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Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices. We were always frustrated by the little effort made towards building a

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SQL: Incorrect by Construction

Article URL: https://chreke.com/posts/sql-incorrect-by-construction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111798 Points: 10 # Comments: 2

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Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

Article URL: https://duckdb.org/2026/05/12/quack-remote-protocol Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111765 Points: 63 # Comments: 7

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Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim

Article URL: https://xbow.com/blog/dead-letter-cve-2026-45185-xbow-found-rce-exim Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111748 Points: 41 # Comments: 14

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Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/canadas-bill-c-22-repackaged-version-last-years-surveillance-nightmare Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111531 Points: 113 # Comments: 38

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Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup

Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.

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Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

OpenAI's CEO recalls a "particularly hair-raising" conversation with the SpaceX founder.

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Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares

The company named Open Doors Partners, Unicorns Exchange, Pachamama Capital, Lionheart Ventures, Hiive, Forge Global, Sydecar and Upmarket as companies that are not authorized to provide access to buy or sell its shares.

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Potholes cost cities millions: This company is using AI and trucks to fix them

Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they're deteriorating.

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Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit

Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.

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Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets

Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.

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The AI legal services industry is heating up. Anthropic is getting in on the action.

As the AI legal services industry heats up, Anthropic is launching its own suite of features designed to assist law firms.

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Google adds Gemini-powered Dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups

Google's transcription feature will initially launch with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones

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Android adds a feature to stop you from doomscrolling

Google’s new Android feature, Pause Point, forces you to wait before opening distracting apps in an effort to curb addictive scrolling habits.

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Google unveils Googlebooks, a new line of AI-native laptops

The company says Googlebooks, which are launching this fall, are the first laptops designed from the ground up for Gemini Intelligence to offer personal and proactive help.