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Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality

Homebench is a command-line tool that benchmarks local large language models across speed, memory usage, and quality…

What is Trump Media's Truth API and why is it controversial?

Trump Media Technology Group (TMTG) has set up a paid service to give Wall Street firms access to Truth Social's most…

An Honest Review of AI Programming

The author acknowledges that AI language models like Claude can be useful for work tasks—particularly for parsing…

FFmpeg 9.0

FFmpeg 9.0 "Lei" has been released approximately 4 months after version 8.1, representing the latest major update to the…

Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal

Italian technology company Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire Airtable, a U.S.

Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang

A developer created a private, self-destructing image hosting service built in Golang that automatically deletes images…

You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript

Apple briefly removes Telegram from App Store, Gram rebounds

Apple restored Telegram after the messaging platform removed content that violated its child safety policies and banned…

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring an AI Agent Engineer to build voice AI infrastructure for its debt…

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

Recursive self-improvement in AI relies not just on model intelligence but critically on "harnesses"—the deployment…

Denmark: EVs Make Up 97% of New Private Car Sales in July

Denmark set a record in July 2024 with electric vehicles accounting for 97% of new private car sales, continuing a…

Apple is getting this wrong

Did Iran hack water systems in seven US states?

While US President Donald Trump has said Iran is not to blame, cyber experts tell the BBC it likely the attack was at…

Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible

Native apps collect vastly more data than websites through embedded third-party tracking software, requesting…

Why is Trump Media selling early access to Trump's Truth Social posts?

The service reportedly costs up to $100,000 (£74,170) per month and offers access to posts from influential accounts…

Boltz pauses service after wave of AI-assisted hacking attempts

The non-custodial protocol said attackers are discovering and adapting exploits faster than its small development team…

Tokenomics: Why making AI pay is tricky

Buyers of AI services are struggling to control costs and sellers are not sure how much to charge.

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier…

'Digital lifeline' - Gaza tech workers give glimpse of possible future

Thousands of young people in Gaza are pursuing roles in the digital economy as the territory's wider recovery stalls.

US company’s AI lets Ukraine’s cheap kamikaze drones track targets on their own

$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.

Snap CEO sidesteps Specs pre-order questions on Q2 earnings call

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of…

Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage

A developer successfully built an Itanium cross-compiler on macOS to enable running Windows XP on a QEMU Itanium…

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode – Bumbershoot Software

The ZX Spectrum had minimal firmware interface consistency compared to competitors like Commodore and MSX, forcing…

LLMs reward expertise

Large language models reward domain expertise rather than eliminating skill gaps, as demonstrated by mathematician…

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers.

DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

Norwegian government IT infrastructure experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack starting around…

Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in…

DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.