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TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale

TorchTPU: Running PyTorch Natively on TPUs at Google Scale

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The challenges of building for modern AI infrastructure have fundamentally shifted. The modern frontier of machine learning now requires leveraging distributed systems, spanning thousands of accelerators. As models scale to run on clusters of O(100,000) chips, the software that powers these models must meet new demands for performance, hardware portability, and reliability.At Google, our Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) are foundational to our supercomputing infrastructure. These custom ASICs power training and serving for both Googleโ€™s own AI platforms, like Gemini and Veo, and the massive…
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Southern District of New York | U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets

Southern District of New York | U.S. Soldier Charged With Using Classified Information To Profit From Prediction Market Bets

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, Acting Attorney General for the United States, Todd Blanche, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (โ€œFBIโ€), Kash Patel, and Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the FBI, James C. Barnacle, Jr., announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging GANNON KEN VAN DYKE, a U.S. Army Soldier, with unlawful use of confidential government information for personal gain, theft of nonpublic government information, commodities fraud, wire fraud, and…
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GitHub – refactoringhq/tolaria ยท GitHub

GitHub – refactoringhq/tolaria ยท GitHub

โœจ Read this insightful post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Tolaria is a desktop app for Mac for managing markdown knowledge bases. People use it for a variety of use cases: Operate second brains and personal knowledge Organize company docs as context for AI Store OpenClaw/assistants memory and procedures Personally, I use it to run my life (hey ๐Ÿ‘‹ Luca here). I have a massive workspace of 10,000+ notes, which are the result of my Refactoring work + a ton of personal journaling and second braining. You can find some Loom walkthroughs below โ€” they…
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Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys

Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: It took just a few months of President Donald Trumpโ€™s second term for Palantir employees to question their companyโ€™s commitments to civil liberties. Last fall, Palantir seemed to become the technological backbone of Trumpโ€™s immigration enforcement machinery, providing software identifying, tracking, and helping deport immigrants on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), when current and former employees started ringing the alarm.Around that time, two former employees reconnected by phone. Right as they picked up the call, one of them asked, โ€œAre you tracking…
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Using the internet like its 1999

Using the internet like its 1999

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Table of Contents If you only use social media and video hosting frontends - getting fed by algorithms and visiting the same 5 sites everyday on constant doomscroll, then the internet has never been alive for you. That experience is perhaps ~3-5% of what the internet could be. For the vast majority of people, yes - the internet is dying: living inside an algorithmically controlled echochamber that they will never get out of, they live and die by what they are โ€œsupposed to seeโ€. But,…
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Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8,000 employees, report says

Meta to cut 10% of jobs, or 8,000 employees, report says

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Meta is planning to cut 10% of its workforce, amounting to 8,000 employees, according to a report from Bloomberg. Meta also will not hire for 6,000 roles that are currently open. According to an internal memo sent to employees Thursday and viewed by Bloomberg, Meta told staff that the cuts will begin on May 20. Reuters had earlier reported on Metaโ€™s plans for sweeping layoffs. TechCrunch has reached out to Meta for comment. โ€œWeโ€™re doing this as part of our continued effort to run the…
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An update on recent Claude Code quality reports \ Anthropic

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports \ Anthropic

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Over the past month, weโ€™ve been looking into reports that Claudeโ€™s responses have worsened for some users. Weโ€™ve traced these reports to three separate changes that affected Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, and Claude Cowork. The API was not impacted.All three issues have now been resolved as of April 20 (v2.1.116).In this post, we explain what we found, what we fixed, and what weโ€™ll do differently to ensure similar issues are much less likely to happen again.We take reports about degradation very seriously. We…
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Meshcore.io – Why The Split?

Meshcore.io – Why The Split?

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Since inception, the MeshCore development team have been working hard to build MeshCore. Weโ€™ve released more than 85 versions of the MeshCore Companion, Repeater and Room Server firmwares with support for more than 75 hardware variants. All of this has been hand crafted, by humans. We have always been wary of AI generated code, but felt everyone is free to do what they want and experiment, etc. But, one of our own, Andy Kirby, decided to branch out and extensively use Claude Code, and…
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To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force

To Protect And Swerve: NYPD Cop Has 547 Speeding Tickets Yet Remains On The Force

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Is this public enemy #1? James Giovansanti lives and works on Staten Island. Since 2022, traffic cameras have caught his pickupย truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times in that one borough. He received 187 camera-issued tickets in 2025 alone โ€” an average of one every other day. That record makes James Giovansanti the second-most-reckless driver in the city. Because he pilots a 4,800-pound RAM 1500 truck at more than 41 mph across the island, he poses a unique danger…
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Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain …

Bitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain …

๐Ÿ’ฅ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Socket researchers discovered that the Bitwarden CLI was compromised as part of the ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign. The affected package version appears to be @bitwarden/cli2026.4.0, and the malicious code was published in bw1.js, a file included in the package contents. The attack appears to have leveraged a compromised GitHub Action in Bitwardenโ€™s CI/CD pipeline, consistent with the pattern seen across other affected repositories in this campaign.What we know so far:Bitwarden CLI builds were affectedThe compromise follows the same GitHub Actions supply chain vector…
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