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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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