How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?

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How SQLite is tested
How SQLite Is Tested Table Of Contents The reliability and robustness of SQLite is achieved in part by thorough and careful testing. As of version 3.42.0 (2023-05-16), the SQLite library consists of approximately 155.8 KSLOC of C code. (KSLOC means thousands of “Source Lines Of Code” or, in other words, lines of code excluding blank […]
A Safer Container Ecosystem with Docker: Free Docker Hardened Images

Private MCP Catalogs and the Path to Composable Enterprise AI See how private MCP catalogs as OCI artifacts enable trusted, versioned discovery, dynamic toolchains, and GitOps-friendly, sandboxed agents for enterprise AI.
AI capability isn’t humanness

Modern AI appears remarkably human. We can talk to LLMs like friends, get instant relationship advice, and send them photos of our outfits. And just like humans, these models aren’t perfect. They sometimes misremember facts, make simple arithmetic errors, and over-agree with our favorite conspiracy theories. We argue this similarity between humans and AI is […]
AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is ‘one of the dumbest ideas’

AWS CEO Matt Garman outlined 3 solid reasons why companies should not focus on cutting junior developer roles, noting that they “are actually the most experienced with the AI tools”. 3 Reasons AI Should Not Replace Junior Developers In a tech world obsessed with AI replacing human workers, Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web […]
Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Founding Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking

About Us Flick is defining the future interface for AI native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films. Founded by Engineer who built Instagram Stories + Award winning filmmaker, we are a team of Tech + Artist. Well-funded by top VCs. Checkout our launch video Award-winning AI film created using Flick People […]
Tell HN: HN was down
– HN errored on all authenticated requests with 502 Bad Gateway. It did still respond to a limited amount of unauthenticated requests with presumably cached pages, which did not get updated. The last post on /newest claimed “0 minutes ago”, but was actually much older (1:32:57 PM GMT) and not the newest post. – This […]
The State of AI Coding Report 2025

Section 04 Model Snapshot Model benchmarks for GPT-5.1, Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5-Codex, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro to understand how they behave as backends for coding agents across latency, throughput, rate limits, cold starts, cost, and tokenization efficiency.
Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor
Hey HN! We’re Rory, Chris, and Felix from Kenobi (https://kenobi.ai). Kenobi lets you add AI-based content personalization to any website. As a site owner, you install our personalization widget with a script tag, just like you would for e.g. a chatbot integration. As a visitor, you interact with the widget (right now by providing a […]
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed

Today, we’re expanding the Gemini 3 model family with the release of Gemini 3 Flash, which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. With this release, we’re making Gemini 3’s next-generation intelligence accessible to everyone across Google products. Last month, we kicked off Gemini 3 with Gemini 3 Pro and […]