DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

Thedeepseek-v4-flash-vision-expmodel accepts images alongside text, so you can ask the model to describe pictures, read text from screenshots, analyze charts, and more. Supported image formats:JPEG, PNG, GIF, and WebP. The format is detected from the actual file content, not from the file name or the declared MIME type. There are three ways to provide an … Devamını oku

Small, native web tricks worth remembering

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can do more than we remember. Each post-it pairs one useful platform feature with a small example and the caveat that matters. Some notes cover limited or experimental features. Check the support label, keep a fallback, and test with real browsers and assistive technology.

The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier’s Pirates

When Microprose greenlitSid Meier’s Pirates!in 1986, the company—which Meier founded along with Bill Stealey back in 1982—was mostly known for vehicle sims (Gunship, Spitfire Ace, F-15 Strike Eagle) and dry strategic wargames likeCrusade in Europe. Pirateswas something different. It’s hard to pin it down to a genre even today, but it certainly wasn’t like previous … Devamını oku

We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon

Encorebuilds and deploys backend applications, and since mid-2022 every one of those builds has run inside aFirecrackermicroVM. Firecracker strips the emulated hardware down to what a Linux kernel needs, giving each build the isolation of a virtual machine with startup close to the cost of a container. Firecracker drivesKVM, so it needs a Linux host … Devamını oku

Codex on AWS bedrock bug causing 10x charges

Native Codex CLI requests to Amazon Bedrock Mantle cannot opt into GPT-5.6 Sol explicit prompt caching. On an agentic coding workload, this has produced a large volume of cache-write tokens and materially higher cost. This is related to#35300, but adds independent production usage evidence from the nativeamazon-bedrockprovider. For the completed days 2026-08-05 through 2026-08-08, Cost … Devamını oku

AI companies destroy physical books – let’s scan rare books before it’s too late

A guest post by Anna’s Archive volunteer “u” (translated from Chinese). TL;DR:AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever. Several … Devamını oku

Consumer Rights Wiki

Creating the internet’s largest dedicated repository of information on anti-consumer practices, one edit at a time. Speaking of moderators and moderator tools, if you’re a regular wiki contributor please remember to check out ourmoderator applications page! Thanks for reading, and happy editing! Pleased to announce that we’re shipping a big new update for the wiki … Devamını oku

The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

Recovery required several coordinated actions. Teams rerouted traffic, isolated affected infrastructure, and restored services in stages. Most GitHub services recovered earlier that day, but some Copilot services took longer. Errors in those services triggered a client-side retry loop that increased traffic during recovery. We had to mitigate that behavior before we could safely restore traffic. … Devamını oku

Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

If you’re a software engineer like me, the first few months of 2026 were incredible. Coding agents suddenly became good enough that we no longer needed to manually write code. But if you’re like me, then sometime later you hit a wall. The honeymoon period ended, and the novelty wore off. No more dopamine hits. … Devamını oku