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India’s crewed space program will fly this year, after missing 2022 and 2025 targets

A space station by 2035 is ISRO’s new mission

Hackers now exploit critical Gitea flaw in code injection attacks

Attackers are now exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in the Gitea self-hosted Git service, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]

Bill Gates is deeply worried about AI, and he’s no longer staying quiet

Bill Gates has been reflecting a lot on AI lately, and the process has triggered a stark awakening. Once a staunch AI optimist, the Microsoft cofounder is now deeply pessimistic about what AI means fo...

Bill Gates says we’ve passed AI’s danger thresholds. Now what?

It’s a glorious day in Kirkland, Washington, an affluent Seattle suburb on the eastern shore of Lake Washington. The temperature is in the mid-80s, and the sky is incapable of being any more blue. The...

Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund

The Pan-African venture firm has raised $83 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.

Ikea’s Xbox collection includes a giant thumbstick stool

Ikea has teamed up with Microsoft to launch a new assortment of gaming-inspired furniture and home accessories, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the first Xbox console. The nine-piece Yxstaby c...

More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding

Article URL: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/more-half-adults-us-say-they-lack-basic-statistical-understanding Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444514 Points: 103 # Comment...

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Self-hosted email is in steep decline, Microsoft and Google are taking over

Oh great, Big Tech is now in prime position to decide which messages get through

India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call

Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.

Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action

Amid talk of an Nvidia deal, the AI search biz is looking beyond the cloud

Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough

Delayed, flawed, yet still beautiful

Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say

The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.

Queryable Executables

Article URL: https://fzakaria.com/2026/08/24/actually-queryable-executables Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442589 Points: 113 # Comments: 18

OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues

Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg Brockman and putting Vice President Sachin Katti in charge of the group.

Happy 20th Birthday, Amazon EC2 (3 minute read)

Amazon EC2 turns 20 years old today. Jeff Barr's original blog post in 2006 introduced a single instance type, m1.small, in one region, billed by the hour. The service has since grown from that one in...

The August 17 Outage, and the Work Ahead (4 minute read)

GitHub's 7-hour-and-47-minute outage on August 17 began when record traffic overwhelmed a critical Central US infrastructure component that failed to scale, triggering authentication failures and casc...

Solving the 1+N Query Problem (7 minute read)

Acadia eliminates the N+1 query problem by design: its query language has no general-purpose loops or recursion, so developers cannot accidentally turn a relationship lookup into one query followed by...

On-Call Is Now Theatre (7 minute read)

AI agents have transformed software development but production operations still rely on human-centered on-call systems that constrain velocity. The proposed model uses agents to continuously detect, i...

Reach 8 million tech professionals on TLDR (Sponsor)

If you're reading this ad, you know they work. TLDR subscribers make a deliberate choice to open their inbox every weekday. You reach developers, product managers, marketers, founders, and engineering...

Patching at Fleet Scale, Twice: How DigitalOcean Closed Januscape and the AMD Safe RET Issue Without Customer Impact (10 minute read)

DigitalOcean patched its entire hypervisor fleet against two separate guest-to-host vulnerabilities within a single month, reporting zero confirmed customer-facing impact in both cases. The first, a K...

Apple's new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development (4 minute read)

Apple has announced new iterations of the Mac mini and Mac Studio along with the M6, the first 2nm chip in Apple's M-series lineup, and the M5 Ultra, Apple's most powerful chip. There aren't any major...

OpenAI Claims Its New Chips Can Outperform Nvidia Processors in Tests (6 minute read)

OpenAI's new 'Jalapeno' chips performed better than Nvidia's current lineup during testing. The company plans to use the new chips to support its AI models later this year. The chip should significant...

Apache Maka (GitHub Repo)

Apache Maka is a local-first AI agent workspace that runs models and tools through a sandboxed runtime while keeping sessions, tool calls, results, and recovery data on the user's machine by default. ...

Amazon eyes ‘fully automated' delivery stations to bring robotics to the last mile (3 minute read)

Amazon's fulfillment centers are equipped with the latest robots and automation, but its delivery stations still remain mostly manual. The company is now developing an internal project to build fully ...

SpaceX to Spend $100 Billion on New Spaceport in Louisiana (3 minute read)

SpaceX is committing $100 billion to build a launch facility in southern Louisiana as part of its plans to send multiple rockets into space every day. The new facility, named Starbase Louisiana, will ...

Hister (GitHub Repo)

Hister is a private search engine that indexes the full contents of pages you visit and files you store locally. It works through a web interface, terminal, or an AI assistant connected via MCP. By de...

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Building an AI-Powered Incident Bot with Octopus Deploy (11 minute read)

A proof-of-concept bot named Octopus Healer sends Kubernetes alert context to an AI model, which selects a predefined remediation type and fills runbook parameters rather than generating executable co...

Knowledge Compressor (6 minute read)

Natural language tends to contain quite a bit of repetition and redundancy, which isn't inherently bad, but it comes with tradeoffs. With AI, repetition can cost a significant amount of tokens when wo...

Introducing Run SDK: secure eval for your agents (4 minute read)

Run SDK is a package from Vercel for executing untrusted JavaScript or TypeScript without giving it direct access to apps or systems. It evaluates JavaScript or type-stripped TypeScript in a fresh Qui...

Apple Holds Farewell Party for Tim Cook as Ternus Prepares to Take Over (2 minute read)

Tim Cook will step down as Apple's CEO on September 1. The company held a celebration for Cook on August 23, a day before his 15th anniversary as Apple CEO. Approximately 200 people attended the party...

AI Coding Will Prevent Expertise (14 minute read)

AI coding tools can create an “expert novice” problem: developers are expected to use agents effectively before they have built the judgment needed to evaluate their output, while heavy reliance on ge...

Could Nvidia Default? (1 minute read)

Credit Default Swaps insuring against an Nvidia debt default have doubled in price in the last two months. The company gave a $105 billion residual value guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio data center earlie...

Automating root cause analysis at scale: Multi-signal correlation for cloud native incident response (8 minute read)

Atlassian has built an automated root cause analysis system designed to cut the time engineers spend diagnosing production incidents across its hundreds of microservices. The system pulls anomaly sign...

Introducing Index: Building The World's Largest and Most Diverse Physical Dataset (4 minute read)

Figure's Index is an app that was created to help the company collect the physical data that its AI stack needs, directly from humans at scale.

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Engineering Theatre (4 minute read)

Engineering theater is when something looks like engineering but really isn't.

Run, debug, and scale Databricks workloads from your local IDE (2 minute read)

Databricks has updated its IDE tools to let developers connect VS Code, Cursor, or a terminal directly to Databricks compute via a new SSH tunnel.

Jenkins Contributor Summit Virtual Event (September 11, 2026) (3 minute read)

Jenkins will hold a virtual Contributor Summit hackathon on September 11, running 08:30 to 19:30 CEST across an APAC/EMEA morning block and an EMEA/Americas afternoon block.

X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping (3 minute read)

Nitter and its instances offer a handy way for people to keep up with posts on X without an account.

Some recent applications of AI (3 minute read)

Some recent applications of AI include gathering mostly unstructured real-world data and checking stuff and high-judgment lifestyle questions.

A Cautionary Tale About Data Breach Claims, Verification, and Carhartt (31 minute read)

Take headline numbers with a grain of salt unless you're confident in the processes of those making the claims.

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