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Queryable Executables

The author presents SELF, a format where executable programs are stored as SQLite databases, allowing binary tooling to…

OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from…

Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

Maiao is a tool that enables Gerrit-style stacked pull request workflows on GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, and other git hosting…

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Louisiana Spaceport

The 10-year project in Vermilion Parish will include five launch complexes and infrastructure for Starship missions.

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

TeXbrain is a free, open-source LaTeX editor that runs entirely in the browser using WebAssembly to compile pdfTeX…

One Go binary, one YAML file, one SQLite database: I wrote my monitoring tool

The author created Gjallar, a lightweight monitoring tool built as a single Go binary with a YAML config file and SQLite…

Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

Python has six pre-declared constants (True, False, None, __debug__, Ellipsis, and NotImplemented) that behave…

XCancel also down, at least for time being

XCancel, a service that provided an alternative interface to X (formerly Twitter), has been shut down following a…

Alibaba to Release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next as a Preview of What Qwen 4 Will Offer

Alibaba's Qwen team is teasing its next architecture a day early—and the specs say it runs near-frontier scale on a…

World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames

Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges.

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python – Seth Larson

Python's `str.lower()` method creates a security vulnerability in IDNA (Internationalized Domain Names in Applications)…

These Researchers Just Shrunk an AI Model and Somehow Made It Smarter

A smaller, cheaper AI usually means a dumber one. A new technique flipped that—and your phone might be the winner.

X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping

X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding…

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C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality

C2PA, a technology meant to authenticate camera images through cryptographic signing, is fundamentally broken on Android…

Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious

Instagram is making one of the most tedious parts of creating Reels easier.

Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.

Mistral and HUMAIN Are Building 'Sovereign AI' in Saudi Arabia

Mistral and HUMAIN announced plans to build sovereign AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia and across the region—a tie-up…

Google's anti-nausea Motion Assist dots finally rolling out on Android

It's currently only appearing on Pixels running Android 17.

Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents

pgbot is a lightweight, open-source tool that connects to PostgreSQL databases to provide AI-powered insights into…

Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit 

Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston…

Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

Firefox 157 will enable JPEG XL image format decoding by default across all platforms, replacing the current…

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on…

Waymo robotaxis are headed to Munich

Germany's autonomous vehicle regulations have made it a hotspot for autonomous vehicle testing and eventual commercial…

Clara (YC P26) is hiring a growth engineer to bring AI doctors to market

Clara, a Y Combinator-backed AI primary care platform, is hiring a growth engineer to drive patient acquisition and…

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

The author successfully set up OpenBSD on a DigitalOcean droplet for $4/month, moving away from free hosting services…

Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

Vpsmon is a lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS built in Go that uses only ~5MB of RAM and provides a single binary…

Nitter project received cease and desist

Nitter, a popular alternative Twitter interface project, has faced significant disruption as all public instances have…

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

LatticeDB is an embedded, single-file graph database that combines graph traversal, vector similarity search, and…