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Photosynthesis app fuses two iPhone lenses into one high-detail photo, no gen AI

Photosynthesis is an in-development iPhone camera app that fires two of the phone's rear lenses at the same moment and merges the captures into a single image.

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Qwen3.8 goes open: a 2.4T-parameter, 95B-active MoE built for agentic coding

Alibaba's Qwen team has published Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, billing it as the strongest model in its open lineup and the first time a "Qwen-Max-class" system has shipp

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Stop mashing the up-arrow: shell history expansion and fc, explained

Most terminal users repeat commands by scrolling through history one arrow-press at a time. This piece argues that the DRY principle we preach in code should ex

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Tailscale's six-month outage hunt ends at a 16-year-old SQLite corruption bug

Tailscale runs its control plane on internal shards, each backed by a single SQLite database written by one Go process—a textbook single-writer setup that had r

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Tencent's Hunyuan3D team teases WorldClaw for agentic 3D open-world generation

Tencent's Hunyuan3D group has put up a project page for WorldClaw (Hunyuan3D-WorldClaw), billed as a system for 'agentic 3D open-world generation at scale.' The

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The Human Is the Loop: A Builder's Case Against Reflexive AI Dependence

After a few weeks offline on vacation, a developer returns to eleven terminal tabs of paused agents and a stack of unread Claude chats spanning taxes, landscapi

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Why Compression and LLMs Are Secretly the Same Problem

An ngrok engineering explainer makes the case that data compressors and large language models are, at their core, doing the same job: predicting what comes next

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Zed launches Delta, a multiplayer workspace for coding and reviewing with AI agents

Zed has opened a private beta for Delta, a standalone application built around AI-agent collaboration rather than a traditional code editor. It runs on DeltaDB,

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A Scrollbar for All 43 Quintillion Rubik's Cube States

A Show HN project puts every legal Rubik's Cube configuration behind a single scrollbar. The figure in the title, 43,252,003,274,489,856,000, is not marketing h

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A single 1-second instruction breaks SMM's all-cores lockstep on x86

Researcher Christopher Domas (xoreaxeaxeax) has shown that System Management Mode — the invisible, ultra-privileged execution layer baked into every x86 CPU — c

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AI search is quietly erasing the web's memory — and governments are pushing back

Google's AI Overviews now botch even trivial lookups — inventing sunset times, for instance — but the essay argues the real problem runs deeper than a sloppy mo

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Amazon's AI Push Funds a Texas Gas Plant Poised to Be a Top US Polluter

Amazon is bankrolling a natural gas plant in Texas to power its AI data centers, a facility the New York Times reports could become the single largest source of

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