Three Inverse Laws of AI

The author proposes the Inverse Laws of Robotics to prevent humans from blindly trusting AI systems, which can lead to societal dangers, and emphasizes the need for humans to remain responsible and accountable for AI use. The three laws are: humans must remain responsible for AI consequences, not anthropomorphise AI, and verify AI output before accepting it as authoritative.

Yet Another GitHub Incident

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GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Actions.

Agents for financial services and insurance

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Claude releases 10 ready-to-run agent templates for financial services tasks, expanding its partner ecosystem and capabilities across Microsoft Office.

Async Rust never left the MVP state

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The author is working to reduce async Rust bloat in the compiler, specifically targeting the state machine generated for async code. They propose two optimizations: returning Pending instead of panicking when a future is done, and removing the Panicked state.

Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

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Philip, an engineer at Distr, shares common Docker Compose quirks and operational gaps that can lead to production incidents. He recommends handling these gaps with commands and practices, or using an agent like Distr's to automate the process.

EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old

UK: Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds strongly

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New car market rises 24.0% in April as market recovers from last year’s negative tax change impact. 2026 outlook upgraded to 2.093m registrations overall, but ZEV share revised down to 26.8% after underperforming Q1 demand. The UK new car market grew by 24.0% to reach 149,247 registrations last month, according to the latest figures published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders ...

iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

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Apple is adding a "Create a Pass" feature to the Wallet app in iOS 27, allowing users to build their own passes from scratch or scan QR codes. This feature is expected to be released in September 2026, making it easier for users to add passes without needing a third-party tool.

Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs

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The containerd image store is the default storage backend for Docker Engine 29.0 and later, offering features like lazy-pulling and peer-to-peer image distribution. It uses more disk space than legacy storage drivers due to dual storage of compressed and uncompressed formats.

It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs

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Utah's Senate Bill 73 bars websites from explaining VPN use to bypass age restrictions and makes them liable for enforcing age verification for users within the state's borders. This law has far-reaching implications, potentially violating online freedom and forcing websites to choose between age verification or blocking VPN traffic.

Simple Meta-Harness on Islo.dev

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The meta-harness is a loop that improves the harness around an LLM agent by reading diagnostic logs and writing a better harness, which can be achieved with Islo's sandbox infrastructure. A proof-of-concept implementation demonstrates the optimization signal end-to-end with a proposer that reads all traces, not summary scores, and converges in four steps on a 5-task held-out suite.

When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing

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Ethan Mollick's work on AI adoption highlights the "messy middle" phase where AI use is uneven, hidden, and difficult to compare, and not yet connected to organizational learning. Companies must move beyond license usage and surveys to understand how AI creates learning and value within their organization.

Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust

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Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2

Show HN: Airbyte Agents – context for agents across multiple data sources

Michel, CEO of Airbyte, introduces Airbyte Agents, a unified data layer for agents to discover information and take action across operational systems, addressing issues with current MCPs. Airbyte Agents uses a Context Store to provide a structured way for agents to discover data, reducing API calls and improving performance.

AI Product Graveyard

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AI didn't delete your database, you did

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A company's production database was deleted by an AI agent, prompting a discussion on accountability and AI misuse. The real issue was a poorly designed API endpoint, not the AI itself, which can be a tool for augmentation, not a replacement for human accountability.

Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold

The first photo published in a newspaper

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It would be difficult for modern readers to accept the text-only version of a newspaper. One online source containing "a brief history of the birth of photojournalism," states that the first illustration to appear in a newspaper, similar to modern courtroom renderings, was around 1806, and the first actual…

Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives

The user compared the 8080, Z80, 8086, and 6502 CPUs, highlighting their similarities and differences, and discussed how their instruction sets and design decisions influenced programming styles and best practices. The user also shared their own experiences and advice for programming each chip, including guidelines for memory access, loop variables, and register usage, and noted that the Z80 ...

Did I photograph the Aurora or was it something else? (2016)

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One of the most frequent questions we receive on Facebook is: is this a photo of the aurora? So in this blog post, we’re going to list a few questions that you should ask yourself to help determine if you’ve snapped a photo of the aurora. Although not perfect, our alert levels should give you some indication of whether or not you’ve likely seen an aurora. Living on the south coast of England ...
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on users' devices without consent, violating Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR principles of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency. The model's environmental cost is significant, with estimated CO2-equivalent emissions ranging from 6,000 to 60,000 tonnes per model push, depending on the number of devices affected.

New Landing Page for Awesome PaaS

From hosted PaaS and CaaS to sandboxes, Jamstack edges, ADN runtimes, self-hosted control planes, and cloud IDEs — every platform from the open awesome-paas list, organized as a single navigable landscape.

Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?

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The user shares 10 lessons for agentic coding, emphasizing the importance of implementing to learn, rebuilding often, and investing in end-to-end tests. These lessons aim to help developers make the most of cheap code and agent capabilities while considering maintenance, support, and security.

Show HN: A Mutating Webhook to automatically strip PII from K8s logs

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Zero-code log sanitization sidecar for Kubernetes. Prevents data leaks (GDPR/SOC2) by redacting PII from logs before they leave the pod. "Don't let PII poison your AI models." PII-Shield ensures that sensitive data never reaches your training dataset, saving you from GDPR-forced model retraining. Upgrading to v2.0.0? We have moved entirely to a Helm-based distribution and ...

Hand Drawn QR Codes (2025)

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User created a hand-drawn QR code on a 10x10 grid sticky note using the qrcode package in Python. The QR code successfully scanned when held flat or hung from a monitor.

Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak

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sRGB profile comparison

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Srgb profiles have different starting points for the red, blue, and green xyz values. the 'no black scaling' profile has a non-zero starting point for its black point, he says. if you do not use black-point compensation, the shadows will be crushed to zero - edward mcgraw explains trc values and how they affect color balance and tonality

How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

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OpenAI rearchitected their WebRTC stack to improve real-time AI interactions by reducing latency and preserving standard WebRTC behavior for clients. They achieved this by introducing a relay service that routes packets to the correct transceiver, allowing for deterministic first-packet routing and a small public UDP footprint.

Farewell to a Giant of Botany

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Peter Raven led the Missouri Botanical Garden from 1971 to 2010, expanding its size and reputation as a world-class institution. He redefined the garden's purpose, serving both the scientific community and local community, leaving a lasting legacy in St. Louis.

CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers

The author set up a lab to run the Copy Fail exploit and traced it at the syscall level to verify that rootless Podman architecture would contain it. The exploit successfully overwrote /usr/bin/su in the page cache, executed the shellcode, and escalated to root inside the container.