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The latest AI and developer news from Hacker News, with short summaries.
Visit website →Raised $17M to Build What Comes After Git
GitButler raised a $17M Series A and laid out its vision for what comes after Git.
Apple's new iPhone update is restricting internet freedom in the UK
Age verification and default filters have been switched on for UK iPhones, sparking controversy.
Kagi Product Tips – Automatically Change Search Results to Your Desired URL with URL Redirects
Kagi's URL Redirects automatically substitute search result links.
Is Microsoft Using Dark Patterns to Push Users Toward Storage Payments
Windows' default OneDrive integration caused email errors and data loss.
Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll (and static site generators in general)
A case study of migrating a site from WordPress to Jekyll while shifting to AI and self-built tools.
Charcuterie – A Visual Similarity Unicode Explorer
A browser tool for exploring Unicode glyphs by visual similarity.
Reverse-Engineering Gemini's SynthID Watermark Detection
A project implemented detection and circumvention of the Gemini SynthID watermark using spectral analysis.
picoZ80 - A Z80 Drop-in Replacement
Introducing a replacement board that plugs into a Z80 socket, built with RP2350B and ESP32.
Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps
Instant has released an open source backend 1.0 for AI-coded apps.
Turn Old Laptops into Low-Cost Servers via Colo
A colocation service that lets you send in your old laptop to run as a data center server for €7/month.
Unfolder for Mac – 3D model unfolding tool for papercraft
A Mac app that unfolds 3D models into 2D patterns for papercraft in seconds.
Show HN: I made a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++
A lightweight build tool that manages C/C++ projects and dependencies with craft.toml.
How NASA Built the Fault-Tolerant Computer for Artemis II
Artemis II withstands cosmic radiation through 8-way redundancy and a fail-silent design.
Launch HN: Relvy (YC F24) - On-call runbooks, automated
Relvy has AI execute runbooks to automate on-call response.
WebGPU Implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent
An AVBD-based rigid-body/soft-body physics prototype was implemented with WebGPU.
Harness Engineering: Leveraging Codex in the Agent-First Era
An experiment built roughly a million lines of software using only the Codex agent, without a human writing code directly.
SWE-bench Verified No Longer Measures Frontier Coding Capability
OpenAI pointed out contamination and test flaws in SWE-bench Verified and recommended discontinuing it.
Show HN: Hippo, Biologically Inspired Memory for AI Agents
It's a biologically inspired memory layer tool that shares and manages context between AI agents.
Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for coding agents
Freestyle, a high-performance sandbox infrastructure supporting large-scale execution of coding agents, has launched.
Issue: Claude Code Unusable for Complex Engineering Tasks Since February Update
An analysis reports that Claude Code's thinking-token redaction measure causes quality degradation in complex engineering tasks.