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An open-weights Chinese model just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a programming challenge

An open-weights Chinese model just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a programming challenge

💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: By Rohana Rezel I’m running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major language models against each other in real-time programming tasks with objective scoring. Day 12 was the Word Gem Puzzle. Ten models entered. The results were not what most people would have predicted. Kimi K2.6, an open-weights model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI, won the challenge outright: 22 match points, 7-1-0. MiMo V2-Pro from Xiaomi came second. GPT-5.5 was third. Claude Opus 4.7 finished fifth. Every model from the Western frontier labs…
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Former Congressman David Rivera has been convicted in a case related to secret lobbying in Venezuela

Former Congressman David Rivera has been convicted in a case related to secret lobbying in Venezuela

🚀 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: David Rivera,florida,lobbying,lobbyists,marco rubio,venezuela 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: MIAMI (AP) — A former Miami congressman and longtime friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was convicted Friday in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on behalf of Venezuela during Trump's first administration. The jury found Republican David Rivera and his assistant guilty of all charges, including failure to register as a foreign agent with the Department of Justice and conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of their work for the government of former…
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Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community – Makefile.feld

Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community – Makefile.feld

✨ Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Open source software has existed long before the invention of the (D)VCS. The author likely hosted a barebones HTML webpage or a txt file describing the project. There definitely was an FTP server somewhere with tarballs. The author may have been reachable by email. If you were really lucky, there was a mailing list you could sign up for to receive announcements and maybe discuss the software with other interested parties. There might have been an unofficial IRC channel someone created under the name of…
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WATCH: Suspect in reporters’ dinner shooting is seen running through security in surveillance footage

WATCH: Suspect in reporters’ dinner shooting is seen running through security in surveillance footage

🚀 Check out this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Cole Tomas Allen,Donald Trump news,Jeanine Pirro,Secret service,White House Correspondents' Association,White House Correspondents' Dinner ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors released a video Thursday showing the moment authorities say a man armed with guns and knives tried to storm the White House Correspondents' Association dinner and try to kill President Donald Trump. Watch a clip of the footage in the video player above. Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for Washington, posted the video on social media amid questions about whose bullet struck the Secret…
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Delivery robots are creating more problems than they solve

Delivery robots are creating more problems than they solve

🔥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When I was a child, I watched “The Jetsons” and “Lost in Space” and imagined my adult self living in a world of high-tech ease: flying cars, self-cleaning rooms, high-speed trains, personal jetpacks and wise-cracking robotic companions capable of solving any problem in a trice.Instead, I got Google (now with an irritating and frequently wrong AI feature), increased gridlock, Roombas, far too many passcodes/two-factor authenticator systems and a bunch of motorized ice chests cluttering up the sidewalks.The last of which were recently banned, mercifully if…
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Watch: Trump says he has raised customs duties on cars coming from the European Union to 25%

Watch: Trump says he has raised customs duties on cars coming from the European Union to 25%

🚀 Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: autos,Donald Trump news,European Union,tariffs,Ursula von der Leyen 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday he will increase tariffs on European Union cars and trucks next week to 25%, a move that could shake the global economy at a fragile moment. Watch Trump's full remarks to reporters in the video player above. Trump said in a social media post that the European Union "is not adhering to our fully agreed-upon trade agreement," though he did not clarify his objections in the post. Read…
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Waymo Drives Off With South Bay Man’s Luggage After Trunk Fails to Open

Waymo Drives Off With South Bay Man’s Luggage After Trunk Fails to Open

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A Sunnyvale man says the Waymo that took him to the airport neglected to open the trunk for him to retrieve his luggage before driving off. The company wants him to pay for shipping, or take two complimentary Waymo rides to the depot in SF to retrieve it.Di Jin said his first-ever Waymo ride to the San Jose Mineta Airport went pretty well Monday, until the car drove away with his luggage, as NBC Bay Area reports. Jin said when he exited the vehicle,…
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Trump says Congress deadline to approve Iran war doesn’t apply, claims hostilities are ‘over’

Trump says Congress deadline to approve Iran war doesn’t apply, claims hostilities are ‘over’

🚀 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Chuck Grassley,congress,Donald Trump news,Iran,iran attacks,iran war,Mike Johnson,war powers ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House assured Congress in a letter Friday that hostilities with Iran have “ended” despite the continued presence of U.S. armed forces in the region. President Donald Trump's letter effectively ignores the legal May 1 deadline for approval from members of Congress to continue the war with Iran. That deadline had already been set to pass without any action by Republican lawmakers who defer to the president. Read more: 4 Conclusions…
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A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Ian Duncan March 30, 2026 [Haskellers from the trenches] #Production #Mercury The editors of the Haskell Blog are happy to announce a new series of articles called "Haskellers from the trenches", where we invite experienced engineers to talk about their subjects of expertise, best practices, and production tales. Engineering rigour and artistic creativity are a fantastic combination, and this series aims to be the synthesis of these two aspects within the Haskell world. I first heard about Haskell when I was sixteen, sitting in a…
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Trump is “not satisfied” with Iran’s proposal to end the war

Trump is “not satisfied” with Iran’s proposal to end the war

💥 Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Abbas Araghchi,Donald Trump news,Iran,iran strikes,iran war ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ISLAMABAD (AP) — President Donald Trump rejected Iran's latest proposal to end the war between the two countries, saying Friday he was still not satisfied while blaming Iran's "divided" leadership. Trump backed away from the latest proposal almost as soon as it was delivered. Iran handed over its plan to mediators in Pakistan on Thursday evening, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported. Read more: Trump says Congress deadline to approve Iran war doesn't apply, claims…
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