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Apple Core AI Framework

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Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes

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We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued

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Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]

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xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

xAI is renting huge amounts of GPU capacity to Anthropic and Google. Financial engineering ahead of the SpaceX IPO, a real compute shortage, or a genuine datacentre advantage? Probably all three.

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Why are cells small?

Two physical constraints — surface area and diffusion — explain why cells are (usually) tiny.

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Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification

Below are two X.509 certificates. The first is the Certificate Authority (CA) root certificate, and the second is a leaf certifcate signed by the private key of the CA. ca.crt.pem -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- MIIBejCCASGgAwIBAgIUda4UvlFzwQEO/fD0f4hAnj+ydPYwCgYIKoZIzj0EAwIw EjEQMA4GA1UEAxMHUm9vdCBDQTAgFw0yNjAyMjcxOTQ3NDZaGA8yMTI2MDIwMzE5 NDc0NlowEjEQMA4GA1UEAxMHUm9vdCBDQTBZMBMGByqGSM49AgEGCCqGSM49AwEH A0IABKL5BB9aaQ2TtNgUymEsa/+s2ZlTXVll0N22KKWxh0N/JdgHcjrKfzqRlVrt UN2GXdvsdLOq15TxBq97WvE07lKjUzBRMB0GA1UdDgQWBBTAVEw9doSzY1DuPVxP EnwEp/+VJDAfBgNVHSMEGDAWgBTAVEw9doSzY1DuPVxPEnwEp/+VJDAPBgNVHRMB Af8EBTADAQH/MAoGCCqGSM49BAMCA0cAMEQCIHrSTk/KJHAjn3MC/egvfxMM1NpG GEzMB7EH+VXWz7RfAiAyhwy4E9hc8/qsTI+4iKf2o/zMRu5H2GNJOLqOngglbQ== -----END CERTIFICATE--

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EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

foodwatch laboratory tests reveal the presence of pesticide residues in everyday foods — including substances not approved in the EU.

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Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

Self-hosted AI agent that remembers your projects, builds skills automatically, and reaches you on Telegram, Discord & more. MIT license. No tracking.

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Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

Apple today announced a major overhaul of its Apple Intelligence platform, revealing a new architecture built on foundation models developed in collaboration with Google using the technologies behind the Gemini family. The new architecture centers on Apple Foundation Models co-developed with Google, which Apple says are adapted to run both on-device and on servers through its existing Private Cloud Compute infrastructure.

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FrontierCode

Today’s coding benchmarks have established that models can write correct code, but the question we should really be asking is: can models actually write good code?

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Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

A better open-source GitHub

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Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

Social media platforms used to be about communication between friends. The business model is to increase the time people spend on their apps and increase ad revenue.

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Siri AI

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AI is slowing down

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Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC

OpenAI confirms a confidential S-1 submission to the SEC and has not yet determined timing for further action.

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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints

Postgres 19 brings plan advice: the query hints the Postgres community held off on for 15 years. Shaun Thomas covers the 15-year debate, pg_plan_advice, pg_stash_advice, and how to use them.

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MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

MiMo, in collaboration with TileRT, releases the UltraSpeed mode of Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro — breaking 1000 tokens/s generation speed on a 1T-parameter model for the first time on commodity GPUs through extreme model-system codesign.

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Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code

A code-first browser automation platform with an AI agent that builds and maintains your automations as deterministic, production-ready code.

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On this day

At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

Apple Core AI Framework

Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes

We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued

Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]

xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab

Why are cells small?

Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification

EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices

Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

FrontierCode

Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds

Siri AI

AI is slowing down

Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Query Hints

MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second

Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code

On this day

At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.

An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.

Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.

The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.

In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.

Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.

The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.

Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.

The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.

Aeroflot Flight 105 crashes on approach to Magdan-13 Airport, killing 24.

First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.

Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.

Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.

World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.

World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.

A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.

Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.

Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.

Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland.

William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.

Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France.

American Civil War: The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, the largest cavalry battle on American soil, ends Confederate cavalry dominance in the eastern theater.

American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic.

The Beyoglu Protocol turns the district of Mount Lebanon into an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire and grants the Christians more power over the Druze.

Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.

End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.

Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.

The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.

James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.

Jacques Cartier is the first European to describe and map the Saint Lawrence River.

The Parisian Faculty of Theology fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorii in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.

Duccio's Maestà, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.

Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.

Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.

Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's Aeneid, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.

The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.

On this day

At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.

An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.

Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.

Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four.

The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.

In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.

Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.

The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.

Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.

The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.