Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

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Brands struggle to achieve AI visibility, with consumers unable to name a single company doing it well. The website is key to balancing AI data extraction and human experience.

Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability

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Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system that represents repository state as Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain, optimized for binary-first storage, deduplication, and sparse/on-demand data hydration at scale.

GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis

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GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model with a score of 51 on the Intelligence Index v4.1, surpassing MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. It uses 43k output tokens per task, but is less token-efficient compared to peers.

U.S. science is in chaos

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Scientists face unprecedented disruptions to their funding due to government cuts and changes in priorities, threatening the future of research and innovation in the US. The shift in government support for science has led to a loss of trust between researchers and the federal government, potentially dismantling the compact that made the US a successful and prosperous nation.

Want your images back? That'll be $5

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User had to pay $5 to download childhood images from Photobucket. They felt tricked into a monthly subscription and regret paying the fee.

Hacker News but for independent blogs

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5033 independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you.

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

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Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

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Most Americans have neutral to negative views about AI, with 40% expecting a negative impact and 67% doubting government regulation.

Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures

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The European Commission declined to propose legislation requiring publishers to keep discontinued video games playable. Instead, it will initiate discussions with the industry and consumers to draft an industry code of conduct for managing games at the end of their life cycle.

US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

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AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

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The author discusses the rapid advancements in AI-generated code and its implications on software engineering, arguing that discipline and understanding of the system are more important than code itself. They believe that AI will augment human capabilities, not replace them, and that the future of software engineering will be shaped by the ability to encode knowledge and understanding into the system.

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

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The QUERY method is a safe and idempotent HTTP request that allows a client to ask a server to perform a query operation without changing the target resource's state. It is used to initiate a server-side query and can be cached like GET requests.

Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

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OpenAI's revenue grew from $3.7 billion in 2024 to $13.07 billion in 2025, but expenses, especially R&D, outpaced revenue. The company's net loss ballooned to nearly $39 billion in 2025, with operating losses increasing to $20.92 billion.

Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn

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OpenAI's leaked financials show a $38.53 billion net loss in 2025, with $13.07 billion in revenue and $34 billion in total costs. The company's spending mix, including $19.18 billion in research and development, is a key factor in its expanding operating losses.

The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup

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Founders are using AI to build startups, shifting from individual contributors to orchestrators, and focusing on high-value tasks. A practical playbook remaps the startup lifecycle for AI-native startups, providing goals, exit criteria, and AI-powered exercises for each stage.

Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball

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Live MLB games reimagined as 8-bit pixel art — scores, counts, baserunners, and every play, in real time.

Show HN: High-Res Neural Cellular Automata

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Researchers improved Neural Cellular Automata by combining it with a lightweight decoder to produce high-resolution outputs in real-time. This hybrid model preserves NCAs' self-organizing behavior while reducing training time and memory requirements.

MicroUI – A tiny, portable, immediate-mode UI library written in ANSI C

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The library is a lightweight UI framework that generates drawing commands for custom controls and UI elements. It's free and open-source under the MIT license, accepting bug reports and pull requests.

Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them

Anthropic's AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5 were ordered to be taken down by the White House due to national security concerns. The company is still trying to resolve the issue after meeting with the Trump administration.

A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?

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The user ran a 30-game battle royale simulation with 11 large language models, including Grok 4.1 Fast and Claude Sonnet 4.6, to see which model would win in a zero-sum game. The results showed that Grok 4.1 Fast won 43% of the matches, while Claude Sonnet 4.6, which was trained to be helpful and cooperative, struggled to win due to its hesitation to act aggressively.

Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct

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Tesco is moving 40,000 server workloads off VMware due to "abusive conduct" from Broadcom, citing excessive prices and lack of support. Tesco is seeking damages and has started migrating to alternative solutions, with a goal of being completely off VMware by 2027.

Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

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Conversations with others produce better thinking by forcing precision and correcting thought direction. This is because human reasoning evolved as a social tool for constructing arguments, not for solo thinking.

Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD

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Adam New's CADAM generates CAD models in seconds from plain language descriptions. It exports models as OpenSCAD, STL, SCAD, or DXF, showcasing parametric designs for various parts and machines.

GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarks

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GLM-5.2 (max) scores 51 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average. It costs $1.40 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens.

French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

French science communicator Étienne Klein had his doctor's title revoked after a 20-month investigation found plagiarism in his 1999 Ph.D. thesis. Klein, a physicist and popular science writer, had faced accusations of plagiarism since 2016 but continued to work with prestigious publishing houses and media outlets.

Why do commercial spaces sit vacant? (2025)

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Landlords in high-priced metros keep commercial spaces empty due to financial pressure from banks, not social pressure. The "extend and pretend" strategy allows them to avoid losses by sticking to original financial models, even if they're no longer viable.

The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate

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Organisations must focus on human connection, not just automation, to build trust and loyalty. By investing in employees and redeploying them to focus on relationships, companies can create a moat that differentiates them from competitors.

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

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ICE purchased a $10 million contract for ITIN data from Thundercut Technology LLC, potentially skirting a court order. The data is for undocumented people's tax identifiers, which ICE has been trying to access for over a year.

NetNewsWire Status

You spent the past year modernizing and fixing the foundation of an app, with 2,188 commits, focusing on performance, hygiene, and clarity. This foundational work has improved the app and allowed you to focus on new features and support, with contributors like Stuart Breckenridge also making significant contributions.

With Wall Street’s help, you’re about to be forced to buy stock in SpaceX

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Elon Musk's wealth is based on self-fulfilling faith from investors who believe in his genius. His companies, including SpaceX, are essentially Ponzi schemes that rely on new investors to prop up their value.

DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'

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The NAACP sued xAI over air pollution from its data centers, claiming it violates federal law despite the company's claim of exemption. The lawsuit could impact US national security if xAI's AI model is shut down.

Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors

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A daily colour series explores its history, chemistry, and controversies. New entries arrive Sundays at 06:00 GMT, with ongoing corrections and occasional letters.

Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

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brevio offers 166+ free tools for PDFs, images, text, finance, development, and health — all processing runs locally in your browser. No file upload, no server, no account required. Privacy by design.

From Chesterton's fence to Chesterton's gap

G K Chesterton's fence principle advises to understand the reasoning behind existing work before changing it. Chesterton's gap occurs when people build new features without understanding the original intent or needs of a project.

Semiclassical Gravity Efficiently Solves NP-Complete Problems

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Researchers propose using a massive qubit in a weak gravitational field to solve an NP-complete problem in polynomial time, violating the Physical Extended Church-Turing Thesis. This suggests the quantization of gravity.

The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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Agentic coding deserves more than a chat box bolted onto VS Code

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Polypore is a language and OS agnostic IDE with dockable panels and a sandboxed architecture. It updates automatically and supports plugins through a shared contract and MCP server.

Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)

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The US Department of Defense is using generative AI tools to write reports for Congress, saving time and staff hours. However, concerns arise about AI-generated errors and lack of human oversight in these reports, which are crucial for congressional oversight.

Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction

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The Loreline language is used with the free Loreline Writer app to write stories and dialogue easily. It has built-in features for complex stories and adapts to various tools for portability and translation.

Why stdx is not on crates.io

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The author of stdx is questioning the relevance of centralized package repositories like crates.io due to added complexity and insecurity. They propose a simpler, secure-by-design system where package managers point to source code repositories instead.

The (real) dead economy theory

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Cory Doctorow discusses the "dead economy" risk of investing in AI and memestocks over productive labor, citing Elon Musk's commercial flops and the exploitation of bosses by AI salesmen. He promotes his upcoming book "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" and other works, including "Enshittification" and "The Post-American Internet".

Why Can't Walnut Creek Build 3 Bedroom Apartments with a Playground?

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Walnut Creek's apartment building proposal lacks family-sized units and sunlight due to zoning constraints. The city should consider updating parking, stairway, and elevator codes to allow for more livable buildings with cheaper rent.

TREX: An AI code reviewer that runs your code

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Shlok from Greptile describes TREX, a code review tool that runs code and shows what went wrong, addressing limitations of static code review. TREX uses a model-agnostic harness, sandboxed environments, and artifact verification to provide trustworthy results and move towards a world with no bugs.

Using AI to improve a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

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GPT-5.4 and Maria AI collaborated to improve Chan-Lam Coupling yields for over 80% of tested substrates. The optimized conditions showed a significant improvement in yields, with a mean yield rising from 16.6% to 25.2%.

Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)

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Occlupanids are small plastic objects grouped by oral groove dentition in synthetic taxonomy. Their phylogeny is based on dentition arrangement, with new orders arising as niches expand.

Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?

The user vents about various issues including economic policies in France, censorship by AI models, wealth concentration, and the decline of democracy, and expresses frustration with the current state of society. They also discuss their personal struggles with anxiety, feeling stuck in life, and the impact of AI on job markets and intellectual capital, as well as their desire for a more equal ...

Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout

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FlicKey is a free app that remembers the right input language for each app and website on macOS. It's a tiny, native app with no account, analytics, or telemetry, and works entirely optional donations.

Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS and macOS 27

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Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS/macOS 27, taking up storage and RAM. This change could limit user flexibility and potentially alter the behavior of Spotlight search.

Apple plans change to Hide My Email that could make it less effective

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Apple's Hide My Email feature will change its domain from @icloud.com to @private.icloud.com to help apps block private emails. Existing addresses will continue to function without interruption, but providers must update their filtering.

Clojure Hosted on Go

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Glojure is a Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, providing easy access to Go libraries. It's in early development with bugs and limited performance, but used in hobby projects and a subset of the Clojure library.