Shopify moves back to Native from React Native

Coding agents changed what it costs to build mobile apps twice. Here’s why Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin.

Silicon Valley Is Transforming the Military-Industrial Complex

Anthropologist Roberto González (Professor, San José State University) examines how America’s military-industrial complex has been rapidly expanding from the Capital Beltway to Silicon Valley. Although much of the Pentagon’s budget is spent on conventional weapons systems, the Defense Department has increasingly sought to adopt AI-enabled systems. Big tech companies, venture capital, and private equity firms benefit from multi-billion dollar Defense contracts, and smaller defense tech startups that “move fast and break things” also receive increased Defense funding. Dr. González's report illustrates how a growing portion of the Defense Department’s spending is going to large, well-known tech firms, including some of the most highly valued c

Neki

Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.

Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE

Show HN: MultiMatte, a Promptable Image Background Removal Model

MultiMatte is a promptable image background removal model. Tell it what you want to keep, and MultiMatte will remove the rest.

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

@tristanbuckmaster@mastodon.social 1/3 I want to record a number of points that I realized after reading up on the controversy. In fact it recalls an exchange I had with OpenAI after its non-sofic-group announcement. It exposes a serious, unanswered question about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished mathematics. I wrote in an email to Mark Sellke and Sebastien Bubeck shortly after the surprising finding of a non-sofic group using the methods of Kun and myself: “Another point is that I and a colleague in Dresden were discussing the expander matching problem and various extensions of the work with Gabor Kun actively over the last months with ChatGPT, so that we are of course curious if that was part of the training data o

Software Drives People Insane

I have a little pet theory that software drives people insane. Not in the "wash your hands every thirty minutes like Howard Hughes" kind of way, but more ...

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

It's random, really.

Neki by PlanetScale

Sharded Postgres by PlanetScale. Scale real Postgres to hundreds of millions of QPS and petabytes of data with zero-downtime resharding.

Show HN: DOOM in the kernel, or fibers in eBPF

How a hand-ported DOOM, verifier tricks, and a slow virtual machine led to a compiler built around regions and fibers.

Casablanca: How an unproduced play marched into movie history

Of all of Hollywood’s beloved classic films, the Warner Bros. studio’s heart-rending wartime hit Casablanca might rank first in the hearts and minds of fans.

Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Today we’re introducing SWE-2, our most advanced coding model yet. SWE-2 delivers highly competitive agentic coding performance across multiple effort…

Python sets and dictionaries can have quadratic-time performance

>10x More Efficient Pretraining

Research update on compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models.

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

Four California buyers sued Sony in 2026, alleging the PlayStation Store's "Buy Now" button does not sell digital games, only licenses them.

Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft

By now it’s no surprise that Rust is of strategic importance to Microsoft. From bold mission statements when Azure CTO Mark Russinovich outlined our future strategy for native code, to millions of dollars invested by Microsoft into supporting the Rust Project, over the following years. Watch Mark’s keynote from last…

Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls

Hitachi has introduced its Y-series EcoCute CO2 heat pump water heaters in Japan, with 370-liter and 460-liter models set to launch from November 2026. The upgraded range adds expanded support for daytime electricity tariffs and PV-linked energy management, alongside a five-year manufacturer warranty.

NASA Color Trick Was Meant for Mars. Now It's Unveiling Rock Art on Earth

Rather than simply raising the contrast between colors, the decorrelation method maps the original colors to an expanded range.

Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

🚀 Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash: smarter, faster, more efficient. 🔹 Introducing the smallest model in our new architecture family, with native visual understanding. 🔹 Designed for greater capability, faster inference, higher throughput, and scaling to larger models. 1/6