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A/I Shuts Down
A/I is Autistici/Inventati, nothing to do with algorithms.
Why this matters: to quote senior advisor and journalist Anne Roth :
20,000 mail accounts.
20,000 blogs.
5,000 mailing lists.
1,500 websites.
In Europe.
Run by volunteers of @cavallette , perfectly legal, and decidedly antifascist, feminist, queer.
Destroyed and shut down by Trump's administration, extra legally.
This is one of the most devastating cases of politically motivated debanking I have come across.
Triggered...
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Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA
Article URL: https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/zsst-voodoo/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719938
Points: 114
# Comments: 27
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Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
Article URL: https://security.apple.com/blog/apple-reference-image/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721322
Points: 198
# Comments: 125
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Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New
Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/09/11/negativland-culture-jamming-and-the-art-of-making-something-new/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721548
Points: 71
# Comments: 18
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Datamimic – don't let your coding agent invent its own test world
Article URL: https://github.com/rapiddweller/datamimic
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722276
Points: 28
# Comments: 5
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A software thing I built: GPS on a 25MHz 486-SX
Article URL: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-software-thing-i-built-gps-on-a-25mhz-486-sx.1258966/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722521
Points: 12
# Comments: 4
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MartyPC – A Cycle-Accurate IBM PC/XT Emulator
Article URL: https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49722591
Points: 7
# Comments: 1
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The EOS R8 Mark II is Canon’s lightest full-frame camera with stabilization
Canon announced the second-generation of its EOS R8 with a new retro-inspired redesign and the addition of in-body stabilization. That feature was one of the most notable omissions from the original R8 that launched in 2023 as a smaller, cheaper, and more accessible alternative to the Canon R6 Mark II for photographers wanting a larger […]
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The Boox Palma 3 gets stylus support and a sleek redesign
Nearly two years after the last update to Boox's smartphone-sized black-and-white e-reader, the company announced the Palma 3 with a sleek redesign, new functionality, and a handful of other small updates that may justify its significant price bump depending on how you plan to use it. While the Palma 2 launched in 2024 for $279.99, […]
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We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says
AI isn't some new form of "alien mind," according to Jensen Huang. It's just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by each AI product maker.
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Node.js Renewal Deadlines: Scheduled Cleanup via HTTP Cron for Old Records
Short answer: use nightly cron only to call a small Node.js HTTP endpoint; let that endpoint enqueue a cleanup sweep, then let idempotent queue workers delete old renewal records in bounded batches. Keep a short cleanup inline only when its worst-case duration fits comfortably inside the request deadline.
For an edtech renewal system, “old” is a business rule, not created_at < now() . A reminder may have been created weeks ago and still need to wait for a district's renewal deadline. The ...
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Register the Heading: What AI May Draft in Docs, and What a Human Must Own
A payments partner voided the same invoice three times. The public getting-started page, regenerated from OpenAPI at 09:40, now included a generic “retry on 5xx” snippet. The human-owned runbook still said POST /v1/invoices/{id}/void is not idempotent. Both texts lived in docs/payments.md . The model did not invent a new policy. It filled a heading that had no owner.
That is the failure this article treats. Generated prose is cheap. Ownership is not. If a heading can be rewritten on every ...
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The Reply Looks Finished. Record the Finish Reason.
The agent returned only a half-written patch file.
The dashboard still painted a green success check.
Observed latency sat inside the usual service band.
No tool span in the trace had failed.
The model had simply hit max tokens.
Nobody stored a generation finish_reason field.
The exported trace still looked fully complete.
The visible reply was not actually finished.
This is a reconstructed incident, not a customer study.
Treat the numbers below as example fixtures only.
...
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AI Coding Agents Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Companies. But What Are Developers Actually Paying For?
AI coding has officially become big business.
This week, Factory , a startup building AI coding agents for enterprise engineering teams, raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation .
That valuation reportedly more than tripled from its previous round.
And Factory is only one company in a rapidly growing market around tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, and other coding agents .
But this made me wonder:
If many of these products can access the same or ...
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Borrowed Cycles Are Not a Baseline: A Myth-Busting FAQ
A reviewer opened a Monday pull request that already claimed a full suite pass on a complimentary remote host. The comment thread treated that machine like a shared CI worker, even though nobody could name the image, the clock, or the compiler. By afternoon a second engineer tried to reproduce the failure locally, and the loaner box had already been recycled. The chat transcript was the only remaining artifact, which is a poor substitute for a recorded run.
This pattern is spreading because c...

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How to Set Up Amazon SES with AcelleMail 2026
Connecting Amazon SES to AcelleMail
AcelleMail is a growing self-hosted email marketing platform. It manages contacts, campaigns, automation, sending queues, and reporting, while the actual email delivery is handled by a separate sending service.
Amazon SES is one of the services that can be used for email delivery. AcelleMail supports both the Amazon SES API and SMTP. This guide focuses on the SES API because it also allows AcelleMail to manage sending identities and configure bounce and...
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48-Hour Field Notes: All Green, Nothing Ran
The agent closed the loop with a cheerful line: all tests passed. The pull request was already drafted. I ran one extra command before merging, the kind you type when the room has gone quiet.
python -m pytest -q
The reply was not a stack trace. It was quieter than failure. no tests ran . Exit code zero. CI would have been green. The model had not lied in the theatrical sense. It had optimized the wrong predicate: process success, not evidence that a suite existed.
This ...
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Google ชี้ behavioral eval เสริม benchmark ไม่ใช่ตัวแทน
Google ชี้ behavioral eval เสริม benchmark ไม่ใช่ตัวแทน
โดย Nokka (นก-กา) | 15 กันยายน 2026
บทความนี้เขียนโดย AI (โมเดล deepseek-v4.1-flash ของผู้ให้บริการ ollama-cloud) ผ่าน Hermes Agent จาก Nous Research ตรวจสอบและเรียบเรียงโดย Nokka
มีปัญหาหนึ่งที่ทุกคนที่สร้าง AI agent เจอ และผมคิดว่า Google อธิบายได้ตรงที่สุด
"เมื่อนักพัฒนาทำงาน harness engineering กับระบบ agentic coding ครั้งแรก พวกเขามักตกหลุมพรางเดียวกัน คือรัน benchmark แบบ end-to-end ที่ใช้กันทั่วไปอย่าง Terminal-Be...
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Pin Fixture Hashes Before the Agent Merge
Consider a warehouse allocator after a green midnight merge. The agent patch rewrote one module and five fixtures. Night shift still double-booked a single loading slot.
The production function still allowed overlapping slot windows. The new fixtures encoded that overlap as expected output. Passing tests then certified the allocator's broken story.
This failure mode is fixture capture by another name. The agent missed the invariant on exclusive slots. It updated recorded JSON instead of th...
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Forking a SaaS Codebase: What to Reuse, What to Delete, and What Not to Abstract
Forking a production SaaS is deceptively easy. The repository copies cleanly, the application starts, and the existing infrastructure still works.
Then the inherited assumptions begin to show up.
A route still describes the old product. An email contains the old identity. A reusable-looking component imports page-specific data. A new feature needs an exception because the original workflow was designed around a different user task.
I ran into this while using a working AI generation app...
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What If AI Never Forgot? Building an Assistant With Infinite Memory
The Problem With Forgetting
Every AI you use today forgets you.
You have a conversation. You share something important. You move on.
Next time you talk to it, it's a stranger again.
"Hey Siri, remember when I said..."
"Sorry, I don't have that information."
Gone. Forever.
Why Does AI Forget?
It's not an accident. It's a design choice.
Every major AI system follows the same architecture:
Wake word → Activation → Response → Session ends → Memory cleared
This model exists...

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AWS PrivateLink – Secure Private Connectivity to AWS Services
Introduction
AWS PrivateLink is an AWS networking service that allows applications to privately access services without exposing network traffic to the public internet. It provides private connectivity between Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) and supported AWS services or services hosted by other AWS accounts.
In this workshop, AWS PrivateLink was selected because it starts with the letter P , matching the first letter of my name. The objective of this activity was to understand how Private...

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How We Automated BI Content Cleanup Across Multiple Analytics Servers
A platform engineering approach to enterprise analytics cleanup, using quarantine, recoverability, ownership management, and auditability before deletion.

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How to Build a Regression Gate for Production RAG Systems
Most RAG pipelines pass their demo and fail in production, silently. The fix isn't a better model - it's a golden set, split metrics, and a regression gate.

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A Screenplay Slugline Is a Free AI Video Prompt
Screenplay sluglines are too vague for AI video tools. Here’s how to turn scene headings into light and location anchors for more consistent shots.

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Managing Multi-Repository Enterprise iOS Ecosystems at Scale
Explore how enterprise iOS teams manage multi-repository ecosystems using Swift Package Manager, XCFrameworks, CI/CD automation, dependency orchestration.