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Decoding base64 in Python at 10 gigabytes per second
Base64 Decoding Performance in Python Base64 converts binary data to text using 64 ASCII characters. The encoding represents three bytes with four characters, making it more efficient than a one-character-per-bit approach. The for...
A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents
The Cairn Platform Used in Coordinated AI-Agent Attacks A hacker used an army of AI agents to break into more than 100 websites, according to findings from AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge did not name the targets, Reute...
AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for 'public good'
Anthropic said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the public good. The AI developer behind the Claude chatbot made the announcement as it seeks to bolster appeal before a stock market listing. The company announced it w...
Ask HN: What are the things LLM models fail at?
Anthropic said it will commit 5% of its shares to a fund for the public good. The AI developer behind the Claude chatbot made the announcement as it seeks to bolster appeal before a stock market listing. The company announced it w...
Article: From Microservices to Agents: The Next Evolution of Distributed Systems
The latest series from Infoq establishes agentic AI architecture as a new software type destined to shape the industry for years ahead. This first article traces how agentic systems differ from microservices and what architectural...
Podcast: The Future of Web Apps: Will AI Agents Generate UIs on the Fly?
Rachel Lee Nabors spent years on the React core team and at FAANG before returning to engineering with Mima, a local-first social aggregator. The project emerged from frustration with walled social networks and the desire to aggre...
Show HN: CanaryGuard – A <0.1ms deterministic AI prompt firewall with $5 bounty
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Rebuilding the API edge for AI Agents
A single prompt like "Move every overdue task to next week and let the owners know" takes seconds to type. For the AI agent executing it, that instruction expands into dozens of API calls: find the board, read every item, check da...
Show HN: Gsearch – Real Google Search for AI Agents, via a Real Firefox (MCP)
AI agents needing reliable Google search have a new self-hosted option. gsearch delivers actual Google results pages as typed JSON, including AI Overview, People also ask, and related searches. A real Firefox instance running Camo...
vLLM Agentic API
A conversation that carries forward keeps item history and response state on the server. Continuing with previous_response_id avoids rebuilding the transcript on every call. vLLM Agentic API is the agentic server that lets you run...