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I taught a bucket to speak Git

Article URL: https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/objgit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48661938 Points: 57 # Comments: 12
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Big AI labs are hiring philosophers

https://archive.is/T1FJG Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662452 Points: 23 # Comments: 12
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Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-computer-use-gemini-3-5-flash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48662999 Points: 83 # Comments: 41
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OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Announcement: https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-... https://decrypt.co/371971/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-first-cus... https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/tech/openai-broadcom-jalapeno... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663324 Points: 222 # Comments: 171
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Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition

Article URL: https://www.cwu.org/press_release/wikipedia-workers-to-seek-union-recognition/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663861 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
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Thomann takes legal action against Fender

Article URL: https://www.thomann.de/blog/en/inside/thomann-takes-legal-action-against-fender/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48664384 Points: 54 # Comments: 8
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19 great Prime Day deals on our favorite charging gear

If you’re sick of your devices running out of juice early into the evening just as you’re about to go out, Prime Day is a great time to pick up a new power bank or charging brick. We’ve rounded up the best deals on a range of discounted charging equipment, from power banks and wall […]
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Philips Hue’s smart lights are getting a connectivity upgrade

Philips Hue has announced a connectivity upgrade for its Matter-over-Thread-enabled smart bulbs that will allow them to run both Thread and Zigbee at the same time. The change means you can connect compatible Hue bulbs and fixtures directly to a Matter ecosystem - Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, or Google Home - while keeping them linked […]
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Laptop prices suck these days, but here are 25 Prime Day deals that help a little

The RAM, storage, and component crunch has come for new laptop prices. Plenty of models have gone up in price after being on the market for months, and so have those that’ve been on shelves for over a year. Plus, many new models are releasing at higher prices than the previous generation. So, it really […]
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OpenAI reveals its first AI processor: Jalapeño

OpenAI has just revealed a new "intelligence processor" chip for AI servers made in partnership with Broadcom. The chip, called Jalapeño, is designed to power current and future large language models, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Jalapeño is an ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit), meaning it's designed for a specific purpose: AI inference. With AI […]
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Zoox’s purpose-built robotaxi is getting a refresh

Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company owned by Amazon, unveiled a new look for its boxy, bidirectional robotaxi, calling it the "next evolution" of the vehicle intended for mass production. The company is currently operating a free robotaxi service in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Austin, and Miami while it waits for the federal government to approve […]
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8BitDo’s all-button controller gets a screen upgrade for customizations without an app

8BitDo announced a new version of its all-button Arcade Controller that debuted a little over a year ago. The new Arcade Controller Pro looks similar to 8BitDo's original with a leverless (or Hitbox) design that replaces joysticks with buttons for improved precision and responsiveness. The new Pro version comes with upgrades that include an even […]
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21 Prime Day deals Verge readers are buying right now

There are an overwhelming number of Prime Day deals to sort through, which is why we spend so much time highlighting products we’ve already tested and can stand behind. But our recommendations are only one way to identify a worthwhile deal: another is seeing which products fellow Verge readers actually buy. Below, we’ve rounded up […]
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The SwitchBot battery-powered fan we love is $90 for Prime Day

If you’re looking for a circulating fan that can move air around your home better than the average model, Amazon has marked down the SwitchBot Standing Circulator Fan to $89.99 (usually $129.99) for Prime Day. The battery-powered upright fan tilts vertically and oscillates horizontally, and it is adjustable from 18 to 40 inches in height, […]
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Using Zstd Frames to Egress Partial Parquet Files

Jump Tables, TLV Footers, and the Real Cost of Reading What You Don't Need You're paying for bytes you never read. A data engineer on a busy pipeline touches dozens of Parquet files a day: schema discovery, predicate pushdown, column pruning, metadata scrapes for a data catalog sync. In each case, the application needs maybe 200 KB of context from a file that is 4 GB on disk. Without a seekable archive format and a jump table to find the right frame, your HTTP client fetches the whole thi...
ImageX hit 10 stars, got a contributor, and shipped 3 new features :) here's what happened
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ImageX hit 10 stars, got a contributor, and shipped 3 new features :) here's what happened

A couple weeks ago I posted about ImageX - a dumb little CLI that lets you edit images without googling "resize image online" for the hundredth time. If you haven't seen it, the tldr is: pip install imagex && imagex , a menu pops up, pick what you want, done. No flags to memorize, no syntax to look up - just arrow keys and enter. Everything runs locally on your machine - no uploads, no server ever sees your images, no browser,no ads. Honestly? Didn't expect much. But: 10 star...
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Stokado: A Zero-Dependency Proxy Wrapper That Makes Browser Storage Feel Like a Plain Object

If you've shipped anything to the browser, you've used localStorage . And if you've used it for more than five minutes, you've also written this exact line more times than you'd like to admit: const user = JSON . parse ( localStorage . getItem ( ' user ' ) || ' null ' ) The Web Storage API has aged remarkably well for something so small, but it carries three persistent pain points that every frontend codebase ends up papering over by hand. Pain po...
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How to Fetch Real-Time Options Chain Data in Python (Without Paying $99/mo)

If you've ever tried to pull live options data into a Python script, you've probably hit the same wall I did: the cheapest real-time providers start at $99/mo. Here's how to do it for $20/mo — or free if you stay within 1,000 credits/day. What You'll Need Python 3.8+ requests library ( pip install requests ) An API key from market-option.com (free tier available, no card required) Fetching a Full Options Chain import os import req...
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The Best Free Sports Data APIs in 2025: A Developer's Practical Review

Hook: Why Your Next Sports Analytics Project Shouldn't Cost a Fortune Last summer, a college student in Ohio built a machine learning model that predicted NBA player performance with 87% accuracy—without spending a single dollar on data. Meanwhile, a startup in London created a real-time football analytics dashboard that rivaled paid enterprise solutions. The secret? Free sports data APIs. The sports data landscape has transformed dramatically. Where teams once paid six figures for propri...
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NFL 4th Quarter Data: Why Teams That Go For It On 4th Down Win More Than You Think

The clock reads 6:47 in the third quarter. Your team is down three points, facing 4th and 2 at midfield. For decades, the conventional wisdom was automatic: punt the ball away and hope your defense makes a stop. But on Sunday across America's NFL stadiums, something remarkable is happening. Teams are challenging that wisdom with data, and the results are reshaping how football is played. In the 2023 NFL season, teams went for it on 4th down approximately 23% more often than they did a decade ...
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Legacy code não envelhece como vinho: quanto mais espera, pior fica

Semana passada eu passei três horas debugando um bug que deveria levar 20 minutos. O problema? Um módulo de validação escrito em 2019 que ninguém mexe "porque funciona". Spoiler: não funcionava mais, e quando finalmente abri o arquivo, encontrei um // TODO: refactor this datado de 2020. Por que legacy vira bola de neve A indústria trata código legado como se fosse dívida técnica opcional — algo que você paga "quando tiver tempo". Mas código legado se comporta mais como mofo: se...
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How we went from no-code agents to no-prompt agents

When we started Reach , the plan was simple. We had a bunch of small businesses we were already in touch with - real SMBs, the kind that live on WhatsApp and don't have a "tech team." We'd give each of them an AI agent that talks to their customers, hand them a clean starter template for the instructions, and let them tweak it from there. That was the whole bet: give people a good starting prompt and a template, and they'll play along. We were so wrong it's almost funny now. ...