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Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web

Article URL: https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/23/gone-but-not-forgotten-recovering-the-dead-web/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739682 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
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TabFM: A zero-shot foundation model for tabular data

Article URL: https://research.google/blog/introducing-tabfm-a-zero-shot-foundation-model-for-tabular-data/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48739919 Points: 21 # Comments: 4
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What is a quantum computer good for? Absolutely nothing — yet

To this day, we have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simply too small and error-ridden to solve commercially relevant problems. That hasn't stopped Donald Trump's science adviser from promising a "quantum computer powerful enough for scientific discovery by 2028" and Trump from issuing a new […]
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The Bose Soundlink Max is $120 off ahead of the July 4th weekend

The Bose Soundlink Max is usually $399, but has been on steep discount this week at Amazon, Best Buy, and directly from Bose for $279. This Bluetooth speaker has a big and bold sound, with a wide soundstage that impressed us in our review. It’s great for the outdoors thanks to its IP67 rating, meaning […]
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Xbox weighs canceling Blade game and shuttering Arkane

Microsoft is set to announce a wave of layoffs for its Xbox studios and employees next week. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans tell The Verge that the layoffs will lead to studio closures or spinoffs, potential mergers of studios, and canceled games. I understand Microsoft is currently weighing closing at least five studios, including the […]
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Google’s killing off Tenor GIF searches in other apps

The GIF-picking interfaces in some of your favorite online platforms might look different going forward, as Google prepares to shut down the Tenor API today. While the Tenor website, along with its searchable GIF library, will remain live, platforms like X, Discord, Bluesky, and WhatsApp that previously integrated the API are now having to migrate […]
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Rockstar workers push to unionize ahead of GTA VI’s launch

Workers at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar Games have submitted a request for their union, the IWGB Game Workers Union, to be voluntarily recognized, according to a press release. The request follows Rockstar firing more than 30 staffers last year in a move accused of being "union busting." According to the release, IWGB members […]
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Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show

A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its Squid Game reality show in the trend of creating real competitions based on fictional torture scenarios. While the sets seen in the trailer are real and not some Glasgow-style AI fakes, the voiceover is AI-generated. Deadline […]
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Moto’s Tag 2 tracker is $20 for a limited time

Announced at CES 2026, the Moto Tag 2 has finally arrived in the US. The Bluetooth tracker with improved battery life over its predecessor, plus UWB sensing for more accurate tracking, is available through Motorola’s site at a special $19.99 launch price (originally $29.99). There are plenty of trackers for Android owners to consider, but […]
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007 First Light’s developer lays off staff but claims its next franchise will continue

IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series and 007 First Light, announced that it is laying off staff after a relationship with an "external partner" on its next big franchise, Project Fantasy, "has come to an end." IO has described Project Fantasy as an "online fantasy RPG", and Kotaku and Bloomberg report that Microsoft, […]
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LG’s 27-inch Tandem OLED gaming monitor is cheaper than ever

The price of LG’s UltraGear 27GX700A-B 1440p gaming monitor that came out last August has dropped to nearly its best price yet. You can grab it at Amazon for $484.99 or at LG for $499.99 (originally $599.99). That’s a great deal considering this is one of LG’s Primary RGB Tandem panels built with fourth-generation WOLED […]
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Google’s NotebookLM can sum up your research in a TikTok-style clip

Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling out to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers, allowing NotebookLM to generate 60-second vertical AI clips based on the sources you upload to the app. The example shared by Google details Australia's unsuccessful war […]
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Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard

Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using natural language.
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My roommate partied all night in Rio. I ended up building local-first JS on the stairs.

2012, Rio de Janeiro, Carnival week. I was playing digital nomad before that was a phrase anyone used — staying in a rented room, splitting it with a roommate who was still asleep at noon because the whole night had been spent out celebrating. Couldn't work inside without waking him up, so I took the laptop out to the staircase of the building instead. Client was in Bogotá: an equipment rental company whose reps needed to build quotes on the spot at venues with no WiFi. So the catalog, the prici...
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Applying a SAST Tool to Infrastructure as Code: Scanning a Terraform Stack with Checkov

Abstract Application code isn't the only place a SAST tool belongs — infrastructure definitions are source code too, and misconfigurations written into a Terraform file ship to production exactly as reliably as a bug in application logic does. This article applies Checkov , an open-source static analysis tool for Infrastructure as Code, to a Terraform stack that provisions storage, networking, a database, and IAM permissions for an order service. The unmodified stack produced 36 failed chec...
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🚀 Cloud Run, GKE, or GCE? Choosing Your Compute

So, maybe you're a developer starting out, or maybe you're an engineer trying to figure out where to run your code, and the whole thing feels like a tricky one. As a developer advocate, one of the most common questions I get from folks who are brand new to the cloud is: "When should I use Cloud Run vs. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) vs. straight-up Google Compute Engine (GCE)?" When you’re first getting started, the alphabet soup of cloud services can feel incredibly overwhelming, requiring y...
The One Mistake That Made My First 2000+ GitHub Issues Almost Useless
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The One Mistake That Made My First 2000+ GitHub Issues Almost Useless

If you've ever opened a GitHub repository with hundreds—or even thousands—of issues, you've probably experienced the same feeling I did. Where do you even begin? At first glance, GitHub Issues look like an endless list of bug reports, feature requests, enhancement proposals, questions, and pull requests. Reading them one by one quickly becomes overwhelming. When I started my developer experience research, I thought collecting GitHub issues would be the easy part. I was wrong. The real challen...
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Reading Anthropic's "When AI Builds Itself" Changed How I Think About AI and Software Engineering

TL;DR Anthropic recently published When AI Builds Itself , an essay explaining how AI is increasingly helping build the next generation of AI. Today, more than 80% of Anthropic's production code is written by Claude, and engineers are shipping around eight times more code than they were in 2024. I went into the essay carrying the same quiet anxiety I think many developers have right now. I came out feeling less scared. Not because the numbers are small. They aren't. It's because af...
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What Really Happens When You Write x = 10

We assume you already know how to write simple Python programs and understand basic syntax (if, for, functions, lists). Here, we're not discussing how to use the language, but why it works the way it does. If you ask a beginner what this line of code does: x = 10 the answer is usually something like: "The number 10 is stored in the variable x." At first glance, that sounds perfectly reasonable. We're used to thinking of a variable as a box or a memory cell ...