Drawgent is a tool that integrates AI coding agents like Claude, Codex, or OpenCode with Excalidraw whiteboards. It enables users to edit diagrams via chat commands or canvas notes, allowing agents to view, modify, and manage live visual workspaces efficiently.

Drawgent: Coding agent on a live Excalidraw canvas (114)

The next-generation social coding platform.

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The provided text is a disorganized collection of dates ranging from 1915 to 2008 paired with various durations in seconds. It lacks a coherent narrative, thematic structure, or informative content, appearing as a raw data log rather than a news article.

A searchable library of forgotten public-domain film clips from 1915 onward (119)

Search, watch, and download public-domain archival footage by the shot.

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Lars Doucet, author of Land is a Big Deal, reflects on five years of progress for Land Value Tax (LVT) advocacy. He notes legislative momentum in the U.S. and abroad, emphasizing that practical implementation and data-driven engagement are key to building policy consensus.

Does Georgism work? Five years later (167)

A guest post by Lars Doucet

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Japan is tightening permanent residency requirements, mandating higher income and pension thresholds for foreign residents. These stricter rules, amidst rising anti-immigrant sentiment and political shifts, are causing anxiety for long-term residents living in Japan.

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners (104)

Tokyo is raising the bar for permanent residency amid a broader rightward shift in the Asian nation’s politics.

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ASML, Europe's most valuable firm, reports zero sales to European chipmakers in 2026. As profits from the region vanish, the lithography giant is now urging EU authorities to actively stimulate local demand to bolster the struggling semiconductor industry.

ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 (124)

Subsidies for fabs do not help.

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Developers discovered a LoongArch CPU erratum causing atomic instructions to occasionally lose updates when paired with vectorized memory reads. Assisted by AI, they identified the root cause in the LA664 core. Loongson provided a firmware fix that resolves the issue.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU (105)

杰哥的{教学，运维，编程，调板子}小笔记

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Reladraw is a new text-based diagramming language that uses relative positioning instead of absolute coordinates or auto-layout. Designed for human and AI use, it ensures predictable, deterministic arrangements by solving for minimum distances between defined nodes.

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things (149)

Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.

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DeepSeek introduces DSec, an elastic execution platform designed for large-scale agentic LLM training. By integrating diverse sandbox backends and a distributed filesystem, DSec optimizes resource efficiency, supporting 380,000 concurrent environments daily.

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec) (126)

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2609.22978: DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec): A Sandbox Infrastructure for Effective Agentic Training at Scale

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A U.S. judge has certified a class-action lawsuit allowing banks to sue Apple over alleged mobile wallet monopoly practices. Plaintiffs claim Apple unfairly charges fees by restricting NFC access, though Apple recently opened its chip to third-party developers.

Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees (100)

An antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of blocking tap-to-pay competition is moving forward and will see banks and credit unions able to band together to sue Apple.

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has appointed a new board of directors following a failed attempt to oust him from the company. The eclectic group includes authors and former tech founders, signaling a major shift after Mullenweg reclaimed control of the firm.

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave (101)

After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.

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Modern Object Pascal is a powerful, type-safe language supporting classes, generics, and interfaces. This documentation provides a concise guide for experienced developers, covering core syntax, memory management, and advanced features like operator overloading and exceptions.

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers (123)

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Floci offers a suite of MIT-licensed, credential-free cloud emulators for AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Designed for developers and AI agents, these native binaries provide fast, local testing environments that eliminate cloud costs, auth tokens, and security risks.

Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service (118)

Floci runs AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI locally in milliseconds: a fast, free, credential-free feedback loop for developers and AI coding agents. MIT licensed. No account, no auth token.

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The safe-not-safe tool for PostgreSQL migrations is currently initializing its WASM parser in the browser. Users are prompted to load or paste SQL migration statements to begin the analysis process, as no code has been provided for inspection yet today.

After years of work, a developer successfully upgraded an iPod Nano 3rd Gen to 16GB of storage. By reverse-engineering proprietary NAND drivers and creating a custom sector-translation bridge, they bypassed hardware limitations to make the larger chip fully functional.

16GB iPod Nano 3G Upgrade (119)

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PipePipe is a standalone fork of NewPipe that offers enhanced YouTube features, including SponsorBlock integration, dislike restoration, and advanced playback controls. It operates independently to provide faster updates and specialized tools for a better experience.

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock (136)

An open-source Android app to let you browse YouTube and other services freely. - GitHub - InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe: An open-source Android app to let you browse YouTube and other services freely.

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A developer shares their journey of becoming overly reliant on AI coding agents, describing how it led to laziness, loss of control, and diminished skill. After realizing they had stopped coding entirely, they quit AI to regain their professional confidence and joy.

The author explores using LLM token probabilities to perform efficient, flexible computer vision tasks. By forcing single-token outputs and analyzing logprobs, the system classifies webcam frames in real-time, demonstrating a versatile alternative to specialized models.

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models (109)

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Apple's 2011 Cards app, a project personally initiated by Steve Jobs, was a logistical nightmare for its printing partners. Despite complex custom stamps and invisible barcodes, the service struggled with low demand and was eventually discontinued in 2013.

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story (162)

100% cotton paper. 100% crazy.

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The developer of the Android messaging client Conversations is ending his relationship with the Google Play Store. Citing toxic treatment and poor support, he has shifted to grant-based funding and now promotes F-Droid as the primary distribution method.

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free (305)

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Amit Sahai argues that as AI accelerates mathematical discovery, humanity must prioritize maintaining deep understanding to preserve agency. He proposes building a global "intellectual reserve" of mathematicians to ensure we can safely evaluate AI-driven breakthroughs.

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians (159)

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MIT has installed over 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras across campus, raising significant privacy and civil liberty concerns among faculty. Critics argue the move creates a repressive environment, while some students and staff have begun bedazzling the devices.

How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance (171)

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Microsoft is merging its consumer and workplace Copilot AI into a single corporate-focused product. By shifting its strategy, the company cedes the personal chatbot market to competitors like OpenAI, Google, and Meta to prioritize business-grade features.

Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot (108)

Microsoft Corp. is merging the consumer and workplace versions of its Copilot AI assistant into one product aimed at corporate customers, ceding the crowded market for personal chatbots to OpenAI, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and, now, Meta Platforms Inc.

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Microsoft Excel is introducing new preview features for Windows and Mac Beta users, including lists, native arrays in cells, and nested arrays. These updates allow users to manage multiple values in a single cell and include four new functions to simplify data manipulation.

Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell (146)

Throughout Excel's 40-year history, you've only been able to put one value per cell. In this announcement, we're excited to share how that's changing with...

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Lindsey Isaacs testified before Congress after being wrongly jailed for 13 days, including time in solitary, due to faulty Flock camera data. Police ignored evidence and arrested her for a fatal crash she did not commit, sparking a civil rights lawsuit.

A New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for deceiving users regarding privacy and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The court found over 2 million violations, and a judge will now determine financial penalties. Meta plans to contest the verdict, citing free speech.

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case (152)

The two-week trial in New Mexico centered on accusations Facebook deceived users about a data breach.

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