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Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work

Polar has come out with an AI-first browser aimed at knowledge workers, and it has now raised a $5.7 million seed round…

PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's

PostgreSQL's MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) design, while criticized for write amplification, bloated tables,…

OpenAI and Anthropic Employees Urge U.S. Support for Global AI Safeguards

More than 1,000 employees from leading artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google…

GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?

Claude Fable 5 outperformed GPT-5.6 variants in physical AI modeling and simulation tasks, achieving a weighted score of…

Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold

Google has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold project, reassigning most team members to focus resources on…

Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon

Qwen Scribe is a new open-source application that enables private, local audio and video transcription on Apple Silicon…

A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks…

Anthropic’s AI Finds New Crypto Weaknesses, Samson Mow Sounds Caution

Anthropic says its latest AI model has uncovered new weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms that had survived years of…

Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution

A benchmark comparing self-hosted Kimi K3 against commercial APIs and other models found that while self-hosting costs…

Graph Engineering Needs a Compiler

AI can generate code faster than humans can understand its combined execution, creating a problem where locally…

CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches

CipherX has developed a painless alternative to traditional tattoos using dissolving microneedle patches that deposit…

Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

DuckDB significantly outperforms SQLite as an embedded database for observability data, achieving 4-15x faster write…

Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks

A developer has created Hwatu, a verification browser for AI agents that performs page checks in approximately 13ms with…

AI in Linux

Linus Torvalds has endorsed the use of AI tools in Linux kernel development, settling a debate within the community.

‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation

With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our…

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows

Valve is sponsoring Collabora engineers to port the open-source RADV Vulkan driver from Linux to Microsoft Windows,…

What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.

TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work

TokenTown is an interactive visual simulation that demonstrates how large language models work by representing each…

Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents

Researchers have created HANDBOOK.md, a benchmark testing whether AI language model agents actually follow long policy…

After the AI Crash

The author argues an AI industry crash is likely due to unsustainable capital expenses (requiring $2 trillion annually…

Spotify adds a running mode to its app

Running Mode will be available to Premium users on iOS in select countries

DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business

DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.

Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles

A developer has created Bullshit Detector, an open-source tool that uses AI agent skills to fact-check videos, articles,…

San Francisco: Don't Fall for Industry Defense of Surveillance Pricing

The Electronic Frontier Foundation urges San Francisco officials to support Assembly Bill 2654, which would ban…

Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem

Godot can ship commercial VR games, but developer Claire Splaski paid approximately £80,000 in "early adopter tax" for…

Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself

Echologue is a private, local-first AI voice journal app that lets users record fleeting thoughts and moments, then ask…

A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU (JCGT)

Darktable

Darktable is a free, open-source photography software that allows photographers to manage, view, and develop raw images…