Hacker News Digest
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Artificial Analysis has released Intelligence Index v4.2, an interim update that adds more complex and realistic benchmarks while increasing the weight of private, held-out test sets to prevent gamin…
Despite DMCA takedowns and rate limiting, the Nitter community has rebuilt. The shitter wiki now lists over a dozen working instances, including Tor hidden services, alongside guides for creating ses…
An engineer at Spotify shares how they slashed Claude Code token consumption by 90% using Portal's AiKA Modes. By routing bulk file reads and boilerplate code generation to cheaper models like Gemini…
Git submodules are often compared to a package manager, but they fall short in many ways. This article examines the gaps: resolution relies solely on URLs, installation leaves checkouts empty or dirt…
Val Town's Steve Krouse explains how Dynamic Client Registration (DCR) and Client ID Metadata Documents (CIMD) are turning the n² problem of app-to-app connections into a thing of the past. Instead o…
ExactTeX is a gradually-typed superset of LaTeX that lets you annotate your documents to catch errors before compilation. Every .tex file is valid .xtex, and annotations buy checked references, safe…
Moadim is an open-source loop engine that puts your AI agents on a schedule. Define a loop with a prompt, schedule, and agent, and Moadim runs Claude, Codex, Hermes, or Pi against your repository on…
An exploration of how declaring an incident has become a popular way to trigger side effects in engineering teams, such as gaining attention, resources, or bypassing bureaucracy. The article examines…
A year after being laid off from Cisco following a 25-year career, the author reflects on the emotional aftermath, the dehumanizing process of corporate layoffs, and his journey toward healing. He de…
On September 3, 2026, MikroTik silently patched a critical SSH vulnerability across all RouterOS branches, withholding details. By diffing the binaries, a researcher uncovered two flaws: a low-expone…
Gimlet Labs has announced a $300M Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Arm, Samsung Ventures, Tiger Global, and others. The company is building a 'multisilicon cloud' for AI i…
CodeRabbit's early evaluation of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shows it catches about 4% more actionable bugs overall than GPT-5.6 Sol, and 22% more than Opus 5. The real edge appears in harder cross-file rev…
The Dutch central bank moved 86 tonnes of gold from the US and Canada to London, citing geopolitical unrest and a need to be "better prepared for severe crises." France and Germany have also repatria…