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DoorDash moved its agents off laptops and ran 130,000 engineering tasks in a month

DoorDash's Flux platform automated 130,000 engineering tasks in one month, including more than 25,000 automated code reviews a week, using Firecracker microVMs with a 95th percentile sandbox setup under five seconds.

Source: PressInfrastructure

FreeToken ran a 35B model at about 39 tokens a second on an 8GB laptop GPU

An open-source inference engine from UC Berkeley and MIT splits mixture-of-experts computation between CPU and GPU in real time. Its paper reports 3 to 4 times faster decode than Ollama and llama.cpp on equivalent models.

Source: PressInfrastructure

Debian voted to allow AI-written contributions, and put the responsibility on the contributor

Debian's voting developers adopted a policy saying generative AI is neither exempt from nor subject to special rules. Disclosure is encouraged and not required. The contributor remains responsible for everything they submit.

Source: PressOpen source

Cloudflare AI Search builds a retrieval pipeline from one command, and no longer needs a sitemap

Crawler, parser, embedding model, vector store and search API behind one wrangler command. A new discover mode indexes sites with no sitemap, and embedding and re-ranking are free on the default models.

Source: PressInfrastructure

Three open-weight acquisitions in a month, in a sector that gives its models away

Nvidia reportedly bidding about $13 billion for Hugging Face, $6 billion to Poolside, and Stripe paying more than $7 billion for OpenRouter. Meanwhile only 6 percent of companies use open-weight models, by one survey.

Source: PressModels & agents

The Information reports Salesforce is letting customers pay for AI based on revenue it grows or costs it cuts

The Information reports Salesforce is starting to let businesses choose how they pay for Agentforce, including custom contracts priced on deals closed or service interactions automated.

Source: PressGo-to-market

restoredrill restores your Postgres backup into a temporary container and writes down that it worked

restoredrill fetches your latest PostgreSQL backup, restores it into a disposable container, runs checks you define, and writes a JSON report with a real timestamp and the restore time. MIT, written in Go.

Source: Hacker NewsInfrastructure

RealDiff runs your tests on both sides of a pull request and compares what the code actually did

RealDiff builds both branches with runtime instrumentation, runs the same test suite on each, records every method call's arguments and return values, and diffs the two traces instead of reading the source diff.

Source: Hacker NewsDev tools

IndexFlow is search indexing infrastructure as Rust crates you run yourself

Sitemap processing, technical validation, IndexNow submission and multi-site scheduling, published as Rust crates under MIT or Apache 2.0 with a rolling quota circuit breaker.

Source: Hacker NewsOpen source

oMLX writes the KV cache to SSD, so a coding agent on a Mac stops recomputing the whole context

A local inference server for Apple Silicon that persists KV cache blocks across an in-memory tier and an SSD tier, so a shifting prompt prefix does not force a full recomputation. 21,152 stars, Apache 2.0.

Source: Product HuntInfrastructure

Superagent gives every chat its own git checkout, and lets the agent control a browser you can watch

A macOS desktop app for Claude Code where every conversation gets a private branch and checkout, the agent controls a visible browser using your own logins, and an iOS Simulator streams into the window.

Source: Product HuntDev tools

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