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Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
vecti.com
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Man who videotaped himself BASE jumping in Yosemite arrested, says it was AI
latimes.com

A California man is facing a criminal charge for allegedly BASE jumping off Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park during the federal government shutdown last year.

Uber Found Liable in Rape by Driver, Setting Stage for Cases
nytimes.com
Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes
bitsaboutmoney.com

The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.

The Waymo World Model
waymo.com

We are excited to introduce the Waymo World Model, a frontier generative model that sets a new bar for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation. 

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
sheldonbrown.com
NIMBYs aren't just shutting down housing
inpractice.yimbyaction.org

Jeff Fong - They want to shut down our right to be heard in the first place.

An Update on Heroku
heroku.com

Nitin T Bhat - Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change

Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS
github.com/microsoft

A security-focused library OS supporting kernel- and user-mode execution - microsoft/litebox

Amazon plunge continues $1T wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off
cnbc.com
Wall Street just lost $285B because of 13 Markdown files
martinalderson.com

Anthropic's 'legal tool' that triggered a $285bn selloff is 156KB of markdown. The panic reveals a hard truth about the future of software.

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
hackers-1995.vercel.app
LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
alperenkeles.com
U.S. asks American citizens to 'leave Iran now'
cnbc.com
Anna's Archive Loses .PM Domain, Adds Greenland (.GL) Backup
torrentfreak.com
I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
kirkville.com

Many ads in Apple News served by Taboola are clearly scams.

Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is
wiz.jock.pl
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TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
nytimes.com
US Immigration on the Easiest Setting
pluralistic.net
Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy
caltech.edu

A major technological advance in DNA writing enables researchers to construct and create in the language of biology

A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content
niemanlab.org

A new bill in the New York state legislature would require news organizations to label AI-generated material and mandate that humans review any such content before publication. On Monday, Senator Patricia Fahy (D-Albany) and Assemblymember Nily Rozic (D-NYC) introduced the bill, called The New York…

Things Unix can do atomically (2010)
rcrowley.org
Systems Thinking
theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com

A blog about software development and programming.

Ask HN: 10 months since the Llama-4 release: what happened to Meta AI?
news.ycombinator.com
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Show HN: Artifact Keeper – Open-Source Artifactory/Nexus Alternative in Rust
github.com/artifact-keeper
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artifact-keeper has 7 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Volkswagen overtook Tesla as Europe's top EV seller in 2025
reuters.com
Waiting for Postgres 19: Better planner hints with path generation strategies [video]
youtube.com
I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded
vespalec.com

How four layers of authentication in a production anti-cheat driver still hand you a complete BYOVD toolkit

What's at the Other End of 8.8.8.8?
blog.nono.io

Brian Cunnie - 8.8.8.8 is Google’s “free, global DNS resolution service”, so popular that it’s been lampooned by XKCD. It has a wonderfully straightforward front-end: the IP address 8.8.8.8. But that begs the question: what’s on the back-end? Do the authoritative nameservers receive queries from 8.8.8.8 or some other IP address? Spoiler: the queries don’t originate from 8.8.8.8; instead, the queries originate from a range of IP add

GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams
iankduncan.com

Why GitHub Actions is the Internet Explorer of CI, and why Buildkite offers a better path forward for teams that care about developer experience.

We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands
bbc.com

A couple who stayed in Shenzhen discovered their intimate moments were filmed as spy-cam porn.

Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning
seekingalpha.com

Bitcoin outlook turns bearish as Pivotus’ Richard Farr targets BTC at $0 and Michael Burry warns of a “death spiral.” Get the risks and key levels now.

C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)
faultlore.com
Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
news.ycombinator.com
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The RCE that AMD won't fix
mrbruh.com

After reporting a RCE in AMD's auto-update software, they decided to not patch it due to it requiring a man-in-the-middle attack to perform.

Please stop using OpenClaw, formerly known as Moltbot
xda-developers.com

It could cause you a lot of problems.

Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate
apnews.com

Residents of a small coastal Cuban town face severe hardships despite living near energy sources. Santa Cruz del Norte experiences daily blackouts and fuel shortages, forcing people to cook with coal and firewood.

India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
theguardian.com

Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

What if writing tests was a joyful experience? (2023)
blog.janestreet.com

At Jane Street we use a pattern/library called “expect tests” thatmakes test-writing feel like a REPL session, or like exploratoryprogramming in a Jupyter no...

Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)
newworker.org
It's 2026, Just Use Postgres
tigerdata.com

Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB, and time-series in one database.

Animated Engines
animatedengines.com
Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo
support.claude.com
LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions
github.com/mdp

Contribute to mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bitcoin drops below $67,000 as selloff heats up and pessimism grows about crypto
cnbc.com
The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein
scottaaronson.blog

Last night, I was taken aback to discover that my name appears in the Epstein Files, in 26 different documents. This is despite the fact that I met Jeffrey Epstein a grand total of zero times, and …

We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
anthropic.com

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

My AI Adoption Journey
mitchellh.com
Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]
youtube.com
Ardour 9.0
ardour.org

The open-source cross-platform digital audio workstation

Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
axios.com
Psychometric Jailbreaks Reveal Internal Conflict in Frontier Models
arxiv.org

Frontier large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini are increasingly used for mental-health support with anxiety, trauma and self-worth. Most work treats them as tools or as targets of personality tests, assuming they merely simulate inner life. We instead ask what happens when such systems are treated as psychotherapy clients. We present PsAIch (Psychotherapy-inspired AI Characterisation), a two-s

PsiACE/Skills – A small, shared skill library
github.com/PsiACE

A small, shared skill library by builders, for builders. - PsiACE/skills

The Wyden Siren: Senator's Cryptic CIA Letter Pattern Has Never Been Wrong
techdirt.com

If you’ve been paying attention to surveillance and civil liberties issues over the past fifteen years, you’ve likely learned to recognize a particular pattern. Senator Ron Wyden will o…

GPT-5.3-Codex
openai.com
Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority"
techoversight.org

techoversighteditor - New documents show the tactics Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok execs used to disrupt learning, prey on minors, and co-opt the PTA to control the narrative with parents WASHINGTON, DC – Today, The Tech Oversight Project published a new report spotlighting newly unsealed documents in the 2026 social media addiction trials. The documents provide smoking-gun evidence […]

Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions
code.claude.com

Coordinate multiple Claude Code instances working together as a team, with shared tasks, inter-agent messaging, and centralized management.

Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6
claude.com

With Claude Opus 4.6, finance teams get better reasoning on complex analyses, cleaner first-pass deliverables, and new tools built for where analysts actually spend their time.

Claude Opus 4.6
anthropic.com

We’re upgrading our smartest model. Across agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search, and finance, Opus 4.6 is an industry-leading model, often by wide margin.

Everyone Is Stealing TV
theverge.com

Janko Roettgers - Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.

Hypernetworks: Neural Networks for Hierarchical Data
blog.sturdystatistics.com
European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams
euractiv.com

Euractiv - The Matrix protocol is being lined up as a sovereign backup to Microsoft Teams

Show HN: Smooth CLI – Token-efficient browser for AI agents
docs.smooth.sh
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Give your AI agent a browser that actually works

Bitcoin tumbles below $70k, wiping out gains since Trump 2024 win
reuters.com
Jeffrey Epstein's Money Mingled with Silicon Valley Startups
nytimes.com
Why Elixir is the best language for AI – Dashbit Blog
dashbit.co
Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving
transition.fcc.gov
CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook
simonwillison.net

Simon Willison - Somewhat devastating news today from CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they decided …

OpenAI Frontier
openai.com

OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents with shared context, onboarding, permissions, and governance.

The New Collabora Office for Desktop
collaboraonline.com

The New Collabora Office For Desktop Same look. Same code. Your files, your device. Collabora Online now on desktop We’re excited to share the first release of the new Collabora Office for desktop – bringing the familiar, powerful Collabora Online experience, to run locally on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Open it and feel instantly at […]

Company as Code
blog.42futures.com

Daniel Rothmann - Reimagining organisational structure for the digital age.

CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
abc.net.au

A statement on the CIA's website gives no reason for the decision, simply stating that the Factbook has been "sunset" while encouraging readers to "stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it".

GB Renewables Map
renewables-map.robinhawkes.com

Live map showing realtime renewable energy generation in Great Britain

Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware
1password.com

The same capabilities that make OpenClaw a groundbreaking tool also make it an urgent security risk. This blog contains confirmed examples of agent skills being used as malware vectors, and advice on how to protect yourself if you're experimenting with them.

The Missing Layer
yagmin.com

Vibe coding is too much work. I don't want to orchestrate a barnyard of agents to generate, refactor, validate, test, and document code I don't see, all while burning through a coal mine of tokens. I don't want to "live dangerously" or YOLO code. I'm not a Luddite who hates

Nanobot: Ultra-Lightweight Alternative to OpenClaw
github.com/HKUDS

"🐈 nanobot: The Ultra-Lightweight Clawdbot". Contribute to HKUDS/nanobot development by creating an account on GitHub.

Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf]
storage.courtlistener.com
If you've got Nothing to Hide (2015)
jacquesmattheij.com
Show HN: Micropolis/SimCity Clone in Emacs Lisp
github.com/vkazanov
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A simple SimCity clone in Emacs Lisp. Contribute to vkazanov/elcity development by creating an account on GitHub.

Valve's Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing
theverge.com

Jay Peters - You’ll have to wait a little longer for Valve’s new hardware.

ICE Begins Buying 'Mega' Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
bloomberg.com
Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'
news.satnews.com
Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table
lwn.net

The kernel's swap subsystem is a complex and often unloved beast. It is also a critical compon [...]

BMW's Newest "Innovation" Is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair
ifixit.com

BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.

Don't rent the cloud, own instead
blog.comma.ai

Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.

When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
rachelbythebay.com
Study: Older Cannabis Users Have Larger Brains, Better Cognition
news.cuanschutz.edu

Matthew Hastings - New research found, contrary to assumptions, cannabis usage by middle age and older adults led to better cognition and larger brain volumes.

ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use
biometricupdate.com

Anthony Kimery - (ICE) is surveying the commercial advertising technology market for tools capable of supplying location data and large scale analytics.

Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign
twitter.com
Open secrets about Hacker News (2021)
bengtan.com

I spent a few days examining the mechanics of Hacker News (HN) and I discovered some open secrets. “Open” because they’re not private. …

A few CPU hardware bugs
taricorp.net
Wirth's Revenge
jmoiron.net

Are LLMs the final blow in the war against Wirth's law?

Protecting Our Right to Sue Federal Agents Who Violate the Constitution
eff.org

Adam Schwartz - Federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. The violence is shocking. So are the intrusions on digital rights. For example, we have a First Amendment right to record on-...

Child prodigies rarely become elite performers
economist.com
Sam Altman responds to Anthropic's "Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude" ads
twitter.com

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed. But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them. We are not stupid and we know our users would reject that. I guess it’s on brand for Anthropic doublespeak to use a deceptive ad to

OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
jakequist.com

Something strange is happening with Mac Minis. They’re selling out everywhere, and it’s not because people suddenly need more coffee table computers. If you browse Reddit or HN, you’ll see the same pattern: people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run AI agents with computer use. They’re setting up headless machines whose sole job is to automate their workflows. OpenClaw—the open-source framework that lets you run

Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs
store.steampowered.com

Answering some of your most-asked questions about Steam HW

The Boomcession: Why Americans Hate What Looks Like an Economic Boom
thebignewsletter.com

Matt Stoller - The models used by policymakers to understand wages, economic growth, and consumer spending are misleading. That's why corporate America is having a party, and everyone else is mad.

Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees
longevity.stanford.edu
NDP wants Carney to kill U.S. fighter jet contract in favour of Swedish aircraft
ctvnews.ca

The NDP says it wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to cancel contracts for U.S.-made F-35 fighter jets — including the 16 Canada has already committed to buying.

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