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DeepSeek Launches 'Harness' Developer Preview for Agentic Coding
The Chinese AI lab is testing a new framework aimed at letting developers build and run autonomous coding agents on top of its models.
Bluesky Unveils Protocol Services to Power the Wider AT Protocol Ecosystem
New infrastructure offerings aim to make it easier for developers to build independent apps on the decentralized social networking protocol.
Researcher Explores 'Spaghettifying' DRAM to Expose Hidden Memory Behavior
A new open-source project digs into the physical quirks of DRAM chips, with implications for hardware security research.
Mistral Releases OCR 4.1, Sharpening Its Document AI Push
The French AI lab updates its optical character recognition model with better accuracy on complex documents.
As AI Writes More Code, Human Understanding Becomes the Real Bottleneck
A widely discussed essay argues that generating code is no longer the hard part—comprehending it is.
Why 'Boring' Tech Still Wins: The Case for Restraint in Stack Decisions
A classic engineering essay resurfaces on Hacker News, reminding teams that innovation tokens are a finite resource.
Donkey.bas, the Accidental QBasic Classic, Turns 45
The clunky car-dodging game bundled with early MS-DOS is being celebrated decades later for its scrappy 131 lines of code.
Microsoft pulls Mico, its animated blob avatar, from Copilot's voice mode
The yellow character introduced last October to give Copilot a friendlier face is moving to Microsoft's education tool instead.