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Microsoft Mishandling Example.com
tinyapps.org
White House defends sharing AI image showing arrested woman crying
bbc.co.uk

Latest updates from the BBC's specialists in fact-checking, verifying video and tackling disinformation.

What has Docker become?
tuananh.net

Docker Inc's journey from containerization pioneer to AI-focused platform has been anything but straightforward. Here's what their strategic shifts tell us about the company's search for identity.

Booting a PC from a Vinyl Record
boginjr.com
Why I Don't Have Fun With Claude Code
brennan.io

Stephen Brennan - Stephen Brennan's personal website and blog.

Ghostty's AI Policy
github.com/ghostty-org

👻 Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration. - ghostty-org/ghostty

Google is ending full-web search for niche search engines
programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com

The latest news, updates and tips from the Programmable Search Engine team

The State of Modern AI Text to Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users
stuff.interfree.ca
Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster
pgdog.dev
Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem
dbushell.com

David Bushell - The one where I get very annoyed with my email provider

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]
youtube.com
CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story
wsj.com
United States Completes WHO Withdrawal
hhs.gov
Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking
philipotoole.com
The lost art of XML
marcosmagueta.com
U.S. Formally Withdraws from World Health Organization
nytimes.com
Bugs Apple Loves
bugsappleloves.com
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
theguardian.com

Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
eff.org

Corynne McSherry and Rory Mir - In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it, even preserving it for your own use inevitably requires copying. Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media, US cop

Stunnel
stunnel.org

Home page for stunnel: a multiplatform GNU/GPL-licensed proxy encrypting arbitrary TCP connections with SSL/TLS.

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)
leidenmedievalistsblog.nl

This blog post explores the historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games.

Arkansas inmates restricted from receiving physical books, other media directly
arkansasadvocate.com

Ainsley Platt - Arkansas inmates will no longer receive books, newspapers or magazines directly under a new policy approved by the Board of Corrections Friday.

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
swift.org

Apple Inc. - There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.

Anthropic Economic Index economic primitives
anthropic.com

This report introduces new metrics of AI usage to provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5.

Viking Ship Museum in Denmark announces the discovery of the largest cog
medievalists.net

Medievalists.net - A medieval cargo ship of extraordinary size has been found in the waters off Copenhagen. Built around 1410, Svælget 2 is being called the world’s largest cog, and its remarkably preserved remains are revealing new details about medieval shipbuilding and Northern European trade networks.

Extracting a UART Password via SPI Flash Instruction Tracing
zuernerd.github.io

Introduction

Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users
openai.com
Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
reuters.com
White House Posts Digitally Altered Image of Woman Arrested After ICE Protest
theguardian.com

Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

Goldman Sachs Global Macro Research: Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit [pdf] (2024)
goldmansachs.com
Show HN: CLI for working with Apple Core ML models
github.com/schappim
show

A native command-line interface for working with Apple Core ML models on macOS - schappim/coreml-cli

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?
eieio.games

I made my next game twice as fast by forking go's crypto library

'Active' sitting is better for brain health: review of studies
sciencealert.com

Carly Cassella - Excessive sitting isn't good for a person's physical or mental health, but there's a type of sedentary activity that may not shrink our brains or cost our cognition to the same extent.

I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?
hugodaniel.com
Colorectal cancer is now the top cause of cancer death in younger people
wsj.com
Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills
mintlify.com

All Mintlify documentation sites now contain a skill.md file. Learn about this open standard for agent skills and how to use it.

Y Combinator No Longer Investing in Canadian Companies
web.archive.org

The Y Combinator Standard Deal - $500k

Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
science.org
Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU
reddit.com/r/europe
CSS Optical Illusions
alvaromontoro.com

Alvaro Montoro (alvaromontoro@gmail.com) - A collection of 50+ optical illusions coded with CSS and HTML. :: Blog post at Alvaro Montoro's Personal Website.

Show HN: First Claude Code client for Ollama local models
github.com/21st-dev
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Best UI for Claude Code. Contribute to 21st-dev/1code development by creating an account on GitHub.

Are you sure you want to leave YouTube?
blog.jim-nielsen.com
Composing APIs and CLIs in the LLM era
walters.app
Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%
coloradosun.com

Tamara Chuang - Much of the downtown submarkets ended 2025 more than 40% empty. But as available sublease space diminishes, the industry hopes stabilization is afoot.

Launch HN: Constellation Space (YC W26) – AI for satellite mission assurance
news.ycombinator.com
launch

Stop satellite failures before they happen

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC
cannoneyed.com
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Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?)
ilanbigio.com
Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params)
huggingface.co
show

360p or 720p, 2-5 seconds, Apache 2.0

Show HN: BrowserOS – "Claude Cowork" in the browser
github.com/browseros-ai
show

🌐 The open-source Agentic browser; privacy-first alternative to ChatGPT Atlas, Perplexity Comet, Dia. - browseros-ai/BrowserOS

Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios
bbc.co.uk

The studio, known for Assassin's Creed and Just Dance, is also delaying seven titles in a restructure.

Miami, your Waymo ride is ready
waymo.com

Starting today, Waymo is welcoming the first public riders into our fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Miami. With nearly 10,000 residents already signed up, we will be inviting new riders on a rolling basis to ensure a seamless experience across our initial 60-square-mile service area. The territory includes Miami’s most iconic neighborhoods—from the Design District and Wynwood to Brickell and Coral Gables—wit

It looks like the status/need-triage label was removed
github.com/google-gemini

What would you like to be added? Adds native recognition for JetBrains IDE as a supported IDE environment. Why is this needed? Currently, Gemini CLI restricts IDE integration features to environmen...

Show HN: Bible translated using LLMs from source Greek and Hebrew
biblexica.com
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GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
gptzero.me

GPTZero's analysis 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations

Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers
lambdaland.org

I got asked a good question today: what is the difference between Tree-sitter and a language server? I don’t understand how either of these tools work in depth, so I’m just going to explain from an observable, pragmatic point of view.

Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs Appointed Lieutenant Colonels in US Army (2025)
twitter.com
In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels
e360.yale.edu
You can now download Windows 7 and Vista ISO images with all the updates
neowin.net
Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit
thenation.com

A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”

Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market
pillser.com
show

Helping you make informed decisions about your health by combining the latest research with the supplements available on the market.

Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation
qwen.ai
Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
shreevatsa.net
Satya Nadella: "We need to find something useful for AI"
pcgamer.com

Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households
apolloacademy.com

Torsten Slok - The proportion of US households composed of a single individual continues to rise, see chart below. Sources: US Census Bureau,...

I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21
elliot.my

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Design Thinking Books (2024)
designorate.com

Dr Rafiq Elmansy - An updated list of design thinking books and papers to understand the principles underpinning the design thinking process and its practice.

'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
theatlantic.com
We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
curl.se
ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss
pdfa.org
The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans
bbc.com

Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

AI SlopStop by Kagi
help.kagi.com
In Praise of APL (1977)
jsoftware.com
SpaceX lowering orbits of 4,400 Starlink satellites for safety's sake
space.com

"Lowering the satellites results in condensing Starlink orbits, and will increase space safety in several ways."

30 Years of ReactOS
reactos.org
Satya Nadella: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing
jpcaparas.medium.com
Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims (2017)
pbs.org

In a historic Brazilian city, burn patients look as if they’ve emerged from the waves. They are covered in fish skin — specifically strips of sterilized tilapia -- but why?

Bluementhals letter about ICE memo justifying entry into homes without warrant [pdf]
hsgac.senate.gov
ICE says officers can forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant
nbcnews.com

The policy was revealed in a May 12 memo whistleblowers shared with a U.S. senator.

Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance
fb.org

While FBA and ECAP payments are an important and welcome step in addressing near-term financial stress, they do not fully close the gap between costs and returns.

Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
blog.citp.princeton.edu

Andrew Appel - All internet voting systems are insecure. The insecurity is worse than a well-run conventional paper ballot system, because a very small number of people may have the power to change any (or all) votes that go through the system, without detection.

States Are Gunning to Ban 3D Printers and CNCs
electronicdesign.com

Andy Turudic - Washington and New York are writing legislation requiring a massive refit of CNC and 3D printers or they’re banned from sale. California is also banning machines and files.

I'll pass on your zoom call
operand.online
Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
jamf.com

Jamf Threat Labs uncovers North Korean hackers exploiting VS Code to deploy backdoor malware via malicious Git repositories in the Contagious Interview campaign

From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown
kentik.com

Iran is in the midst of one of the world’s most severe communications blackouts. This post uses Kentik data to detail how this historic event unfolded, where this event lies in the context of previous Iranian shutdowns, and finally discusses what might be in store next for Iran.

Lix – universal version control system for binary files
lix.dev

Lix is a universal version control system for any file format. Unlike Git's line-based diffs, Lix understands file structure, showing 'price: 10 → 12' instead of 'line 4 changed'.

Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
huggingface.co
show

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Convert potentially dangerous PDFs to safe PDFs
github.com/freedomofpress

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to safe PDFs - freedomofpress/dangerzone

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant
media.mit.edu

Nataliya Kos'myna - This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation [video]
youtube.com
Immigration officers assert power to enter homes without a warrant
apnews.com

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB
terabytedeals.com
What if AI is both good and not that disruptive?
deadneurons.substack.com

Dead Neurons - The moderate case on AI

Devin Review: AI to Stop Slop
cognition.ai

As code generation gets easier, code review is the new bottleneck. That's why we're launching a new way to quickly review and understand complex PRs in our latest tool for codebase understanding - augmenting human attention with AI.

eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
valueaddedresource.net

eBay bans AI “buy for me” agents & LLM scrapers, updates arbitration & dispute resolution rules in User Agreement update effective Feb. 20, 2026.

Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain
arstechnica.com

Lawsuit was filed under seal; Anna's Archive wasn't notified until after takedown.

FreeBSD
docs.freebsd.org

A constantly evolving, comprehensive resource for FreeBSD users

Show HN: Retain – A unified knowledge base for all your AI coding conversations
github.com/BayramAnnakov
show

Retain is a native macOS application that aggregates AI conversations from multiple platforms into a unified, searchable knowledge base with intelligent learning extraction. - BayramAnnakov/retain

OpenAI API Logs: Unpatched data exfiltration
promptarmor.com

OpenAI’s API log viewer is vulnerable to a data exfiltration attack, exposing apps and agents that use OpenAI APIs, even if developers (and Agent Builder users) leverage all available defenses. The vulnerability was disclosed to OpenAI, but was closed with the status 'Not applicable' after 4 follow-ups.

Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing
kenkoonwong.com

Enjoyed learning the process of setting up a cluster of tiny PCs for parallel computing. A note to myself on installing Ubuntu, passwordless SSH, automating package installation across nodes, distributing R simulations, and comparing CV5 vs CV10 performance. Fun project!

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