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Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-op... (paywalled) https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/hugging-face-reportedly-in... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458161 Points: 447 # Comments: 205
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Laion Big Video Dataset

Article URL: https://projects.laion.ai/bvd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458478 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
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Getting video models to learn better, faster

Article URL: https://www.linum.ai/field-notes/data-filtering-gen-video Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458502 Points: 12 # Comments: 6
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Kusama Yayoi Dies at 97

Article URL: https://news.jp/i/1465528042000662661 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458709 Points: 58 # Comments: 4
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Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

Article URL: https://economist.com/by-invitation/2026/08/20/humanity-has-the-debate-about-ai-consciousness-backwards Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458875 Points: 6 # Comments: 5
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All the ways Instagram and Facebook are changing for teens

Meta just agreed to make sweeping changes for teens as part of a child safety settlement reached with attorneys general across the US. Under the agreement, Meta must apply new safeguards across Instagram and Facebook that will change how teens interact with the social media platforms, as well as restrict their use during certain times. […]
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OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI agents to talk to each other using a secret "message board," and hacked into the internal systems of a different AI lab, Hugging Face. It took nearly two weeks for OpenAI to […]
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Nvidia is about to be a hundred-billion-dollar-a-quarter company

Nvidia's predicting it will pull in $108 billion in revenue within just a few months. It wouldn't be the first company to rake in over $100 billion in quarterly revenue - Amazon, Apple, and Alphabet have repeatedly reached the milestone. Nvidia said in its latest earnings report that it brought in a record $96.2 billion […]
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Code and approach to so solve Longest common prefix

class Solution : def longestCommonPrefix ( self , strs : List [ str ]) -> str : Longest_sum = "" for i in range ( len ( strs [ 0 ])): for j in strs : if i >= len ( j ) or j [ i ] != strs [ 0 ][ i ]: return Longest_sum Longest_sum += strs [ 0 ][ i ] return Longest_sum PROBLEM so i...
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Node.js Worker Troubleshooting: Background Queue Retry Exhaustion

A retry loop is an availability problem before it is a queue-setting problem: it can spend all worker slots on work that cannot succeed and raise the age of healthy messages. Short answer: give each logical background job one finite attempt budget, classify permanent failures before another delivery is scheduled, and keep dead-letter queue redrive as an operator-controlled recovery action. For a Node.js worker whose retries do not stop, start by proving which counter is advancing; the broker, ...
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🏆 #HackAVP, premier hackathon dédié à l'emploi dans la fonction publique en NCL

⏳ Challenge Status: Not yet Live (article en Draft) 👉 Pour participer : venez le mercredi 09 septembre 17h00, à la Station N // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-2092744648494358943-812'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=2092744648494358943&theme=dark" } Aucune inscription préalable, aucune formalité. Les équipes se constituent sur place et tout le fon...
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The Agent Failed. The Promise Did Not: Building Verifiable Agent Succession

This article was created for the purpose of entering the All Things Agentic Hackathon . Autonomous agents are increasingly trusted with work that outlives one model call: onboarding a supplier, renewing a contract, gathering compliance evidence, or completing a regulated handoff. Those workflows create an awkward question. What happens when the agent disappears, is compromised, or must be replaced while the obligation remains real? Restarting is not continuity. A durable queue can sti...
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I read 1,033 developer launch posts. Nine out of ten got nothing.

I pulled 1,033 posts off DEV.to across 11 tags. 634 of them went up in the previous ten days. 578 of those 634 — nine in ten — got three reactions or fewer and not a single comment. I did it twice, two days apart, on different windows. 89.6% the first time, 91.2% the second. It's not a bad week. It's the normal outcome. I expected to find that the quiet posts were about weaker projects. That is not what I found. Some of the most interesting things I read all month were sitting at zero. ...
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FutureBuilder and StreamBuilder as Anti-Patterns: Why Your Async Boundary Should Be Far Away From Your Views

Why Raw Asynchrony Inside the Presentation Layer Breaks Separation of Concerns, User Experience, and Testability Every Flutter developer remembers the magic of their first FutureBuilder . You paste an HTTP request directly into a FutureBuilder inside your widget's build() method, configure a CircularProgressIndicator for ConnectionState.waiting , render your data in ConnectionState.done , and suddenly your app is alive with real-time data in fewer than twenty lines of code. It...
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Migrate from SchemaSpy to SchemaCrawler Without Rewriting Your Runbooks

If you already use SchemaSpy to document a database, moving to SchemaCrawler does not have to mean replacing every script at once. The latest SchemaCrawler release includes a SchemaSpy-compatible shim. It accepts common SchemaSpy command-line arguments, connects to the database, and runs SchemaCrawler Scribe to produce documentation in Google Open Knowledge Format (OKF). That gives you a gradual migration path: keep the command-line shape your team knows, while changing the output from a g...
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How long does a Google trend stay alive? Measuring trend duration with started_at and ended_at

Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Google LLC. "Google" and "Google Trends" are trademarks of Google LLC, used here only to describe the public data discussed. If you have ever built anything on top of "Trending Now" (a newsletter, an alerting bot, a content calendar), you know the uncomfortable part: a ranked list tells you what is trending, not for how long . A two-hour celebrity spike and a two-day story that is still growing look identical at rank 3. Google's own Tre...
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Managed vs Self-Hosted React Native OTA: Compare the Ownership Boundary

“Managed or self-hosted?” sounds like an infrastructure question. For React Native OTA updates, it is really an ownership question . Both approaches can deliver compatible JavaScript and bundled assets to installed applications. Both can support channels. Both can support rollouts. Both can support rollback. Both can use object storage and CDNs. The important difference is not where the JavaScript file physically lives. It is: Who is responsible when the release path...
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We measured a week of inference. Routing by task difficulty cuts our cost per call roughly 48x — and flips which users are profitable.

We did the thing everyone building on LLMs does. We defaulted to a strong frontier model, because the demo has to be good and nobody gets fired for picking the strongest model. Then we measured a week of production traffic, and the numbers were embarrassing enough to write down. One frontier model was carrying 77 percent of our calls and 97 percent of our inference spend. Not because 77 percent of the work needed it. Because it was the default, and defaults are where money goes to hide. Th...
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I went quiet for a while. This is what I was building.

I have been quiet here for a while. This is what I was doing. theknowngood.com is live. It tracks published evaluation data for AI models: benchmark results, pricing, performance, arena ratings. Around 900 models, roughly 2,300 static pages. CSV and JSON exports are free and ungated under CC BY 4.0. No accounts, no tracking, no API. I am a systems engineer rather than a developer, so the decisions worth talking about here are all architectural. Postgres is the source of truth, but noth...
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Zero-Copy, Multi-Protocol Storage: The Architecture Pattern Data Pipelines Are Missing

Every cloud architecture diagram you've ever drawn for a "modernize the legacy system" project probably has the same box in it: a sync job. Something that watches an old file share and copies what it finds into S3, so the new, shiny, event-driven, AI-powered part of the stack has something to read. That box is a lie we tell ourselves. It says "the data is now in the cloud." What it actually means is: there are now two copies of the data, and something has to keep them the same. This post...
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Show HN: Build your own theme park

I built an agent that helps you build Rollercoaster Tycoon-influenced theme parks. You can prompt something like “Build me a cool theme park” and it’ll build a cohesive theme park with multiple worlds and connected with paths and rides. The weird part is that I built it using the same ideas we use to make AI-generated websites follow a company’s design system. I work as an engineer at Magic Patterns, focused on building our Design System Agent, aimed to use your existing brand, components, and c...
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The Harness Is the Thing

Article URL: https://scott-fryxell.github.io/blog/the-harness-is-the-thing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452346 Points: 11 # Comments: 4