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Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives (updated for 2026)

In November and December 2025, inspired by Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark, I had some then-current LLMs create SVGs from thirty similar prompts, such as “Generate an SVG of an oct…

Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation

Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge

Largest known Roman mosaic, beneath Baths of Trajan, opens to the public

How to Write an Effective Software Design Document

Show HN: I built Otis, a minimal AI agent that runs local models out of the box

Hi everyone,Been working on Otis, an open-source ai agent that gives you one minimal experience across local and hosted open-weight models, privacy-focused by design.On setup it recommends a local mod…

What a time to be alive – rouge AI agents attack RubyGems.org

Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature

SDR–; open source SDR with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP, web UI

PCB is brought to you by Fable 5

Unsolved Problem by Fields Medalist Breached by Two High School Students

There are only twelve 4x4 sudokus (and a cool trick for finding minimal subsets)

XCancel suspended "due to a new development in the ongoing legal proceedings"

Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band

a couple hours ago i had astra take on a 10 month old repo of mine https://github.com/callbacked/neural-band-poc/that involved finding a way to use the meta neural band independently from the glasses…

High-performance garbage collection for C++

'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up

Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server