Show HN: 18 Words

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Play 18 Words: a fast daily word challenge. Solve each scrambled word before the timer runs out and see how many of 18 you can survive.

The Glass Backbone: Why the Army's Logistics Will Break in the Next War

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The US Army's efficiency-driven sustainment model, optimized for permissive environments, is ill-suited for modern multidomain warfare, where survival under persistent attack determines victory. Historical and contemporary conflicts show that centralized logistics collapse under attrition, demanding decentralized, survivable sustainment networks to match industrial-scale combat endurance.

John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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John Deere agreed to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment under a right-to-repair settlement with the FTC and several states. The company must provide diagnostic and repair tools to owners and shops, not just authorized dealers, and pay $1 million in antitrust enforcement costs.

Bonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75

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Bonnie Tyler, a Welsh singer known for her hit song Total Eclipse of the Heart, had a 50-year music career spanning from her early days in Swansea clubs to international fame. She was awarded an MBE for her services to music and had a billion streams on Spotify for her iconic song.

Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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FableCut is a browser-based video editor using JSON timelines for real-time human-AI collaboration, supporting SVG animations, AI-driven edits via MCP/REST, and live project updates. It offers features like keyframe effects, font customization, conflict-safe editing, and fast MP4 exports with ffmpeg.

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"

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The European Parliament allowed the interim "Chat Control 1.0" regulation to pass, permitting mass scanning of private communications until 2028. Negotiations for a permanent regulation will resume in September, with the EU Parliament pushing for targeted detection orders and stricter security standards.

Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip

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Meta developed Vistara, a custom chip to reuse older memory in new servers, improving efficiency and reducing costs. This technology can help address the rising memory prices and shortage, which may last until 2027.

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

Researchers found peptides in Tasmanian cave spider and giant Japanese funnel-web spider venom that can kill varroa mites without harming honeybees. These biodegradable peptides could lead to a sustainable treatment for varroa mite infestations in honeybee hives.

AI builders outnumber AI governance hires 7:1 in Europe

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Skip to content Axipro analyzed 3,519 AI-related job postings across eight EU countries. For every professional hired to keep AI lawful, safe and accountable, nearly seven were hired to build more of it, and the gap is widest exactly where you’d least expect. Throughout our data-set we found the same pattern across all eight countries: the more a nation hires to build AI, the less it hires to ...

TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time

TrueBiz is an API that quickly evaluates business risk for financial institutions, replacing manual research with automated analysis. They're hiring a Senior Engineer to scale their system, expand the product, and improve reliability and performance.

Is It Safe to Host HTML That Runs Its Own JavaScript?

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Someone evaluating ShareMyPage asked the sharpest question we get. You host whatever HTML people upload, JavaScript included, so what stops that code from injecting something, or hijacking a session with a bit of script? It is exactly the right thing to ask. Hosting arbitrary HTML is the entire product, and a lot of that HTML is generated by an AI and pasted in without anyone reading it line ...

US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

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The US military lost over $1 billion in Reaper drones in Iran, prompting a shift to cheaper drones to overwhelm enemy defenses, mirroring Ukraine's strategy. The Pentagon's $54B 2027 budget targets such drones, but success remains uncertain.

How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom

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Git must evolve to store AI agent session logs as semantic memory, enabling collaboration and provenance tracking. Decentralized hosting ensures scalability, resilience, and data sovereignty for AI-driven development.

Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model

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Syria's civil war spurred widespread solar adoption, with 2,060MW of off-grid capacity by 2024, driven by broken grids and affordable Chinese panels. This crisis-driven shift highlights solar's role in crisis regions, offering resilience and decentralizing power amid rebuilding efforts.

Show HN: Arcaide – Explore code with multi-level call graphs

In-browser programmable robot simulator

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I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep

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The author, a media company co-founder, was tasked with building a brand new WWII Jeep from scratch using primarily parts purchased off eBay Motors within a tight deadline. With the help of experts and friends, he overcame numerous challenges to assemble the vehicle, which was sponsored by eBay Motors as a partnership.

Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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GitHub is facing issues with frequent downtime, political direction, and AI integration, leading some users to abandon the platform. Many projects are moving to alternative services like Codeberg, GitLab, and Sourcehut, citing concerns over technical quality and politics.

Lead Mines of Galena, Kansas

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Galena, Kansas, thrived as a lead-mining hub from 1877, fueled by the tri-state mining boom and the MKT railroad, which transported ore and workers. After mining declined by the 1970s, the town’s MKT depot was reborn as a museum preserving its industrial legacy, now a Route 66 landmark amid a dwindling population.

Vacuum at the Page Level

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Postgresql reclaims dead tuple space during ordinary reads. vacuum can be used for everything else, including index updates involving indexed columns a byte by pixel based on the table's line pointer lp_len - 136 bytes for each stdbyte of bloated space on page 0 of table file. for most workloads, regular vacuum

Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI

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This tool allows for sophisticated test selection and filtering, and provides features such as stress testing, test rerunning, and deep analysis. It supports multiple platforms and is open source, widely trusted, and powers Rust development at various scales.

How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari

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Nintendo released Donkey Kong in July 1981, which became the highest-grossing arcade game of 1981 and 1982, and launched the Mario franchise. Donkey Kong's success led to Nintendo's rise as a major producer of arcade titles and ultimately contributed to Atari's decline.

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Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

Flint is a visualization language that creates charts from simple specs, optimizing settings from data and semantic types. It supports 46 chart types and 3 rendering engines.

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

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A detailed audit of SWE-Bench Pro found ~30% of tasks are broken, affecting model evaluation and safety decisions. The audit suggests using experienced software developers to create new benchmarks that are hard to game and genuinely reflective of model capability.

Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line

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The Yamanote Line soundscapes combine station melodies, announcements, and train sounds to recreate Tokyo's railway loop. The virtual loop has distinct melodies for each direction and can be traveled in 30 minutes at double speed.

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

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DocuBrowse is a local document search tool that indexes files on your machine using AI models. It supports multiple document types and directories, and provides a web interface for searching and managing documents.

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase

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Databricks built an internal coding benchmark to evaluate tools on actual coding tasks, finding that a mix of tools from OpenAI, Anthropic, and open source provides frontier performance. The results showed clear clustering of models and harnesses into 3 capability tiers, with the most intelligent models being very expensive but highly effective.

Rewriting Bun in Rust

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The author of Bun rewrote the project in Rust using a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model, and a dynamic workflow system, resulting in a 1,009,272-line diff and 6,502 commits. The rewrite took 11 days and was reviewed by 64 Claudes, with the project now having 24/7 coverage-guided fuzzing and 11 rounds of security review completed.