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The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once

IsUpMap is a real-time status dashboard that monitors whether over 80 popular internet services—including GitHub,…

C++: The Documentary Released Today

"C++: The Documentary" premiered today on YouTube, featuring interviews with Bjarne Stroustrup and other key figures in…

Magenta RealTime 2: Open and Local Live Music Models

Google's Magenta team has released Magenta RealTime 2 (MRT2), an open-source AI music model that enables real-time,…

Linear Cosine Palettes(2025)

The author presents a method for generating continuous color palettes in R using linear cosine functions, based on Inigo…

Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

Microsoft released Azure Linux 4.0 into public preview, marking its transition from a specialized infrastructure…

CEO to staff: You're not getting a raise. We're spending on AI instead

Companies like Teradata and TTEC are freezing employee salaries and cutting benefits to fund AI investments, with…

Meta enables adb on deprecated Portal devices

Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites

The debut episode, moderated by Founders Fund Chief Marketing Officer Mike Solana, included a star-studded cast of…

Alibaba/Open-Code-Review

Open Code Review is an AI-powered code review tool developed by Alibaba that uses a hybrid approach combining…

South Korean Forums Will Need to Scan Every Images with AI Censorship Tools

South Korea's government has mandated that all internet forums and online communities implement AI censorship tools to…

Do Transformers Need Three Projections? Systematic Study of QKV Variants

Researchers systematically evaluated whether transformer models need three separate query, key, and value (QKV)…

Latent Agents: A Post-Training Procedure for Internalized Multi-Agent Debate

Researchers developed a method to distill multi-agent debate—a technique that improves LLM reasoning—into a single model…

Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns

The AI giant's co-founder explained why the company may tap the public market for capital and why tokenmaxxing pushback…

Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab

The Airbnb CEO said last year it hasn't struck an LLM partnership because existing products weren't quite ready.

The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet

Robot demonstrations can distort public perceptions of robotic capabilities.

Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed

To my knowledge, this is the first formally verified implementation of an intersection algorithm for polygons.The…

Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app

This popular ad blocker app for iPhones, iPads, and Macs can now block ads from loading inside apps, including web…

IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

AI Is Already Developing AI, Says Anthropic—And Humans May Be Slowing Things Down

Anthropic says AI now writes most of its code and runs increasingly complex research tasks, leaving people to decide…

Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching.

Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS

Hey HN I've been using ECS for a while now and found it annoying having to log into the console everytimeI use Lens for…

Startup Battlefield is returning to Australia — here’s what happened the last time we came to Sydney

On August 19, Startup Battlefield is returning to Sydney in partnership with Stripe, one of the world's most iconic…

These LLMs are the best at resisting Russian propaganda

Estonian government benchmark shows how dozens of models combat Russia's "strategic narratives."

NSA using Anthropic's Mythos for cyber attacks

Show HN: FFmpeg WebCLI – Full FFmpeg in Browser, Offline PWA, No Uploads(WASM)

Built a browser-based FFmpeg editor that runs entirely client-side via WebAssembly.

Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery

Anthropic has released an open-source reference implementation called Defending Code Reference Harness that enables…

Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults

By targeting large numbers of users, attackers increased their chances of success.

Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?

As a high school student, I’m trying to figure out what major I’m interested in.

Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

Meta has embedded complete facial recognition infrastructure on its smart glasses companion app, including three…