. Each EloqKV instance includes a frontend deployed together with the core TxService to handle data operations.

THE BILLION-DOLLAR GAME BUILT IN A DORM ROOM

Minh Le created Counter-Strike from his dorm room at Simon Fraser University, a public research school just outside Vancouver, British Columbia. The game, officially released in the fall of 2000 by Valve Corporation, spawned half a dozen sequels and an esports vertical that continues to generate billions from the sales of cosmetic weapon skins. It has influenced decades of shooters and is arguably one of the most important video games ever made. Counter-Strike's influence is vast nearly 25 years later - even Call of Duty has offered a bomb defusal mode lifted straight out of Counter-Strike.

JUST PEOPLE IN A ROOM

Group projects suck, but they give students opportunities to run into human problems in a safer environment. We are all just people with our own biases, blinded to our own faults. Growing up means learning to question ourselves while still trusting ourselves. By reflecting on ourselves, little by little, we become better people.

APPLE PREPS NATIVE CLAUDE INTEGRATION ON XCODE

The Xcode 26 beta 7 contains multiple references to built-in support for Anthropic accounts within the new 'Intelligence' feature.

BILL GATES MEETS WILLY WONKA: HOW EPIC'S 82-YEAR-OLD BILLIONAIRE CEO, JUDY FAULKNER, BUILT HER SOFTWARE FACTORY

Epic, a company best known for its dominance in electronic health record software, was started by Judy Faulkner in a Wisconsin basement in 1979.

MAKING SOFTWARE

This site contains a reference manual for developers that explains how different concepts are implemented - it is still a work in progress.

THE HIDDEN COST OF SLOW FEEDBACK LOOPS

Slow feedback loops are counterproductive.

SOFTBANK INVESTS $2 BILLION IN INTEL AS U.S. CONSIDERS TAKING 10% STAKE IN CHIP MAKER

Investors appear to interpret SoftBank's move as a vote of confidence.

RASPBERRY PI INTROS NEW 5-INCH $40 TOUCHSCREEN FOR YOUR NEXT WEIRD PROJECT

The 5-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2, available now for $40, is a 720p IPS multi-touch screen with mounting holes on the back to make it easy to build integrated all-in-one devices.

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OPENAI LAUNCHES A SUB $5 CHATGPT PLAN IN INDIA

OpenAI has launched a new subscription plan in India called ChatGPT Go. Priced at ₹399 per month ($4.60), the plan increases message, image generation, and file upload limits by 10 times over the free tier. It also enables better memory retention for more personalized responses. The plan is geo-restricted to India - OpenAI plans to expand the plan to more regions.

GRAMMARLY SAYS ITS AI AGENT CAN PREDICT AN A PAPER

Grammarly released a suite of new AI tools today, including a grader agent that uses course details and publicly available instructor information to predict grades. Other agents handle citation generation, plagiarism detection, and reader reaction predictions.

AI-POWERED FORMULA IN EXCEL

The COPILOT function for Excel on Windows and Mac allows users to enter natural language prompts directly in cells to perform tasks like summarizing, categorizing, or generating data.

GPT-5 GOES HARD ON REAL-WORLD PROGRAMMING

GPT-5 appears to be incredibly adept at writing code that solves issues end-to-end. This post looks at how GPT-5 solved the problem of writing a parser for a complex binary format. The resulting code is usable and very performant. GPT-5 produces minimal, viable edits, and it is more steerable than previous models.

THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET (3.5 HOUR VIDEO)

This documentary features direct interviews with smugglers, dealers, and manufacturers across Hong Kong and Shenzhen, documenting how export-controlled chips flow from US Facebook Marketplace sales to Chinese warehouses. Reporters filmed transactions with smugglers buying RTX 4090s for $2,000 and buying modified cards from underground shops to turbocharge GPUs beyond what Nvidia offers. NVIDIA dismissed the smuggling evidence as "tall tales."

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GOOGLE GEMINI URL CONTEXT

The url_context tool in the Gemini API allows models to request the content of URLs as part of a reply to a prompt. Pages accessed with the tool will receive a request from a Google IP that appears to feed the original raw HTML to the model without executing JavaScript on the page.

APIS DON'T MAKE GOOD MCP TOOLS

MCP has become the de facto standard for giving large language models access to tools that someone else wrote. However, writing tools for a new MCP server is hard, so people often propose auto-converting existing APIs into MCP tools. This doesn't work well because agents don't do well with large numbers of tools, APIs can blow through context windows quickly, and APIs don't make the most of agents' unique capabilities. Agents can just call APIs if they need to do that. They do best when given tools that are designed for their unique capabilities and limitations.

HOW TO THINK ABOUT GPUS

This article looks at how Nvidia GPUs work, how they're networked together, and what that means for large language models, especially compared to TPUs. A modern machine learning GPU is basically a bunch of compute cores that specialize in matrix multiplication connected to a stick of fast memory. TPUs are dedicated matrix multiplication machines that are cheap, predictable, and great if used as intended. Networking is one of the areas where GPUs and TPUs differ the most - TPUs are connected in 2D or 3D tori, where each TPU is only connected to its neighbors, while GPUs use a more tree-based switching network.

THYME: EXECUTABLE CODE REASONING FOR VISION TASKS

Thyme is a vision-language model that improves complex perception tasks by generating and executing code for image processing.

THE GREAT COGNITIVE HANDOFF: HOW AI-ASSISTED DEVELOPMENT IS REWIRING CIVILIZATION

The old model, where humans think and computers execute, is obsolete. Now, humans steer while AI thinks. Soon, we'll see IDEs that dream, code that evolves, collective coding consciousness, and intention-based programming. We're no longer building software, we're building consciousness infrastructure.

HOW GOOGLERS USE AI AT WORK

Google shares 14 real-world examples of how employees use tools like Gemini, Imagen, and NotebookLM to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and generate ideas.

‘CRAZY CONSPIRACIST' AND ‘UNHINGED COMEDIAN': GROK'S AI PERSONA PROMPTS EXPOSED

xAI's Grok chatbot appears to have internal system prompts for controversial personas, including a "crazy conspiracist" and "unhinged comedian."

THE GREAT REFACTOR

A nonprofit initiative aims to eliminate 70% of common vulnerabilities by translating 100 million lines of code memory-unsafe C and C++ libraries into Rust by 2030.

OPENAI-RIVAL ANTHROPIC SETS LIMITS ON HOW INVESTORS CAN PARTICIPATE IN UPCOMING $5 BILLION FUNDRAISE

Anthropic has told investors that it doesn't want money coming through special purpose vehicles, legal entities created for a specific financial purpose, usually to make a single investment.

NVIDIA RELEASES A NEW SMALL, OPEN MODEL NEMOTRON-NANO-9B-V2 WITH TOGGLE ON/OFF REASONING

Nemotron-Nano-9B-V2 is designed to fit on a single Nvidia A10 GPU.

TINY-TPU

tiny-tpu is a minimal tensor processing unit (TPU) inspired by Google's TPU V2 and V1.

BTCS TO PAY FIRST-EVER ETHER DIVIDEND

BTCS Inc., a Nasdaq-listed Ethereum treasury, has announced the first-ever ETH dividend of $0.05 per share payable in ETH or cash, with shareholders required to opt in by the September 26 record date, alongside a $0.35 per share loyalty payment in ETH for those transferring holdings to book entry and maintaining them for at least 120 days through January 26, 2026. The initiative aims to reward long-term investors and deter short selling by making shares harder to borrow, addressing a perceived disconnect between the company's $6.65 per share balance sheet value in cash and digital assets and its market price below $5.

PUMP.FUN RECLAIMS 90% OF SOLANA MEMECOIN MARKET

Pump.fun has increased from 5% to 90% market share in Solana memecoin launches within two weeks. Rival LetsBonk's share collapsed to 3%. Top deployers shifting platforms, bot-driven activity, and Pump.fun's multimillion-dollar PUMP token buybacks are all considered drivers of the reversal.

O-COMMERCE: THE NEXT ITERATION OF E-COMMERCE

O-commerce represents the evolution of e-commerce through blockchain-enabled transactions that are natively global, faster, cheaper, non-custodial, and composable, with emerging solutions like debit earning on idle capital, onchain yield savings, zero-interest credit, and AI-managed payments. The Coinbase Commerce Protocol, partnered with Shopify, introduces programmable escrow for stablecoin payments, allowing instant onchain authorization and capture upon order fulfillment, which reduces settlement times from days to seconds and significantly lowers processing costs for merchants. Stablecoin adoption could substantially boost company market caps by mitigating card processing fees. For consumers, o-commerce provides benefits like native yield on capital, composable rewards, global access, and non-custodial ownership. O-commerce is expected to gradually absorb traditional e-commerce without noticeable disruption.