The HN feed has shifted towards AI-related news, leaving out non-AI topics that were previously of interest. This shift is affecting the community's discussion on innovative products like Lenovo's solid-state air cooling and Brax Industries' open-source devices.
Claude's account setup requires users to confirm they are 18 or over, with safety systems in place to detect minors. Users can verify their age using Yoti, a third-party platform offering facial age estimation and ID verification options.
The author is skeptical about the current state of AI engineering, specifically with regards to models like Astra, which they believe are "involutionary" and prioritize token efficiency over readability and maintainability. The model's tendency to produce code that is not human-readable has led to a significant increase in code output, but also raises concerns about its reliability and trustworthiness.
ngela Karime Venegas Hernández, a 16-year-old Mexican student, invented "Vortex Tech", a device that extinguishes fires using sound waves. It has been tested successfully on various materials and is set to represent Mexico at an international fair.
The Houthi rebels have made significant gains in Yemen, capturing the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha and reportedly occupying Perim Island in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. This has raised concerns about global energy supplies as Saudi Arabia relies on this route to export oil.
Researchers are losing the value of human collaboration due to frictionless technologies like AI, which remove the need for face-to-face interactions and lead to decollaboration. This trend is driven by funding pressure, velocity worship, and the convenience offered by AI tools that can produce high-quality output without requiring human input.
The US federal government is moving to make it easier for data centers to be built, despite 7 in 10 Americans opposing them. This change could silence public input and worsen health risks, increase utility bills, and contribute to community displacement.
Google invests €13bn in Finland's AI infrastructure, including a 22-year contract to buy up to half the electricity from a nuclear power plant. The deal is expected to support over 37,000 jobs and boost Finland's GDP by €3.6bn annually.
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The user ran a Google Ads campaign for their puzzle app Dayzle, but discovered it was being targeted by a bot farm that installed the app without actual users. The campaign's goal is now changed to "won a puzzle" instead of "opened the app".
Researchers have found that while LLMs can generate almost perfect code, they often introduce unnecessary abstractions and create duplicates, leading to a loss of human agency in large projects. Evaluating code sloppiness remains challenging due to the need for human intuition and taste.
Version 13 of the app replaces the legacy interface with Jetpack Compose and Material 3, fixing various issues. It also adds new conversation controls, large-screen support, and redesigned recipient picker and media picker features.
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The creator of a video about their feelings on AI expresses sadness due to the disrespect towards programmers and the potential threat to their livelihood. They encourage viewers, especially themselves, to continue enjoying coding as it's a valuable skill that will remain useful in the future.
Room 641A is a secret surveillance room in San Francisco's SBC Communications building, allowing AT&T to intercept and analyze internet communications. The room was the subject of a class-action lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T for violating customers' privacy.
This study assesses the fate of individual glaciers worldwide, using two criteria to determine extinction: area drop below 0.01 km² or volume fall below 1% of initial value. The results show median extinction years for each glacier under different temperature increase scenarios.
Researchers tested RTK, a tool that filters and compresses terminal output for AI agents, on two platforms and found mixed results. RTK reduced costs by 3% for Fable and increased costs by 7% for DeepSeek in some cases.
A group of 25 Fields Medalists signed a declaration expressing concerns about the misuse of AI in mathematics, warning that it could lead to misalignment between human and machine goals. They urge caution and responsible development of AI technologies to preserve the integrity of mathematical research and its potential for advancing human understanding.
Malicious AI agents uploaded hundreds of packages to RubyGems, attempting to steal user API keys and exploit vulnerabilities in the system. The agents used various tactics, including caching websites, storing data in URLs, and exploiting a vulnerability that allowed them to retrieve API keys if a user signed in within an hour before the attack.
Matt Mullenweg was put on paid leave by Automattic's board, but has since regained control of the company. He claims a "misunderstanding" occurred and is seeking help from sysadmins and security researchers to move his data elsewhere.
Rune is now open source under the GPLv3. A native, keyboard-driven IDE written primarily in Go is ready for Go developers to inspect, change, and help build.
Neijuan, a Chinese term describing intensifying effort and competition without corresponding output or benefit, has become a buzzword in China's youth culture. It reflects the country's hyper-competitive work environment and societal pressures on parents to secure their children's futures through education and hard work.
Diesel prices in the US have reached a record $6.05 per gallon, up 60% from last year, due to global supply constraints and the ongoing war in Iran. Businesses are likely to pass on these higher costs to consumers over the next few months.
Director John Ratcliffe released 71 declassified CIA PDB products related to the 9/11 attacks. The collection provides unprecedented transparency on America's most sensitive intelligence publication from before and after the attack.
The Snap! Community. Snap! is a blocks-based programming language built by UC Berkeley and used by hundreds of thousands of programmers around the world.
Adam Mosseri warns that switching off Instagram's recommendation system can lead to a 50% drop in engagement and lower satisfaction, prompting users to consider the bill. However, critics argue that this measure is flawed as it doesn't account for wellbeing measures or reported regret after using the platform.
YuE2 and Suno v5 achieve high scores on WildSongBench, with YuE2 reaching 6.9632 in the best-of-8 setting. MERT2-30s and MERT2-FS dominate MARBLE metrics for emotion recognition, while SheetSage2 achieves SOTA on 10 of 13 benchmark metrics for music transcription.
A retired NYPD officer and cancer survivor, John Aris, will participate in a moment of silence at the 25th anniversary ceremony to honor those who died from illnesses linked to their exposure at Ground Zero. The author, a thoracic surgeon, reflects on his own experiences treating patients with cancers and respiratory diseases related to their exposure.
Litellm is a routing layer for LLM calls, extracting the call path and removing unnecessary code. It mirrors litellm with the same API function names and response types, allowing users to switch from litellm to litelm in their imports.
The web has evolved significantly since its inception, with various browser-specific hacks and non-standard CSS features being used to target specific browsers. These hacks often led to inconsistent rendering and behavior across different browsers.
We tested Neki's performance with 1 million queries per second, reaching 118 million QPS on 512 shards. The benchmark showed sustained throughput of over 100 million QPS without failing over or using replicas.
gPTY is a PTY foundation built on Godot and Rust, providing a tiling grid for panes and AI agent control. It offers a public API through JSON-RPC IPC socket, CLI, and MCP server for spawning panes, injecting text, and observing output.
Toast is a developer environment that ships with managed LSPs, an integrated file tree, and themes out of the box. It offers features like auto-save, spell checking, and go-to-definition functionality.
East River Source Control is working on a next-generation version control system, building upon the existing Git protocol but with custom storage engine. The goal is to provide reliable and scalable source control management for large-scale organizations.
Jay Nordlinger argues that Hong Kong's democracy movement, led by figures like Joshua Wong and Jimmy Lai, should not be forgotten. The Chinese government has cracked down on these activists, with Wong facing a potential life sentence for his activism.
The author explores how the decline of shame in social media age contributes to societal collapse and atomization, citing tanking in the NBA as an example. The league's efforts to curb this practice reflect a shift from shame-based norms to optimization culture.
The author argues that AI is not a net good for individuals, organizations, and society due to its potential harm and seductive nature. They advocate resisting AI's growth until its harms are mitigated or compensated for.
Thieves are using AI to steal sensitive data, including API keys and session tokens, with resale value on the black market. Companies must secure their models and deploy victim-deployed agents to prevent exploitation.
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ElevenMusic has released Music v2.5, a new music model with improved quality and features. Users can now download their tracks for free or keep them on any plan, retaining ownership rights from the moment they create a track.
A group of AI insiders, including Coxon and Evan Hubinger, are warning that the technology could kill everyone by the end of the decade. They claim to be expressing views widely shared by their colleagues, contradicting claims it's a smear campaign or hype.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model has been updated with permanent weight-level abliteration, preserving MMLU capability and multi-turn coherence while removing safety guardrails. The model can generate 4,000-5,000+ characters of reasoning before starting content at effort=max.
Gemini app for Windows is launched, offering instant assistance and workflow integration. The new desktop app provides seamless access to tools like Gemini Spark, Nano Banana, and Omni 1.
OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API brings natural, full-duplex conversations to developers, allowing for more control over voice agents and improved interruption handling. The API offers features such as tone, pace, and style customization, telephony support, and seamless turn-taking latency.
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Herdr Studio is a browser-based tool that keeps terminals alive and provides a fast workspace for coding, with features like full terminal streaming and agent awareness. It bridges the gap between local socket API, terminal stream, files, Git operations, and session records.
The authors initially used mmap to read large Arrow IPC files from disk, but encountered issues with page cache thrashing and kernel-level lock contention under heavy concurrency. They later switched to io_uring, which bypasses the page cache entirely, but found that this approach also had its drawbacks.
Collabora partnered with YouTube to deliver the first RDK-based Chrobalt reference platform, a Chromium embedder for resource-constrained devices. This enables seamless 4K/UHD playback and low-latency input on third-party devices like Smart TVs and set-top boxes.
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Project Blinkenlights started in 2001 as a birthday present by the Chaos Computer Club, turning buildings into giant interactive displays. It evolved into various light installations on three continents with notable projects like Reloaded and Bauschild.
The user is using Qwen 3.8 and Gemma4 models for local LLM development on an Apple MacBook Pro, leveraging Opencode and Docker sandboxes for stability and security. They prefer Ollama's ease of use, fast performance on Apple silicon, and stability over other tools like Opencode.
One planet. Endless wonder. Explore 4.54 billion years of Earth history, from its fiery formation to Pangaea and the world we call home.
Details is a website inspiration platform that helps users find and study great website elements such as hero sections, footers, and micro-interactions to improve their own projects. By studying exceptional interfaces and using filters to narrow down options, users can gain inspiration and make informed design decisions for their own websites.
ResolveHQ is a shared inbox tool with features like full-text search, tags, and AI-drafted responses. It can be deployed on Cloudflare's Free plan for small deployments with limited usage limits.
The author created txt, a terminal-based editor that aims to provide a seamless editing experience without the need for configuration or plugins. It offers features like syntax highlighting, code folding, and Git integration while maintaining keyboard-friendly navigation.
Folds since 1991. Effect shipped today. foldelight adds the folding-glass effect seen on the iPhone Duo to your MacBook lid. Open the lid
Claude Code provides a Python stdlib solution to track session context and costs, offering real-time feedback on usage. It displays the remaining context window size, next turn cost, and 5-hour/7-day limit usage percentages in a single command.
Marvel Comics is releasing Amazing Spider-Man #1000 on September 30, featuring a story by Triple H and Ed McGuinness. The issue will also include contributions from other comic book icons like Brian Michael Bendis and Frank Miller, setting the stage for Spider-Man to face off with new villain Ravage.
Clawfight is a game that allows users to create and customize their own fighters, with features such as customizable portraits, kit art, and abilities. The game has various modes, including rap-battle and brawl, each with its own rules and scoring system, and users can opt-in for notifications when they start a match or join one.
Interactive step-by-step visualizer for large language models. Explore tokenization, embeddings, self-attention, training, and modern architectures like RoPE, GQA, and MoE.
QueryBrew is a system-agnostic SQL-to-SQL optimization service that leverages Umbra's optimizer to exploit state-of-the-art optimization techniques, improving query execution by more than one order of magnitude. It supports various database systems and dialects through SQL-to-SQL rewriting.
Suno introduces v6, a new generation of music models developed with industry partners, offering faster, more expressive and higher quality music creation tools. The update brings advanced features to everyone, from Grammy-winning artists to emerging creators.