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Fearless SIMD 1.0 brings unsafe-free vectorization to stable Rust

The Rust SIMD library Fearless SIMD has reached 1.0 after eight years of development, offering portable vector abstractions, autovectorization, function multive

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aitech-culture

Frontier LLMs move from transcribing history to actually solving it

A historian of science argues that the latest frontier models — GPT-6 (Sol/Astra) and Opus 5.5 — have crossed a threshold that didn't exist a year ago: they can

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aicloud

Google to launch TPUs into orbit in first test of space-based AI compute

Google is moving its Project Suncatcher moonshot from concept to hardware, launching a prototype satellite carrying Tensor Processing Units on SpaceX's Transpor

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aidevops

Launch videos built by an AI agent that writes code, not a video model

A promo demo (launchvideo.io, open-sourced as diggerhq/shipvideo) shows a serverless 'director' agent that turns a URL or product description into a 1080p MP4 l

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open-sourcetech-culture

Mapping US Hot Springs onto the Heat Rising Through the Ground

A web project plots every hot spring in its database over a map of terrestrial heat flow, drawn from Stanford's Thermal Earth Model. The pattern is stark: sprin

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tech-culture

No article content available to summarize (2DWillNeverDie)

The source payload for this item contains no article body — only the headline string "2DWillNeverDie" and the URL https://2dwillneverdie.com/ were provided. The

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aitech-culture

Show HN: Koi.rest, an AI-built virtual koi pond made by a jobless dev to de-stress

A developer named Paul launched Koi.rest, a minimalist web page that lets visitors quietly watch virtual koi swim together. He built it after a stressful year t

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vulnerabilityopen-source

Stored XSS in ansi2html turned SourceHut build logs into an account-takeover vector

While setting up his own SourceHut instance, a researcher noticed bloated CSS in the CI build-log viewer and traced it to ansi2html, the long-neglected Python l

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tech-culturepolicy

Toyota readies an electric Corolla, reworking its best-seller for the EV era

Toyota is developing a fully electric version of the Corolla, the best-selling car ever made, with more than 57 million units sold since 1966. Previewed as a co

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privacyopen-source

WaveDigger maps Wi-Fi and cell towers by querying Apple's hidden location API

WaveDigger is an open-source web app that turns wireless identifiers into physical coordinates. Feed it a Wi-Fi access point's BSSID (MAC address) or the networ

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tech-culture

Why Your Body Is Fragile by Design — and the Liver Isn't

The liver stands out as an anatomical anomaly: it heals without scarring, holds its function into old age, and regrows to full size even after half of it is don

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tech-cultureopen-source

Bastardica: a browser tool for splicing fonts into deliberately cursed typefaces

Bastardica is a web-based type foundry for making intentionally mangled fonts, mixing, stretching, and squishing existing typefaces into hybrids with names like

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