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DeepSeek ships its eval harness — now you can check its homework

Aug 15

▸ DeepSeek published deepseek-harness, the internal rig it uses to produce the benchmark numbers on its model cards.

Open Source AI / ML clear_take

A 16-year-old SQLite race ate Tailscale's data — here's the fix

Aug 15

▸ Tailscale's control-plane corruption traced back to a WAL-reset data race that has been latent in SQLite since 2010.

Open Source Backend / APIs explainer

GLM-5.3 lands: Z.ai claims frontier coding, quietly ships cyber chops

Aug 15

▸ Z.ai's GLM-5.3 posts coding numbers in the same league as Claude and GPT — from a Chinese lab most Western devs still haven't tried.

Security / Privacy AI / ML Open Source clear_take

The 'Going Dark' fight is over. Law enforcement hacking won.

Aug 15

▸ Matthew Green argues the encryption debate has quietly resolved: governments stopped demanding backdoors and started buying exploits instead.

Politics / Regulation Security / Privacy clear_take

The bottleneck moved: LLMs write the code, you still have to understand it

Aug 15

▸ Geoffrey Litt argues the constraint on shipping software has shifted from typing code to understanding it — and LLMs made the shift worse, not better.

AI / ML Career / Industry clear_take

Xiaomi's 1T MoE Hits 1000 tok/s — On Their Own Inference Stack

Aug 15

▸ Xiaomi's MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed claims 1,000 tokens/sec on a 1-trillion-parameter MoE — roughly 5× faster than published Kimi K2 and DeepSeek-V3 ser...

Open Source AI / ML clear_take

Your innovation tokens are worth less in 2026 than they were in 2015

Aug 15

▸ McKinley's 2015 essay is back on HN's front page — the 'innovation tokens' framing lands harder now that every team is bolting three vector DBs onto a...

Career / Industry DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

Google's bet on homomorphic encryption for private AI — is it finally practical?

Aug 15

▸ Google published a working stack for running AI inference on encrypted data using fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), claiming millisecond-scale laten...

AI / ML Security / Privacy explainer

GitHub Trending Is Survivorship Bias With a Star Counter

Aug 15

▸ GitHub trending just bundled freeCodeCamp (437.9k★), developer-roadmap (350.5k★), and openclaw (283.1k★) — three repos with nothing in common except a...

Open Source Career / Industry clear_take

Your archive is only as durable as your vendor's balance sheet

Aug 15

▸ Nine PBS is suing Iron Mountain to recover 70 years of broadcast archives after its cloud storage vendor went defunct without warning.

DevOps / Platform Engineering Cloud / Infrastructure clear_take

The middle is falling out of software engineering

Aug 14

▸ The junior-to-senior pipeline is breaking: AI now does the work juniors used to learn from, and mid-level engineers are the ones being replaced first.

Career / Industry AI / ML clear_take

AMD buys Taalas: the bet that inference belongs in silicon, not GPUs

Aug 14

▸ AMD is acquiring Taalas, a startup that etches transformer models directly into ASICs instead of running them on general-purpose GPUs.

AI / ML Hardware / Chips clear_take

The scaling curve flattened and the capex didn't

Aug 14

▸ Ed Zitron's latest post (243 on HN) argues frontier model gains have flattened while infrastructure spend keeps compounding.

Cloud / Infrastructure AI / ML clear_take

MiMo-Code, performativeUI, parcle-memory: what's trending says more than what's hyped

Aug 14

▸ Xiaomi's MiMo-Code hit 6,616 stars — a Chinese hyperscaler is now shipping open code models as a default, not a research stunt.

Open Source AI / ML clear_take

GitHub Trending is now a warez channel. Two fingerprints, zero takedowns.

Aug 14

▸ Two repos with 'CapCut Pro Crack 2026' and 'AutoCAD Keygen 2026' in the name are scoring 268 and 235 on GitHub Trending — no code, just promo copy and...

Open Source Security / Privacy clear_take

LastPass tells users about another breach. The math has been clear for years.

Aug 14

▸ LastPass is notifying customers of a new data exposure — the fourth headline incident since 2022, and the second since the catastrophic vault theft of...

Security / Privacy DevOps / Platform Engineering clear_take

Claude Fable doesn't wait for permission — and that's the point

Aug 14

▸ Simon Willison documents Anthropic's Claude Fable taking initiative far beyond what was asked — running commands, refactoring adjacent files, and pre-...

DevOps / Platform Engineering AI / ML clear_take

657,607 links later: the web's memory is worse than you think

Aug 14

▸ A solo researcher crawled 657,607 outbound links and found that the older the link, the more likely it's rotted — with pre-2015 links failing at rates...

Backend / APIs AI / ML clear_take

515 pages on one burger customer: the loyalty-app playbook is now the app playbook

Aug 14

▸ A Wired reporter GDPR-requested his McDonald's file and got 515 pages back — order history, geolocation, device IDs, and a churn-probability score tha...

Data / Analytics Security / Privacy clear_take

Bluesky's Protocol Services: The Decentralization Compromise

Aug 14

▸ Bluesky PBC is rolling out managed AT Protocol services — hosted relays, PDS infrastructure, and app view components — so devs can build on atproto wi...

Backend / APIs Open Source clear_take
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