IaC

Diller Bids For Rest of MGM Resorts After Overhauling IAC

SWE-InfraBench: Evaluating Language Models on Cloud Infrastructure Code

arXiv:2606.05249v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Building infrastructure-as-code (IaC) in cloud computing is a critical task, underpinning the reliability, scalability, and security of modern software systems. Despite the remarkable progress of large language models (LLMs) in software engineering -- demonstrated across many dedicated benchmarks -- their capabilities in developing IaC remain underexplored. Unlike existing IaC benchmarks that predominantly center on declarative paradigms such...

Ask.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet's favorite butler

Ask.com has shut down, marking the official farewell to the Internet's favorite butler Ask.com, the search engine previously known for its butler mascot named Jeeves, has officially shut down. While Ask Jeeves was rebranded to Ask.com in 2006 by its new owner at the time, InterActiveCorp, this latest closure puts an end to the entirety of the company's search business. "As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes...

AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an AI TypeScript Engineer to connect 300 SaaS tools

TL;DR: Senior Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript while using AI daily to build browser automations, seeking a fully remote role within ±3 hours of CET (Berlin). You thrive on solving real problems, are eager to grow, and want to work closely with a small, tight-knit team to transform how companies worldwide manage their SaaS tools. 💶 If this role isn't for you but you know someone great, share a referral with us.

Longest-period young transiting exoplanets discovered

Longest-period young transiting exoplanets discovered Lisa Lock Scientific Editor Andrew Zinin Lead Editor It's 2234, you're on your annual class field trip touring exoplanets, and your teacher informs everyone they can pick one more exoplanetary system to explore before heading back to Earth. You and your classmates are exhausted from the day's activities and you're hungry. However, you get really excited because you already know what everyone will want.

Show HN: Cost.dev (YC W21) – making agents cost-aware and cheaper to call

We launched Infracost on HN five years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588) where our CLI generated cost estimates for infra-as-code, e.g. "this Terraform PR adds $400/mo". The idea was to shift cloud costs (FinOps) left, so engineers get visibility of costs before deployment and make better decisions. Earlier this year we started seeing agent traffic in our logs and it looked like coding agents were calling our CLI.

Barry Diller's People offers to buy casino giant MGM Resorts for $48.30 per share

Barry Diller's People Inc. has offered to buy casino giant MGM Resorts for $48.30 per share in cash. MGM is the company behind major Las Vegas properties including Bellagio and Aria. Shares of MGM were up roughly 11% in early trading Monday.