AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate

Seventeen Camels and Where They Can Take You

Maintaining Code Quality at Agent Speed: 7 Patterns for Agentic Engineering

By Amit Sharma and Antonio Garrote.How do you know whether code generated at agent speed can be trusted? That question is fast becoming one of the most important in software engineering and it deserves a serious answer. As AI coding agents grow more capable, many of the traditional bottlenecks in software development are dissolving. Code […] The post Maintaining Code Quality at Agent Speed: 7 Patterns for Agentic Engineering appeared first on Salesforce Engineering Blog.

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyden said.

World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names

Mastodon looks to newsletters to help revive the open social web

TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code

LSM Database using Golang

I have been working on an LSM database project mainly to understand the internals of Cockroach Labs’ Pebble storage engine. From the last 2 weeks, I have been reading Pebble’s codebase and implementing many of the concepts myself from scratch. Its been outstanding learning experience so far. i have learned more about storage engines, compaction, memtables, WALs, and SSTables in these two weeks than I expected. I m also hoping to start contributing to Pebble soon. If anyone else is explori...

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them

Only 16 percent of Americans think AI will have a positive impact on society, a new study shows

Show HN: Deconvolution – a Rust image deconvolution and restoration crate

DeepSeek v4 Pro 1.6T model post-trained by Huawei on 1000 Ascend 910C chips

Orbital Data Centers Have a Silicon Problem Nobody Is Pricing

Top announcements of the AWS Summit in New York, 2026

A recap of the top announcements from AWS's New York Summit 2026

Data Visualization from the Comfort of your Terminal

Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker

Paul Krugman has the perfect metaphor for the career of Elon Musk

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

FMAG: A single-instruction GPU virtual machine and toolchain

PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues

PayPay Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues

AI will lead to labor shortages, Bezos says in optimistic talk

Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

An excursion into a mount propagation bug (2023)

Open-source React UI and D-pad focus engine for Meta Ray-Ban Display

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

Proactively reduce tech debt autonomously with AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview)

AWS Transform – continuous modernization (preview) automatically scans code repositories to detect, prioritize, and remediate technical debt at scale.

Announcing Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Ground your AI agents in current, accurate web knowledge

AWS introduces Web Search on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a fully managed tool that enables agents to ground responses in current, cited web knowledge with zero data egress from customer's secured AWS environment. You can focus on building agents instead of manually adding web search to agents on Bedrock AgentCore and managing its infrastructure.

AWS Security Agent adds threat modeling, Kiro power and Claude Code plugin, and more

AWS Security Agent now adds STRIDE-based threat modeling, full repo and PR code scanning with remediation across major Git platforms, and IDE integrations via Kiro power, Claude Code plugin, and MCP — letting developers run security reviews and fix issues without context switching.

AWS DevOps Agent adds release management capabilities to assess code changes before production (preview)

AWS DevOps Agent now offers release management capability in preview, reviewing code changes for release readiness and running autonomous release testing to help you ship code to production safely and with confidence.

Introducing Amazon Bedrock Managed Knowledge Base for faster, more accurate enterprise AI applications

Amazon Bedrock's new Fully Managed Knowledge Bases simplifies building enterprise RAG pipelines by providing native data connectors Smart Parsing for automatic multi-format data preparation, and an Agentic Retriever for complex multi-step queries—all integrated with AgentCore Gateway so developers can focus on business outcomes rather than infrastructure management.

The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span

Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it

Mastodon 4.6 – Collections, profiles, and other improvements

The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)

Introducing the LCD7-PANEL-LIME2: A Ready-to-Mount Linux Touch Panel Computer

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

Pramaana Labs raises $27 million seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI

Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2

Show HN: Inkwash, a watercolor sketching app and explanation

Reducing SMS OTP fraud with Vonage network-powered solutions and Amazon Cognito

In this post, we show how Vonage network-powered solutions work with Amazon Cognito to enhance many mobile-first use cases with network-level identity verification. Vonage network-powered solutions are a composable stack of real-time mobile operator intelligence, silent authentication, and integrated fraud protection, which uses the CUSTOM_AUTH flow to complete identity verification in under 5 seconds, with zero user interaction.

What I think about when I think about thinking

SpaceX alum nabs $22M to turn rocket engines into geothermal power plants

Celebrate Discord’s 11th Birthday with an Exclusive Set of Emoji and Wallpapers

Discord is turning 11 this year! To celebrate, we made over twenty Discord-themed emojis, along with over twenty wallpapers, and even a digital poster for everyone to download, for free!

A Google ad penalty halved our revenue; fixing it meant becoming a publisher

Podcast: The Government Wants to End Anonymity on Phones

The FCC's proposed changes to getting a phone plan; cops keep stalking with Flock; and a software update changes the AC in Amazon vans.

How to build a cancer vaccine, and whether they will work this time

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

Image Compression

Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom

Vibhor Kumar: The AI Agent Layer: Architecture, Implementation, and the Future of Intelligent Enterprise Systems

Part 1: Why the AI Agent Layer Exists About This Series This is the first post in a four-part series on building intelligent enterprise AI systems. Each part builds on the last, taking you from foundational concepts through to production-grade architecture.  ThemeTopics CoveredPart 1 ★FoundationsIntroduction · Memory Architecture · Planning OverviewPart 2CapabilitiesTool Use · Reflection · RAG · PostgreSQL + pgvectorPart 3Scale & ControlMulti-Agent Systems · State Management...

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Hacking the atmosphere: geoengineering gets a reality check Solar geoengineering, the controversial idea that we could deliberately intervene in the climate system to counteract global warming, is moving beyond computer simulations…

DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

How We Cut Kafka Consumer Deployment Costs by 83%

Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027

Announcing DuckDB 1.5.4 Variegata

Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.5.4 (Variegata) with bugfixes and performance improvements.

Announcing DuckDB 1.4.5 LTS (Andium)

Today we are releasing DuckDB 1.4.5 LTS with bugfixes and performance improvements.

GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasks

GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata

U.S. Science Is in Chaos

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an odd-­looking aircraft with massive wings stretching out from a stubby fuselage. The uncrewed plane is soaring thousands of meters higher than commercial jets fly—so high you can see the curvature of the Earth.…

Most of the CVE-2026-4020 attackers are the same client

Hacker News but for Independent Blogs

From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap

Qiaosheng Liu: Releasing pg_ducklake v1.0

pg_ducklake 1.0 is production-ready: a standalone extension built on a reusable kernel, with broad DuckLake coverage and the fastest ingestion path for the lakehouse.

Snap Launches $2,195 'Specs' Augmented Reality Glasses

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

Peter Thiel's private society attendance list leaked via hard-coded HTML

Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems

A 27-Year-Old Authentication Bypass in OpenBSD's PPP Stack

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