Dolly Parton has died

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Dolly Parton, a legendary singer-songwriter and philanthropist, has died at 80 after a long career marked by numerous chart-topping hits and iconic performances. She was known for her generosity, including founding the Imagination Library that donated over 150 million books to children worldwide.

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Apple has introduced M6 and M5 Ultra chips in the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, offering significant performance gains and AI capabilities. The chips provide industry-leading power efficiency, enabling users to run demanding workloads with ease.

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

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Apple has announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips for AI performance and graphics. The Mac Studio offers up to 4.3x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and 1.8x faster graphics compared to previous models.

My Friend Aaron

The author recounts his friendship with Aaron, who struggled academically but found success in prediction markets and eventually created his own exchange. However, the platform became a massive success due to bots that bet on Aaron's daily life, making him an internet celebrity.

OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell

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OpenAI has developed a highly efficient inference chip called Jalapeño, which outperforms other top accelerators in various benchmarks. The chip's design focuses on eliminating memory movement and fixed latencies to achieve closer-to-roofline performance across all areas of the pareto curve.

New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

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Apple has released the new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, offering improved performance and versatility in its compact design. The new models feature up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and graphics capabilities.

FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels

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Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms

The author plans to enable JPEG XL decoding by default in Firefox 157, but is concerned about its performance and suggests shipping only lossy JPEG XL.

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

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The author built a backyard office in Portland, Oregon, to improve their remote work experience and stay productive with their toddler at home. They chose a 8x10 foot shed conversion using Tuff Shed's Premier Pro Tall Ranch model and added features like windows, electricity, flooring, and AC for an overall cost of under $20k.

EVE Online moves to Python 3

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EVE Online is transitioning from Python 2 to Python 3, aiming for a completely unnoticeable change. The first stage of the migration has been deployed on Tranquility, with further updates and testing planned in the coming months.

Don't Wordle

Don't Wordle is a free daily word game where you try to avoid guessing the hidden word. You get six tries, using green (correct letter), yellow (correct letter wrong place), and gray (incorrect letters) clues to eliminate possibilities.

Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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Researchers estimate that over 8,000 underwater explosives are detonated annually off Indonesia's coast, destroying coral reefs. The practice of blast fishing is a major threat to the world's most biologically diverse marine ecosystem, known as the Coral Triangle.

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

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ModelScope——汇聚各领域先进的机器学习模型,提供模型探索体验、推理、训练、部署和应用的一站式服务。在这里,共建模型开源社区,发现、学习、定制和分享心仪的模型。

Black hole singularity is a surface not a point

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The center of a black hole is not a single point, but rather a surface where two observers who fall in at different angles lose contact with each other. This surface, which exists even for rotating black holes, marks the boundary beyond which nothing can escape and has implications for our understanding of quantum gravity.

Starbase, LA

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

How much of HN is AI?

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The author analyzed Hacker News for AI-related topics, finding that they dominated the site's lineup in February and June 2026. The analysis used a tool called Pangram to detect LLM-generated text, suggesting that around 60% of stories were either AI-related or written by AI in June.

How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer

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Wealthy consumers benefit from credit card interchange fees, which shift billions from cash and debit users to them annually. This transfer is economically significant, equivalent to government policies supporting low- and middle-income Americans.

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

Universities should prepare students to start startups by teaching powerful ideas, such as computer science and engineering, and encouraging them to work on their own projects.

XCancel also down, at least for time being

XCancel service has been stopped due to a cease and desist letter from X Corp, citing legal advice. The user expresses disappointment and frustration with the loss of access to content on the platform.

Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it

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The author fixed a tooltip issue on their website by adding a 200ms transition delay, but it created another problem with multiple logos next to each other.

Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month

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The author guides readers through setting up OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4.24/month, starting with creating a custom image and droplet, then configuring the server and installing basic packages. After installation, users can SSH into their new server and follow the OpenBSD Handbook for post-installation configuration to secure their system.

Why some US restaurants are banning tips

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Some US restaurants are banning tips to pay staff higher wages, with prices increasing accordingly. This move aims to eliminate the reliance on customer generosity and provide fairer income for service staff.

Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird

Python has 6 pre-declared constants: True, False, None, __debug__, Ellipsis (or ...), and NotImplemented. These constants behave differently due to their unique lexical token status.

Show HN: LatticeDB – Like SQLite but for graph databases

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LatticeDB is a single-file local database for connected, semantic, and textual data with fast graph traversal, vector similarity search, and BM25 full-text search capabilities. It's designed for relationship-heavy workloads on a single machine with zero-config operation and an embedded single-writer model.

C2PA Cameras Do Not Survive Contact with Reality

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The C2PA (Camera-to-Phone Authentication) technology on Android devices, which aims to prevent AI-generated forgeries, has been found to be broken due to vulnerabilities in Key Attestation and Google Play Integrity. These flaws can be exploited by attackers using software or hardware methods, allowing them to produce fake images signed with legitimate keys.

When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python

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Python's IDNA 2003 implementation uses str.lower() which may not be consistent with the required Unicode version, causing a vulnerability. A fix was implemented to create new exceptions for specific codepoints to ensure consistency with the specification.

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

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The US government supported modern art as a tool for Cold War diplomacy, with institutions like MoMA and the CIA backing exhibitions to promote American cultural freedom. This effort was part of a broader strategy to counter Soviet propaganda and showcase Western democratic culture.

SiFive's First Server Platform

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SiFive has released the BigSky SF-2U870, a new RISC-V platform with improved capabilities and support for the RVA23 standard. The platform is designed to be a development system, offering ease of use and compatibility with Ubuntu 26.04 out of the box.

Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI

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A Raspberry Pi 5 runs a local AI model in a car, joining GroupMind rooms and sending updates via CodeWatch. The system is offline, using the car's manual for answers and sensing its own state to maintain honesty and reliability.

AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

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AI is causing significant entry-level job losses for younger workers in some fields, with employment levels 19% below those of their peers in less exposed occupations. The impact is mainly through lower hiring rates and not increased firings or employees quitting.

Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model

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Thomson Reuters launched its proprietary large language model, Thomson, which is trained on decades of proprietary content and editorial expertise at a fraction of the cost of comparable frontier models. The model demonstrates significant gains in instruction following and navigating dense domain-specific content, challenging common assumptions about general-purpose models.

Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

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Windows 95 was released on August 24, 1995, and it marked a significant improvement over its predecessors with better multitasking capabilities. However, it required higher-end hardware to run smoothly, leading to widespread upgrades and sales of new computers.

Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike

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Anthropic staff were told to work from home due to a possible strike by security workers, but the union said they were not notified. The Service Employees International Union is in contract negotiations with Allied Universal, which represents the security workers.

Headlong: A microharness for persistent agents

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Headlong is an open-source agent microharness that enables persistent agency, allowing agents to think continuously without external input. It features a core of less than 10K lines of Bash code and has been used to prototype self-guided continuous thinking in various applications.

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users

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OpenAI is restoring a 5-hour usage limit for Codex and ChatGPT Work for Plus subscribers, allowing users to wait for their limits to reset or purchase additional credits. The change aims to smooth out the load on compute resources and provide a better experience for casual users.

Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

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texbrain is a free, open-source LaTeX editor that compiles .tex files to PDF directly in the browser without server processing. It offers full LaTeX editing and git integration with offline capabilities.

France's tax agency got hacked (in French)

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Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others

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This is a community fork of Maiao, which enables stacked pull requests on various git hosting providers. It allows breaking large features into small, reviewable commits with auto-detection and control via git config.

Time complexity of operations on Python's built-in types

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This document explains the time complexity of various operations on built-in types in CPython, with Big O notation describing how running time grows with input size. The costs assume exact built-in types and account for resizing and collisions.

Orbs

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The user initially expressed frustration with the term "orbs" but eventually learned about Ampcode's orbs, which are remote coding agents that run in virtual machines. Orbs allow users to control and collaborate on code from anywhere, with features like scheduling, portals for feedback, and multiplayer capabilities.

HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)

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The goal is to create a tiny executable with specific features, and users should be aware that the process may trigger virus scanners. The code can be built using either MASM32 or Yasm assembler.

JupyterGIS 0.16: a grammar of graphics for maps, and collaborative story maps

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JupyterGIS 0.16 introduces new features such as Story Maps, openEO support, and improved symbology model for easier collaboration and data visualization. The release also includes a redesigned Story Map editor with real-time collaboration capabilities.

Dolly Parton Has Died

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Dolly Parton was a renowned American singer, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist with a 60-year career spanning over 50 studio albums. She sold more than 100 million records worldwide and won numerous awards including 11 Grammy Awards.

Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth

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Apple released a new Polishing Cloth for $9, down from $19, with the same soft and non-abrasive material as before. The cloth is designed to clean Apple displays, including those with nano-texture coatings.

Show HN: I missed the moving blocks, so I built a real Linux disk defragmenter

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A Linux user created a graphical disk defragmenter tool called Defragger to address fragmentation issues on modern filesystems. The tool is dual-licensed under the MIT License or Apache License 2.0 and can be installed using a build process involving CMake, Qt, and PolicyKit.

Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)

This document explores methods for creating extremely small ELF executables on Linux, with the goal of squeezing out as much size as possible while still maintaining functionality. The author presents various techniques, including using assembly code, manipulating ELF header fields, and exploiting Linux's flexibility in handling invalid or malformed files to create an executable that is just ...

Sleepwalker: Passive Backdoor with Its Own Command Language

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SLEEPWALKER is a passive backdoor that activates when the host process carries the name ERAAgent.exe, and it never contacts a fixed C2 address. It uses six transports including DNS triggering, VMCI, ICMP, named pipes and TCP/UDP connections to deliver commands over the network. The malware has 23 instructions covering scheduling, staged file delivery with SHA-256 verification and in-memory execution.

Global demand for sand spawned a worldwide boom in illegal mining (2015)

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A farmer, Paleram Chauhan, was killed in India's Raipur Khadar village over a dispute about sand mining. The demand for sand drives the illegal trade, which harms the environment and local communities.

Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler

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The author is working on a fuzzing tool for the Gleam programming language to test its code generation and identify potential bugs. The tool generates random programs and checks them against both Erlang and JavaScript targets, allowing it to detect differences in output that could indicate issues with the compiler.

US data centers tripled annual water consumption to 17B gallons

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US data centers used an estimated 17 billion gallons of water in 2023, with most coming from municipal systems. The lack of consistent national data makes it difficult to evaluate the industry's water footprint and allocate resources effectively.

A brief history of federal lift ticket regulation

Sort branches by last commit date

You can sort Git branches by various fields, including push and upstream locations, in addition to the default commit date. These extra fields provide more context about each branch's history and relationships.

Show HN: Lightweight system monitor for Linux VPS written in Go

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Vpsmon is a Docker tool that displays container information and GPU monitoring. It can be exposed with Caddy for secure HTTPS access, but requires authentication on trusted hosts only.

Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown

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A macOS app called Ambient Context records the text of focused windows and saves it to a markdown file per day, for use by an LLM. The files are stored locally on the user's machine, without network calls or telemetry.

Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance

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Solving the 1+N Query Problem

Quantum battery upends the rules of charging

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Scientists have created a quantum battery prototype that charges faster with larger size, defying conventional battery rules. The breakthrough could potentially power quantum devices and one day even charge everyday devices like phones.

A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant

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The Riemann Hypothesis (RH) states that all non-trivial zeros of the zeta function lie on a vertical line in the complex plane, and its proof involves a series of mathematical lemmas and certificates. The work provides an unconditional proof of RH using Polymath 15's Theorems 1.2 and 1.3, with Platt–Trudgian's record verification as the only external computation.

Pgbot: A 5.9 MB read-only Postgres tool for humans and agents

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Connect to a Postgres database using pgBot, which provides insights into performance, queries, and health. The tool offers direct access or an agent for private environments like Docker and Kubernetes.

Warnock: Harnessing GPU geometry amplification for vector graphics

Otto Dix, Nietzsche, and the Great War (2019)

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Behaviorally fingerprinting Ox Alpha's provenance

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Ox Alpha, a Chinese language model, exhibits unique censorship patterns on sensitive topics like Xinjiang and Taiwan. The model censors 7 specific topics but answers identically to American models on most other sensitive queries.

Anthropic Sees over $30T in Potential Revenue

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Box of 300 Love Letters Showed Up, What Whimsical WWII Soldier Who Wrote Them?

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Speedy, a 23-year-old US soldier, wrote over 300 letters to his wife Frances during WWII. His correspondence provides insight into the stress of long separation and everyday frustrations faced by soldiers on the front line.

One Go binary, one YAML file, one SQLite database: I wrote my monitoring tool

The author created Gjallar, a lightweight monitoring service written in Go that monitors heterogeneous services like HTTP endpoints and databases without requiring additional dependencies or complex configurations. It uses SQLite for state management and can be deployed easily with scp, making it easy to manage and understand.

My life was changed by four sentences in four books

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Derek Sivers shares how reading books has changed his life, particularly the idea of moving to a new place to be surprised every day and quitting a job after two years. He credits these experiences with leading him to pursue a fulfilling career in music and eventually retire at 23. Derek emphasizes the importance of finding one's purpose greater than oneself and living life without obstacles.

Show HN: I built self-hosted deployment automation tool for Windows and IIS

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This is a self-hosted continuous integration and deployment system with no cloud component, using .NET XDT transforms for variable substitution. It features role-based targets, ordered phase pipelines, and secure authentication with encrypted channels.

Ask HN: Good large format (>20 inches) touchscreen E-Paper display options?

The user is searching for a low-power A5-sized E-ink screen with HDMI or USB-C input for a solar-powered laptop project. They consider using the Modos Flow dev kit, which might be more suitable than portable monitors due to its open hardware and lower power consumption.

MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it

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MySQL Change Data Capture (CDC) captures all changes, including deletes and intermediate updates, by reading from the binary log. To land CDC reliably in BigQuery, ensure MySQL settings like binlog_row_image and replication are correct.

The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI

Run Minecraft in a Windows sandbox for computer use agents

A Windows sandbox is bootstrapped with Minecraft Java Edition installed, and an agent drives it through the cua-driver MCP server running inside the sandbox. The game requires internet access, a Java runtime, working OpenGL, and a GUI that only clicks can drive.

Memory Ordering in CPUs

Weakly ordered architectures like ARM and RISC-V are not inherently more scalable than strongly ordered ones like x86 or SPARC, as they often implement memory ordering optimistically. The key difference between strong and weak memory models lies in how they handle contention, with strong models being more likely to report conflicts but also requiring more metadata to track potential ordering ...

Perplexity Portable Computer

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Portable Computer is a local AI model that runs entirely on device, analyzing data and running complex workflows without consuming credits. It allows users to own the stack and balance performance with efficiency, keeping sensitive information private.

Water Behind the Watts: The Hidden Risk of Powering Data Centers

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Data centers use massive amounts of water to power their operations, with 3.4 trillion gallons needed annually in the US states analyzed. This water demand is largely driven by electricity generation and poses significant risks for local communities and natural resources.

Polishing Cloth

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Apple Card Monthly Installments (ACMI) offers 0% APR for eligible purchases, subject to credit approval and credit limit. ACMI is available on select products from AT&T, T-Mobile, or Verizon carriers and can be used with Apple devices that support the latest iOS or iPadOS version.

Volcanoes that made history

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The 1883 Krakatau volcanic eruption was a global event that affected climate, agriculture and human history due to its massive sulfur emissions. It led to cooling temperatures, crop failures and societal unrest in various parts of the world.

The End of Programming

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The author believes that the release of Bun 1.4, which was rewritten from Zig to Rust using AI, marks the beginning of the end of manual programming as we know it.

The ArtQrCode a twist on the classic black and white Quick Response Code

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The ArtQrCode is a customizable QR Code that can be static, video format, printed or displayed on various objects. It offers high versatility and aesthetic appeal through its ability to combine art and technology.

What languages are agent skills written in?

The non-English share of skills on GitHub has increased from 13.0% in Q1 2026 to 16.3%, with Chinese being the most common non-English language, and English skills are more likely to be copied and revised than non-English ones.