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Mistral lands €21B valuation on €3B Series D, Samsung leads

Mistral has closed a €3 billion Series D at a post-money valuation above €21 billion — the largest equity raise ever by a European tech company, coming just thr

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Off-topic: math research statement on the Navier–Stokes equations (no article body)

No article text was supplied for this item — only a Hacker News headline and a link to a PDF (statement.pdf) hosted on Tristan Buckmaster's NYU Courant page. Th

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Terrastruct Open-Sources TALA, Its Diagram Autolayout Engine, Under MPL-2.0

Terrastruct has released TALA, the autolayout algorithm behind its D2 diagramming language, as open source under MPL-2.0. Unlike the DAG-oriented engines D2 alr

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Trusting-Trust Attack Escapes the Compiler: GNU strip Backdoors All of NixOS

Ken Thompson's classic trusting-trust attack — where a compromised compiler injects a backdoor into everything it builds, including future copies of itself — ha

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80% of phones flout EU repairability rules, and no one's checking

Since June 2025, EU rules require smartphones and tablets sold in the bloc to carry a repairability score and publish information that helps owners fix their de

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A 1024-byte C program that runs Python-flavored code, loops and all

As a weekend exercise, Austin Henley set out to write a Python interpreter in just 1024 bytes of dependency-free C — no macros, no library tricks. The goal was

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A Software Engineer's Vacation Cure for AI-Era Brain Fog: Books and Calculus

A developer with about eight years of experience describes a creeping cognitive decline he attributes to modern working life: problems that once felt novel now

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Anubis's Own Bot Wall Blocks the Scrape of Its WebAssembly Post

The linked page was supposed to be a Techaro blog post on the year-long effort to ship WebAssembly in Anubis, but the retrieved content is instead Anubis's own

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Asahi Linux Lands Official Support for Apple M3 Macs

The Asahi Linux project has merged M3-series support into its installer, bringing near-parity with what already worked on M1 and M2 hardware. On MacBooks and iM

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bzip3: A BZip2 Successor Trading Memory for Much Tighter Text and Code Compression

bzip3 is a new general-purpose compressor positioned as the spiritual heir to bzip2, built by Kamila Szewczyk and released under LGPLv3. It pairs a Burrows-Whee

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Caltech to Host First Hackathon Aimed at Solving Open Math Problems with AI

Caltech is convening what organizers bill as the first hackathon built around research-level mathematics. From October 30 to November 1, roughly 100 teams of to

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GrapheneOS Rebuilds Default Apps, Tightens Secure Clipboard Handling

GrapheneOS, the security- and privacy-hardened Android distribution, has announced an overhaul of its bundled default applications alongside changes to its secu

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