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git-who is a command-line tool that analyzes Git repositories to determine authorship of code components and subsystems. It provides three subcommands: `table`, which summarizes contributions by author; `tree`, which displays a file tree annotated with author information; and `hist`, which shows a timeline of commit activity.
Google has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Wiz, a cloud security platform, for $32 billion in cash. This will strengthen Google Cloud's offerings in cloud security and multicloud environments.
AI is evolving towards a model-as-a-product paradigm, where the model itself, rather than the application layer, becomes the primary source of value. This shift is driven by the stalling of generalist scaling, the success of opinionated training, and the plummeting cost of inference, leading to closed AI model providers moving up the value chain and disrupting the application layer. Examples include OpenAI's DeepResearch and Claude 3.7.
Apple imposes many limitations on third-party smartwatches, like Pebble, which worsens their functionality on iOS compared to Android. Some restrictions include the inability to send text messages, reply to notifications, easily integrate with other apps, or create a third-party app store. These limitations stem from Apple's deliberate efforts to restrict competition and lock consumers into its ecosystem.
Hacker News has been an important resource in this developer's journey from a data analyst with limited technical knowledge to a confident software engineer.
Strategies for staying motivated on a project that lacks user traction include setting small goals, seeking user feedback, tracking progress, and taking breaks.
Thanks to TruffleRuby's advanced JIT compiler and regular expression engine (TRegex), idiomatic Ruby code using regular expressions can outperform equivalent C implementations and even hand-written SIMD code in tasks like JSON string escaping, Time parsing, and integer scanning.
This is a 3-hour deep dive into LynxJS, ByteDance's new JavaScript framework that already runs at scale in TikTok.
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Modern bots are smarter than ever [5]—executing JavaScript, storing cookies, rotating IPs, and even cracking CAPTCHAs with AI. As attacks grow more sophisticated, traditional detection just isn't enough.
OpenAI plans to start testing ways for business customers to connect apps to ChatGPT. It will soon begin beta testing a new feature called ChatGPT Connectors that will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link workspace Google Drive and Slack accounts to ChatGPT so the chatbot can answer questions informed by content across those accounts. None of the data synced from the apps will be used for training. The company plans to expand the feature to other platforms like Microsoft SharePoint and Box in the future.
Apple plans to launch its first foldable in 2026. Market expectations for iPhone sales are lower due to the delay of the new Siri experience, but the launch of a foldable may help the company recover from weak demand for iPhones. At least one new foldable is targeted to enter mass production in the second half of 2026. The first foldable iPhone may cost more than $2,000 and look like an iPad mini when unfolded. Apple is also working on a foldable device with an 18-inch screen that could end up becoming a new Mac or iPad.
BYD has a new EV architecture that will enable charging parity with gas station visits. The Super E-Platform promises 1,000 kW charge speeds - double the current industry leaders. Most fast chargers on the market can only reach about 350 kW and many of them are usually more in the 200s. BYD has launched new Han L and Tang L models that use the new fast-charging platform. The company plans to implement over 4,000 ultra-fast charging stations around China.
A team of Korean researchers has engineered a bacterial strain that can make useful polymers starting with nothing but glucose for fuel. The system can be tweaked to incorporate a huge range of chemicals into a variety of polymers. The resulting plastic can be tuned across many properties. There are still some issues, as the process doesn't allow complete control over what gets added into the polymer - the scientists couldn't stop enzymes from mixing random chemicals from the cells' metabolism into the polymers - and the polymers still need to be purified from the rest of the cell components before being used in manufacturing.
The new Discord Social SDK is a free toolkit that allows developers to enhance their games' social and multiplayer experiences by leveraging Discord's social infrastructure. Developers will be able to improve their in-game experiences for players regardless of whether they have a Discord account. The social integrations include a unified friends list and deep-linked game invites that enable players to invite their friends to directly join their party or lobby. The SDK is compatible with C++, Unreal Engine, and Unity and supports Windows 11+ and macOS - support for console and mobile is coming.
There are many beliefs about the limits, usefulness, and potential of large language models. Every piece of software needs to be 'correct', which means that the software conforms to the intent of the creator. The creator has to verify such conformance - it cannot be offloaded. Verifiability is the limit that tells us what we can't implement via large language models, and it cannot be solved with agentic approaches.
HR company Rippling has launched a lawsuit against Deel, another big player in the industry, alleging racketeering, misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition, and aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary duty. Deel has denied the allegations, saying the lawsuit was an attempt to shift attention away from Rippling after it was accused of violating sanctions law in Russia. A lot of the evidence for Rippling's claims is based on Slack activity.
Generative AI chat interfaces are changing how consumers act online. Adobe has issued a report that shows how generative AI sources are directing a significant surge of traffic to US websites. Generative AI has been embraced by users as a shopping assistant. Shoppers say AI-powered chat interfaces help shorten the time required for them to receive information that is personalized to their needs. The technology is causing businesses to rethink customer engagement, especially as future AI agents will be able to handle more complex tasks and make highly tailored recommendations.
The model can also reportedly generate celebrity images.
Ejectable apps allow users to 'eject' at any time and switch to self-hosting (or vice versa).
xAI has acquired Hotshot, a startup working on AI-powered video generation tools similar to OpenAI's Sora.
Amazon's devices chief Panos Panay is adding a premium tier to the next generation of artificially intelligent Alexa gadgets.
CloudKitchens appears to be aiming to eventually deliver AI-perfected meals directly to customers.
Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire Wiz at a price of around $30 billion.
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Building on Mistral Small 3, this new model comes with improved text performance, multimodal understanding, and an expanded context window of up to 128k tokens. The model outperforms comparable models like Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini while delivering inference speeds of 150 tokens per second.
A court dismissed key claims in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, rejecting his preliminary injunction request.
UiPath has acquired Peak.ai to enhance its AI and automation services for specific verticals, notably in retail and manufacturing. Despite recent revenue challenges and a downgraded forecast, UiPath aims to capitalize on Peak's decision-making AI capabilities to boost cross-selling opportunities and capture more market share. The acquisition reflects a strategic shift as UiPath seeks to integrate AI advancements into its existing offerings.
The Nvidia team has released a fast version of their SANA image generation model called SANA-sprint. This model is shockingly fast at generating images while still maintaining quality. The team uses a novel distillation method that builds on consistency distillation. An open problem in this domain is to ensure these consistency models are still easy to fine-tune.
Funsearch is a new implementation of an LLM-driven genetic algorithm designed to assist mathematicians in solving combinatorial and number-theoretic problems without requiring machine learning expertise.
DriveLMM-o1 introduces a dataset and benchmark for step-wise visual reasoning in autonomous driving, improving reasoning accuracy and decision-making in AI-driven driving scenarios.
Sesame released a 1B model last week for conversational speech generation. This repository contains an Apple native MLX version that can run quickly on most MacBooks.
MMS-LLaMA is an efficient multimodal speech LLM framework for automatic visual speech recognition (AVSR), optimizing token length while preserving linguistic content.
TxAgent is an AI-powered system that analyzes drug interactions, contraindications, and patient-specific data to generate adaptive treatment plans.
A comprehensive post that explores the performance of every model on Hugging Face for handwriting classification/signature detection.
Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash can remove watermarks from images while intelligently filling in the missing areas, demonstrating an advanced capability that has sparked discussions on copyright and ethical use.
This essay outlines a framework for addressing the AI alignment problem by distinguishing between the technical parameters ("problem profile") and civilization's ability to respond ("competence profile"). Key to this approach are three "security factors": safety progress, risk evaluation, and capability restraint. The essay sets up a discussion on using future AI labor to enhance these factors and explores various strategic milestones for improving AI safety.
Dexterity has raised $95 million, valuing it at $1.65 billion, to advance its AI-powered industrial robots.
At SXSW, Mark Cuban emphasized that AI is a tool, not a solution, for helping small businesses grow.
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SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, head of the new crypto task force launched under Chairman Mark Uyeda, plans to reshape the SEC's approach to digital assets by providing regulatory clarity and paths forward for the industry. The task force seeks to delineate SEC jurisdiction, offer short-term guidance, engage the public to address issues like tokenized securities, and ease industry frustrations with past enforcement-driven policies. Peirce emphasized Congress' role in clarifying stablecoin legislation and market structure, which could define regulatory boundaries between the SEC and CFTC amid growing crypto adoption.
Acting SEC Chair Mark Uyeda instructed agency staff to revisit the proposed crypto custody rule, which was introduced under the previous leadership. The SEC may adjust the rule's requirements or implementation timeline to better reflect the current administration's more crypto-friendly stance.
Ethena and Securitize have joined forces to launch Converge, a new blockchain ecosystem where Ethena's USDe stablecoin and Securitize's tokenized RWAs (including BlackRock's BUIDL) can coexist, enabling both permissionless DeFi and compliant onchain finance. The goal is to bring institutional capital and real-world assets onchain using Ethena's existing integrations and Securitize's relationships with major asset managers.
Robinhood has partnered with Kalshi to launch a new prediction markets hub that focuses on politics, economics, and sports. The platform will offer users an easy and integrated way to engage in prediction markets, leveraging real-time data to forecast outcomes across these sectors.
Crypto has a chronic issue with short-termism, and builders should instead focus on “compounders”—long-term, revenue-generating assets like Jito ($900M annualized) and Uniswap ($700M)—by fostering high-integrity leadership and products with clear profitability paths to counter memecoin fatigue. Similarly, generalized layer 1s are failing, while those in specific verticals (e.g., Hyperliquid's perp trading) drive ecosystem demand. Liquid token projects should adopt investment relations (IR) roles and quarterly reports to build investor trust while dismissing buybacks in favor of reinvestment in growth.
L2s hold a structural advantage over L1s in supporting decentralized applications by using centralized block producers to quickly implement fee-sharing and MEV taxes, augmenting app revenue while minimizing costs. L1s are constrained by validator profitability whereas L2s only carry the sequencer's expense with no capital requirements. This competition drives a shift toward profit-driven, long-term crypto apps, aligning with positive regulatory clarity for DeFi and increasing institutional interest.
Instead of allowing quantum computers to recover lost Bitcoin and undermine the network's core principles, vulnerable BTC should be burned to protect its integrity. Quantum recovery would redistribute wealth to those with advanced quantum technology, posing a significant threat to the network's integrity and fairness. Debates are ongoing about how legitimate the threat of quantum computing is to Bitcoin and when the network will need to take a hard stance.
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware ruled in favor of Three Arrows Capital (3AC), allowing it to increase its claim against FTX from $120 million to $1.53 billion, despite FTX's objection that the motion was untimely and would disrupt its reorganization plan. The court found that FTX's delays in sharing records, not 3AC's diligence, caused the delay. 3AC's claim stems from its 2022 collapse amid liquidity issues following the Terra-Luna ecosystem's implosion.
Standard Chartered has lowered its price target for Ether to $4K, signaling a more cautious outlook on Ethereum's market performance.
OKX has suspended its DEX aggregator following reports that the Lazarus Group misused its platform, which has attracted additional scrutiny from EU regulators.