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Julia Evans shares hard-won production lessons from running SQLite at scale - from the ANALYZE command that cut query times 100x to backup strategies and write contention gotchas.

A Stack Exchange data query shows Stack Overflow's question volume dropped 65% since 2017, with a sharp acceleration after ChatGPT. HN debates whether AI killed the platform or just accelerated its decline.

Security researcher discovers TP-Link Kasa cameras exposed precise home coordinates via unauthenticated UDP - a vulnerability publicly documented since 2020 but only patched in 2026.

A unit conversion bug in AWS billing displayed estimated charges of up to $1.7 trillion, triggering widespread alarm among developers before AWS acknowledged the issue.

How a 60-second auto-continue timer shipped to Claude Code without documentation, what it reveals about agent safety assumptions, and how to disable it.

A developer built a complete X11 server in 20,000 lines of assembly language using Claude as a compiler, running Firefox and GIMP with one-third the CPU usage of Xorg.

Laura Summers of Pydantic articulates why LLM-assisted programming increases work intensity while eliminating the rewards that made coding satisfying.

LM Studio launches Bionic, a standalone agent harness for open models with local inference, voice input, and zero data retention cloud options.

Mozilla's inaugural report reveals open models now match closed AI on capability, but only 51% reach production. The harness layer and permission model gaps explain why.

A developer built an 85% accurate LLM text detector using TF-IDF and linear SVM - no neural networks required. Here is how it works and what HN thinks about AI detection.

Google rebrands NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, integrating the popular research tool deeper into its AI ecosystem. Here is what developers should know about the transition.

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3 with 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M context window, and Delta Attention architecture. Here's what developers need to know about pricing, performance, and where it fits in the frontier model landscape.

Richard Feldman's team rewrote the Roc compiler from Rust to Zig in 487 days. The memory safety numbers challenge assumptions, and the 35ms incremental rebuilds are real. Here's the full breakdown.

Voice cloning now requires just 3 seconds of audio to impersonate someone. With $893M in reported losses, detection has failed - here's what might actually work.

A developer got Google's Gemma 4 26B running on 2013 Xeon hardware for under $300. The fix for a silent MoE bug is now upstream - here's what it means for local inference.

Days after getting caught uploading entire codebases to xAI servers, Grok Build is now open source on GitHub. The HN community isn't convinced it's enough.

A new American open-weights frontier model with multimodal capabilities, 1M token context, and competitive benchmarks. Here's what the HN community thinks.

A developer reverse-engineered a travel itinerary app, discovered it was just reformatting JSON, and replaced the entire 43MB app with a 0.05MB webpage.

PrismML's Bonsai 27B uses 1-bit quantization to compress a 27B model to 3.9GB - small enough to run on an iPhone. Here's how it works and what HN thinks.

OpenAI's Codex CLI now encrypts inter-agent communications for Sol and Terra models, leaving users unable to inspect what their agents are actually doing.