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Launch HN: Design Arena (YC S25) – Head-to-head AI benchmark for aesthetics

Hacker News•news.ycombinator.com• August 12, 2025 •8 pts

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Perplexity offers to buy Google’s Chrome browser for $34.5B

Hacker News•cnbc.com• August 12, 2025 •6 pts

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Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings

Hacker News•blog.wilsonl.in• August 12, 2025 •17 pts

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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

Hacker News•anthropic.com• August 12, 2025 •195 pts

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Platform9 pushes swing capacity workaround for VMware migrants

The Register•go.theregister.com• August 12, 2025

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Android's pKVM hypervisor earns SESIP Level 5 security certification

BleepingComputer•bleepingcomputer.com• August 12, 2025

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Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome

Hacker News•wsj.com• August 12, 2025 •18 pts

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No more ‘Sanity Checks.’ Inclusive language guide bans problematic tech terms

The Register•go.theregister.com• August 12, 2025

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Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome

Hacker News•wsj.com• August 12, 2025 •95 pts

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The Role of Feature Normalization in Ijepa

Hacker News•github.com• August 12, 2025 •3 pts

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New 3D Laser Scanner Developed for Harvesting Robots

Hacker News•uni-wuerzburg.de• August 12, 2025 •4 pts

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Evaluating LLMs Playing Text Adventures

Hacker News•entropicthoughts.com• August 12, 2025 •39 pts

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UK government advises deleting emails to save water

Hacker News•gov.uk• August 12, 2025 •105 pts

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The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook’s content policy (2022)

Hacker News•mronline.org• August 12, 2025 •60 pts

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Recto – A Truly 2D Language

Hacker News•masatohagiwara.net• August 12, 2025 •20 pts

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Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale

Hacker News•blog.opensecret.cloud• August 12, 2025 •68 pts

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BlackSuit ransomware crew loses servers, domains, and $1m in global shakedown

The Register•go.theregister.com• August 12, 2025

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Why are there so many rationalist cults?

Hacker News•asteriskmag.com• August 12, 2025 •105 pts

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Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot

Hacker News•jszym.com• August 12, 2025 •100 pts

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LANL Upgrades Proton Radiography System After 25 Years and 1000 Explosions

Hacker News•lanl.gov• August 12, 2025 •5 pts

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Charon Ransomware Emerges With APT-Style Tactics

Dark Reading•darkreading.com• August 12, 2025

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Curly COMrades cyberspies hit govt orgs with custom malware

BleepingComputer•bleepingcomputer.com• August 12, 2025

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Nexus: An Open-Source AI Router for Governance, Control and Observability

Hacker News•nexusrouter.com• August 12, 2025 •40 pts

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GitHub is (again) having issues

Hacker News•githubstatus.com• August 12, 2025 •260 pts

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