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He saw an abandoned trailer. Then, uncovered a surveillance network
calmatters.org

Wendy Fry, Khari Johnson - California residents are noticing new license plate readers that appear to be operated by the Border Patrol. Some have had confusing encounters with agents.

iPhone and iPad approved to handle classified NATO information
apple.com

Today, Apple announced iPhone and iPad are the first and only consumer devices in compliance with information assurance requirements of NATO nations.

Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."
twitter.com
Show HN: Deff – side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal
github.com/flamestro
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interactive, side-by-side file review for git diffs with per-file navigation, vertical and horizontal scrolling, syntax highlighting, and added/deleted line tinting - flamestro/deff

Google Street View in 2026
tech.marksblogg.com
SynthID
deepmind.google

SynthID is a tool to watermark and identify AI-generated content, helping to foster transparency and trust in generative AI.

Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]
cs.uml.edu
The Pentagon Feuding with an AI Company Is a Bad Sign
foreignpolicy.com

Steven Feldstein - Anthropic doesn’t trust this administration with its technology—and it has a point.

Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers
endowment.dev

The Open Source Endowment provides truly sustainable funding for critical open source software through a community-driven endowment model.

Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
read.technically.dev

Sachin - Is your vibe-coded app a Crapject or a Gift?

Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
blog.google

Our latest image generation model offers advanced world knowledge, production-ready specs, subject consistency and more, all at Flash speed.

AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]
ndss-symposium.org

That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.

Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
bhusalmanish.com.np

Manish Bhusal - Benchmarks say one thing. Developers do another. Why Claude keeps winning at real coding work while Gemini loops, Codex catches up, and process beats raw intelligence.

In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5%
bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social

In 2025, Meta paid an effective federal tax rate of 3.5% — its lowest on record. Meanwhile, Meta is pumping $65 million into elections this year to boost AI friendly candidates. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax, it's corrosive to democracy. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

Story of XZ Backdoor [video]
youtube.com
BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything
tuananh.net

Most people know BuildKit as the thing that makes docker build fast. But BuildKit is a general-purpose build framework with a programmable architecture that can produce any artifact, not just container images. Here's how it works and how I used it to build Alpine APK packages.

This time is different
shkspr.mobi

Terence Eden - 3D TV, AMP, Augmented Reality, Beanie Babies, Blockchain, Cartoon Avatars, Curved TVs, Frogans, Hoverboards, iBeacons, Jetpacks, Metaverse, NFTs, Physical Web, Quantum Computing, Quibi, Small and Safe Nuclear Reactors, Smart Glasses, Stadia, WiMAX. The problem is, the same dudes (and it was nearly always dudes) who were pumped for all of that bollocks now won't stop wanging on about Artificial…

just-bash: Bash for Agents
github.com/vercel-labs

Bash for Agents. Contribute to vercel-labs/just-bash development by creating an account on GitHub.

Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'
theverge.com

Emma Roth - Have it your way?

Anthropic ditches its core safety promise
cnn.com

Clare Duffy, Lisa Eadicicco - Anthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.

Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications
scripps.edu
Number of UK workers on zero-hours contracts hits record high ahead of crackdown
bbc.co.uk

There has been a 181,000 increase in the number of zero-hours contracts since Labour was elected.

Show HN: Agent Swarm – Multi-agent self-learning teams (OSS)
github.com/desplega-ai
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Agent Swarm framework for AI coding agents and more! - desplega-ai/agent-swarm

Men in their 50s may be aging faster due to toxic 'forever chemicals'
cnn.com

Sandee LaMotte - Some types of “forever chemicals” are aging men in their 50s and early 60s faster than at other times of life, a new study found.

You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account
heltweg.org

Philip Heltweg - New immigration rules for the UK are being enforced starting February 2026. This means citizens of 85 additional countries (including the USA and European countries) will need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) to visit, even for tourism. Luckily, you can apply (and pay) digitally. Unfortunately, the government very much would prefer you to do so using the official app.

Show HN: Terminal Phone – E2EE Walkie Talkie from the Command Line
gitlab.com/here_forawhile
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GitLab.com

Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience
better-hub.com
show

Re-imagining code collaboration for humans and agents.

Technical Excellence Is Not Enough
raccoon.land

A field guide to being right when it doesn't matter.

Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users
news.ycombinator.com
ask
I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”
grumpy-economist.com

John H. Cochrane - I recently tried refine, an AI tool for refining academic articles, developed by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.

US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land
theguardian.com

Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land

Canada and South Korea sign a defence agreement
cbc.ca
Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers
wsj.com
RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs
arstechnica.com

RAM represented about 15 to 18 percent of PC costs last quarter, HP said.

Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit
disruptionbanking.com

Richardson Chinonyerem - Crypto’s most infamous collapse is back in the spotlight, and this time the blast radius reaches deep into Wall Street. A new lawsuit doesn’t just revisit Jane Street sued for alleged insider trading in Terra's $40B collapse. Lawsuit claims the firm front-ran UST trades using non-public info, accelerating the 2022 meltdown.

Show HN: ZSE – Open-source LLM inference engine with 3.9s cold starts
github.com/Zyora-Dev
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Zyora Server Inference Engine for LLM . . Contribute to Zyora-Dev/zse development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
eff.org

Matthew Guariglia - The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any restrictions for their use. Anthropic should stick by their principles and refuse to allow their...

Larry Page has moved to Florida
twitter.com
Banned in California
bannedincalifornia.org

Why you can't build a smartphone, electric car, or destroyer in the Golden State.

Origin of the rule that swap size should be 2x of the physical memory
retrocomputing.stackexchange.com

I can trace this recommendation that swap should be twice the size of the physical memory as far back as 1989, see SunOS 4 installation manual, page 37, but I wonder if there was ever any technical

First Website (1992)
info.cern.ch
How will OpenAI compete?
ben-evans.com

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experie

Hiring Engineers When AI Writes Our Code
tolans.com

We designed our interview loop from the ground up around AI.

Leaked Documents Show Meta Cracking Down on Access to Abortion Information
motherjones.com

Its AI chatbot won't discuss the subject with teens—even as Meta fights claims it exposed kids to actual harm.

An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
aircada.com

Thinking of using AI for your Shopify 3D models? Read this first. We compare AI-generated 3D 'slop' vs. handcrafted models to show why the human touch is very much required to attain positive ROI.

Making MCP cheaper via CLI
kanyilmaz.me

I Made MCP 94% Cheaper (And It Only Took One Command)

RK3588 and RK3576 video decoders support merged in the upstream Linux Kernel
collabora.com

Rockchip VDPU381/VDPU383 support is now upstream in Linux, adding mainline H.264/HEVC decode, robust IOMMU reset recovery, and more!

Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
spectrum.ieee.org

How did Jimi Hendrix turn his guitar into a wave synthesizer? Dive into the engineering behind his iconic sound.

PA bench: Evaluating web agents on real world personal assistant workflows
vibrantlabs.com

We're creating reinforcement learning environments for AI agents.

Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
trufflesecurity.com

Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.

Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism
david.alvarezrosa.com

Ever wondered why your “clean” polymorphic design underperforms in benchmarks? Virtual dispatch enables polymorphism, but it comes with hidden …

Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go
github.com/odvcencio
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Pure Go tree-sitter runtime. Contribute to odvcencio/gotreesitter development by creating an account on GitHub.

The Slow Death of the Power User
fireborn.mataroa.blog
The Pentagon threatens Anthropic
astralcodexten.com

Scott Alexander - ...

The Om Programming Language
om-language.com
Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw
tachyon.so

AI agent misbehavior isn't a sandbox problem—it's a permissions problem. What the market actually needs is a fundamentally new approach to agentic authorization.

Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'
theregister.com

: It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience'

Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
blogs.windows.com

Dave Grochocki - Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out updates for Notepad and Paint apps to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. Notepad (version 11.2512.10.0) In this update, we’re introduci

Why isn't LA repaving streets?
lapublicpress.org
Racket v9.1
blog.racket-lang.org
Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs
arxiv.org

We show that large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization. With full Internet access, our agent can re-identify Hacker News users and Anthropic Interviewer participants at high precision, given pseudonymous online profiles and conversations alone, matching what would take hours for a dedicated human investigator. We then design attacks for the closed-world setting. Given two databases of pseu

Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
arstechnica.com

Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.

The Misuses of the University
publicbooks.org

Morgan Barry - Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective
worksinprogress.co

Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective. It can turn a service people tolerate into one they’re happy to use.

I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus
github.com/benjismith

experiments invoking AI agents and asking them to act randomly! - benjismith/ai-randomness

LibreOffice resumes work on its self-hosted Google Docs alternative
xda-developers.com

LibreOffice Online is back, with a few tweaks.

GNU Texmacs
texmacs.org
Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
reuters.com
New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
marginalia.nu

I’ve had this sense that HN has gotten absolutely innundated with bots last few months. First most obvious giveaway is the frequency with which you see accounts posting brilliant insights like 13 60 well and t6ctctfuvuh7hguhuig8h88gd to f6gug7h8j8h6fzbuvubt GB I be cugttc fav uhz cb ibub8vgxgvzdrc to bubuvtxfh tf d xxx h z j gj uxomoxtububonjbk P.l.kvh cb hug tf 6 go k7gtcv8j9j7gimpiiuh7i 8ubg or 1662476506 or Аё Bey

Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin
github.com/yassi
show

The control room for your Django app. Contribute to yassi/dj-control-room development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
respectify.org
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The webpage of Respectify, an AI-powered comment moderation tool that helps maintain respectful and relevant discussions online.

Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock
clocksimulator.com
show

A clean, fullscreen analog clock simulator. View the current time with rendered clock.

Palantir Built the Data Layer That Right to Erasure Can't Touch
frontierlabs.substack.com

Muskan Shafat - Palantir's Ontology, two cities using data well, and what the India AI Summit didn't say

Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats
app.teamout.com
launch
What are the best coping mechanisms for AI Fatalism?
news.ycombinator.com
ask
Never buy a .online domain
0xsid.com
Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build
thenewstack.io

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - Red Hat is betting a commercially supported Podman Desktop can lure corporate developers away from Docker Desktop.

AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
newscientist.com

#author.fullName} - Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

100M-Row Challenge with PHP
github.com/tempestphp

Contribute to tempestphp/100-million-row-challenge development by creating an account on GitHub.

Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
therecord.media

Denmark's digital affairs ministry says it plans to switch to the open source LibreOffice software and away from Microsoft products as part of an effort to make the government more digitally independent.

Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play
llmskirmish.com
show

LLM Skirmish - An Adversarial In-Context Learning Benchmark

Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE
forum.lazarus.freepascal.org
LLM=True
blog.codemine.be

Your AI coding agent is drowning in noise

Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI
theregister.com

opinion: Protect the robot, sacrifice the human

Claude Code Remote Control
code.claude.com

Continue a local Claude Code session from your phone, tablet, or any browser using Remote Control. Works with claude.ai/code and the Claude mobile app.

Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo
dropbox.com
Show HN: Context Mode – 315 KB of MCP output becomes 5.4 KB in Claude Code
github.com/mksglu
show

Stop losing context to large outputs. Contribute to mksglu/claude-context-mode development by creating an account on GitHub.

Turing Completeness of GNU find
arxiv.org

The Unix command \texttt{find} is among the first commands taught to beginners, yet remains indispensable for experienced engineers. In this paper, we demonstrate that \texttt{find} possesses unexpected computational power, establishing three Turing completeness results using the GNU implementation (a standard in Linux distributions). (1) \texttt{find} + \texttt{mkdir} (a system that has only \texttt{find} and \textt

Tech Firms Aren't Just Encouraging Their Workers to Use AI. They're Enforcing It
wsj.com
Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS
tunaformac.com

New, modern launcher for macOS.

Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
news.ycombinator.com
ask
What Happened to Fry's Electronics
dfarq.homeip.net

Dave Farquhar - Fry's had been struggling for years but it was still a bit of a surprise to see it go

Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
time.com

Billy Perrigo - In an abrupt shift, the company may release future AI models without ironclad safety guarantees

Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy
thebignewsletter.com

Matt Stoller - California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleged Amazon led a price-fixing conspiracy of online retailers to inflate prices across the entire economy. And he's demanding an immediate halt.

Five security lessons from the FBI's Washington Post raid
freedom.press

Court documents show how investigators can track digital activities, and reveal ways to harden journalists’ devices

US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards
theguardian.com

Anthropic presents itself as most safety-forward AI firm and Pentagon has threatened penalties if it does not yield

Agents.md file isn't the problem. Your lack of Evals is
tessl.io

Discover why your AGENTS.md file isn't the issue but the lack of evaluations is. Learn how to effectively validate context files for better results.

Fed's Cook says AI triggering big changes, sees possible unemployment rise
reuters.com
Every privacy concession in history has been permanent
nbtv.substack.com

NBTV Media - Every privacy concession in history has been permanent. So why are we still making them?

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