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Weave's open-source router auto-picks the best LLM per request for Claude, Codex, Cursor

Engineering-intelligence company Weave has released Router, a drop-in proxy that sits between coding tools and the major model providers and chooses which model

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aitech-culture

When AI Does the Proofs, What's Left for Mathematicians?

Large language models have gone from regurgitating textbook math to producing original results in just a few years. Last summer, systems from Google DeepMind an

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tech-cultureopen-source

Why Sci-Fi Authors Still Swear by WordStar, the 1978 DOS Word Processor

Novelist Robert J. Sawyer makes the case for WordStar for DOS as the best tool ever built for creative writing, a view shared by a striking roster of authors in

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Will open-weight LLMs catch closed models by December 2026? Depends how you measure

A viral chart claims to predict the moment open-weight LLMs catch up to proprietary frontier models. The method measures the 'catch-up gap': take the best open

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Windows 11 orphaned your 2015 PC — lightweight Linux can revive it

With an estimated 62 million metric tons of e-waste generated annually, a large share is hardware that still works but fell outside Windows 11's TPM 2.0, Secure

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6,000 Emails, Zero Leaks: A Public Prompt-Injection Test the AI Survived

Developer Fernando Iglesias put his OpenClaw-based email assistant, Fiu, on the public chopping block at hackmyclaw.com, daring anyone to coax it into leaking a

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A search engine for Hacker News obsessions: 18 years, 45M comments, charted

A new tool called Hacker News Trends does for HN what Google Trends does for search: it plots how often any topic, tool, person, or company has surfaced across

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Age Verification Laws Are Quietly Becoming Mandatory Identity Checks Online

A wave of under-16 social media bans — led by Australia's December 2025 law and now being copied across the UK, EU, France, Spain, and several other countries —

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aiopen-source

AI as a supporting act: building a points-of-interest pipeline that fights hallucinations

While building In the Long Run, an app that maps Strava mileage onto famous long-distance routes, the developer set out to enrich its maps with notable landmark

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AI memory crunch pushes Apple to raise MacBook and iPad prices 20%

Apple has lifted MacBook and iPad prices by roughly 20% worldwide — one of the steepest broad-based increases in the company's history. The trigger is a memory

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Apple Hikes MacBook and iPad Prices as Memory Costs Surge

Apple has raised prices across its MacBook and iPad lines, pinning the increases on a sharp run-up in memory component costs. DRAM and NAND flash prices have cl

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aitech-culture

Apple to skip high-end M6 chips, leap to AI-focused M7 Pro/Max/Ultra

Apple is reworking its Mac silicon roadmap in a way it hasn't before: rather than building out a full M6 lineup, it plans to ship only a base M6 in entry-level

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