John Ternus to become Apple CEO

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Tim Cook will become Apple's executive chairman on September 1, 2026, while John Ternus will take over as CEO. Ternus has been with Apple for 25 years and has overseen many groundbreaking products.

All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

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GitHub's fake star economy

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A Carnegie Mellon University study found 6 million fake GitHub stars across 18,617 repositories, with AI/LLM repos being the largest non-malicious category. The study's tool, StarScout, identified fake stars distributed by roughly 301,000 accounts.

Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding

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Kimi K2.6 is a state-of-the-art open-sourced model featuring long-horizon execution, agent swarm capabilities, and strong improvements in coding tasks. It demonstrates exceptional reliability, instruction following, and out-of-distribution generalization, setting a new bar for open-sourced models in agentic workflows.

At long last, InfoWars is ours

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The writer, who had night terrors as a child, is now bringing their dark vision to life by controlling InfoWars.com. They envision a twisted digital platform where visitors sacrifice themselves to delusion and misery.

Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving

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Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is an early preview of a proprietary model with stronger world knowledge and instruction following, along with improved agentic coding. It achieves top scores on six major coding benchmarks and is available through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.

Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI

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NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

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The NSA is using Anthropic's powerful model Mythos Preview despite the Pentagon's feud with the company over security concerns. The government's cybersecurity needs are outweighing the Pentagon's concerns, with Anthropic's tools being used more widely within the department.

Sauna effect on heart rate

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Saunas have a therapeutic effect and promote cardiovascular health by stimulating the heart and increasing blood volume. Sauna use is linked to better same-day recovery, with lower nighttime heart rates and increased activity.

ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL

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ggsql is a new data visualization tool that uses SQL syntax to create rich, structured visualizations, making it easy for SQL users to create custom plots. The tool is designed to be powerful, ergonomic, and safe, with a focus on integrating with AI agents and code-based reporting tools, and is currently available in alpha release.

AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing

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People are resisting AI by intentionally feeding it trash data to waste its training, citing AI's negative impact on the world. This resistance aims to make AI companies rethink their data sourcing methods.

Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving

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The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

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US President Donald Trump's major announcements often preceded huge trading activity, with some analysts suggesting possible insider trading. Financial regulators have not commented on the allegations, citing difficulty in enforcing the rules.

Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated

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Deezer reports a surge in AI-generated music uploads, with 60,000 tracks daily, but 85% are detected as fraudulent. The company will no longer store hi-res AI tracks and labels them for transparency.

We accepted surveillance as default

DoubleClick was founded in 1996 by Kevin O'Connor and Dwight Merriman, enabling cross-site tracking through third-party cookies, which became a standard in the web architecture. The technology was a choice made by browser vendors, and undoing it would be inconvenient for the organisations that built it, despite the physical and financial costs to users.

Not buying another Kindle

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The author is leaving the Kindle ecosystem due to Amazon's shift from prioritizing ownership to control, citing forced obsolescence, invasive telemetry, and a focus on the storefront over the library.

OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS

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The user discusses the security risks of current agent gateways, comparing them to the insecure MS-DOS era, and proposes a safer architecture for agents. The user's own project, Wirken, uses separate processes, hardened containers, and a hash-chained audit database to provide a more secure agent gateway.

M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons

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Claude Token Counter now compares different models, including Opus 4.7 and 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5. Opus 4.7 uses an updated tokenizer, increasing token counts by 1.0-1.35x, and costs 40% more due to the same pricing.

Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft

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Palantir released a 22-point manifesto calling for tech companies to prioritize national defense and security over consumer products. The document suggests a dystopian future with robot weapons and domestic police state, and implies that individuals should serve the country through national service.

WebUSB Extension for Firefox

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To use the extension, install the native stub program on your computer and a browser extension. The native stub requires a specific operating system and kernel version.

Show HN: Run TRELLIS.2 Image-to-3D generation natively on Apple Silicon

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A port of Microsoft's TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D model is available for Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. It replaces CUDA-only libraries with pure-PyTorch alternatives, allowing use without an NVIDIA GPU.

F-35 is built for the wrong war

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The US has attempted to equip its entire tactical air fleet with the F-35, a masterpiece but expensive and limited platform, which may not be suitable for protracted wars. A balanced force with unmanned systems could hedge against the F-35's limitations and provide a more sustainable solution.

OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”

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ADWEEK MiniMBA in Marketing helps leaders shape media strategy with confidence. StackAdapt is testing ads in ChatGPT with low CPMs and discounted fees for early access.

Kimi vendor verifier – verify accuracy of inference providers

We are open-sourcing the Kimi Vendor Verifier (KVV) project to ensure open-source models run correctly everywhere. KVV includes Pre-Verification, AIME2025, K2VV ToolCall, Upstream Fix, Pre-Release Validation, and Continuous Benchmarking to improve model accuracy and trust.

IEA: Solar overtakes all energy sources in a major global first

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Global energy demand rose 1.3% in 2025, with electricity demand jumping 3% due to electrification and EV adoption. Solar led global energy supply growth, accounting for over 25% of the increase and meeting nearly 60% of energy demand growth.

We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090

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Lucebox rewrites LLM inference software for specific chips, achieving high performance and efficiency. It uses techniques like kernels, speculative decoding, and quantization tailored per target, with projects like megakernel and DFlash demonstrating significant speedups.

Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it

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Government urges staff to switch from Silicon Valley to Visio platform. France and Germany disagree on detoxing from Big Tech, with France filing a complaint against Kick.

Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?

To start a P2P crowdshipping marketplace, focus on a niche market, such as a specific route or item, and manually match people or incentivize one side to join without the other. Options include paying drivers to make deliveries, being the supply side yourself, or using an agency model, but be aware of the potential risks and challenges, such as competition from established businesses and ...

Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-Bit Symmetric Keys

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AES-128 is safe against quantum computers due to the difficulty of parallelizing Grover's algorithm, making it impractical to break with current technology. Experts, including NIST, agree that AES-128 remains secure for decades to come, and no key size changes are necessary as part of the post-quantum transition.

I prompted ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and watched my Nginx logs

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What nginx logs actually prove about AI traffic from ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, plus why Google's AI crawlers leave a different signal than the others.

Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

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The author explains the megamerge workflow in Jujutsu, a powerful technique for working on multiple branches simultaneously, reducing merge conflicts and switching between tasks. The megamerge workflow involves creating an octopus merge commit as the parent of all working branches and using Jujutsu's absorb and squash commands to incorporate new changes.

U.S. banks may soon collect citizenship data from customers

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says banks will be required to collect citizenship data as part of a new executive order. Bessent argues that verifying customer status is necessary for banks to comply with "know your customer" rules.

NASA Artemis Posters

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With Artemis missions, we are exploring the Moon for scientific discovery, technology advancement, and to learn how to live and work on another world as we prepare for human missions to Mars.

Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

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Figma is vulnerable to disruption from AI-powered design tools like Claude Design, which can perform design tasks with ease. Figma's reliance on expensive AI inference and large employee base makes it difficult to compete with smaller teams inside frontier labs.

Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want

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Researchers measured the "flinch" in pre-trained language models, a gap between the probability a word deserves and the probability the model assigns it. The flinch varies by lab and year, and abliteration, a popular post-training intervention, actually makes models more likely to deflect charged words.

Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)

Self-hosting breaks down when customers modify software settings, making it hard to debug issues. A better model allows developers to operate software in customers' environments while maintaining control.

Stripe's Payment APIs: the first 10 years (2020)

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Abstracting away the complexity of payments has driven the evolution of our APIs over the last decade. Learn more about Stripe payments APIs here.

Anthropic installed a spyware bridge on my machine?

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The user discovered a Native Messaging manifest file in their Brave browser that was not installed by them, but was installed by Claude Desktop, a Mac app from Anthropic, without their knowledge or consent. This file allows a browser extension to access the user's browser at the same privilege level as the user, exposing their browser automation capabilities and potentially compromising their ...

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The Palantir's Stasi Protocols

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A private company Palantir is working with the government to develop a system for mass surveillance and control, using data from various sources including social media, financial transactions, and biometric data. The system, known as the Fair Social Score, is being developed to predict and neutralize individuals deemed a threat to society, raising concerns about the erosion of individual ...

Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64

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a 2-layer transformer model is implemented on a commodore 64 using 6502/6510 assembly, with 25,000 int8 parameters and real-time processing. the model is trained with quantization-aware training and produces responses in several minutes.

Tracking when Trump chickens out

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Tracking every time Trump announces a drastic policy, threat, or ultimatum... and then walks it back two days later.

macOS 27 won’t be supporting Intel anymore

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Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war

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T war may end up teaching America many lessons. One that it has learned the hard way is the woeful economics of using traditional weaponry against cheap Iranian drones. “The dynamics of the world have changed,” says Emil Michael, a former Silicon Valley executive who is now a senior official in the Pentagon. “You don’t want to spend a $1m missile to take out a $50,000 drone.”

A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)

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PlanB is a linearized B+-tree IPv6 lookup algorithm with AVX-512 SIMD and a scalar fallback. It is a portable, tested, and permissively licensed library for research, teaching, and production software.

A Pascal's Wager for AI doomers

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The user discusses AI, criticizing the idea that it will become superhuman and cause chaos, instead arguing that corporations and their technologies pose a greater threat to humanity. They propose building "international digital public goods" to counter the influence of corporations and create a more equitable and transparent internet.

Monero Community Crowdfunding System

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Tim Cook Stepping Down as Apple CEO, John Ternus Taking Over

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Tim Cook will step down as Apple CEO on September 1, transitioning to Executive Chairman, with John Ternus taking over as CEO. Cook praises Ternus as a visionary leader with integrity and the right person to lead Apple into the future.

The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment

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Public sentiment towards AI is growing negative due to repeated exposure to AI's near-human but hollow systems triggering social mismatch and aversion. Experts and the public evaluate AI differently, with experts focusing on capability and utility, while the public experiences AI as disruption and threat.

Show HN: A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

The user created a simple workflow to make coding agents interact without APIs or extra dependencies, using existing subscription plans and CLI invocations to preserve conversation history. This workflow allows agents to collaborate and produce multiple perspectives, but its limitations include visibility and potential for polished hallucinations rather than actual improvements.

AI chatbots could be making you stupider

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Researchers warn that relying on AI for cognitive tasks may lead to cognitive decline and loss of creativity. Studies show that using AI tools can reduce brain activity and impair memory, with long-term implications for cognitive health.

NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)

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Apollo 10 astronauts used profanity 230 times during their mission in May 1969. In contrast, Apollo 11 astronauts used profanity fewer than 15 times during their moon-landing mission.

Tim Cook Stepping Down

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Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down, with John Ternus taking over as CEO on September 1, 2026. Cook will transition to chairman of the board, assisting with certain aspects of the company.

Kimi K2.6: Advancing Open-Source Coding

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Offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions

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Show HN: Holos – QEMU/KVM with a compose-style YAML, GPUs and health checks

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Docker compose for KVM allows defining multi-VM stacks in a single YAML file without libvirt or XML, using a VM as the primitive and every workload instance getting its own kernel boundary and cloud-init seed. The holos tool supports features like healthchecks, SSH key injection, and GPU passthrough, and can also import existing libvirt domains into holos format.

Users unable to load ChatGPT, Codex and API Platform

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The race to build the next WordPress

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The user draws parallels between the early days of the internet and the current state of AI agents, suggesting that a similar "agentic workload" concept is missing, much like WordPress provided a layer above web servers. The user predicts a "Cambrian explosion" in purpose-built agent harnesses, with a few winning solutions becoming as ubiquitous as WordPress, allowing organisations to have ...

Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?

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Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake

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The video "Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons" by Benn Jordan promotes a conspiracy theory that data centers emit harmful infrasound, but the claims are unfounded and contradict current scientific evidence. Infrasound is sound at very low frequency, and while it can be detected at high intensities, current evidence does not support major direct health effects below the perception threshold.