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Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-03 12:24:40

cascache Provider-agnostic CAS like (Compare-And-Set or generation-guarded conditional set) cache with pluggable codecs and a pluggable generation store. Safe single-key reads (no stale values), optional bulk caching with read-side validation, and an opt‑in distributed mode for multi-replica deployments. Contents Overview CAS safety: Writers snapshot a per-key generation before the DB read. Cache writes commit only if the generation is unchanged. Writers snapshot a per-key before the DB rea

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Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that

venturebeat.com Sylvain Kalache 2025-11-04 10:15:00

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 Software developers spend most of their time not writing code; recent industry research found that actual coding accounts for as little as 16% of developers’ working hours, with the rest consumed by operational and supportive tasks. As engineering teams are pressured to “do more with less” and CEOs are bragging about how much of their codeb

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How to Fix Your Context

news.ycombinator.com Drew Breunig 2025-11-04 08:09:53

Mitigating & Avoiding Context Failures Following up on our earlier post, “How Long Contexts Fail”, let’s run through the ways we can mitigate or avoid these failures entirely. But before we do, let’s briefly recap some of the ways long contexts can fail: Context Poisoning: When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. When a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced. Context Distraction: When

Topics: agent context information tool tools

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My tips for using LLM agents to create software

news.ycombinator.com Some Random Dude On The Internet 2025-11-04 06:59:02

This post details my experiences creating software with LLM coding agents, emphasizing that what you do with AI agents is ‘creation’, not just 'coding,' and sharing what worked for me. This is not 'The One True Path To AI Success.' tl;dr: I’m not a professional developer, just a hobbyist with aspirations I wanted to accomplish a coding project beyond my skill level and have been experimenting with agentic coding tools for several months (spoiler: mostly success) You should use Anthropic’

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Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 05:50:13

TOKYO - Nearly 70 percent of popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems for items and services to avoid hefty commission fees from U.S. tech giants Google LLC and Apple Inc., a Kyodo News tally showed. The move comes ahead of a new Japanese law tightening regulations on Google and Apple, which dominate smartphone platforms, set to take full effect in December. The legislation requires the two companies to open their payment systems. Almost all users currently do

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Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-04 00:48:29

We’ve written about how to prevent logging sensitive information when making network requests, but that approach only works if you’re dealing with parameters. What happens when you’re dealing with free text? Filtering the entire string may not be an option if an external API needs to process the value. Think chatbots or LLMs. You could use a regex to filter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers or emails), but that won’t capture everything, since not all sensitive information can

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Got a scary T-Mobile text about your account? Here’s what it really means

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-05 15:33:02

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR T-Mobile sent a text about “Authorized Users” that some customers mistook as a fraud warning. It was confirmed to be a mass informational campaign, not an unauthorized purchase attempt. It’s not the first eyebrow-raising SMS from the carrier this month. If you’re on T-Mobile, you might be starting to get a bit concerned about the carrier’s comms strategy. Following a security-related text from the carrier earlier this month that looked scammy but was real

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What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents?

news.ycombinator.com Terence Eden 2025-11-06 15:49:08

Let's say that you've visited a website and want to share it with your friends. At the bottom of the article is a list of popular sharing destinations - Facebook, BlueSky, LinkedIn, Telegram, Reddit, HackerNews etc. You click the relevant icon and get taken to the site with the sharing details pre-filled. The problem is, every different site has a different intent for sharing links and text. For example: https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=…&t=… https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsi

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The latest Kindle update is a good step toward accessibility

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-06 23:30:09

Kaitlyn Cimino / Android Authority TL;DR Kindle update 5.18.4.01 reintroduces Assistive Reader with synced text-to-speech. The update is currently available for 11th and 12th-gen Kindles, Kindle Colorsoft, and Kindle Scribe. Recent updates include a large font option and improved menu design. Amazon rolled out firmware version 5.18.4.0.1 for its 11th and 12th‑generation Kindle e‑readers, along with the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe, bringing a welcome boost in accessibility and a few in

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Finally, I found a lightweight multitool that doesn't sacrifice function for form (and it's just $30)

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-11-07 04:45:18

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET I admit it: I'm addicted to multitools. My daily carry for the past year or so has been the Gerber Dual Force, which has the most powerful pliers and best screwdriver on a multitool I've used. But the Dual Force is big and heavy, and not suited for lightweight applications like hiking. Also: 10 tiny tools I carry with me everywhere - how they work I have some hikes on the horizon where I'll want a flexible multitool that can handle things like bottle opening, tigh

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Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

wired.com Will Knight 2025-11-11 02:00:00

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same? Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that. Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compu

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The best VPN extensions for Chrome in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

zdnet.com Charlie Osborne 2025-11-12 15:40:22

Virtual private networks (VPNs) are excellent tools to mask your activities online, change your location, prevent eavesdropping, and avoid age verification checks. Many VPN providers also offer their subscribers browser-based solutions, typically in the form of browser extensions. These might be the best option if you just want to quickly mask your IP address during an online session. An estimated 68% of internet users favor Chrome as their browser, beating rivals including Safari, Edge, and Fi

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Fast and observable background job processing for .NET

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 05:11:16

BusyBee 🐝💨 Fast and observable background job processing for .NET BusyBee is a high-performance .NET background processing library built on native channels. It provides a simple, configurable, and observable solution for handling background tasks with built-in OpenTelemetry support and flexible queue management. Installation dotnet add package BusyBee Quick Start Register BusyBee in your DI container and start processing background jobs: // Program.cs builder . Services . AddBusyBee ( ) ;

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Intel Foundry Demonstrates First Arm-Based Chip on 18A Node

news.ycombinator.com Zak Killian 2025-11-10 15:31:18

Images in this post: Intel, via TechPowerUp! Intel Foundry needs external customers, as the company claims that if it doesn't find more, it may have to "pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes." That could explain why the company posted a video today on its YouTube channel showing off "Deer Creek Falls", a new "reference SoC" fabricated on its 18A process.The video has since been removed, which is why we're crediting TechPowerUp on the screenshots, but it clearly sho

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Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 17:03:03

I have recently installed this extension on FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/port-authorit... and yesterday I visited this website: https://ceac.state.gov/genniv/ and I got a notification that the website tried to do a port-scan of my private network. Is this a common thing? I have just recently installed the extension, so I am not sure if there are a lot of other websites who do it. Since looking into it, I noticed that uBlock Origin already has the default list "Block Outsi

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How to Think About GPUs

news.ycombinator.com For Attribution In Academic Contexts 2025-11-10 22:18:36

We love TPUs at Google, but GPUs are great too. This chapter takes a deep dive into the world of NVIDIA GPUs – how each chip works, how they’re networked together, and what that means for LLMs, especially compared to TPUs. This section builds on Chapter 2 and Chapter 5 , so you are encouraged to read them first. What Is a GPU? A modern ML GPU (e.g. H100, B200) is basically a bunch of compute cores that specialize in matrix multiplication (called Streaming Multiprocessors or SMs) connected to a

Topics: bandwidth gpu gpus node text

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How to Scale Your Model: How to Think About GPUs

news.ycombinator.com For Attribution In Academic Contexts 2025-11-12 14:17:38

We love TPUs at Google, but GPUs are great too. This chapter takes a deep dive into the world of NVIDIA GPUs – how each chip works, how they’re networked together, and what that means for LLMs, especially compared to TPUs. This section builds on Chapter 2 and Chapter 5 , so you are encouraged to read them first. What Is a GPU? A modern ML GPU (e.g. H100, B200) is basically a bunch of compute cores that specialize in matrix multiplication (called Streaming Multiprocessors or SMs) connected to a

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Qwen-Image Edit gives Photoshop a run for its money with AI-powered text-to-image edits that work in seconds

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-11-13 05:27:37

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 Adobe Photoshop is among the most recognizable pieces of software ever created, used by more than 90% of the world’s creative professionals, according to Photutorial. So the fact that a new open source AI model — Qwen-Image Edit, released yesterday by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s Qwen Team of AI researchers — is now able to accomplis

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CRDT: Text Buffer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 04:38:45

← Back to the algorithm list Published on May 19th, 2024 Collaboratively editing strings of text is a common desire in peer-to-peer applications. For example, a note-taking app might represent each document as a single collaboratively-edited string of text. The algorithm presented here is one way to do this. It comes from a family of algorithms called CRDTs, which I will not describe here. It's similar to the approaches taken by popular collaborative text editing libraries such as Yjs and Auto

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D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 21:14:41

In the latest release of D2 (0.7.1), we introduce ASCII outputs. Any output file with extension txt will use the ASCII renderer to write to it. Here is an example of their rendering from the D2 Vim extension. The user opens a .d2 file and opens a preview window, which updates upon every save. Perhaps the most useful place for ASCII diagrams is in the source code comments. Small simple diagrams next to functions or classes can serve to be much clearer than describing a flow. Here again the Vi

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ChatGPT now has a subscription plan that costs less than $5/month

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-14 10:12:21

OpenAI has launched the cheapest ChatGPT subscription plan ever. The new plan, called ChatGPT Go , costs less than $5 per month, but the catch is that it’s not available everywhere and has only just launched in India. ChatGPT Go aims to expand the chatbot’s most popular features and make them available at more affordable prices. Not only does the subscription include everything you get with the free version of ChatGPT, it also brings the following additions: Extended access to GPT-5 Extended

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This $200 Android phone with a paper-like display made my Pixel look overbearing

zdnet.com Jason Howell 2025-11-14 16:25:28

TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G ZDNET's key takeaways TCL's 60 XE Nxtpaper 5G is on sale on Amazon for $222. It has a unique display, and a feature set that promotes minimalism and digital well-being. I just wish the camera system and general performance were better. $249.99 at Amazon Being glued to your smartphone's screen all day can do a number on your eyes, and I definitely can feel it. TCL's Nxtpaper technology offers a paper-like screen that's made for tired eyes like mine. The TCL 60 XE Nxtpaper

Topics: camera like mode nxtpaper tcl

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Left to Right Programming

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 09:08:36

2025-08-17 Left to Right Programming Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed I don’t like Python’s list comprehensions: text = "apple banana cherry dog emu fox" words_on_lines = [ line . split ( ) for line in text . splitlines ( ) ] Don’t get me wrong, declarative programming is good. However, this syntax has poor ergonomics. Your editor can’t help you out as you write it. To see what I mean, lets walk through typing this code. words_on_lines = [ l Ideally, your editor would be to aut

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Left to Right Programming: Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 21:08:36

2025-08-17 Left to Right Programming Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed I don’t like Python’s list comprehensions: text = "apple banana cherry dog emu fox" words_on_lines = [ line . split ( ) for line in text . splitlines ( ) ] Don’t get me wrong, declarative programming is good. However, this syntax has poor ergonomics. Your editor can’t help you out as you write it. To see what I mean, lets walk through typing this code. words_on_lines = [ l Ideally, your editor would be to aut

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Robots.txt Is a Suicide Note (2011)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 21:20:56

ROBOTS.TXT IS A SUICIDE NOTE ROBOTS.TXT is a stupid, silly idea in the modern era. Archive Team entirely ignores it and with precisely one exception, everyone else should too. If you do not know what ROBOTS.TXT is and you run a site... excellent. If you do know what it is and you have one, delete it. Regardless, Archive Team will ignore it and we'll delete your complaints, just like you should be deleting ROBOTS.TXT. For the unfamiliar, ROBOTS.TXT is a machine-readable textfile that sits on w

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Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-17 06:39:42

A recent ruling from Germany’s Federal Supreme Court (BGH) has revived a legal battle over whether browser-based ad blockers infringe copyright, raising fears about a potential ban of the tools in the country. The case stems from online media company Axel Springer’s lawsuit against Eyeo - the maker of the popular Adblock Plus browser extension. Axel Springer says that ad blockers threaten its revenue generation model and frames website execution inside web browsers as a copyright violation. T

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You can delete sent text messages on Android now - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-11-17 06:04:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. Android users finally have an undo option. A long-awaited feature that lets you delete a sent text message is widely rolling out to most Android devices --

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The tablet that made me ditch my Kindle and iPad now has a worthy follow-up

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-11-18 04:15:16

TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus ZDNET's key takeaways The TCL Nxtpaper 11 Plus is available for $249. This tablet can switch from full color to an E Ink-like display with the press of a button, it has 256GB of storage, and an eye-catching matte display with 120Hz refresh rate. The Nxtpaper 11 Plus can get heavy when you use it one-handed and doesn't include a case or stylus, though you can buy them separately. $249 at Walmart Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on

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Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 23:08:45

Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator The Walkie-Textie is a simple handheld device with a 12-key keypad and OLED display that allows you to send and receive text messages using the LoRa wireless protocol. It's ideal for situations where there's no mobile signal, such as when you're camping or hiking in a remote area, when you don't want the cost of a mobile network, or for children to have fun without running up a bill: The Walkie-Textie is a handheld device that allows you to send text message

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Fun with Finite State Transducers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-14 02:30:12

ENOSUCHBLOG Programming, philosophy, pedaling. Aug 14, 2025 Tags: devblog, programming, rust, zizmor I recently solved an interesting problem inside zizmor with a type of state machine/automaton I hadn’t used before: a finite state transducer (FST). This is just a quick write-up of the problem and how I solved it. It doesn’t go particularly deep into the data structures themselves. For more information on FSTs themselves, I strongly recommend burntsushi’s article on transducers (which is wha

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Latest Tech News

Show HN: CasCache – multi-generational cache with optimistic concurrency control

Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that

How to Fix Your Context

My tips for using LLM agents to create software

Popular Japanese smartphone games have introduced external payment systems

Top Secret: Automatically filter sensitive information

Got a scary T-Mobile text about your account? Here’s what it really means

What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents?

The latest Kindle update is a good step toward accessibility

Finally, I found a lightweight multitool that doesn't sacrifice function for form (and it's just $30)

Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

The best VPN extensions for Chrome in 2025: Expert tested and reviewed

Fast and observable background job processing for .NET

Intel Foundry Demonstrates First Arm-Based Chip on 18A Node

Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?

How to Think About GPUs

How to Scale Your Model: How to Think About GPUs

Qwen-Image Edit gives Photoshop a run for its money with AI-powered text-to-image edits that work in seconds

CRDT: Text Buffer

D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders

ChatGPT now has a subscription plan that costs less than $5/month

This $200 Android phone with a paper-like display made my Pixel look overbearing

Left to Right Programming

Left to Right Programming: Programs Should Be Valid as They Are Typed

Robots.txt Is a Suicide Note (2011)

Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

You can delete sent text messages on Android now - here's how

The tablet that made me ditch my Kindle and iPad now has a worthy follow-up

Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator

Fun with Finite State Transducers

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