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SQLite Doubles as a Document Store with Generated Columns and JSON
SQLite has supported JSON for years, but the 3.31.0 release (January 2020) added generated columns, which together turn the embedded engine into a serviceable d
Tencent open-sources Hy4 Preview, a 770B MoE model it says helped build itself
Tencent has released open weights for Hy4 Preview, a mixture-of-experts LLM with 770B total parameters (49B active per token) and a context window exceeding 1M
Texas turned a $1 insurance fee into 3,200 Flock surveillance cameras
A 2023 Texas law raised auto insurance premiums by $1 per policy to fight catalytic converter theft, but a Texas Tribune investigation found that at least $30 m
The Longest You Can Sail Without Hitting Land? An Algorithm Found It
Two geometry puzzles that circulated online—what's the longest straight-line sea route that never touches land, and the longest overland route that never crosse
Typebase turns a TypeScript folder into a deployable, fully typed backend
Typebase, a Show HN launch, collapses backend development into a single `typebase/` folder that lives inside an existing app. Developers define their database s
UK public overwhelmingly rejects backdoors into encrypted messages, poll finds
A survey commissioned by the Center for Democracy & Technology finds that British opposition to government access to encrypted communications is broad and bipar
USDA flags chicken recall across five states over falsified inspection marks
A quantity of chicken products has been pulled from shelves in five states after being labeled with "false marks of inspection" — meaning the goods carried USDA
Why Culture, Not AI Tooling, Is the Real Productivity Multiplier for Engineers
An engineering leader with 13+ years in the field argues that the industry's obsession with AI tools misses the point: the environment those tools operate in ma
A Datalog engine for LLMs: turning agent memory into incremental program analysis
During long vulnerability-research sessions with LLM agents, the author hit a recurring failure: the model would lose track of what had actually been establishe
AI Agent Swarm Cracks Five Open Math Problems in a Coordinator-Free Sandbox
Researchers built a shared environment called the Station where AI agents drawn from different model families work toward a common research goal with no central
AI 'brand protection' bot pulls open-source Luanti from Play Store on bogus DMCA
Luanti, the open-source voxel game-creation platform formerly known as Minetest, has been removed from the Google Play Store after Tracer.AI filed a DMCA takedo
EasyEffects: The Free Linux Fix for Awful Laptop Speakers
Laptop speakers are almost universally bad because the hardware is too small to sound good on its own. The laptops that are exceptions — MacBooks, some Dell XPS