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Xiaomi open-sources MiMo Code, its AI coding model

Xiaomi has released MiMo Code and made it open-source, extending the company's MiMo family of AI models into the coding domain. The announcement, surfaced via H

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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