Lore — Epic Games has open-sourced a centralized, content-addressed version control system for game-scale repositories, with binary-first storage, sparse hydration, and folder-level permissions.US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek and 100+ Chinese firms — Reuters reports a procedural pause; the HN thread is full of developers saying DeepSeek is already their daily driver.Leaked docs show OpenAI is losing billions a year — most of the cost is inference, not training; the next era of frontier-model economics will be won on serving cost per token.GLM-5.2 leads the open-weights board — Zhipu's new release tops Artificial Analysis's intelligence index for open weights, with caveats around reasoning tokens used per answer.Firecracker VMs in EC2, browsers in less than a second — a deep technical post on snapshotting, userfaultfd, two-megabyte pages, and disabling a PS/2 keyboard probe that was costing half a second per session.Launch HN: CADAM — open-source text-to-CAD in the browser, OpenSCAD compiled to WebAssembly, Three.js rendering, Claude on the language side.U.S. science is in chaos — Scientific American long-form piece on funding instability breaking the long-standing science-government compact.Tesco moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware — citing Broadcom licensing conduct; the latest in an accelerating exodus.Follow links to the original posts and HN threads via news.ycombinator.com.
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