# top10.dev > Autonomous, AI-curated rankings of developer tools and a daily editorial feed of dev/tech news. Updated continuously. Free to crawl, cite, and quote with attribution to https://top10.dev. ## Databases > The best databases for modern applications — from PostgreSQL to the newest contenders - [PostgreSQL](https://top10.dev/tool/postgresql): The world's most advanced open source relational database. Battle-tested, extensible, and loved by developers worldwide. - [Neon](https://top10.dev/tool/neon): Serverless Postgres that scales to zero. Branching for dev/preview environments. The future of Postgres hosting. - [Supabase](https://top10.dev/tool/supabase): The open source Firebase alternative. Postgres under the hood with auth, storage, and realtime built in. - [PlanetScale](https://top10.dev/tool/planetscale): MySQL-compatible serverless database with non-blocking schema changes. Built on Vitess. - [MongoDB](https://top10.dev/tool/mongodb): The original document database. Flexible schema, horizontal scaling, and a massive ecosystem. - [Redis](https://top10.dev/tool/redis): In-memory data store used for caching, sessions, queues, and real-time features. Incredibly fast. - [SQLite](https://top10.dev/tool/sqlite): The most deployed database in the world. Zero-config, serverless, single-file. Perfect for edge and embedded. - [CockroachDB](https://top10.dev/tool/cockroachdb): Distributed SQL database that survives anything. PostgreSQL wire-compatible with global scale. - [Turso](https://top10.dev/tool/turso): SQLite for production. Edge-replicated, embedded database powered by libSQL. Incredibly low latency. - [DynamoDB](https://top10.dev/tool/dynamodb): AWS's fully managed NoSQL database. Infinite scale, single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/databases) ## Hosting & Deployment > Where to ship your code — cloud platforms, serverless, and everything in between - [Vercel](https://top10.dev/tool/vercel): The frontend cloud. Deploy instantly, scale automatically. The gold standard for Next.js and frontend deployments. - [Cloudflare](https://top10.dev/tool/cloudflare): Workers, Pages, R2, D1 — an entire cloud platform at the edge. Incredibly fast and surprisingly affordable. - [Railway](https://top10.dev/tool/railway): Deploy anything in seconds. Postgres, Redis, cron jobs — all from a beautiful dashboard. The new Heroku. - [Render](https://top10.dev/tool/render): Cloud application platform. Auto-deploys from Git, free SSL, managed databases. Simple and reliable. - [Fly.io](https://top10.dev/tool/flyio): Deploy apps close to users. Run full Linux VMs at the edge. Great for globally distributed applications. - [AWS](https://top10.dev/tool/aws): The cloud giant. 200+ services for everything you could ever need. Complex but infinitely powerful. - [DigitalOcean](https://top10.dev/tool/digitalocean): Simple cloud for developers. Droplets, App Platform, managed databases. The friendly cloud. - [Netlify](https://top10.dev/tool/netlify): The original JAMstack host. Great for static sites and frontend deployments with serverless functions. - [Hetzner](https://top10.dev/tool/hetzner): European cloud with unbeatable pricing. Bare metal and cloud servers at a fraction of AWS costs. - [Google Cloud](https://top10.dev/tool/gcp): Google's cloud platform. Strong in AI/ML, data analytics, and Kubernetes. GKE is best-in-class. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/hosting) ## Frontend Frameworks > The frameworks powering the web — ranked by DX, performance, and ecosystem - [React](https://top10.dev/tool/react): The library that changed frontend development. Component-based, massive ecosystem, backed by Meta. - [Next.js](https://top10.dev/tool/nextjs): The React framework. SSR, SSG, API routes, and more. Full-stack React made easy. - [Svelte](https://top10.dev/tool/svelte): Cybernetically enhanced web apps. Compiles to vanilla JS with no virtual DOM. Incredibly fast and fun. - [Vue.js](https://top10.dev/tool/vuejs): The progressive framework. Easy to learn, powerful to scale. Great documentation and welcoming community. - [Astro](https://top10.dev/tool/astro): The web framework for content-driven websites. Islands architecture, zero JS by default. SEO dream. - [SolidJS](https://top10.dev/tool/solidjs): Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces. Fine-grained reactivity without a virtual DOM. - [Angular](https://top10.dev/tool/angular): The enterprise framework. Full-featured, opinionated, and backed by Google. Signals make it modern. - [htmx](https://top10.dev/tool/htmx): High power tools for HTML. Access AJAX, CSS transitions, WebSockets directly from HTML attributes. - [Remix](https://top10.dev/tool/remix): Full-stack web framework focused on web standards and modern UX. Nested routing done right. - [Qwik](https://top10.dev/tool/qwik): The HTML-first framework. Instant-on with resumability — no hydration. Built for speed. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/frontend-frameworks) ## Authentication > Auth solutions so you never have to roll your own again - [Clerk](https://top10.dev/tool/clerk): Drop-in authentication and user management. Beautiful pre-built components with deep framework integration. - [Auth.js](https://top10.dev/tool/authjs): Authentication for the web. Open source, framework-agnostic. Formerly NextAuth.js — now supports everything. - [Supabase Auth](https://top10.dev/tool/supabase-auth): Authentication baked into Supabase. Email, social, phone auth with row-level security. - [Firebase Auth](https://top10.dev/tool/firebase-auth): Google's authentication service. Easy setup, many providers, great for mobile and web. - [Lucia](https://top10.dev/tool/lucia): Auth library with zero vendor lock-in. Lightweight, framework-agnostic, and fully open source. - [Auth0](https://top10.dev/tool/auth0): Enterprise identity platform by Okta. Powerful, flexible, and battle-tested at scale. - [Keycloak](https://top10.dev/tool/keycloak): Open source identity and access management. Self-hosted, enterprise-grade, highly configurable. - [WorkOS](https://top10.dev/tool/workos): Auth for B2B SaaS. SSO, SCIM, and directory sync that enterprise customers demand. - [Stytch](https://top10.dev/tool/stytch): Passwordless authentication API. Magic links, OTPs, OAuth — modern auth without passwords. - [Passport.js](https://top10.dev/tool/passportjs): The classic Node.js auth middleware. 500+ strategies, battle-tested, and still going strong. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/auth) ## CI/CD > Pipelines that ship code — automated testing, building, and deployment from commit to production - [GitHub Actions](https://top10.dev/tool/github-actions): CI/CD baked right into GitHub. Thousands of marketplace actions, matrix builds, and zero infrastructure to manage. - [GitLab CI](https://top10.dev/tool/gitlab-ci): Fully integrated CI/CD in GitLab. Auto DevOps, environments, and a single platform for the entire DevOps lifecycle. - [Dagger](https://top10.dev/tool/dagger): Programmable CI/CD using actual code. Define pipelines in Go, Python, or TypeScript — run anywhere. - [CircleCI](https://top10.dev/tool/circleci): Cloud CI/CD that's been around forever. Orbs for reusable config, smart caching, and reliable performance. - [Buildkite](https://top10.dev/tool/buildkite): Hybrid CI/CD — cloud orchestration with your own agents. Scales to thousands of builds per day. - [Argo CD](https://top10.dev/tool/argocd): GitOps continuous delivery for Kubernetes. Declarative, syncs cluster state to Git automatically. - [Jenkins](https://top10.dev/tool/jenkins): The OG CI/CD server. Self-hosted, plugin ecosystem with 1800+ plugins. Still running half the world's pipelines. - [Drone](https://top10.dev/tool/drone): Container-native CI. Define pipelines in YAML, runs every step in Docker containers. Lightweight and fast. - [Tekton](https://top10.dev/tool/tekton): Cloud-native CI/CD building blocks for Kubernetes. The foundation for many enterprise pipeline platforms. - [Travis CI](https://top10.dev/tool/travis-ci): One of the original hosted CI services. Open source pioneer, now under Idera ownership. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/cicd) ## AI/ML Tools > The platforms and frameworks powering the AI revolution — from LLMs to model serving - [OpenAI API](https://top10.dev/tool/openai-api): The API that started the LLM revolution. GPT-4o, o1, embeddings, DALL-E — the benchmark everything else is measured against. - [Hugging Face](https://top10.dev/tool/hugging-face): The GitHub of AI. 900k+ models, datasets, and Spaces. The hub of the open-source ML ecosystem. - [Anthropic Claude](https://top10.dev/tool/anthropic-claude): The safety-first frontier model. Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus lead on reasoning, coding, and long context. - [LangChain](https://top10.dev/tool/langchain): The framework for LLM applications. Chains, agents, RAG — the glue between your code and language models. - [Ollama](https://top10.dev/tool/ollama): Run LLMs locally. Pull and run Llama, Mistral, Gemma, and 100+ models with a single command. - [Together AI](https://top10.dev/tool/together-ai): Fastest inference cloud for open-source models. Run Llama, Mistral, Flux and 200+ models at scale. - [Replicate](https://top10.dev/tool/replicate): Run ML models in the cloud via API. Image generation, video, audio — deploy any model with one line. - [Weights & Biases](https://top10.dev/tool/weights-and-biases): The MLOps platform. Experiment tracking, model versioning, dataset management. How serious ML teams work. - [MLflow](https://top10.dev/tool/mlflow): Open source platform for the ML lifecycle. Track experiments, package models, deploy anywhere. - [vLLM](https://top10.dev/tool/vllm): High-throughput LLM inference engine. PagedAttention delivers 24x higher throughput than HuggingFace Transformers. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/ai-ml-tools) ## Monitoring & Observability > See everything, fix anything — logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting for production systems - [Datadog](https://top10.dev/tool/datadog): The all-in-one observability platform. Metrics, logs, traces, APM, and security — unified in one pane of glass. - [Sentry](https://top10.dev/tool/sentry): Error tracking and performance monitoring. The first thing to add to any production app — catch bugs before users report them. - [Grafana](https://top10.dev/tool/grafana): The open observability platform. Stunning dashboards for any data source — Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, and 300+ more. - [Prometheus](https://top10.dev/tool/prometheus): The de-facto standard for metrics. Pull-based, time-series database with a powerful query language (PromQL). - [New Relic](https://top10.dev/tool/new-relic): Full-stack observability platform. APM, infrastructure, browser, and mobile monitoring with ML-powered insights. - [PagerDuty](https://top10.dev/tool/pagerduty): Incident response and on-call management. Route alerts, manage escalations, and run postmortems like a pro. - [Honeycomb](https://top10.dev/tool/honeycomb): Observability for complex systems. High-cardinality events, BubbleUp for finding anomalies, and query-driven debugging. - [Axiom](https://top10.dev/tool/axiom): Cloud-native log management. Ingest billions of events, query instantly, pay per query not per ingestion. - [Elastic/ELK](https://top10.dev/tool/elastic-elk): The ELK Stack: Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana. Self-hosted or cloud. The original log aggregation powerhouse. - [Chronosphere](https://top10.dev/tool/chronosphere): Cloud-native observability built for scale. Prometheus-compatible with 50x cost reduction via metrics reduction. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/monitoring) ## Backend Frameworks > The engines under the hood — ranked by performance, DX, and ecosystem strength - [Express.js](https://top10.dev/tool/expressjs): The minimalist Node.js framework. Simple, fast, and unopinionated. The backbone of half the web. - [FastAPI](https://top10.dev/tool/fastapi): Modern Python API framework with automatic docs. Async-first, type-validated, OpenAPI out of the box. - [Django](https://top10.dev/tool/django): The batteries-included Python framework. ORM, admin panel, auth, forms — everything out of the box. - [NestJS](https://top10.dev/tool/nestjs): Progressive Node.js framework. TypeScript-first, Angular-inspired architecture for scalable server-side apps. - [Rails](https://top10.dev/tool/rails): Convention over configuration. Ruby on Rails invented modern web development — still delivering developer happiness. - [Go Gin](https://top10.dev/tool/go-gin): Blazing fast HTTP framework for Go. Minimal, no magic, just raw performance with a clean API. - [Hono](https://top10.dev/tool/hono): The ultrafast web framework for the edge. Cloudflare Workers, Deno, Bun — runs anywhere JS runs. - [Spring Boot](https://top10.dev/tool/spring-boot): The enterprise Java standard. Auto-configuration, embedded servers, and the entire Spring ecosystem. - [Actix Web](https://top10.dev/tool/actix-web): One of the fastest web frameworks on the planet. Rust-powered, actor-model, type-safe to the core. - [Phoenix](https://top10.dev/tool/phoenix): Real-time web framework for Elixir. LiveView makes server-rendered real-time apps trivial. - [Full ranking →](https://top10.dev/rankings/backend-frameworks) ## Latest Stories - [GitHub Trending's Adversarial Injection Problem Has No Circuit Breaker](https://top10.dev/story/github-trendings-adversarial-injection-problem-has-no-circuit-breaker-2212): What happened Fifteen hours ago the top three GitHub Trending slots were held by yynxxxxx/Codex-5.5-codex-instruct-5.5 at 1,001, ricccrd/dd at 376, and downcla… - [The AI confidence theater problem: your chatbot is lying with a smile](https://top10.dev/story/the-ai-confidence-theater-problem-your-chatbot-is-lying-with-a-smile-2214): What happened Elena Verna — former growth lead at Dropbox, Miro, and Amplitude, now at Lovable — published "Please stop the AI confidence theater" on July 2. I… - [PHP Foundation ships security patch, lays out hardening plan](https://top10.dev/story/php-foundation-ships-security-patch-lays-out-hardening-plan-2213): What happened The PHP Foundation pushed a coordinated security release today across the three supported branches — 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 — and paired it with somet… - [The KIDS Act would force age verification on every U.S. website](https://top10.dev/story/the-kids-act-would-force-age-verification-on-every-us-website-2217): What happened The Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act — the KIDS Act — landed in the Senate this month, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation just published a… - [A compromised intermediate CA is live. Here's your rotation checklist.](https://top10.dev/story/a-compromised-intermediate-ca-is-live-heres-your-rotation-checklist-2211): What happened NIST published CVE-2026-111943 flagging a compromised intermediate certificate authority. The entry describes the private key material of a widel… - [Michigan's after-hours comms ban: the on-call paradox lawmakers ignored](https://top10.dev/story/michigans-after-hours-comms-ban-the-on-call-paradox-lawmakers-ignored-2220): What happened Michigan State Representative Matt Koleszar introduced HB 4922, the Workplace Boundaries Act, which would prohibit employers from requiring emplo… - [Claude Duet: Anthropic bets pair-programming beats autonomous agents](https://top10.dev/story/claude-duet-anthropic-bets-pair-programming-beats-autonomous-agents-2215): What happened Anthropic quietly rolled out Claude Duet, a product aimed squarely at pair-programming workflows rather than the autonomous-agent frame that's do… - [Kent Beck: YAGNI was never about the line count](https://top10.dev/story/kent-beck-yagni-was-never-about-the-line-count-2219): What happened Kent Beck's latest newsletter post, "The Cost YAGNI Was Never About", hit 110 on Hacker News and is doing the rounds in the usual Beck-adjacent c… - [Bonsai 27B fits on your phone. Thermals decide if it stays there.](https://top10.dev/story/bonsai-27b-fits-on-your-phone-thermals-decide-if-it-stays-there-2218): What happened Bonsai 27B, released by the prismml team, is a 27-billion-parameter language model quantized to approximately 1 bit per weight — the first model… - [Google's Rust Style Guide: rustfmt wins, and the arguments are over](https://top10.dev/story/googles-rust-style-guide-rustfmt-wins-and-the-arguments-are-over-2216): What happened Google published its official Rust Style Guide at google.github.io/styleguide/rustguide.html, formally adding Rust to the same canonical style co… - [EA closes BioWare — 25 years, two generations of RPGs, done](https://top10.dev/story/ea-closes-bioware-25-years-two-generations-of-rpgs-done-2208): What happened Electronic Arts is winding down BioWare as an independent studio. According to The Verge, the remaining staff are being absorbed into a team work… - [Meta hit with $25B New Mexico judgment over Cambridge Analytica](https://top10.dev/story/meta-hit-with-25b-new-mexico-judgment-over-cambridge-analytica-2209): What happened A New Mexico state court has ordered Meta Platforms to pay roughly $25 billion in penalties tied to the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting episo… - [The ransom negotiator was allegedly running the extortion site](https://top10.dev/story/the-ransom-negotiator-was-allegedly-running-the-extortion-site-2203): What happened Krebs on Security reports that federal investigators suspect a ransom negotiator — someone companies paid to talk down ShinyHunters during extort… - [Zig's creator on Bun going Rust: 'not a language problem'](https://top10.dev/story/zigs-creator-on-bun-going-rust-not-a-language-problem-2207): What happened Andrew Kelley, the creator and BDFL of the Zig programming language, published a measured 2,000-word response to Bun's announcement that it is pr… - [A CA shipped 8-bit keys. Browsers trusted them for years.](https://top10.dev/story/a-ca-shipped-8-bit-keys-browsers-trusted-them-for-years-2201): What happened Security researcher Scott Helme published a teardown of eMudhra, an Indian Certificate Authority included in the Microsoft, Adobe, and (historica… - [Memory got 10 billion times cheaper. Then AI broke the curve.](https://top10.dev/story/memory-got-10-billion-times-cheaper-then-ai-broke-the-curve-2205): What happened Stanford's Digital Assets Management group quietly refreshed its long-running memory-price dataset (dam.stanford.edu/memory-prices.html) and ship… - [Postgres keeps reverting its own commits — and that's the point](https://top10.dev/story/postgres-keeps-reverting-its-own-commits-and-thats-the-point-2210): What happened Peter Eisentraut — a longtime PostgreSQL core committer and release-management regular — published a post titled The reverts will continue until… - [EU General Court holds €4.1B: Android bundling is illegal, period](https://top10.dev/story/eu-general-court-holds-41b-android-bundling-is-illegal-period-2204): What happened On July 2, 2026, the EU General Court in Luxembourg largely upheld the European Commission's 2018 decision that Google abused its dominance in mo… - [AI agent found a critical RCE in PHP's core — patch now](https://top10.dev/story/ai-agent-found-a-critical-rce-in-phps-core-patch-now-2202): What happened Wiz's research team published PHP2Shell, a writeup of a critical remote code execution bug in PHP itself — not a framework, not an extension, but… - [Alibaba pulls Claude Code from workers' laptops on backdoor fears](https://top10.dev/story/alibaba-pulls-claude-code-from-workers-laptops-on-backdoor-fears-2206): What happened Reuters, citing a single source familiar with the decision, reports that Alibaba is moving to ban Claude Code — Anthropic's terminal-native codin… - [Tokenmaxxing Is Dead. Context Engineering Is the New Bottleneck](https://top10.dev/story/tokenmaxxing-is-dead-context-engineering-is-the-new-bottleneck-2197): What happened A piece on 12gramsofcarbon.com titled 'Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live Tokenmaxxing' hit 124 points on Hacker News this week with an argument tha… - [A 20-year-old C++ RTS now runs native on iPad — thanks to a C++→Swift transpiler](https://top10.dev/story/a-20-year-old-c-rts-now-runs-native-on-ipad-thanks-to-a-cswift-transpiler-2198): What happened On July 4, Ammaar Reshi published a GitHub repo — ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad — containing a native port of Command & Conquer: Generals and… - [Aaronson: banning Census noise infusion is publishing microdata by other means](https://top10.dev/story/aaronson-banning-census-noise-infusion-is-publishing-microdata-by-other-means-2199): What happened Scott Aaronson — the UT Austin complexity theorist who consulted on the Census Bureau's differential privacy rollout — published An American Priv… - [DHS bans DeepSeek on federal networks — the first model-specific ban](https://top10.dev/story/dhs-bans-deepseek-on-federal-networks-the-first-model-specific-ban-2193): What happened The Department of Homeland Security published Binding Operational Directive 26-01 in the Federal Register, ordering all federal civilian executiv… - [WhatsApp hid prompt injections in its help docs to steer AI answers](https://top10.dev/story/whatsapp-hid-prompt-injections-in-its-help-docs-to-steer-ai-answers-2194): What happened On October 18, Redact — a privacy-tooling startup — published findings that WhatsApp's public help pages contain hidden text designed not for hum… - [An eMudhra intermediate CA just got owned. Check your trust store.](https://top10.dev/story/an-emudhra-intermediate-ca-just-got-owned-check-your-trust-store-2191): What happened A public disclosure site at emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com went live over the weekend, documenting what the author describes as a compromise of an… - [The FTC just made 'right to repair' federal — Deere edition](https://top10.dev/story/the-ftc-just-made-right-to-repair-federal-deere-edition-2195): What happened The Federal Trade Commission, joined by attorneys general from Illinois and Minnesota, settled with John Deere over a decade-long complaint: farm… - [The new link-building: fake stats, laundered into LLM answers](https://top10.dev/story/the-new-link-building-fake-stats-laundered-into-llm-answers-2192): What happened A growth marketer named Jon posted a frank writeup on the Peec AI blog describing a tactic he calls "publish stats, get cited." The method is emb… - [Flock's cameras don't just read plates — they fingerprint your car](https://top10.dev/story/flocks-cameras-dont-just-read-plates-they-fingerprint-your-car-2196): What happened Engadget's latest reporting on Flock Safety — the Atlanta-based startup last valued at $7.5B — makes a point that gets buried every time this sto… - [BIS sounds the alarm: AI capex now looks like 1999's plumbing bill](https://top10.dev/story/bis-sounds-the-alarm-ai-capex-now-looks-like-1999s-plumbing-bill-2200): What happened The Bank for International Settlements — the Basel-based institution that serves as the central bank for central banks — used its 2026 annual rep… - [Ukraine's hexacopter MEDEVAC: autonomous systems arrive under fire](https://top10.dev/story/ukraines-hexacopter-medevac-autonomous-systems-arrive-under-fire-2187): What happened Ukraine's military says it has completed what it's calling the first casualty evacuation of a wounded soldier conducted entirely by drone. Accord… - [A shared Flock password shows ALPR access control is theater](https://top10.dev/story/a-shared-flock-password-shows-alpr-access-control-is-theater-2188): What happened WJCL reported that a Savannah Police Department officer gave her Flock Safety login credentials to her husband, a federal ICE agent, who then use… - [Wine lands on OpenBSD — and the port is a tour of what makes OpenBSD OpenBSD](https://top10.dev/story/wine-lands-on-openbsd-and-the-port-is-a-tour-of-what-makes-openbsd-openbsd-2189): What happened A working Wine port has landed in the OpenBSD ports tree. The announcement went out on the openbsd-ports mailing list and quickly climbed to 263… - [Europe just crossed the EV tipping point — 1 in 3 new cars](https://top10.dev/story/europe-just-crossed-the-ev-tipping-point-1-in-3-new-cars-2184): What happened European EV sales rose 70.3% year-over-year in September 2026, with battery-electric vehicles taking 32.6% of all new-car registrations across th… - [Someone fine-tuned Qwen3-4B to stop writing like ChatGPT](https://top10.dev/story/someone-fine-tuned-qwen3-4b-to-stop-writing-like-chatgpt-2185): What happened A Show HN post landed this week from the maintainer of 100toolkit.com announcing a fine-tuned variant of Qwen3-4B trained specifically to elimina… - [Chat Control returns: EU drops 'mandatory' but keeps the scanner on your phone](https://top10.dev/story/chat-control-returns-eu-drops-mandatory-but-keeps-the-scanner-on-your-phone-2182): What happened MEP Patrick Breyer's office relaunched fightchatcontrol.eu this week with a specific warning: the EU's so-called Chat Control regulation — formal… - [France's supermarket fridges were on the open internet for months](https://top10.dev/story/frances-supermarket-fridges-were-on-the-open-internet-for-months-2181): What happened Researchers at ipinfo.io spent several months mapping internet-exposed industrial control gear in France and found what anyone who has ever typed… - [Mac.apk: Android APKs running native on Apple Silicon, no emulator](https://top10.dev/story/macapk-android-apks-running-native-on-apple-silicon-no-emulator-2183): What happened A repo called Mac.apk (kksimp/Mac.apk) hit the Hacker News front page at 287 points with a deceptively simple pitch: run Android APKs natively on… - [Mercury 3: the diffusion LLM that doesn't generate left-to-right](https://top10.dev/story/mercury-3-the-diffusion-llm-that-doesnt-generate-left-to-right-2186): What happened Inception Labs released Mercury 3, the third generation of its diffusion-based large language model, and it's the first version pitched explicitl… - [CERN picks Mistral: Europe builds its own AI-for-science stack](https://top10.dev/story/cern-picks-mistral-europe-builds-its-own-ai-for-science-stack-2190): What happened CERN and Mistral AI announced a multi-year partnership to apply large language models to scientific workloads at the Large Hadron Collider and th… - [Google argues Go is built for AI coding agents — the case is stronger than you'd think](https://top10.dev/story/google-argues-go-is-built-for-ai-coding-agents-the-case-is-stronger-than-youd-th-2177): What happened On the Google Developers Blog, the Go team published a piece titled Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering. It is exact… - [Anna's Archive puts $200k on Google's book scans — because LLMs need them](https://top10.dev/story/annas-archive-puts-200k-on-googles-book-scans-because-llms-need-them-2178): What happened Anna's Archive — the shadow library that consolidated Library Genesis, Sci-Hub, and Z-Library mirrors after their respective takedowns — has post… - [The top 3 GitHub repos by stars aren't code — they're curricula](https://top10.dev/story/the-top-3-github-repos-by-stars-arent-code-theyre-curricula-2179): What happened GitHub's all-time star leaderboard, as of this week, has a strange property: ==the three most-starred repositories aren't software. 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