Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

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GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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GitHub Copilot will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, with a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits for each plan. Credits will be consumed based on token usage, and users can purchase additional usage if needed.

Men who stare at walls

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User tried Simple Lucas' focus routine, staring at a wall to recover focus, and found it effective but hard. They attribute their lack of focus to information overload and use wall staring with parasympathetic activation and mind blanking to improve productivity.

4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor

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A data breach at Mercor exposed 40,000 contractors' voice biometrics and ID documents. Attackers can use this data to clone voices and commit crimes like bank verification bypass and vishing.

Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained

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pgBackRest is a reliable PostgreSQL backup and restore solution that scales up to large databases and workloads. It supports parallel processing, compression, and block-level backups for efficient data storage and retrieval.

Is my blue your blue?

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Test your color perception with this interactive test.

Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud

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De Nederlandsche Bank signs major contract with Schwarz Digits to reduce dependence on American cloud companies. The move aims to use a European partner, but raises questions about the robustness of European cloud alternatives.

Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview

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Dirac is an open-source coding agent that improves accuracy and reduces costs by 64.8% with tightly curated context. It achieves 100% accuracy on complex refactoring tasks at a fraction of the cost of other leading agents.

China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus

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China's state planner asked Meta to withdraw its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, a Singaporean AI startup with Chinese roots, citing laws and regulations. The deal faced scrutiny from China and Washington, with lawmakers in the US prohibiting American investors from backing Chinese AI companies directly.

GitHub is having issues now

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TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough

A vector is an ordered list of numbers that can be thought of as an arrow in space, and its length and inner product can be calculated using the norm and dot product. The goal of TurboQuant is to store a vector using a fixed number of bits per coordinate while minimizing the mean squared error (MSE) of the reconstructed vector, and it achieves this by applying a random rotation to the vector ...

Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers

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No boilerplate Versatile Whether you are writing a research paper, a quick report, a company-wide wiki, class notes, or preparing interactive slides for your next talk, there's only one line you need.

The Prompt API

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The Prompt API allows developers to send natural language requests to Gemini Nano in the browser for various applications. It requires a minimum of 22 GB free space, unlimited data, and Windows 10 or 11, macOS 13+, or Linux operating systems.

“Why not just use Lean?”

The author discusses the formalisation of mathematics and the rise of Lean, but notes that it's not the first system to achieve this. They mention AUTOMATH, which was developed in the 1960s and 1970s, and other systems like HOL Light and Isabelle/HOL. The author argues that Lean's success is partly due to its user community and the abandonment of "constructive proofs".

To my students

You teach computer science and mathematics at Hendrix College, reflecting on the world and hopes for your students as they graduate. You are teaching two courses and a lab section this spring, with the semester nearing its end.

Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator

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SUPER ZSNES is a re-written SNES emulator with GPU power, offering features like fast forward, save states, and high resolution graphics. It's still in development with some games supported, but has emulation bugs and performance issues.

US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data

A geofence warrant was used to catch a suspect in a 2019 bank robbery, but critics say it violates the Constitution and puts personal data at risk. The Supreme Court will examine the use of geofence warrants in a case involving a Jamaican immigrant's conviction.

FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss

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United Wizards of the Coast

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Arena workers unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA, seeking better treatment and working conditions. They call on WOTC leadership to voluntarily recognize the union and engage in collective bargaining.

Networking changes coming in macOS 27

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Apple is warning of two significant changes in macOS 27: removal of AFP support and a requirement for TLS 1.2 connections to certain servers. These changes may impact enterprise users and those with Time Capsules or NAS systems that don't support SMB3.

Mistral built a $14B AI empire by not being American

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Mistral's CEO Arthur Mensch promotes European-built AI as a tool for empowerment and independence, offering open-source models that customers can customize and control. His company is gaining traction with governments and companies seeking sovereignty over their AI.

The woes of sanitizing SVGs

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Scratch's approach to SVG sanitization has been ineffective due to numerous vulnerabilities discovered over the years. Despite multiple fixes, new security issues continue to arise.

It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)

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A developer shares their experience with a side-project that failed to meet expectations, but still provided valuable learning experience. They realized that success is a matter of perspective and that abandoned projects can be a great way to experiment and learn.

Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

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The Easyduino project is an open-source effort to create PCB designs for popular microcontrollers using KiCad. It aims to unify software and conventions across devboards like Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi.

Canada's first sovereign wealth fund

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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a plan to create a sovereign wealth fund called the "Canada Strong Fund" with an initial endowment of $25 billion. The fund will finance major projects of national interest and allow Canadians to contribute and benefit from it, investing alongside the private sector and international partners.

U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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World, a Sam Altman-backed project, is gaining traction in the US corporate world despite being rejected by many governments due to concerns over biometric data collection and privacy. The company has partnered with Tinder, Zoom, and Docusign to use its digital identification to verify users and reduce fraudulent activity.

Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case

The Supreme Court will hear a case that could dismiss tens of thousands of lawsuits against Bayer over Roundup's link to cancer. Bayer argues the EPA's decision on glyphosate's safety overrides state-level claims.

A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination

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Biologist Colin Domnauer reopened a case of "lilliputian hallucinations" in Yunnan province, China, caused by the Lanmaoa asiatica mushroom. The hallucinations, involving tiny elflike people, occur in different people across cultures and can last for a long time.

NPM website was down

npm loves you. Here is some info about how well it's doing. (You can also follow these updates at @npmstatus on Twitter!)

Running local LLMs offline on a ten-hour flight

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The user tested a MacBook's local LLM capabilities on a 10-hour flight, processing 4M tokens and discovering local inference's viability for tight-scope coding and exploratory tasks.

Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft

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EvanFlow – A TDD driven feedback loop for Claude Code

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EvanFlow is a coding assistant that guides projects through implementation with checkpoints, no auto-commits, and no forced ceremony. It uses 16 cohesive skills and 2 custom subagents to ensure discipline and quality across iterations.

Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity

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Microsoft's Windows 11 Second Chance Out of Box Experience (SCOOBE) is a deceptive setup process that can launch months or years after initial setup, trying to sell users more services or change settings. It's a serious problem for organizations with managed PCs, leading to support calls and lost productivity.

Three men are facing charges in Toronto SMS Blaster arrests

Toronto Police launched Project Lighthouse in November 2025 to combat an SMS blaster operating in downtown Toronto. The device mimicked a cellular tower, sending fraudulent texts to thousands of devices, posing a threat to public safety and financial security.

Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930

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Researchers have created a 13B vintage language model called talkie-1930-13b-base trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text to simulate conversations with people from the past. The model's performance is compared to its modern counterpart, with talkie underperforming in some standard LM evaluations but showing similar performance on core language understanding and numeracy tasks.

Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good

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Tim Cook is leaving Apple after 15 years, and his departure is a chance for the company to refocus on product quality. Apple's software experience has deteriorated under Cook, with bugs and poor design choices, and a new CEO with product expertise is needed to fix it.

Show HN: Utilyze – an open source GPU monitoring tool more accurate than nvtop

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The world is facing an AI compute crisis due to rising electricity demand, long lead times for GPUs, and increasing rental contract pricing, making optimization a top priority for enterprises. A new tool called Utilyze measures true GPU utilization by tracking actual compute throughput and memory bandwidth, providing accurate and real-time insights to help identify performance bottlenecks and ...

Show HN: A terminal spreadsheet editor with Vim keybindings

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The library opens various file formats including CSV, TSV, and native .cell files. It tracks ODF formula compliance and saves CSV files with flattened formula values.

Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port

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Notepad++ is now available for macOS as a free, open-source download with native support for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs. It features a native user interface and supports plugins, with no ads, telemetry, or data collection.

AI can cost more than human workers now

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Companies are spending more on AI than employee salaries, with IT budgets expected to reach $6.31 trillion in 2026. However, they must prove AI spending returns productivity gains or metrics to justify costs, shifting the focus from AI as a luxury to a liability.

Our principles

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OpenAI aims to democratize AI, empowering people to achieve their goals and live more fulfilling lives. They prioritize minimizing harm, promoting resilience, and adapting to an uncertain future to ensure AI benefits all of humanity.

Tendril – a self-extending agent that builds and registers its own tools

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Tendril is a self-extending agentic sandbox that discovers and builds tools autonomously. It uses a Strands agent with three bootstrap tools to rule them all.

Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock

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Moleskine's Lord of the Rings collection uses AI-generated artwork without clear disclosure. The company's lack of transparency and accountability is concerning for creatives and fans of the franchise.

The next phase of the Microsoft OpenAI partnership

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Microsoft and OpenAI amended their partnership to simplify their collaboration and focus on AI delivery, with greater predictability and flexibility. The agreement allows OpenAI to serve products across any cloud provider while maintaining Microsoft as its primary partner.

Integrated by Design

L123: A Lotus 1-2-3–style terminal spreadsheet with modern Excel compatibility

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l123 recreates the classic DOS-era spreadsheet experience on a modern formula engine with native .xlsx round-trip. It targets Lotus 1-2-3 Release 3.4a for DOS interaction model with Rust, IronCalc, and UTF-8.

Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces 'Palestine' in designs

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Canva's Magic Layers feature replaced the word "Palestine" with "Ukraine" in designs, but the issue has been resolved. Canva is taking steps to prevent similar bugs in the future.

Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated)

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A pipeline is being built to document and map the classic Usenix Unix Magic poster, a valuable reference for Unix enthusiasts. The project aims to explore and understand the poster's elements within the context of Unix's early days.

Claude Pro: Opus model will only be available if extra usage is enabled

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This guide explains three ways to change Claude models using Claude Code: /model command, --model flag, and environment variables. The /model command is the simplest way to change models instantly without restarting the terminal.

Decoupled DiLoCo: Resilient, Distributed AI Training at Scale

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Decoupled DiLoCo is a new AI training architecture that allows for flexible and resilient training across globally distributed data centers. It achieves this by dividing training runs into decoupled "islands" of compute with asynchronous data flow, reducing communication delays and hardware failures.

Ukraine's drone commander has Russian oil, troops and morale in his sights

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Ukraine's commander of unmanned systems, Robert Brovdi, says deep strikes into Russia will escalate, targeting oil export facilities and killing Russian soldiers. His forces, making up 2% of Ukraine's military, account for a third of all targets destroyed.

Low-Dose Aspirin Usage for Primary Prevention Has Fallen by >50% Since 2018

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The Hottest Phone for Kids Right Now Is a $100 Landline

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Show HN: I built a dual crossword puzzle where two crosswords share one grid

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Forkle is a free daily word puzzle game. Every crossword cell hides two letters. Solve both layers, track your streak, and challenge friends to Forkle Duo.

Sebastian Sawe breaks iconic sub-two-hour marathon barrier

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Sabastian Sawe made history by becoming the first person to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race at the 2026 London Marathon. He broke Kelvin Kiptum's world record by 65 seconds with a time of 1:59:40.