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From Prompts to Loops: Building Autonomous Coding Agents

"Warming Hole" Heat Content Variations Are Caused by Ocean Heat Transport

392-Year-Old Bonsai Tree That Survived the Hiroshima Atomic Blast (2024)

'Down from Londoners' Are Transforming England's Seaside Towns

We Built Osmium for Scale

Remember SCANTRON? How did that work? [video]

My New Life with the Palantir Chore Coat

PCB-Bench: Benchmarking LLMs for PCB Placement and Routing (ICLR 2026)

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

MFM: PINN based Motion Foundation Model

Breaking the Tokenizer Barrier: On-Policy Distillation Across Model Families

What Should We Optimize Away?

Collider: A meson package manager – A hash proves the bytes, not the source

An Open Letter to Pete Buttigieg

SpaceX just landed in 401(k)s due to key index rule changes

GraphQL MCP Server and GraphiQL Plugins

OpenAI limits latest ChatGPT product to Trump-approved customers

Show HN: Self hosting a modern LLM stack

Germans are researching their Nazi past as the far right urges them to move on

How can engineering leaders avoid becoming Bond villains?