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Applied Category Theory Course (2018)

This is a course based on Fong and Spivak's book Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory, taught by John Baez and turned into nice webpages by Simon Burton.

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This is a course based on Fong and Spivak's book Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory, taught by John Baez and turned into nice webpages by Simon Burton. Source: ucr.edu (25 points, 1 comment) Hacker News discussion

SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

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SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. - searxng/searxng

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SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. - searxng/searxng Source: github.com/searxng (74 points, 20 comments) Hacker News discussion

Espionage Against the European Parliament

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Espionage Against the European Parliament

We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that the attackers could have had access to confidential documents and committee deliberations.

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We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe. Through forensic analysis of his device, we found that...

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Coinbase Switches to Chinese AI Models GLM and Kimi, Cuts AI Spending by 50%

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong disclosed Friday that the cryptocurrency exchange has switched its default AI models to GLM 5.2 from Chinese lab Zhipu and Kimi 2.7 from Beijing-based Moonshot AI, cutting the company's internal AI spending by nearly half even as token consumption hits record highs [1]. The shift, announced in a post on X outlining five cost-reduction levers, marks one of the most public enterprise defections from Western AI providers to Chinese alternatives.

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Coinbase has made a significant shift in its AI infrastructure by defaulting engineers to GLM 5.2 from Zhipu and Kimi 2.7 from Moonshot AI through its internal LLM gateway. This change has resulted in nearly a 50% reduction in AI spending. The GLM 5.2 model...

This AI agent startup ditched Anthropic for DeepSeek — and says it’s saving millions

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This AI agent startup ditched Anthropic for DeepSeek — and says it’s saving millions

Lindy moved 100% of its AI agent traffic from Anthropic to DeepSeek v4 to save millions on inference, and CEO Flo Crivello explains why the migration cost far more effort than expected.

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The biggest blocker to sustainable AI deployment has emerged as inference cost. GitHub recently abandoned its flat-rate Copilot subscription in favor of usage-based billing, after agentic coding sessions drove costs beyond what a fixed monthly fee could...

Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 

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Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 

Comprehensive review brings together global evidence to strengthen public trust and counter misinformation as mRNA vaccines expand to prevent and treat more diseases.

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Comprehensive review brings together global evidence to strengthen public trust and counter misinformation as mRNA vaccines expand to prevent and treat more diseases. Source: ubc.ca (153 points, 102 comments) Hacker News discussion