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Show HN: Agent Office (Slack for AI Agents) – Similar to Grok Bot but older

Agent Office is a multi-agent workspace manager built on Pi that orchestrates AI coding agents with features like…

Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar

Yes/No/Cancel is a new online usability magazine launched by Martin Kleppmann to critique poor design in software and…

DuckDB V2 PEG-based SQL parser

DuckDB v2.0 replaces its PostgreSQL-derived SQL parser with a new PEG-based parser that is easier to maintain and evolve…

The road to ACID transactions in Cassandra 6

Cassandra 6.0, set to release later this year, introduces strictly serializable cross-partition ACID transactions…

I'm Becoming AI-Blind

The author has developed an unconscious ability to recognize and mentally dismiss AI-generated documents at work,…

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

TigerBeetle, a financial ledger database written in Zig, achieves sub-millisecond tail latencies and hundreds of…

Fintech Revolution Summit –Singapore 2026

Singapore is stepping up its Fintech leadership.

Kino: A high-performance Ractor web server for Ruby 4.0

Kino is a high-performance web server for Ruby 4.0+ that uses Ractors to run parallel Ruby code within a single process,…

AI: Alibaba Accelerates as Cloud Revenue Jumps 45%

Alibaba regains a pace it hadn’t known for about three years.

As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings

Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

DeepSeek's deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model is a multimodal AI that accepts images alongside text to perform tasks…

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

AI companies like Anthropic are secretly purchasing millions of physical books through intermediaries, scanning them for…

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

HTMLcat is a reference collection of useful native web platform features paired with small examples and important…

Emacs 31.1 will release on 8/24

Emacs 31.1 is scheduled to release on August 24th.

Better Batteries

The quality of a programming language's standard library depends not on its size but on the social and organizational…

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

Sid Meier's Pirates!

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

Encore, a backend application builder, has spent four years requiring engineers to develop on a shared remote Linux…

Stop Making TUIs

The author argues that developers should prioritize building native graphical user interfaces instead of…

Japan tried to build an operating system for the world, the US intervened

Seed: Minimal, self-modifying agent harness

Seed is a minimal AI agent framework consisting of a single small loop (seed.py) that connects a language model to a…

After 100 Hours of 3D Printing, a Student Built a Modular Arm for His Sister

More than 100 hours of 3D printing went into a modular prosthetic arm that Vitaliy Bondarchuk, an engineering student at…

Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise

Micron Technology announced a $10 billion investment over the next decade to establish Micron Research Labs, a…

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

A bug in AWS Bedrock's Codex integration is causing users to be charged approximately 10x more than expected because the…

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late

AI companies, including Anthropic through its "Project Panama," are secretly purchasing millions of secondhand physical…

Berkeley Law prohibits AI use in classes (by default)

Berkeley Law has implemented a policy effective Summer 2026 that prohibits students from using AI tools for…

It is a sign of the times that Amazon gets to call this fair use

Amazon is purchasing rare books in bulk, destroying them by cutting off their bindings to scan them for AI training…

There's no such thing as a small software team anymore

As AI coding agents become more prevalent, software teams will need to adopt highly modular architectures like Uber's…

Tesla, Uber, and Waymo all get the OK to operate thousands of robotaxis in Nevada

Together, these permits would allow up to 8,000 robotaxis to be deployed over the next 12 months.

Copyright does not protect AI-generated content in EU

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