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Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-30/google-unveils-gemini-ai-for-robots-struggling-with-dexterity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215047

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I've always been a fan of Black Forest Labs' FLUX image models. Specifically how "un-AI" their look is. (One might even describe it the opposite of Midjourney which feels like it excels at a surreal look.)

Seedance 2.5 is likely taking the spotlight today but I wanted to do a deep dive into FLUX.3 so it can get some attention.

My general observation is that FLUX.3 video is the most "clay-like" video model I've played with.

Specifically: - Adding and rerunning video prompts feels additive/subtractive and not completely random generations (I feel much more in control of the medium). - "Draft" and "Enhance" modes (rerunning generations with the same seed) feel like getting to work with clay before committing in a kiln. Certainly a faster and cheaper way of working with generative video.

Excited to share results here.

The canvas has all generations with the prompts included.

Spent ≈$1,000 on this test.

Disclosure: I'm the co-founder of Martini (W26), which is where I ran the test

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213712

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Article URL: https://oskrim.github.io/engineering/2026/08/02/call-stack-diffs.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213699

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TL;DR I'm looking for advice regarding browser-based frontend development from people with practical e-ink UI experience. My specific device is a Bigme Hibreak Pro BW but I'm aiming for relatively broad compatibility.

I've recently switched to a black-and-white e-ink smartphone with the motivation of withdrawing from the attention economy somewhat and it's a genuinely cool piece of hardware. While the majority of my needs are met by this device there are a few things I'd like to have which don't work terribly well with the e-ink screen. I'm planning to implement a couple of projects to fill these gaps, at the moment I'm planning a Lemmy frontend and an OpenRouter frontend specifically for e-ink. Both are to be browser-based rather than native, to maximise compatibility and because I'm much more familiar with the web than Android development.

I would like to study the principles of sound e-ink UI design before approaching these projects to avoid creating unusable slop, in particular I am not entirely sure how to approach treating the refreshes as a first-class aspect of the design when I can't control them from the browser, and how to apply comprehensible UI conventions when a greyscale, high-contrast display is the target.

Some specific problems I have out of the gate are:

* Streaming LLM output to the screen is basically the worst-case scenario for e-ink, I need to buffer it and paint it in chunks without this becoming horrible to use.

* Ghosting is a serious problem, browsing HN on the device is a particularly obvious example. Ideally I want to avoid scrolling as far as possible and rely on pagination instead, which I feel has the potential to become annoying if not done well.

* Given I must rely exclusively on layout and type to carry the UI, what design languages emphasise these qualities best? My gut says the early Mac OS versions wouldn't be a bad place to start, this seems relevant given the display constraints of the early macs.

I would greatly appreciate any advice on the design and implementation of e-ink UIs from people with practical experience in this area. This is purely to scratch a personal itch, once they're nailed down I'll put them out in the wild under the GPL.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213660

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Article URL: https://cdm.link/music-to-confuse-ai-might-be-the-next-new-genre/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213647

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Article URL: https://www.onyxresearch.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213633

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Article URL: https://wordart97.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213631

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Article URL: https://thephd.dev/to-save-c-we-must-save-abi-fixing-c-function-abi

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213607

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Article URL: https://www.404media.co/city-that-arrested-person-for-clapping-at-data-center-meeting-moves-to-virtual-townhalls-for-public-safety/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213592

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We’re 5 founders who’ve collectively done over 250 interviews - everywhere from startups to Big Tech to quant shops. Most of the interviews we’ve done were Leetcode based or tested skills that weren’t used on the job.

These days, with AI, assessments still continue to test code output. Meanwhile, at each of our companies, though, PR counts have nearly tripled. Most of us haven’t manually edited a line of code in a year.

Our teams are putting more and more emphasis on code and architecture reviews, yet hiring processes haven’t changed whatsoever. Even the AI-assisted ones we’ve done still assess code output as the primary evaluation metric. As agents develop, we truly believe this will not be the most challenging ability for an engineer to have.

We’ve seen that the real difficulty with using AI is not just reviewing code your AI generates; it is reviewing code that another engineer’s AI has generated, having little context yourself.

That’s why we’re launching Merge today. Our goal with Merge is to assess engineering judgement. We're still quite early in the design phase, but here’s how it works:

1. Candidates are shown a small codebase to understand and a PR to review and comment on. 2. An AI agent addresses each PR comment via a code change or reply, simulating a real engineer. 3. Candidates can repeat until 5 revisions are used up or time runs out.

At the end, we assess the following: 1. Coverage - How many bugs or vulnerabilities did the candidate identify and address? 2. Communication - Was the candidate efficient and constructive with their feedback? 3. Efficiency - How many revisions and tokens did the review take?

We’re the first platform that can show companies exactly how efficient a candidate is with token use, LLM costs, and PR revisions — all of which are exceedingly important in real jobs.

If you’re interested in the next-generation of engineering hiring, book a demo with us! Feel free to ask any questions below as well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213554

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Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06301

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213543

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Received a notice from tally.so notifying that someone accessed their user database.

I asked which “hash” they used and whether passwords were salted. I have not heard back yet.

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On August 3, an attacker gained unauthorized access to Metabase, the analytics service we use to see how Tally is used. Through that they reached your email address, and your password as a cryptographic hash. A hash is one-way, so it can't be turned back into your password. They didn't reach your forms, or the answers people submitted to them. Those are stored separately.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213500

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Article URL: https://rpc3.dev/posts/coding-agents-defaults-and-human-judgment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213488

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Article URL: https://parakeet.narcotic.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213471

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Article URL: https://fratellobigio.com/posts/the-two-year-old-firefox-arm64-video-bug/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213459

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Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/duckduckgo-sunglasses-22377693.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213458

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Article URL: https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/g02623/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213432

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Article URL: https://github.com/keras-team/keras/releases/tag/v3.15.1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213431

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