Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B(businessinsider.com)
1918 points by mfiguiere | 888 comments
Business Insider exclusive reporting that Nvidia has been in talks to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for more than $13 billion.
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Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache(blog.cloudflare.com)
857 points by TangerineDream | 250 comments
Cloudflare blog deep dive on how optimizing the 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver's cache data structures saved 100 terabytes of memory.
CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO(github.com)
852 points by GrumpySciGuy | 585 comments
GitHub repository for OpenExecutive, an open source AI virtual executive team built from 8 specialist Claude agents using FastAPI and Next.js.
Small Models Have Arrived(calv.info)
741 points by tosh | 322 comments
Blog post by Calvin French-Owen arguing small models have arrived, describing his experience with the fast, cheap gpt-5.6-luna model and comparing model cost/performance.
Microduck(pollen-robotics.com)
721 points by robotswantdata | 229 comments
Product page for Microduck, a 25 cm open-source bipedal robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face trained with reinforcement learning, pre-ordering for $399.
507 Mechanical Movements(507movements.com)
643 points by helloplanets | 76 comments
A website presenting animated versions of the illustrations from Henry T. Brown's 1868 book 507 Mechanical Movements, showing belts, pulleys and other mechanisms.
Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude(louisabraham.github.io)
606 points by Labo333 | 294 comments
An interactive analysis of daily-scraped GitHub pull requests that clusters vocabulary and tracks the rise of Claude-style wording from coding agents.
Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates(rockpapershotgun.com)
491 points by Tomte | 236 comments
Rock Paper Shotgun news article about an upcoming Dwarf Fortress magic update that will extend to the cosmological makeup of generated worlds.
Trade (and Tariffs)(xkcd.com)
434 points by throw0101d | 192 comments
An xkcd webcomic titled "Trade" in which a heart complains about its exchange of blood with a leg, satirizing trade deficits and tariffs.
Tell HN: PayPal blocks GrapheneOS
381 points by leumon | 212 comments
A Tell HN post reporting that the PayPal Android app crashes on GrapheneOS with a root detection security exception, with a short comment thread.
Gemini-3.5-Transcribe(blog.google)
338 points by k9294 | 119 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model for precise real-time transcription.
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The Twelve-Factor App (2025)(12factor.net)
295 points by jxmorris12 | 164 comments
Reverse engineering my ADHD test(nullpt.rs)
285 points by hazebooth | 192 comments
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash(blog.google)
281 points by saretup | 207 comments
Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card(tokyodev.com)
254 points by zdw | 233 comments
Kusama Yayoi has died(nytimes.com)
223 points by phantomathkg | 18 comments
M5Stack Launches PaperMono(shop.m5stack.com)
155 points by marksully | 53 comments
Show HN: Voronoi Go(voronoigo.com)
143 points by igpay | 21 comments
Aphantasia Beginner's Guide(aphantasia.com)
142 points by ksec | 322 comments
Dad’s Custom Atari Peripherals(goto10retro.com)
140 points by rbanffy | 18 comments
Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
116 points by madduci | 81 comments
Yayoi Kusama has died(bbc.com)
105 points by herbertl | 11 comments
Launching Route 53 Files(daemonology.net)
102 points by louis-paul | 38 comments
Harness Engineering(habitat-thinking.github.io)
90 points by tomrod | 37 comments
Laion Big Video Dataset(projects.laion.ai)
75 points by ks2048 | 22 comments
Pnpm 12.0(pnpm.io)
61 points by jcbhmr | 36 comments
