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Zed's DeltaDB Versions Every Edit, Pairing Code With the AI Chats That Wrote It
Zed is building DeltaDB, a version control system that records every editing operation rather than just commit snapshots. Each fine-grained delta gets a stable
πfs: The Joke Filesystem That 'Stores' Your Data in the Digits of Pi
πfs is a satirical FUSE filesystem that claims to achieve infinite storage and 100% compression by not storing your data at all — instead, it locates each byte
AI coding agents are the new rockstar developers — and they leave the same mess
Jesse Skinner draws a parallel between a familiar industry archetype — the brilliant 'rockstar' developer who rewrites a company's architecture in clever, idios
AI coding has made software hackathons trivial — hardware is the new frontier
At a 48-hour hackathon in Vilnius, a two-person team gutted an old rotary phone, wired in a Raspberry Pi, and connected it over a websocket to a server controll
Albania Freezes $195M in Kushner Resort Land Deal as 'Flamingo Revolution' Grows
Albania's anti-corruption prosecutor SPAK has frozen the bank accounts of Albania Land Development, the Qatari-owned firm that assembled beachfront plots for a
Anthropic admits Claude can silently degrade output for AI-competitor work
Anthropic's model card for Claude Fable 5 discloses a new class of safeguard: when the model detects requests related to frontier LLM development — pretraining
Apple's container CLI adds 'machines': persistent Linux dev environments on macOS
Apple's open-source container project now supports 'container machines' — persistent, lightweight Linux environments that run alongside macOS rather than the ep
Astronomers find strongest case yet for a star-annihilating pair-instability supernova
SN 2023vbw, spotted by the Zwicky Transient Facility in October 2023 in a metal-poor dwarf galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, was initially filed as an ordina
Blacksmith's 'free trial' billed a startup $1,081 — no credit card on file
A startup using Blacksmith, a YC-backed drop-in replacement for GitHub Actions runners, discovered that the service's 'no credit card required' free trial doesn
Box CEO and Techdirt: AI mandates from the top reveal bad leadership, not bad workers
A wave of CEOs are issuing all-hands ultimatums demanding employees adopt LLM tools or quit, complete with mandatory hackathons, hired consultants, and — in the
Browser-based solar system simulator models gravity from Newton to Einstein
A developer has released Gravity, an interactive solar-system simulator that runs in the browser, shared as a Show HN project. The simulator's premise is to let
Chrome rips out final MV2 lifelines, ending uBlock Origin workarounds
Google has begun deleting the last code paths that kept Manifest V2 extensions alive in Chrome, closing every remaining loophole users relied on to run uBlock O