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Open Source is one person

news.ycombinator.com Josh Bressers 2025-10-24 18:54:59

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re not real smrt, it seems like pointing out an open source project is written by one person in a country you don’t like is a bad thing. It could be. But it also could be the softwar

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AWS, Microsoft and Google unite behind Linux Foundation DocumentDB database to cut enterprise costs and limit vendor lock-in

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-10-27 10:02:04

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Document databases are an increasingly important type of technology in the gen AI era. A document database is a type of NoSQL database that doesn’t rely on rows and columns like a traditional relational database, instead it uses the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format. There are multiple vendors that develop document databases includi

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No, Grok 2.5 has not been open-sourced. Here's how you can tell

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-10-29 06:39:26

X / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Grok 2.5's license blocks true open-source use. Musk's "open source" claim amounts to open-washing. Other AI projects offer real open access and freedom. Companies love to exaggerate about open-sourcing AI. It plays well with people, naive developers get excited, and stock buyers invest more cash in their businesses. There's only one little problem: It's not true. First, Mark Zucke

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Make the Easy Change Hard

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 01:40:04

I'd say this is a setup for a joke later on in the blog post, except the joke doesn't even make sense, so I don't really know what this is. Generated by ChatGPT. There’s a semi-well-known adage in software development that says when you have a hard code change, you should “first make the hard change easy, and then make the easy change.” In other words, refactor the code (or do whatever else you need to do) to simplify the change you’re trying to make before trying to make the change. This is es

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Elon Musk says xAI has open sourced Grok 2.5

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-31 07:00:35

In Brief Elon Musk’s xAI has made an older version of its AI model Grok — specifically, the model weights used to shape Grok 2.5 — available on the open source platform Hugging Face. “The @xAI Grok 2.5 model, which was our best model last year, is now open source,” Musk wrote on X. He added that Grok 3 “will be made open source in about 6 months.” AI engineer Tim Kellogg described the Grok license as “custom with some anti-competitive terms.” Grok, which is prominently featured on X (which i

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You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-31 19:47:35

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming Grok 3. For now, anyone can download, run and even tweak Grok, whose source code was uploaded to the Hugging Face platform. However, there are restrictions to xAI's open-source license, which doesn't let people use Grok to train, create or improve other AI models. It's not the first time xAI has made its mo

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OpenCUA’s open source computer-use agents rival proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-10-31 18:25:35

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A new framework from researchers at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and collaborating institutions provides an open source foundation for creating robust AI agents that can operate computers. The framework, called OpenCUA, includes the tools, data, and recipes for scaling the development of computer-use agents (CUAs). Models trained usin

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You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB

news.ycombinator.com Chris Penner 2025-10-31 20:04:00

This one will be quick. Imagine this, you get a report from your bug tracker: Sophie got an error when viewing the diff after her most recent push to her contribution to the @unison/cloud project on Unison Share (BTW, contributions are like pull requests, but for Unison code) Okay, this is great, we have something to start with, let's go look up that contribution and see if any of the data there is suspicious. Uhhh, okay, I know the error is related to one of Sophie's contributions, but how

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Scientists Say They've Figured Out a Way to Turn Nuclear Waste Into a Powerful Fuel

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-07 02:07:16

Scientists say they've developed a way to salvage nuclear waste from fission reactors — and turn it into a potent fuel for fusion reactors instead. As Gizmodo reports, it's an exciting prospect that could give fusion — which has remained elusive despite decades of research, though many scientists believe it could mature into a viable grid-scale power source — a chance of one day becoming a viable source of clean and safe energy. Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been scour

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10 open-source apps I recommend every Windows user download - for free

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2025-11-10 06:09:56

LibreOffice / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways If Windows is your OS of choice, consider these open-source apps. There are tons of open-source apps for just about any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. I've been using open-source software for a very long time. In fact, the last time I didn't use open-source software, Bill Clinton was president o

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Take Control of Your Google Search Results by Choosing the Sources You Want to See

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-11 09:11:02

Facing criticism for degraded search results and angst from users wanting to avoid AI Overviews, Google has announced a new search feature that lets you choose the sites you want to see in your news and search results. Google said in a recent blog post that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India this month. The new feature can be accessed through a plus icon to the right of Top Stories panels or a direct link to your preferences. "Once you select your sources, they will appear mo

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TensorZero nabs $7.3M seed to solve the messy world of enterprise LLM development

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-12 11:13:32

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now TensorZero, a startup building open-source infrastructure for large language model applications, announced Monday it has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by FirstMark, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Bedrock, DRW, Coalition, and dozens of strategic angel investors. The funding comes as the 18-month-old company exp

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MCP tools with dependent types

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 18:02:31

August 17, 2025 MCP tools with dependent types This summer, I’ve been playing a bit with writing an MCP server for Defold editor. The idea was to give Claude access to evaluating Lua code in the editor scripting context, so it can use the APIs available for querying and modifying game content. The best word to describe the experience is entertaining — it has a very vague idea of the available APIs, and prefers to experiment by evaluating code instead of browsing documentation, which results in

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MCP Tools and Dependent Types

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 06:02:31

August 17, 2025 MCP tools with dependent types This summer, I’ve been playing a bit with writing an MCP server for Defold editor. The idea was to give Claude access to evaluating Lua code in the editor scripting context, so it can use the APIs available for querying and modifying game content. The best word to describe the experience is entertaining — it has a very vague idea of the available APIs, and prefers to experiment by evaluating code instead of browsing documentation, which results in

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That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-11-16 11:24:49

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now A comprehensive new study has revealed that open-source artificial intelligence models consume significantly more computing resources than their closed-source competitors when performing identical tasks, potentially undermining their cost advantages and reshaping how enterprises evaluate AI deployment strategies. The research, conducted by

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Google Wants You to Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-18 04:12:50

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have been degraded or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post this week that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days, along with a plus icon to the right of Top Stories in searches. Clicking on that plus symbol allows you to add blogs or news outlets. There doesn't appear to be a limit o

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Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Dries Buytaert 2025-11-19 03:24:17

To protect the digital foundation of essential government services, governments should invest in Open Source as public infrastructure and shift from consumption to contribution. Fifteen years ago, I laid out a theory about the future of Open Source. In The Commercialization of a Volunteer-Driven Open Source Project, I argued that if Open Source was going to thrive, people had to get paid to work on it. At the time, the idea was controversial. Many feared money would corrupt the spirit of volunt

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Google Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-20 18:55:00

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have degraded, or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days and it's added a plus icon to the right of Top Stories in searches. Clicking on that plus symbol allows you to add blogs or news outlets. There doesn't appear to be a limit on how many sourc

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What to Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life

news.ycombinator.com Bill Doerrfeld 2025-11-17 22:02:57

Ninety-eight percent of organizations use open source software (OSS) regularly, according to the Linux Foundation. Open source is pervasive. It’s embedded into the fabric of most applications we use in our daily lives. But it’s getting harder to keep up the pace of OSS version deprecations and end-of-life (EOL) cycles. “The life cycle for open source versions is definitely shortening,” Aaron Frost, co-founder and CEO at HeroDevs, which offers long-term support for deprecated open source, told T

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If you’re tired of bad Google Search results, here’s how I finally fixed mine

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-21 11:00:44

Joe Maring / Android Authority When we talk about Google Search in 2025, it’s usually not for a good reason. AI Overviews are more prevalent than ever, despite still not being particularly good. Google widely rolled out (the very flawed) AI Mode to users in May, and the traditional Google Search experience remains cluttered with ads and low-quality results. This has made me (understandably) hesitant when Google launches a new feature for Search, but the company’s latest one — Preferred Sources

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I tested Preferred Sources, and it’s one of the best Google Search features in years

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-21 23:00:44

Joe Maring / Android Authority When we talk about Google Search in 2025, it’s usually not for a good reason. AI Overviews are more prevalent than ever, despite still not being particularly good. Google widely rolled out (the very flawed) AI Mode to users in May, and the traditional Google Search experience remains cluttered with ads and low-quality results. This has made me (understandably) hesitant when Google launches a new feature for Search, but the company’s latest one — Preferred Sources

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Now That Google Is Trash, It Will Let You Pick Your Own News Sources

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-11-22 14:25:04

Google seems to have destroyed the quality of its search results (and its reputation) by loading its feed with sponsored results, pages boosted by SEO black magic, and AI-generated slop. So it’s putting the control back in your hands, for better or worse. The company announced today via blog post a new feature called Preferred Sources that will let users select their own favorite news outlets to appear at the top of their personalized search feed. According to Google, the feature has already st

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Want more Android Authority? How to set us as your preferred source in Google Search

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 20:00:44

Robert Triggs / Android Authority Since 2007, Android Authority has strived to bring all of our readers the very best coverage of Android and the mobile tech world. And even after 18+ years as a proudly independent media outlet, we’re as driven as we’ve ever been to bring you all the latest exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, hands-on reviews, experience-based features, lab testing, and other expert analysis. Of course, how we’ve been able to get that coverage to you has changed in countl

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Preferred Sources wants to fix your Google Search results — here’s how to set it up

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-23 20:00:52

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR After introducing the feature in Labs in June, Google is now rolling out “Preferred Sources” in the US and India. With this feature, users can select trusted websites that will appear more prominently in Top Stories. Users can easily manage and update their source preferences anytime. Users have long been complaining about the dropping quality of Google Search results, thanks to a deadly cocktail of low-quality spam sites, a lot of sponsored content

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Google lets you pick preferred sources when you search

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-23 20:00:12

Google is officially rolling out Preferred Sources, which lets you curate search results. The feature allows you to pick specific or "preferred" sources, like a certain blog or news outlet, and see them more prominently when you use Google Search. Google started testing it in June and it should be available in the coming days to English language users in the US and India. Preferred Sources seems pretty simple to use. You go to Google, search for a topic and then click on the preferred sources o

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Google is adding a new way to personalize the news you see

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-23 20:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google is making it easier to see news from your favorite outlets. A new feature, called “preferred sources,” will let you choose the outlets you want to see featured the most in Search’s “top stories” section. Google’s top stories hub appears when you search f

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Google will now let you pick your top sources for search results

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-11-23 20:00:00

Google is rolling out a new feature called “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, which allows users to select their preferred choice of news sites and blogs to be shown in the Top Stories section of Google’s search results. Enabling this feature means you will see more content from the sites you like, the company says. When users search for a particular topic, they will see a “star” icon next to the Top Stories section. They can tap on that icon and start adding sources by searching for th

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Truth Social’s New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump’s Media Diet Incarnate

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-11-27 09:20:48

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

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Truth Social's New AI Chatbot Is Donald Trump's Media Diet Incarnate

wired.com Guthrie Scrimgeour 2025-11-27 15:20:48

When I ask the new Truth Social AI chatbot about navigating bias in the media ecosystem, it gives what I view as pretty reasonable advice. “Diversify your sources,” it responds. “Rely on news outlets across the political spectrum, including those from both left-leaning and right-leaning perspectives.” This is advice that the AI itself may not be taking to heart. For instance, to come to the above answer it cites five sources, four of which are Fox News articles. The fifth, inexplicably, is a 4

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OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-30 17:59:46

OpenAI just released its first ever open-source large language models, called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. You can talk to them here. Are they good models? Well, that depends on what you’re looking for. They’re great at some benchmarks, of course (OpenAI would never have released them otherwise) but weirdly bad at others, like SimpleQA. Some people really like them. Others on Twitter really don’t. From what I can tell, they’re technically competent but lack a lot of out-of-domain knowledge: fo

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Open Source is one person

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That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget

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Funding Open Source like public infrastructure

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OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5

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