For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides

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Scientists created a synthetic cell that grows, replicates DNA, and divides, demonstrating basic cell functions. The cell is not alive but shows promise for generating life from non-life and could lead to breakthroughs in materials and disease research.

Most arguments are about ego, not ideas

A software engineer stopped arguing with others due to understanding that correctness is not always good and that arguing often challenges people's sense of self rather than their ideas. He now focuses on self-improvement and building on differences rather than trying to convince others.

Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

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Sony Interactive Entertainment will discontinue physical game disc production for new PlayStation games in January 2028. New games will be available digitally on PlayStation Store and at retailers starting January 2028.

Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report

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Asahi Linux has fixed issues with macOS 27 boot picker compatibility and added support for M3 machines with high-quality audio output, CPU frequency switching, and big.LITTLE task scheduling. The team is also working on AVD video decoder support and has released m1n1 version 1.6.0 with Rust requirements for stage 2 builds and improvements for M3 series support.

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

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Godot Foundation is updating its contribution policies to ban AI-authored code and AI-generated text in human communication. The goal is to reduce the burden on maintainers and ensure new contributors become future maintainers.

Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

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Sony plans to remove 551 movies and TV shows from PlayStation Store libraries due to licensing agreements. This move highlights the shift towards ownership being controlled by servers, rather than physical copies.

Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Nintendo raised employee base salaries by 10% to retain talent and maintain an appropriate compensation standard. The company also invested 121 billion yen in R&D and has been cautious with price increases.

Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine

Box3D is an open source 3D physics engine that is a fork of Box2D, developed to meet the needs of the game The Legend of California. It is now available on GitHub and has a feature set that includes gyroscopic torques, broad-phase collision detection, and compound collision systems.

Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice

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A newly discovered bacterium, Ewingella americana, has shown to completely eliminate colorectal cancer in mice with no recurrence. It outperforms chemotherapy and immune checkpoint blockade with a dual-action approach of direct tumor destruction and immune activation.

Fable 5 Is Back

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Fable 5 is back. https://t.co/9RTGUCcPHy

FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder

Internal Combustion Engine (2021)

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An internal combustion engine is explained step by step, starting with a simple crank mechanism that converts linear force into torque, then using a cannon to generate a strong force that pushes a piston down a cylinder, and finally adding valves and a camshaft to control the flow of air and fuel. The engine's components, including the engine block, crankshaft, pistons, cylinder head, and ...

ArXiv's Next Chapter

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arXiv will spin out from Cornell University to become an independent nonprofit organization on July 1, 2026. This change will bring new flexibility and opportunities while maintaining arXiv's mission and values of free access to scientific ideas and discoveries.

ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM

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User is creating a browser-based Go game with an AI opponent using ZCode and GLM-5.2, implementing features like player interaction, AI algorithm, and victory conditions. The game is now complete and can be run independently, with the user verifying its functionality and removing unnecessary dependencies to enable local execution.

Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402

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Cloudflare introduces the Monetization Gateway, allowing customers to charge for digital assets with usage-based pricing. The gateway uses the x402 protocol for sub-second payment settlement in stablecoins.

Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops

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Find worker-owned coffee shops and restaurants across the US. Search by city to discover cooperatively owned cafes, bakeries, and restaurants in your area.

What to learn to be a graphics programmer

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To be hireable as a graphics programmer, learn modern graphics APIs like DirectX12, Vulkan, or Metal, and understand rendering techniques, lighting, and shading. Familiarize yourself with C++ and shader languages like HLSL or GLSL, and consider learning path tracing and physically based rendering.

A retrospective of my time on the internet

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The author reflects on the evolution of the internet from a place you visited to a woven part of daily life, with a focus on the mid-2000s as a transformative time. The author laments the loss of the old web, where websites were authored by humans and discovery was a manual process, replaced by a modern web with layers of intermediaries and commercial value extraction.

ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

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User built a standalone browser-based Gomoku game from scratch using ZCode 3.0, implementing heuristic AI and win detection. The game renders a 15x15 board, tracks turns, and supports restarting with optional AI focus area overlay.

Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses

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iCloud+ Hide My Email service has vulnerabilities allowing attackers to discover hidden email addresses. Apple has been aware of the issue since June 2025 but still hasn't fixed it.

Trump made more than $1B on crypto deals, part of 2025 windfall

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The first early human eggs from stem cells

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Conception has successfully generated early human egg cells from stem cells using a simple blood draw. They have created miniature human ovaries containing early eggs, a major scientific advance towards redefining fertility.

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)

Here are the summaries in 2 concise English sentences each, not exceeding 200 characters:

Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children

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Redeploying Fable 5

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The US government lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, allowing global access starting July 1. Anthropic is working with the government to develop a shared framework for assessing AI jailbreaks and improving model safety.

How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster

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Optimistic Provide is a new optimization for IPFS's Amino DHT that reduces content publication time by over one order of magnitude and network overhead by 40%. It achieves this by using statistical heuristics to predict when the 20 closest peers have been discovered, allowing for sub-second record storage and improved performance in delay-sensitive applications.

Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

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Pine64 launched PineVoice, a $50 smart speaker with open-source software on a RISC-V chip, featuring Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee interfaces. It runs on Alibaba's YoC platform and supports local wake word detection, with a recommended firmware update to Linux Voice Assistant.

Meta caps internal AI token spending

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Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages

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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)

I am a software engineer with 10+ years of experience in UI/UX design and full-stack development, proficient in various technologies including Python, AI, MERN, and Big Data, and I am looking for a Senior/Lead software engineer role in the USA.

The Anti-Palantir Manifesto

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Programmers have a moral responsibility to the world to create technologies that promote freedom and prevent surveillance. They must build software and hardware to defend against mass surveillance and technofascism.

Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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Isaac 1 is a home robot designed to handle tedious tasks like laundry and room reset. It's autonomous and controlled through a smartphone app, with teleoperation assistance available when needed.

Forestiere Underground Gardens

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Baldassare Forestiere built the Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, California over 40 years using hand tools and mules. The gardens feature 65 rooms, skylights, and a variety of plants and trees protected from frost.

Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access

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Claude Fable 5 is available at no extra cost for Pro, Max, Team, and premium seats on seat-based Enterprise plans from July 1 to July 7, 2026. After July 7, Fable 5 can be used with usage credits or switched to another model within existing plan usage limits.

I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)

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The narrator worked at Harry's All-Night Hamburgers, a restaurant in West Virginia that attracted unusual customers from different parallel universes. These customers, who were explorers and travelers, would come to Harry's to eat, trade information, and take a break from their journeys between worlds.

Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle

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Companies are planning to equip school buses with automatic license plate readers to sell data to law enforcement. This raises concerns about mass surveillance and potential abuse of the collected data.

Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom

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Hanami 3.0 is released with new features like mailers, internationalization, and Minitest support. It also improves performance and developer experience.

Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production

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Researchers found that sedentary individuals have decreased muscle mitochondrial function, which may lead to diseases like cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Regular exercise helps maintain cellular health by improving mitochondrial function and metabolic flexibility.

SpudCell: The first synthetic cell with a complete cell cycle

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Prof. Kate Adamala's team at the University of Minnesota built SpudCell, a synthetic cell that performs a complete cell cycle from known chemical components. SpudCell grows, replicates, and divides using a feeding mechanism and a smaller genome than previously thought possible.

Sony will no longer produce discs for PlayStation games starting in January 2028

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Sony will stop producing physical discs for PlayStation games in January 2028, shifting to digital-only releases. Existing games will remain playable on physical discs, but new games will only be available digitally.

Why jet engines aren't made in China

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China's state-capitalist model excels in industries with fast iteration cycles and well-known manufacturing processes, but struggles with complex technologies like jet engines that require slow iteration speeds and accumulated knowledge. The jet engine industry's high regulatory burden, extreme cost sensitivity, and reliance on a network of specialized suppliers make it nearly impossible for ...

Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models

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Researchers improved recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for noisy associative recall (NAR) by orthogonalizing their memory matrix during reads. This technique, inspired by Muon optimizer, significantly improved NAR performance in various tasks and vocab sizes.

Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban

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The FAA may repeal the 1970s ban on supersonic flight over US territory due to technological advances that minimize noise impacts. Companies like Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace are developing quieter supersonic aircraft for luxurious transatlantic flights.

Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance

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Google open sourced Zero-Knowledge Proof libraries to support EU age assurance and digital ID solutions, making it easier for developers to build private and secure applications. This move aligns with the European Union's eIDAS Regulation, set to take effect in 2026.

Single header Parser Combinators for C

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CParsec is a fast CSV parser for C that generates inlinable functions for parsing CSV rows. It is ~1.25 times faster than Rust's csv and ~20 times faster than attoparsec-csv.

Fixing a kubelet memory leak in Kubernetes 1.36

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A tiny Kubernetes cluster revealed a memory leak in the kubelet process due to a context leak on every startPodSync, which was caused by a change in Kubernetes 1.36 that created a new cancelable context without properly canceling the old one. The issue was fixed by reverting the problematic code and adding comments to warn about potential context leaks and long-lived goroutines.

The GNU Emacs Architecture: Unlocking the Core [pdf]

GNU Emacs is a text editor that has been in development since the 1980s and is known for its user-extensible and self-documenting design that ties back to the free software philosophy. A thesis aims to aid future work in modernizing Emacs by providing a foundation of comprehensive and accessible documentation covering the internal architecture of GNU Emacs, focusing on components related to ...

Claude Fable 5 export control lifted

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🚨 BREAKING: Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick has officially lifted the export control order on Anthropic's Fable 5 https://t.co/996tXyeQru

Qualcomm Linux 2.0

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Qualcomm Linux 2.0 is a unified platform with a single open-source foundation, upstream-first development model, and production-ready modular architecture. It is generally available today, June 30, 2026, with a focus on meeting customer and developer needs.

Chip Off the Old Block

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The author reflects on how having children has given him a new appreciation for old poetry and how his kids are exhibiting traits similar to his own, such as train obsession and OCD tendencies, but also unique characteristics like his wife's love of bugs. The author navigates the complexities of parenting by establishing a "feudal code" of rules and negotiations with his children, which ...

Most rewrites serve the engineer, not the business

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Rewriting code for personal reasons, not business needs, is a common pattern. Before rewriting, look for a specific reason or number that justifies the change, not just personal preference or style.

Building Gin: Simple over Easy

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The author created Gin, a Go web framework, to balance simplicity and ease of use, inspired by the SDK work and Go's simplicity principles. Gin's design aimed to keep the request path explicit, reduce noise, and provide a natural developer experience, resulting in a widely-used and long-lasting framework.

Mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019

A complete ClickHouse OLAP engine, compiled to WebAssembly

chDB SQL Shell

How employment changes when firms adopt generative AI

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Researchers studied 21,559 US firms that adopted generative AI, finding that high-intensity adopters grew employment by 10% and entry-level headcount by 12%. Low-intensity adopters saw no significant change.

Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses

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Meta is limiting Conversation Focus on its AI glasses to 3 hours per month unless users pay $19.99 for a premium subscription. The feature runs on-device and doesn't require an internet connection, making the rate limit seem "bogus" and possibly a money-saving tactic.

Ray Tracer in SQL

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A path tracer written in ClickHouse SQL queries renders a scene with procedurally generated landscape, reflecting terrain and casting shadows, using 3D math on tuples and parallelizing across CPU cores. The scene exercises various geometric primitives, including boxes, cylinders, tori, and spheres, with CSG union, difference, and ray-marched distance field, and is rendered at any resolution ...

Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me

The user learned programming through online documentation and projects, but found some senior engineers' writing and speaking styles, such as "Uncle Bob," to be manipulative and lacking substance. They believe the software engineering culture is overly dogmatic and subjective, with a focus on marketing techniques and subjective traits like "clean" code, rather than objective principles and ...

Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API

Greg and Max, Parsewise founders, transform unstructured data into schema compliant data with lineage. Their platform simplifies ETL and allows business experts to validate results quickly.

The Underhanded C Contest

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The 2015 Underhanded C Contest had over 40 submissions, with many using NaN poisoning attacks, but the winner, Linus Åkesson, used a clever type confusion bug to misinterpret double-precision floating-point numbers as single-precision numbers. This allowed a host country to leave behind a small amount of fissile material and place something else in the test object to produce a substantial ...

Reduce GVisor Cold Starts with GPU Snapshotting

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Cerebrium's checkpointing feature solves the cold start problem for AI workloads by freezing the initialized container and restoring it quickly, reducing startup times from minutes to seconds. This feature is particularly useful for workloads dominated by deterministic initialization, importing frameworks, and loading models, allowing for better utilization, lower infrastructure costs, and a ...

The <Usermedia> HTML Element

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The &lt;usermedia&gt; element in Chrome 151 provides a declarative and user-activated experience for accessing camera and microphone streams. It reduces boilerplate code, improves security, and provides a seamless recovery path for users who have previously denied access.

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. and It's Manmade

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Scientists at the University of Minnesota created SpudCell, a synthetic cell that feeds, grows, and reproduces, but lacks full life. The team is organizing a community to make SpudCell more alive and adapt it for new experiments.

Japan has 41% of the 100-year companies – secrets of 1,447-year survival

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41% of world's 100-year companies and 65% of 200-year companies are Japanese. Kongo Gumi (founded 578 AD)'s 4 secrets of 1447-year survival and 5 lessons for modern firms.

Show HN: GolemUI – Declarative Form Engine

The New Paradigm for building forms. Stop coding UI-coupled forms and start defining semantic, serializable schemas.

Are readers generating fiction with AI models?

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Some readers use AI to generate fiction, with over a third of conversations involving original stories, roleplay, and fanfiction. AI-generated fiction is dominated by power users who prefer generic forms, repetition, and niche combinations of story elements.

One KW wind turbine without civil engineering

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Wind To Watt offers a 1 kW wind turbine for mass production, adaptable to any terrain and environment. It's a patented invention for global scalability, combining technological innovation and industrial experience.

Show HN: Pglayers – PostgreSQL extensions as stackable Docker layers

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pglayers is a tool that pre-installs PostgreSQL extensions in Docker images, making it easier to use extensions like pgvector, PostGIS, and pg_cron. It uses a layering system to stack extension images on top of the official postgres image.

OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase

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OpenWiki is a CLI that generates and updates codebase documentation for agents. It integrates with GitHub actions and supports various inference providers like OpenRouter and OpenAI.

What's wrong with EU age verification? (Nothing)

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The EU's age verification approach aims to prove age without revealing identity, using signed credentials and zero-knowledge proofs to protect user privacy. This system is designed to be interoperable and aligned with European Digital Identity Wallets.

Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client

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A mobile app for Hacker News offers a refined experience with filtering, voting, and organizing features. It syncs across devices and allows users to report issues or provide feedback on the GitHub repository.

The C to Rust migration book

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Mainmatter's book helps teams successfully modernize software by teaching techniques to maintain safe mixed C-Rust codebases and design clean APIs. The book covers FFI fundamentals, moving data across language boundaries, and designing types for safety.

My OSCP Pentesting Cheatsheet

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The user passed the OSCP exam on 14.03.2025 and documented useful commands for penetration testing and the exam. They created a knowledge base with environment variables, aliases, and scripts for tasks like IP address retrieval and reverse shell generation.

Show HN: Z-Jail – A 130 KB Linux sandbox-C99 with 7 defense layers and zero deps

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Z-Jail is a multi-layer Linux sandbox with 7 defense layers, no external dependencies, and a 130 KiB binary. It's designed for CI pipelines, CTF challenges, and lightweight code evaluation.

Client-side load balancing at a million requests per second

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The team at Zalando replaced their shared edge load balancer with a client-side load balancer to improve latency and reduce shared infrastructure costs. They implemented a consistent-hash routing algorithm, occupancy-based bounded load, and zone-aware routing to achieve a 25% reduction in pods and over $1,000 per day in cost savings.

Show HN: Frond – a frontend runtime for your app's dependency graph

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Frond is a frontend framework that organizes runtime dependencies into a graph, simplifying service management and error tracking. It provides a typed, declarative approach to runtime lifecycle, error classification, and retry mechanisms.

Register Korea's First PC 'SE-8001' as a National Important Material

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The Korean government is launching a National Registration System to preserve and manage important scientific and technological materials. The system will register materials that have contributed to Korea's scientific and technological development and provide support for their preservation.

Chasing the OPNsense RCE: The Story Behind My First CVEs

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A security researcher discovered five vulnerabilities in OPNsense, including a critical Remote Code Execution flaw (CVE-2026-57155) with a 9.9 CVSS rating, during a designated research week at Hacking Cult. The vulnerabilities were patched in version 26.1.11 of OPNsense, and the researcher praises the project's maintainers and security team for their quick and professional handling of the reports.

Fable open sourced NanoClaw's agent factory. It cost $800

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Claude Fable 5 came out on June 9. Like everyone else, I spent launch day throwing things at it, and by 2am I was out of ideas. Before going to bed I gave it one last job. There's a private fork of...