Claude Code Daily Benchmarks for Degradation Tracking
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OTelBench: AI struggles with simple SRE tasks (Opus 4.5 scores only 29%)
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How to Choose Colors for Your CLI Applications (2023)
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US cybersecurity chief leaked sensitive government files to ChatGPT: Report
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Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes
Hey HN, we're Haakam, Michael, and Adi. We're building AgentMail (https://agentmail.to), the email inbox API for agents. We’re not talking about AI for your email, this is email for your AI.
Email is an optimal interface for long-running agents. It’s multithreaded and asynchronous with full support for rich text and files. It’s a universal protocol with identity and authentication built in. Moreover, a lot of workflow critical context already lives in email.
We wanted to build email agents that you can forward your work to and get back a completed task. The agents could act entirely autonomously as you wouldn't need to delegate your identity. If they did get stuck they could just send you, or anyone else, an email.
Using Gmail, we kept getting stuck on the limitations of their API. No way to create inboxes programmatically. Rate and sending limits. OAuth for every single inbox. Keyword search that doesn't understand context. Per-seat pricing that doesn't work for agents.
So we built what we wished existed: an email provider for developers. APIs for creating inboxes and configuring domains. Email parsing and threading. Text extraction from attachments. Realtime webhooks and websockets. Semantic search across inboxes. Usage-based pricing that works for agents.
Developers, startups, and enterprises are already deploying email agents with AgentMail. Agents that convert conversations and documents into structured data. Agents that source quotes, negotiate prices, and get the best deals. Agents that emulate internet users for training models on end-to-end tasks.
Here's demo of Clawdbots communicating using AgentMail: https://youtu.be/Y0MfUWS3LKQ
You can get started with AgentMail for free at https://agentmail.to
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback.
Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images
Europe's next-generation weather satellite, Meteosat Third Generation (MTG), has sent back its first images, marking a significant milestone in the development of advanced meteorological capabilities for the continent.
Reflex (YC W23) Senior Software Engineer Infra
Reflex, a Y Combinator-backed company, is seeking a Lead Software Engineer for its infrastructure team. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and building scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure to support Reflex's growing product offerings.
Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator
Scientists at CERN are exploring the feasibility of using the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, to heat homes in the surrounding area by capturing the waste heat generated during its operations.
Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds
Google's Project Genie explores using large language models to assist humans in creative tasks like writing stories, designing products, and solving problems, with the goal of enhancing human intelligence and capabilities.
Project Genie: Interactive worlds generated in real-time
Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic
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Making niche solutions is the point
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Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
Patreon, a platform for creators to receive funding from supporters, is considering moving away from Apple's App Store due to the 30% commission fee charged by Apple. The article discusses Patreon's concerns about the impact of this fee on its business model and the potential implications for creators and supporters using the platform.
Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer
Researchers have discovered a combination of three drugs that can effectively block tumor resistance in pancreatic cancer, a disease with limited treatment options. The study findings suggest this drug trio could potentially be a promising new approach for treating this challenging form of cancer.
The Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in Scala
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Break Me If You Can: Exploiting PKO and Relay Attacks in 3DES/AES NFC
EmulatorJS
EmulatorJS is an open-source, browser-based emulator that allows users to play a variety of retro video games directly in their web browser. It supports multiple console platforms and provides a user-friendly interface for accessing and running emulated games.
Playing Board Games with Deep Convolutional Neural Network on 8bit Motorola 6809
Run Clawdbot/Moltbot on Cloudflare with Moltworker
The article discusses Cloudflare's new open-source project, MoltWorker, which enables users to self-host an AI agent that can handle natural language tasks. MoltWorker is designed to provide a more private and customizable alternative to cloud-based AI services, allowing users to run the AI agent on their own infrastructure.
Show HN: ShapedQL – A SQL engine for multi-stage ranking and RAG
Hi HN,
I’m Tullie, founder of Shaped. Previously, I was a researcher at Meta AI, worked on ranking for Instagram Reels, and was a contributor to PyTorch Lightning.
We built ShapedQL because we noticed that while retrieval (finding 1,000 items) has been commoditized by vector DBs, ranking (finding the best 10 items) is still an infrastructure problem.
To build a decent for you feed or a RAG system with long-term memory, you usually have to put together a vector DB (Pinecone/Milvus), a feature store (Redis), an inference service, and thousands of lines of Python to handle business logic and reranking.
We built an engine that consolidates this into a single SQL dialect. It compiles declarative queries into high-performance, multi-stage ranking pipelines.
HOW IT WORKS:
Instead of just SELECT , ShapedQL operates in four stages native to recommendation systems:
RETRIEVE: Fetch candidates via Hybrid Search (Keywords + Vectors) or Collaborative Filtering. FILTER: Apply hard constraints (e.g., "inventory > 0"). SCORE: Rank results using real-time models (e.g., p(click) or p(relevance)). REORDER: Apply diversity logic so your Agent/User doesn’t see 10 nearly identical results.
THE SYNTAX: Here is what a RAG query looks like. This replaces about 500 lines of standard Python/LangChain code:
SELECT item_id, description, price
FROM
-- Retrieval: Hybrid search across multiple indexes
search_flights("$param.user_prompt", "$param.context"),
search_hotels("$param.user_prompt", "$param.context")
WHERE -- Filtering: Hard business constraints
price <= "$param.budget" AND is_available("$param.dates")
ORDER BY -- Scoring: Real-time reranking (Personalization + Relevance)
0.5 * preference_score(user, item) +
0.3 * relevance_score(item, "$param.user_prompt")
LIMIT 20If you don’t like SQL, you can also use our Python and Typescript SDKs. I’d love to know what you think of the syntax and the abstraction layer!
Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art
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Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
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Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
A lot of population numbers are fake
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We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)
See also https://ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust"
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Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer
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Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105
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Building a High-Performance Rotating Bloom Filter in Java
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Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt
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