Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license

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Valve released CAD files for the Steam Controller and Puck, allowing modders to create custom accessories. The files are under a Creative Commons license for non-commercial use, with commercial entities needing to contact Valve directly.

Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

A satirical graph shows 170 days of GitHub outages, with the darkest square representing the longest downtime. The worst day was November 20, 2025, with 1.1 days of downtime.

Appearing productive in the workplace

Generative AI is creating a new form of "slop" in workplaces, where workers rely on tools to produce work without understanding its quality. This leads to a loss of judgment and expertise, as humans become conduits for AI-generated output rather than evaluators of its quality.

StarFighter 16-Inch

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This laptop features a true matte display, haptic trackpad, and open firmware options for customization. It also includes a removable webcam, wireless switch, and durable ceramic coating for a secure and long-lasting experience.

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Cloudflare and Stripe partnered to allow coding agents to provision Cloudflare accounts, subscriptions, and domains without human intervention. Agents can now deploy apps to production with zero friction for the end user.

Knitting bullshit

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The user discusses "knitting bullshit" as a type of discourse that lacks connection to truth and reality, exemplified by AI-generated podcast episodes and animated films that celebrate knitting without providing accurate information or engaging with the craft's history and practices. The user argues that this type of content degrades the knitting community and industry by parasitizing and ...

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

The author discussed the convergence of vibe coding and agentic engineering, realizing that relying on AI tools for coding can blur the lines between responsible and irresponsible use. They value proven solutions over perfect documentation and tests.

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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We've partnered with SpaceX and other companies to increase our compute capacity, allowing us to raise usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API. This includes doubling rate limits for Pro and Max plans, removing peak hour limits, and raising API rate limits for Claude Opus models.

Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

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User tried replicating a retro multi-stroke text effect using CSS text-stroke property, but achieved desired result by varying text-stroke-width for stacked elements. Browsers automatically draw outlines of characters with different stroke widths, but performance is poor, especially with large font sizes.

Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me

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The Pentagon fired the Stars and Stripes ombudsman without reason, citing non-grievability. This move comes as the Pentagon restricts editorial independence and attempts to control the newspaper's content.

YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken

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Users are frustrated with YouTube's unreliable feeds in feed readers and lack of effort to surface links to these feeds. They want to follow their favorite creators without relying on the platform's algorithms and homepage feeds.

245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping

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Micron Technology announced the 245TB Micron 6600 ION SSD, the world's highest capacity commercially available SSD. It reduces rack space by 82% and power consumption by half compared to HDD-based deployments.

BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets

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BYD surpassed Tesla to become the top-selling EV brand in the UK with over 7% market share in 2026. BYD also led EV sales in Australia, Brazil, and several other overseas markets in April with record-breaking exports.

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

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You've released a full reverse-engineering of the 1998 Ultima Online demo server, translating 5,000 functions from MSVC x86 to portable C99. The result is an almost perfect replica of a 1998 Ultima Online server with some differences and new features.

Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents

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Telus is using AI to alter offshore call centre agents' accents in real time to reduce friction. Labour groups have called the practice deceptive and urged regulators to require customer disclosure.

Ted Turner has died

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Ted Turner, a media mogul and philanthropist, died at 87 after a life of revolutionizing television news and building a media empire. He founded CNN, a pioneering 24-hour news network, and was a devoted philanthropist, conservationist, and activist.

Inkscape 1.4.4

Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA

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Google Cloud launched Google Cloud Fraud Defense, a platform to verify bots, humans, and AI agents, securing digital interactions and commerce. It measures and controls agentic activity, preventing evolving threats and securing customer journeys to accelerate business growth.

From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth

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The user's company Val Town switched from Clerk to Better Auth for authentication due to reliability and rate limiting issues with Clerk, which caused site outages and complexity. Better Auth provided a more reliable and customizable solution, allowing Val Town to regain control over user sessions and data.

Life During Class Wartime

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The user argues that wealth inequality is a major issue, with the richest 0.1% accumulating power and wealth, and proposes a wealth tax to address this. A wealth tax, they claim, would be a fair and effective way to redistribute wealth and promote social welfare.

Going Full Time on Open Source

The user has built a successful open-source tool, mise, and is now maintaining it full-time through a company, en.dev, to ensure sustainability. They are seeking support through memberships, sponsorships, and consulting services to continue developing mise and other tools.

Show HN: Hallucinopedia

Hallucinopedia is an encyclopedia covering unusual topics with equal seriousness. It features articles on obscure events, scientific disciplines, and cultural phenomena.

Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Tilde provides a versioned filesystem for autonomous AI agents, ensuring safe use with real data and logging every action. It's built on lakeFS, a battle-tested data versioning layer for managing billions of objects.

RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both

Setting up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10

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The user set up a Sun Ray server on OpenIndiana Hipster 2025.10 by following a specific VM configuration and installing the Sun Ray Server Software package, which required a period-accurate Java Runtime Environment and Apache Tomcat. The user then configured the Sun Ray server to use ISC DHCP, installed the needed libraries for hotdesking, and set up the TFTP root for the DTUs to pull their ...

Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens

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Countries from over 50 nations gather in Colombia to discuss transitioning away from fossil fuels, amid growing frustration with slow global climate talks. The meeting aims to develop a global road map to phase out oil, gas, and coal, but major emitters like China, US, and India are not participating.

Proton Meet

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Proton Meet offers end-to-end encrypted video calls for private conversations. It protects users from eavesdropping and data misuse by tech giants, ensuring secure meetings with up to 50 attendees for free.

Show HN: I built an open-source email builder, alternative to Beefree/Unlayer

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Try the Templatical drag-and-drop email editor in this interactive playground. Build, preview, and export email templates directly in your browser.

Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages

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GitHub changed AI attribution settings from default "all" to "off" due to a bug. The default will remain "off" and users must opt-in for AI attribution, with plans to improve the feature in future releases.

Learning the Integral of a Diffusion Model

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Flow maps are a way to speed up sampling from diffusion models by predicting any point on a path from any other point on that same path, rather than just the tangent direction at each point. They can be used for faster sampling, more efficient reward-based learning, and improved sampling steerability, but training a flow map is significantly more involved than training a diffusion model.

Programming Still Sucks

The author describes the tech industry as a burning ship with no clear direction, where employees are struggling to keep up with the demands of their jobs and the constant introduction of new technologies. The author argues that the real problem is not AI, but rather the greed of corporate leaders who prioritize profits over people and the well-being of their employees.

OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury

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OpenAI president Greg Brockman testified in a trial about alleged nonprofit mission abandonment, with his personal journal entries being used as evidence. Brockman defended his entries, saying they reflect his commitment to OpenAI's mission and not personal greed.

UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing

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British businesses face soaring travel costs and disrupted supply chains due to a deepening jet fuel crisis triggered by the Strait of Hormuz closure. Goldman Sachs warns that commercial fuel inventories in Britain could fall to critically low levels within weeks, risking formal rationing measures.

Google tools for customizing searches

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Google's search results are filtered through an algorithm that prioritizes advertisers and may not always provide accurate information, so it's essential to use advanced search operators and techniques to find reliable sources. Alternative search engines like Kagi, DuckDuckGo, and Startpage offer different features and approaches to searching, and understanding how to use them effectively can ...

DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May

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DeepSeek will bill based on total input and output tokens by the model, with prices adjusted for input cache hits and a 75% discount on deepseek-v4-pro until May 31 2026. Prices may vary and DeepSeek reserves the right to adjust them.

David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

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The Trump administration has shifted its AI oversight policy, demanding federal review of AI models before release, due to concerns over national security and geopolitical stability. David Sacks, a former AI and crypto czar, lost influence in the administration after his pro-industry agenda alienated Trump's base and Republican allies.

Behavior-Oriented Concurrency for Python

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The boc library provides a simpler way to write concurrent programs by using concurrent-owned variables (cowns) and behaviors, which can be used to schedule tasks and handle dependencies in a more intuitive way. The library includes features such as send and selective receive for communication across threads and subinterpreters, a Matrix class for matrix operations, and a noticeboard for ...

Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

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Apple's App Store is struggling to review adaptive software that changes at runtime, while OpenAI's ChatGPT directory distributes software that adapts to user needs. The App Store's premise of holding still software is expiring as adaptive software becomes the norm.

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

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Families are declining vitamin K shots for newborns due to misinformation and unfounded fears, leading to potentially fatal bleeding in some babies. This trend is fueled by a mix of well-meaning caution and false information on social media.

FBI investigating leaks to journalist who wrote explosive article on Kash Pate

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The FBI launched a rare leak investigation into Atlantic journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick over a story about Director Kash Patel's work habits, citing concerns about the story's accuracy. The investigation has raised concerns about the government's approach to press freedom and the First Amendment.

The Boring Internet

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The internet has changed, with platforms like Twitter and Instagram becoming dominated by machine-generated content, and users feeling a sense of loss and nostalgia for the old internet.

Kash Patel's Personalized Bourbon Stash

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Pope Leo called his bank's customer service line. They hung up on him

Pope Leo XIV had trouble changing his phone number with his bank's customer service due to a policy requiring in-person changes. He eventually got help from a fellow priest who connected him with the bank's president.

Our Continuation of MkDocs

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Hello, MkDocs community! You may know me as the previous (last active) maintainer of MkDocs. I welcome everyone to our continuation from where MkDocs was left off, named ProperDocs. You can already...

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

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Disneyland uses facial recognition technology at some entrance lanes to prevent fraud and streamline re-entry, allowing guests to opt out. The technology raises concerns about privacy and surveillance, with critics warning of a precedent for widespread facial scanning.

Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade

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Anthropic's Mythos model has the potential to revolutionize cybersecurity by making it easier to find and patch software vulnerabilities. However, its widespread use raises concerns about who will have access to it and how it will be governed.

Mark Cuban: OpenAI Will Never Return the $1T It's Investing [video]

The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008)

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The author, a Yale graduate, reflects on the limitations of an elite education, citing its inability to teach students to engage with people from different backgrounds and its emphasis on analytical intelligence over other forms of intelligence.

McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)

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McDonald's stock surged $10 despite concerns over high prices, suggesting it's a premium product for the upper-middle-class. Americans are willing to spend a premium for flavorful, calorie-dense food, contradicting narratives about obesity and food inflation.

SoundOff: Low-Cost Passive Ultrasound Tags

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Researchers developed SoundOff, a low-cost, passive ultrasound system for smart home sensing. It uses wearable devices to detect unique ultrasonic emissions from tags on furniture, enabling non-intrusive monitoring.

Building the deployment tool I wish I had

The author built Deptool, a deployment tool for managing personal infrastructure, to solve their specific needs for speed, safety, and simplicity. Deptool uses a Git repository to track configuration files, materializes them on hosts, and restarts systemd units for automatic rollback.

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

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php-fts is a self-contained full-text search engine written in pure PHP with no dependencies. It provides solid full-text search with ranked results, filters, and tolerant matching for projects with minimal and portable stacks.

Egg Intake and the Incidence of Alzheimer's Disease in Adventist Health Study-2

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Some kids are bypassing age verification checks with a fake mustache

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Children can easily bypass online age checks, using methods like drawing facial hair or making funny faces. Age verification laws are being implemented worldwide, but critics say they create security risks and threaten internet openness.

Am I Meant to Be Impressed?

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The author argues that big tech companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are spending over a trillion dollars on AI capex with little to show for it, as their AI revenues are pathetic and circular, heavily dependent on companies like OpenAI and Anthropic that lose billions of dollars a year. The author claims that these relationships are poisonous and an intentional attempt to deceive ...

NZ Government to Disestablish the BSA

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New Zealand's Government plans to disestablish the Broadcasting Standards Authority and shift to self-regulation. The media council will become the primary regulator for journalism, maintaining ethical standards and audience trust.

MIT’s virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool

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MIT engineers created a virtual violin to simulate the physics of the instrument and reproduce realistic sounds. The tool can help luthiers design violins by testing various parameters and predicting their effects on the sound.

Show HN: Adam – An embeddable cross-platform AI agent library

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Adam is a cross-platform AI agent library that works with cloud and local models, supporting various APIs and interfaces. It provides a unified interface for text, voice, and vision tasks, with memory management and SQL extension capabilities.

B.C. residents baffled as shape floats through night sky

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Residents in B.C. and Alberta reported seeing a large white shape moving across the horizon Tuesday night. Suggestions range from a weather balloon to a SpaceX rocket, with experts noting increased unidentified phenomenon sightings due to crowded night skies.

ADT says customer data stolen in cyber intrusion

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ADT home security company suffered a cyber breach, with hackers stealing customer and prospective customer information including Social Security numbers and addresses. ADT notified impacted individuals and will offer identity protection services, while law enforcement investigates the incident.

.de domains were 'down' for 2 hours

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DENIC eG is experiencing a DNS service disruption for .de domains causing DNSSEC-signed domains to be unreachable. DENIC's technical teams are working to restore stable operations as quickly as possible.
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The US Library of Congress recommends SQLite, XML, JSON, and CSV as storage formats for datasets due to their high chance of survival and accessibility. These formats are chosen based on disclosure, adoption, transparency, external dependencies, patent impact, and technical protection mechanisms.

The AI operator: Biggest role in Silicon Valley

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The user envisions a new role, the AI Operator, who will redesign work processes using Agentic AI and MCPs to automate tasks and improve customer experience. This role requires a unique skill set, including technical proficiency, business acumen, and high EQ, to identify and automate high-leverage tasks and improve organizational efficiency.