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Real-SWE Benchmark — Specific Labs

🚀 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Today we are releasing Real-SWE, a benchmark that evaluates frontier AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases. Each task comes from a private production codebase that we licensed from a real-world company. These are problems their engineers work on, with all the context and complexity that comes with an existing product.Private codebases. Agents must navigate proprietary systems whose code and solutions aren’t available on the public internet.Work with business consequences. Getting billing right, calculating taxes, migrating customers. Changes that affect how a business runs, often…
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StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter

StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter

🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Blizzard originally tried to bring the StarCraft universe to the world of 3D shooters way back in 2002 with StarCraft: Ghost. It sat in development hell for years until Blizzard president Mike Morhaime confirmed that it had been canceled in 2014. Now Blizzard is giving it another go with the simply titled StarCraft. Dan Hay, a VP at Blizzard, took the stage at BlizzCon today to reveal that after more than a decade of lying dormant, StarCraft would be returning in 2030. But, rather than…
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OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman. Altman was interviewed recently by Fortune editor in chief Alyson Shontell; amidst the fallout from the OpenAI-HuggingFace hack, as well as broader discussions about AI safety, Shontell asked whether OpenAI still feels pressure to “move really fast” due to its IPO plans. “We’re not rushing into an IPO,” Altman said. “I actually think that given everything happening with safety, right now would be…
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CadQuery vs OpenSCAD for AI-generated functional parts

CadQuery vs OpenSCAD for AI-generated functional parts

🚀 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ModelRift generates OpenSCAD for every model on the platform. That choice is worth re-testing occasionally, so we ran a controlled comparison against the most credible alternative for code-first CAD: CadQuery, a Python library on top of the OpenCascade B-rep kernel. The question was narrow: which one can an AI agent drive to a correct, printable, functional part with nobody watching? How pleasant each is to write by hand did not come into it. Six agents, three tasks, two tools. Every resulting STL was then…
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An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights!

An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights!

🔥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Dear Dario, You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours. I believe you’re being sincere, so I’m asking you to call for a different law, one that would actually slow things down, even though it would require real sacrifice on your part. Any AI model a company offers to the public has to be released as open weights. This wouldn’t cover every…
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I made a build visualizer to understand Bun’s compile times

I made a build visualizer to understand Bun’s compile times

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep:Watch the buildprof demoSometimes, builds are slow because there is simply a lot of code to compile. But more often than not, there are fixable problems: poor parallelism, repeated work, dependency downloads or a huge compiler/linker invocation. buildprof makes all of this clearly visible, so you can see what’s worth investigating and optimizing.You…
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Microcode in Intel’s 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

Microcode in Intel’s 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

🔥 Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating-point systems were designed around hardware simplicity rather than mathematical rigor, leading to problems with numerical stability. This changed when Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point coprocessor chip in 1980, designed to be as accurate as possible, even in the corner cases. The 8087 became popular because it could be installed in the IBM PC, making floating-point operations up to 100 times faster in applications ranging from spreadsheets…
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Make Your First Edit to OpenStreetMap in the Next 15 Minutes

Make Your First Edit to OpenStreetMap in the Next 15 Minutes

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Intro This quick tutorial will help you make a meaningful contribution to OpenStreetMap (OSM) in less than 15 minutes. By the end, you will have added an official website tag to a nearby shop or amenity. Soon after, your contribution will be ingested into dozens of free OSM-based services, helping people worldwide. Why a website tag? Once a place in OSM has a website tag, it becomes way easier to determine other helpful info about that place. Nearly every place’s official website has info about…
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Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

🔥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?19 points by stikit 50 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 27 commentsI use claude for most of what I do, and Fable is largely overkill for me and frequently burns through my Max plan's session credits in minutes (!) when just doing an initial mobile app planning with 4 agents. After I waited out the timeout period 6 hours later, and I picked up again, the cache had timed out so it…
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Juveniles riding in Waymo arrested after police find a ‘ghost gun’

Juveniles riding in Waymo arrested after police find a ‘ghost gun’

✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Two young people riding in an autonomous vehicle were arrested in San Francisco after authorities allegedly found them in possession of an illegal “ghost gun.”San Francisco Police Department did not identify the operator of the autonomous vehicle, but a Waymo spokesperson confirmed to The Times that the incident involved one of its cars. The company pulled the car over after detecting a “violation of our terms of service involving a firearm,” the spokesperson said. The company alerted emergency services and “cooperated fully” with San…
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