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Six Years Running Petabyte ClickHouse: Where the Open-Source Version Falls Short
A Tinybird engineer who has run ClickHouse in production since version 18.4 argues that standing up a cluster is trivial—keeping petabyte-scale clusters healthy
Sony Sued Over Whether 'Buy Now' Means You Own Your PlayStation Games
Four California PlayStation buyers filed a class action against Sony Interactive Entertainment in June 2026, arguing the PlayStation Store misleads shoppers int
The Hidden Chaos of OpenRouter: Same Model, Wildly Different Providers
The operator of Olly, an iMessage AI assistant that has handled over 18 million messages (a third on open models via OpenRouter), lays out the operational traps
Two dozen Fields Medalists warn AI's math-benchmark race endangers mathematics
An open letter signed by 24 Fields Medalists — including Terence Tao, Peter Scholze, and Maryna Viazovska — argues that the AI industry's rush to crack famous m
unslop.news Rebuilds the Hacker News Front Page With the AI Stories Stripped Out
A new Show HN project called "Hacker News, Without AI" (unslop.news) offers a filtered version of the Hacker News feed that removes stories about AI. The pitch
AI agent factors RSA-260, setting a new record and pegging RSA-1024 at ~$30M
Cognition researcher used the company's autonomous coding agent, Devin, to factor RSA-260, the largest number ever cracked in the RSA Factoring Challenge and th
Apple Watch Series 12 adds continuous heart sensing, readiness score, on-device AI
Apple's Series 12 watch centers on a re-architected Health Sensing System paired with a new S11 chip, which Apple claims delivers the most accurate heart-rate s
Apple's $129 AirPods 5 push ANC and on-device AI into its cheapest earbuds
Apple has unveiled AirPods 5, moving active noise cancellation into its lowest-priced open-ear model at $129, with a $149 variant adding a wireless charging cas
Automattic board sidelines Matt Mullenweg, installs CFO as interim CEO
Automattic's board has placed founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg on paid leave against his wishes, elevating CFO Mark Davies to interim chief executive. Mullenweg b
Border Patrol's Secret Predictive Units Mine Americans' Finances to Trigger Traffic Stops
A 404 Media investigation reports that Customs and Border Protection operates undisclosed predictive-policing units that ingest Americans' financial activity al
Browser Demo Slows Light to a Walking Pace So You Can See Relativity
A new interactive WebGL demo by Dmitry Brant reimagines a virtual park where the speed of light is just 5 km/h — roughly a brisk walk. Because light is capped a
Cognition's SWE-2 nears frontier coding models at a fraction of the cost
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, has released SWE-2, its strongest coding model yet. It scores 50.0% on the FrontierCode 1.1 Main benchmark