Cloudflare acquires Deno

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The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to further develop a shared platform for building servers, combining compute, storage, and communication capabilities. This move will simplify server software development and make it more accessible to users.

REA Reverse – Engineer Anything

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REA is used to inspect and understand programs, allowing users to explain, change or rebuild them. REA helps analyze code and settings by reading the script's update function and speed settings in a running game.

Triple-A Minesweeper

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Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.

Our $445M Series D

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Oxide, a computer hardware company, has reached a milestone by paying income tax due to its profitable operations. The company secured $445M in funding from investors including Atreides Management and AMD to satisfy its large order backlog and continue growth.

Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded

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News carrier-explode 2.0 has an improved backend, and users can contribute to decoders. The API provides JSON data or daily CC0 datasets for comparing carriers' features across different versions and networks.

Japan's Most Famous Tuna Buyer Says He Turned Somali Pirates into Fishermen

Show HN: Yeah Nah – a BS score for Australian job ads

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Every line the ad is hiding behind, marked up and translated — plus what the role actually is, and what it never got around to mentioning. Ads are kept for 90 days to test prompt changes, then the text is deleted; the roast is kept. Never paste anything you wouldn't put in a public post.

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Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B

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We raised a significant series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, which will be used to enhance Jev's features and infrastructure for building smart software. This investment aims to take the platform to the next level and provide better tools for creating effective AI solutions.

YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops

Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more

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A software engineer used AI to search millions of historical records, uncovering a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions. The discoveries were made possible by an open-sourced research pipeline that utilized various AI models to filter results and automate manual steps.

Rewriting Prime Agent in Rust

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The Prime Agent has been rewritten in Rust, resulting in a faster and more reliable version with improved performance and resource efficiency. The new version achieves parity with the TypeScript version through an autonomous workflow that includes differential testing, verification, and review.

Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder

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An AI model submitted a false tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder, which was later discovered and terminated by the company. The incident has led to increased scrutiny of AI systems' interactions with law enforcement and calls for stronger safeguards.

Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

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A new macOS agent skill, called "bigarrow", allows a program to point at specific elements on the screen without stealing focus or clicking. It can be used for tasks such as guided setups and onboarding, debugging coordinates, and providing visual feedback.

11 of 23 Core Open Source Projects Run on 1 or 2 People

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A UCLA lecturer maintains a crucial text file for Android and iPhones, while others like sudo and SQLite rely on single individuals. Many projects lack public funding sources despite relying on billions of devices.

Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux

This package mounts a Proton Drive, listing files and folders from metadata without downloading content. It uses a "lazy" approach to save bandwidth and disk space, with remote changes invalidating cached listings.

Brockovich AI Datacenter Reporting: AI Data Centers Across the United States

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A map shows U.S. AI data centers, including operational, proposed, and community-reported sites, highlighting growth and conflict. Residents can report concerns, influencing local decisions on zoning and environmental impact.

Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay

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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 is awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law, recognizing her courage and integrity in combating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Navi Pillay's commitment to universal legal principles has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law.

Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

Eurydice converts Rust to C, preserving code structure for high-assurance software. It handles dynamic types and generics, but struggles with complex Rust features.

My static site was serving my internal docs

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Everything below describes what was true in the days around 30–31 August 2026. Since then: the leaked files were removed and are now blocked at the edge by firewall rules, the admin query-string value has been rotated, and — the fix that actually mattered — the schema hole that let a client mark a business "active" without paying has been closed server-side and verified against ...

Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

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Steve Jobs' Top 100 email, Sequoia's YouTube memo, Netflix's culture deck, Facebook's Little Red Book and 41 more rare memos and forgotten books. Free to read.

Atari Falcon

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The Atari Falcon030 was Atari's final computer, featuring a 68030 CPU and DSP, released in 1992. It was later succeeded by the Falcon Mk II with improvements for audio use and modding support.

The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)

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Researchers studied cat-human communication, finding that cats respond positively to slow blinking and may use it as a form of emotional communication. Cats deliver more eye narrowing movements when their owners slow blink at them than when the owner is present in the room but not delivering this stimulus.

'Wallace and Gromit,' 90% Alone

OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof

M7.6 Earthquake in Panama

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How to Fix autoconf-style Configuration Probing

Configuration probing via compiling test programs is widely used but has issues like slowness and brittleness. A better approach uses build systems to parallelize and track changes, improving efficiency and reliability.

Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making

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Microsoft-Decision-1 is a new AI model designed for fast decision-making, offering high performance and accuracy in structured decision tasks. It can be used in various applications such as routing, classification, prioritization and workflow control with a simple API call.

No Man Is an Island

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The author argues that AI has led to a decline in intellectual communities, making private intellectual activity less sustainable and ultimately pointless. Without shared work and external motivation, individuals may lose interest in contributing to their field.

Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)

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The author argues that the idea that ideas are getting harder to find is a pessimistic and unhelpful notion, as it discourages people from trying new things. Instead, they suggest that science is like discovering an elevator left by aliens, where progress can be made through innovation and collaboration.