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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Microsoft's July update fixes 570 security holes, triple its usual count Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
krebsonsecurity.com
Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws
Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant ...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Rad puts OLTP data on durable object storage, with one toolchain from schema to app. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
radengine.dev
Rad - rethink your relationship with rows
The relational database, redesigned. With one cohesive toolchain. From schema to application.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Dependabot adds a 3-day update cooldown. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
github.blog
Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown - GitHub Changelog
Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the…
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A tool that catches silent CPU fallback and mislabeled bits-per-weight in local LLM quants Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
github.com
GitHub - logxio/picchio: Catches silent CPU fallback and mislabeled tok/s in local LLMs. llama.cpp and ollama, one file, no deps.
Catches silent CPU fallback and mislabeled tok/s in local LLMs. llama.cpp and ollama, one file, no deps. - logxio/picchio
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A paper showing capacitive touchscreens leak enough EM signal to remotely reconstruct someone's handwriting, no physical access needed. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
arxiv.org
Capacitive Touchscreens at Risk: Recovering Handwritten Trajectory on Smartphone via Electromagnetic Emanations
This paper reveals and exploits a critical security vulnerability: the electromagnetic (EM) side channel of capacitive touchscreens leaks sufficient information to recover fine-grained, continuous han...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Weco AI had an agent rewrite itself for 100 steps, beating 2yr of tuning. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
weco.ai
AIDE²: First Evidence of Recursive Self-Improvement | Weco AI
We ran autoresearch on autoresearch: an outer loop rewriting its own research agent for 100 unattended steps. In eight days it discovered agents that beat our two years of hand-tuning on held-out benc...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A deep-dive on packing base-3 (ternary) values into 8-bit bytes, with SIMD-friendly unpacking for low-bit quantization. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
compilade.net
How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes
Packing ternary numbers with efficient SIMD-friendly unpacking on binary computers
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Josh Comeau's tutorial on CSS Anchor Positioning, the new API for sticking tooltips to another element without JS. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
joshwcomeau.com
Getting Started with Anchor Positioning • Josh W. Comeau
For decades, one of the most notoriously-challenging problems on the web has been sticking one element to another element, for things like tooltips and nested menus. The CSSWG has decided to provide a...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Pebble's revival team shipped watchfaces, app-store improvements, and firmware fixes for the community-run OS. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
repebble.com
Pebble Mega Update - July 2026
Pebble Mega Update - July 2026
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Alex Edwards on patterns for pairing HTMX with a Go backend: partial rendering, OOB swaps, and plain templates. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
alexedwards.net
How I use HTMX with Go - Alex Edwards
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
PromptArmor found AI connectors change on average every 9 min. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
promptarmor.com
Claude and ChatGPT Connectors Change Every 9 Minutes
We tracked ChatGPT and Claude connectors for 6 weeks and found that a connector changes every nine minutes: gaining write access, widening its permissions, modifying its toolset, and more.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Mozilla AI: open models are ready for agentic use; their APIs aren't yet. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
blog.mozilla.ai
Open Models are ready for agents. Their APIs are not.
Open models have reached impressive levels of capability, but the surrounding platform often falls short. This blog explores the hidden infrastructure gaps developers face and why bridging them is ess...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A low-latency local LLM runner for Java built on OpenJDK's Panama FFM, aiming for zero-allocation native AI inference without JNI overhead. Find it on Show HN, ctrl-f "Panama FFM" news.ycombinator.com/show
github.com
GitHub - ProjectArgus-cc/libargus.cc: A unified, unmanaged multimodal runtime. Zero-allocation native AI inference for Java 22+.
A unified, unmanaged multimodal runtime. Zero-allocation native AI inference for Java 22+. - ProjectArgus-cc/libargus.cc
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Microsoft's sixth preview of .NET 11, with updates across the runtime, SDK, ASP.NET Core, MAUI, C#, and F#. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
devblogs.microsoft.com
.NET 11 Preview 6 is now available! - .NET Blog
Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 6 across runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, F#, and container images.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
An open-source, authenticated pull-through cache for Hugging Face model downloads, built with io_uring for high-throughput local caching. Find it on Show HN, ctrl-f "pull-through cache" news.ycombinator.com/show
github.com
GitHub - pulsys-io/pulsys: An open-source, authenticated pull-through cache for Hugging Face.
An open-source, authenticated pull-through cache for Hugging Face. - pulsys-io/pulsys
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Moonshine AI's speech and text-to-speech models now fit under 500kb, for embedded devices. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
github.com
moonshine/micro at main · moonshine-ai/moonshine
Very low latency speech to text, intent recognition, and text to speech, for building voice agents and interfaces - moonshine-ai/moonshine
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A cross-platform desktop IRCv3 client built for hackability, with scripting and a plugin system, for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Find it on Show HN, ctrl-f "hackable IRCv3 client" news.ycombinator.com/show
github.com
GitHub - matt0x6F/irc-client: A cross-platform desktop IRC client for the modern era complete with scripting and plugins
A cross-platform desktop IRC client for the modern era complete with scripting and plugins - matt0x6F/irc-client
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A new enzyme, CMLase, strips glycation crosslinks from proteins, reversing a hallmark of aging. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
nature.com
Reversal of protein chemical aging by enzymatic deglycation - Nature Communications
Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) in proteins, a hallmark of aging, are considered irreversible. Here, authors report the development of CMLase - an enzyme that specifically oxidizes Nε-carboxyme...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Pullrun is a container runtime that runs the same OCI image as a Linux container, a Firecracker microVM, or an Apple Silicon VM, using zero-copy DAG storage and P2P image sync instead of layer tarballs. Find it on Show HN, ctrl-f "Firecracker or Apple VM" news.ycombinator.com/show
github.com
GitHub - pullrun/pullrun: Next-gen container runtime with zero-copy DAG storage and P2P image sync. Run OCI images as Linux containers, Firecracker microVMs, or Apple Silicon VMs.
Next-gen container runtime with zero-copy DAG storage and P2P image sync. Run OCI images as Linux containers, Firecracker microVMs, or Apple Silicon VMs. - pullrun/pullrun
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Blender's newest Long Term Support release, with a refreshed Cycles renderer, faster grease pencil tools, and USD/glTF pipeline improvements. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
blender.org
5.2 LTS — Blender
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Atuin, the shell-history and terminal tool, has open-sourced the server behind its AI terminal agent for self-hosting. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
blog.atuin.sh
Open Sourcing the Atuin AI Server
Self host your own server for Atuin AI - the agent that lives in your terminal, and knows how you work
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A 1-bit quantized 27B-parameter language model built to run fully on-device on a phone. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
prismml.com
PrismML — Announcing Bonsai 27B: The First 27B-Class Model to Run on a Phone
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Atuin, the popular shell-history and terminal tool, is open-sourcing the server behind its AI agent so anyone can self-host it. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
blog.atuin.sh
Open Sourcing the Atuin AI Server
Self host your own server for Atuin AI - the agent that lives in your terminal, and knows how you work
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Blender ships its new long-term-support release, 5.2 LTS, the free and open-source 3D creation suite used across animation, VFX, and game dev. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
blender.org
5.2 LTS — Blender
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Patching NVIDIA's driver to reclaim reserved GPU memory. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
github.com
GitHub - lmganon16/nvidia-vram-research: Reducing reserved memory on NVIDIA GPUs
Reducing reserved memory on NVIDIA GPUs. Contribute to lmganon16/nvidia-vram-research development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
An unpatched Cursor vulnerability disclosed. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
mindgard.ai
Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left - Mindgard
The vulnerability nobody seems interested in fixing
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Lilian Weng traces recursive self-improvement to building agent harnesses that improve themselves. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
lilianweng.github.io
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and d...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Tensorlake made Firecracker snapshots cost changed bytes. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
tensorlake.ai
Firecracker disk snapshots in O(changed bytes), not O(disk size)
We added copy-on-write image layering inside Firecracker's block device, and the disk got faster, not slower. Snapshots pause the VM for tens of milliseconds and cost only what changed, so a running P...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A deep dive into all-gather, reduce-scatter, and all-to-all on TPU/GPU clusters Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
aleksagordic.com
Inside TPU and GPU Clusters: The Anatomy of Collective Communication - Aleksa Gordić
A deep dive into all-gather, reduce-scatter, all-reduce, and all-to-all communication on TPUs and GPUs.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
S&P downgrades Oracle Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
heise.de
S&P downgrades Oracle to BBB- – only one notch above junk level
S&P Global has downgraded Oracle's rating due to massive AI investments. The company is now only one notch away from the speculative territory.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A paper on recovering phone touchscreen taps via EM emanations, no invasive access. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
arxiv.org
Capacitive Touchscreens at Risk: A Practical Side-Channel Attack on Smartphones via Electromagnetic Emanations
Capacitive touchscreens in modern smartphones introduce severe side-channel vulnerabilities. However, existing attacks often require restrictive conditions or invasive measurements. This paper present...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Armin Ronacher on vibecoding and the risk it erodes the shared technical language engineers rely on. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
lucumr.pocoo.org
The Tower Keeps Rising
Vibecoding and the possible collapse of a shared language.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Hardware rig measures Linux input latency. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
marco-nett.de
Measuring input latency on Linux: X11 vs Wayland, VRR, and DXVK - Marco Nett
I built a device to measure end-to-end input latency, then used it to find out what actually moves the needle.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Google DeepMind's report on Gemma 4, a new generation of open-weight, natively multimodal models focused on compute efficiency and reasoning. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
arxiv.org
Gemma 4 Technical Report
We introduce Gemma 4, a new generation of open-weight, natively multimodal language models in the Gemma model family. Designed to advance compute efficiency and reasoning, the Gemma 4 model suite feat...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
JetBrains on the gap between benchmark scores and real engineering results. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
blog.jetbrains.com
The Benchmark Meaning Gap - The JetBrains Blog
Leaderboard scores don’t hold up when we look more closely at benchmarks that are considered standards. The models dramatically improved on the exact tasks we trained them on, yet those gains often di...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oodle AI is an observability platform built for AI-agent workloads (logs, traces, APM) pitched as a cheaper drop-in replacement for Datadog and Langfuse, priced per million agent traces. Find it on Show HN, ctrl-f "$10 per million" news.ycombinator.com/show
oodle.ai
Oodle AI - Debug like Cursor, Scale like S3
Observability for AI-Native teams. Logs, metrics, traces, APM and LLMOps — drop-in replacement for Datadog, Langfuse, and Grafana at 1/5th the cost.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A full 8086 PC, CPU and all, running in pure CSS: no JavaScript. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
css-dos.ahmedamer.co.uk
CSS-DOS
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A site that shows you only the opening line of a famous novel or story and asks you to name it, a clean little test of how well you actually know the classics. Find it on Show HN, ctrl-f "opening lines" news.ycombinator.com/show
verbaprima.com
Verba Prima
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A dataset shows frontier LLMs invent answers 11-44% on absent facts. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
huggingface.co
SovNodeAI/certified-document-qa · Datasets at Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
An essay on how outsourcing thinking to AI may be eroding our capacity to reason for ourselves. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
artfish.ai
Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?
Reflections on autonomy and the value of thinking for ourselves
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A lawsuit says Meta's AI layoff software flagged disabled and medically ill workers. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
reuters.com
Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims
Twenty-six former employees of Meta Platforms have filed a ​lawsuit against the tech company, accusing it ‌of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Anthropic has launched Claude for Teachers, a version of Claude tailored to lesson planning, grading, and other classroom work. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
anthropic.com
Introducing Claude for Teachers
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ArcadeDB certifies against every official Neo4j Bolt driver. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
arcadedb.com
Certified, Not Claimed: ArcadeDB's Bolt Compatibility With Every Official Neo4j Driver
ArcadeDB 26.7.2 ships full Bolt driver certification: 39 conformance scenarios run nightly against the Java, JavaScript, Python, .NET, and Go Neo4j drivers across 14 pinned versions, published as a li...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
An open-source emulator for Apple Silicon Mac firmware, built for reverse-engineering, not gaming. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
chefkiss.dev
Inferno
The first open-source modern Apple Silicon emulator.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New York becomes the first U.S. state to halt new large data centers, a one-year moratorium amid grid-strain concerns. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
reuters.com
New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium
New York became the first U.S. state on Tuesday to halt construction of large new data centers, imposing a ‌one-year moratorium as concerns grow that the facilities driving the artificial-intelligence...
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
OpenAI now requires hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members on ChatGPT. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
yubico.com
OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber members to log into ChatGPT accounts
OpenAI mandates hardware-backed passkeys for Trusted Access Cyber (TAC) members to log into ChatGPT accounts
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Juggler is an open-source GUI coding agent built by the creator of the JUCE audio framework, aiming to bring a native, IDE-like interface to AI-assisted coding. Find it on Show HN, ctrl-f "Juggler coding agent" news.ycombinator.com/show
github.com
GitHub - juggler-ai/juggler: The Juggler Code Agent
The Juggler Code Agent. Contribute to juggler-ai/juggler development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A Show HN for an API that renders real-time, low-latency AI avatars whose expressions shift live as the conversation unfolds, aimed at customer service, training, and sales use cases. Find it on Show HN, ctrl-f "real-time avatars" news.ycombinator.com/show
anam.ai
Anam - Real-Time Interactive AI Avatars API
Build real-time interactive AI avatars with Anam's API. Low-latency conversational video AI for customer service, training, and sales.
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Martin Fowler on how growing software abstractions changes when LLMs help with design and implementation. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
martinfowler.com
Conversation: LLMs and Building Abstractions
How should we work with LLMs when growing abstractions?
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Best of HN @bestofhn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
ClickHouse's engineering blog argues for pairing Postgres with ClickHouse as the stack for AI-era workloads. Submit to upvote on HN news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=h…
clickhouse.com
AI needs the best-of-breed data stack: Postgres and ClickHouse | ClickHouse
AI applications are driving explosive data growth and collapsing the line between transactional and analytical workloads, making the best-of-breed combination of Postgres and ClickHouse — increasingly...
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