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Cargo-nextest: A Faster, Isolated Test Runner for Rust with CI Superpowers
Cargo-nextest is an open-source test runner for Rust that positions itself as a drop-in replacement for the built-in `cargo test`. Its main pitch is speed — a r
Cloudflare Drop: Deploy a Site by Dragging a Folder Onto the Edge
Cloudflare Drop is a zero-configuration deployment tool that lets you push a static website live by uploading a folder or zip file. Rather than wiring up a buil
Damn Interesting founder runs a fundraiser to buy back his own writing time
Alan Bellows, who founded the long-form site Damn Interesting, explains that he sustained the project for nearly two decades by pairing part-time engineering jo
Databricks built its own coding-agent benchmark — and open models made the frontier
Databricks built an internal benchmark from its own recent pull requests to figure out which coding agents actually perform best on its multi-million-line, ten-
DocuBrowse: A Local, Offline AI Search Engine for Your Document Pile
DocuBrowse is an open-source desktop tool that indexes a scattered collection of files — PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets, presentations, ebooks, HTML, and plain t
EU Parliament Revives 'Chat Control 1.0' Mass Scanning Despite Majority Opposition
The European Parliament has cleared the way for the return of suspicionless mass scanning of private messages until 2028, reversing a stance it took twice in Ma
FAANG Simulator turns the Big Tech rat race into a one-tap doom-clicker
"The Rat Race" is a satirical browser game that compresses an entire Big Tech career into a doom-clicker. Each tap advances one financial quarter of your life:
FTC settlement forces John Deere to open repair tools to farmers and indie shops
The FTC and attorneys general from Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin have reached a right-to-repair settlement with Deere & Co. that requires
GitHub's outages and AI push drive some open-source projects to Codeberg
GitHub still looks dominant—600 million-plus repositories, a new user every second, and nearly a billion commits in 2025—but a handful of notable open-source pr
Grok 4.5 wins on speed and cost in a four-model coding build-off
TryAI ran a head-to-head test of four frontier models — xAI's newly launched Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Claude Fable 5 — giving each identical one-
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 targets agentic coding and computer use with 1M-token context
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model aimed squarely at agentic work — planning, tool use, and computer control
Microsoft posts Flint, a 'visualization language for AI agents,' to Show HN
Microsoft has published Flint, described as a visualization language for AI agents, and shared it as a Show HN submission. The project lives on GitHub Pages und