Interesting research : Abstract : Vision-language models (VLMs) can solve visual CAPTCHAs without task-specific training, but the agents built on them approach every challenge from scratch. For such an agent, the hundredth instance of a familiar puzzle costs as much time and compute as the first. Specialized detectors invert the trade-off, answering in milliseconds but only for categories they were trained on. Neither improves with exposure. We study what changes when a solver improves with use. Our system pairs a fine-tuned YOLOv8 detector with an open-weight VLM behind a confidence-based ro…
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Indonesia battles worst forest fires and toxic haze in 11 years
There's a fast-growing category of two-wheeled electric vehicles splitting the difference between high-end scooters and entry-level motorcycles, fresh bikes with avant-garde style but approachable performance. I'm talking about offerings like the Infinite Machine P1 and BMW CE 02, similar concepts but with wildly different attitudes. Among this class, the Maeving RM2 stands out. It has […]
Police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters outside Colombia’s National Museum in Bogota.
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There have been new reports of Iranian support for the Houthis in Yemen amid a wave of attacks on Saudi cities.
The $48bn giveaway by company, which is preparing to list on stock market, comes amid concerns about the tech Anthropic has said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the “public good”, as the AI developer behind the Claude chatbot seeks to bolster its appeal before its stock market listing. The company announced that it would commit the shares, worth around $48bn (£36bn) at its latest valuation in May, subject to shareholder approval. It will add a further 2% of its stock to the fund for every 50% increase in its value above an undisclosed baseline. Continue reading...
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US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on X that the arrests were 'a very positive development'.
Amanda Bland's decision relegates the party to the third-largest group at Holyrood, with one member fewer than Labour.
Lawmaker was struck by a car outside her office in what Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called a 'deliberate act'.
It comes after masked settlers attacked Palestinians and European officials visiting the West Bank during olive harvesting season.
Angry French students have blocked access to their schools for four weeks. AJLabs breaks down what they want and why.
Microsoft is letting players digitize their game discs for free, but don't sell your physical collection just yet.
In 2020, Maricopa County became the epicenter for Trump’s claims the election was stolen. Six years, later the president and his allies are dusting off their “rigged” playbook ahead of the midterms.
India's NMDC puts nickel foray on hold on global oversupply concerns, sources say Reuters
When it should have been weaving tales of the Jacquard loom
The UN agency says funding shortages threaten to reverse 'modest and fragile' progress on food security.
Mexican protesters demanding clean water storm state congress
Sarina Wiegman says she "cannot think of a better job in football" as she commits to staying on as manager of the Lionesses until after Euro 2029.
The officer was shot in the foot and remains in hospital in a stable condition, police say.
Exclusive: Using test accounts acting as 13-year-olds, Tech Transparency Project downloaded 135 apps with features to generate nonconsensual nude imagery In December 2025, Morgan Dorfman received distressing news: a student at her daughter’s Pennsylvania high school was making AI-generated pornographic material using the daughter’s image. He was using an artificial intelligence image-editing app called Movely to create sexual videos from pictures of her daughter and five other girls. Continue reading...
Elizabeth Holmes’ husband is a major figure in Nathan Fielder’s new documentary. But who is Billy Evans—and is he really working on a second blood-testing company?
WIRED was the first magazine to cover Theranos and its enticing billionaire founder. There were warning signs even then.
Modern APIs ship large payloads. LLMs consume structured data token by token. Validation failures surface too late. Streaming is standard but most formats weren't designed for it. These are problems we kept running into, so we spent years working on a format built specifically for them. The core question we kept coming back to: why does every record in a dataset need to repeat the field names? The idea we landed on — separate the schema from the data entirely. Define structure once. Records contain only values. name, age, gender, joiningDt, address: {street, city, state?}, colors, isActive…
The blaze that killed four men and injured dozens of others spread with alarming speed, accounts suggest.
Bring the gift everyone will want to win from this year’s holiday party, from a cute jacket for a beer can to magnets they’ll wish they could eat.
At least 18 killed in Houthi attack on Yemeni government military camp in Shabwa, sources say Reuters
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Hey, sometimes it's easier to just move around some buttons in an editor instead of waiting a minute for the AI result. E.g. take a screenshot of your UI, cut out a button, move it around to see what it looks like. Your AI can send HTML into the editor, or screenshots. Then you can edit it, move things around, and your AI takes it from there. I've made it free and open source. You can build on top of it or improve it. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150221 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
In the middle of an especially warm July in 2021, a wildfire ignited in a thick forest of black spruce and peeling paper birch trees on the northern campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The blaze, possibly sparked by lightning, burned across the dry carpet of feather mosses and lichen before climbing into the…
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon with no human intervention by sharing tips, threats and mistakes.
Deputy PM calls for dialogue with Tehran, highlights US defence ties and rejects Strait of Hormuz transit fees.
Court of Appeal refuses Redmond permission to take ValueLicensing fight to the Supreme Court, with a 'Known Adverse Document' still to come
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Cause of grass fire remains unknown as PM Carney calls it one of the worst peacetime tragedies for Canadian military.
Researchers travelled to a remote Pacific Island to confirm whether an object first spotted on satellite imagery in 2020 solved the mystery of the pilot's disappearance.
India's Jio IPO anchor investor quota nearly 30 times oversubscribed, source says Reuters
What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment reminiscent of the movies Cast Away or Home Alone. The agents—copies of Claude Opus 4.7 nicknamed Eko—were able to…
Text removal happens in browsers through Panel Font, an all-in-one manga tool for text removal, coloring, translation, and manga generation. Access is free and requires neither account registration nor software installation. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150083 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Hint: It's not only because California counts slowly.
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. On the evening of December 29, 1959, at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech, the physicist Richard Feynman gave a lecture called “There’s…
Insta360’s Luna Pro and Luna Ultra are the ideal cameras for solo filmmakers, content creators, and independent journalists.
The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens of states allege encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.
A large underwater wave moved up the West Coast, raising sea levels. Scientists say it's driven by El Niño and it's going to happen again.
Ukraine relies on US intel through Starshield to spot fast-moving ballistic missiles that Russia fires at its cities.
The 34-year-old says vaping nicotine "a lot" permanently affected her singing and speaking voice.
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Ukraine and Russia exchange strikes as relations between U.S. and Ukraine deteriorate, the midterms are on track to be the most expensive on record, French president denounces violent protests.
Solar power is transforming agriculture in Pakistan. But in a country already facing water scarcity and extreme weather, some fear their widespread use could cause problems.
Al-Shaair's eyeblack carried the name of Maryam Ghanem, a girl in Gaza who was forced to watch her mother burn alive.
i created a benchmark which evaluates the ai decision models. i thought the idea, by watching jev playing doom i thought, games are the right place to evaluate these things : - real-life network latency - decision probability feedbacks welcome :) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149942 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Mojo is a relatively new language, and its Python affinity makes it an ideal candidate for in-database execution to process data where it is stored. Fast and reliable. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149883 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Two weeks ago, I posted about how ClickHouse outcompressed Parquet on my IoT dataset. But just days ago, pcodec was merged into ClickHouse, and it significantly improves on compression ratio while also trading blows on decompression speed with the previous schema. It's a rather niche and sophisticated codec though, at least compared to the ones we had before in ClickHouse, so I thought I'd make a post where I try to explain the key conceptual ideas behind it. Enjoy! submitted by /u/IiIIIlllllLliLl [link] [comments]
The reported $200m in aid from Iran to Hezbollah has put the Lebanese government under increased pressure from the US.
The first technology created with a self-disrupt button... But why oh why didn't they call Claude clone Fauxtoshop?
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Interior Minister Laurent Nunez acknowledges that police 'lost control' during weekend protests.
Soldiers, fighters and separatists in West African country committing grave laws-of-war violations, rights group finds.
An elderly man was forcibly restrained by police during a protest against Elbit Systems in Ulm, Germany.
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Hey, I wrote a short (~70 pages) free book about communication for developers. Hopefully, it's close enough to programming to be beneficial and considered on-topic. Over the years I noticed how little our crowd cares about communication, so I decided to write something that is approachable, directly actionable and with as little fluff as possible. Free, no ads, CC BY, not LLM-generated. Web, PDF, EPUB, and an audiobook. My previous book about fintech engineering was quite well received here, so I hope this won't be immediately bashed at least :D But definitely tell me what you think and where…
Macron acknowledges 'failures in anticipation and intelligence', rules out interior minister's resignation over riots.
Even Healthcare reaches a $300 million valuation in a Khosla Ventures-led round as it plans to expand its hospital network in India.
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Arab voter turnout could make or break Netanyahu in Israeli election Reuters
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I made a tool to search and inspect Unicode characters in the terminal. - Browse Unicode blocks or search by character, code point, or name - View Unicode properties, encodings, and their descriptions - Decompose strings into code points or grapheme clusters, and compare different normalization forms - Preview glyphs using image display protocols (kitty, iTerm2) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50149255 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
The Cuban Revolution, with all its contradictions, has given plenty to the world. Its fall will be a major loss.
In Exarchia, residents say short-term rentals are driving up rents and eroding its character.
The media had a field day with Zacharia’s short tenure, but claims of chaos in Trump administration are exaggerated.
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I have this sense that we've passed the point where "vibe coding" is a derogatory term. I have no empirical evidence for this; it's more a feeling that those weaponising the term have now accepted the inevitability and are just getting with the program.
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A flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed on October 16. He showed the attack working against home gateways supplied by three Belgian internet providers, in one case reading the Wi-Fi password off the device
BBC Sport columnist Tony Pulis explains what Spurs will get from their team-bonding trip to Spain, and how differently managers built team morale in his day.
A selection of images from F1 races in the US, from Indianapolis, Watkins Glen and Long Beach to the streets of Dallas and the Caesars Palace car park.
An intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode on the night of October 16 and may have exposed the third-party AI provider keys that users had saved in OpenCode Console, the company said. Console is OpenCode's optional hosted service: a workspace saves its own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google key there, and Console uses that key to call the provider so team members can use the models without
Real Madrid beat Sevilla 4-1 a day after Barcelona thrashed Real Betis 5-2 as the Spanish giants prepare for El Clasico.
Week six in the NFL produced some unlikely heroes as the Arizona Cardinals pulled off a huge upset while the Philadelphia Eagles suffered another loss.
The number of people helped by the UN agency in the Palestinian territory will drop by about a third - from 1.6 million to 1.1 million.
