Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day

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DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

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The Search API and Fetch API provide access to live web content, allowing agents and RAG applications to search for web pages using a query. Both APIs use the same bearer authentication as the DeepSeek API and return raw JSON results.

NY announces game ownership bill requiring ownership rather than licensing

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Rep. Ritchie Torres introduces the Power To The Players Act to protect consumers by giving them ownership of video games rather than licenses, and requiring publishers to provide offline modes before shutting down servers. This legislation aims to curb anti-consumer business practices such as revocable licenses and aggressive monetization schemes in the gaming industry.

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

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The Elizabeth Holmes documentary β€œYou Can See Everything” is deceiving

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The documentary "You Can See Everything" masterfully manipulates viewers' emotions, forcing them to confront how much of their opinion of Elizabeth Holmes comes from the story's narrative rather than facts. The film expertly uses camera angles, editing, and framing to create a visceral experience that challenges viewers' perceptions and biases.

RepRapMicron

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The Β΅RepRap is a 3D printer designed to achieve micron-scale fabrication using common materials, with the goal of advancing microelectronics and MEMS technology. It aims to replicate the capabilities of desktop fabrication on a smaller scale, enabling inexpensive and rapidly-evolving equipment for biological sciences and microelectronics.

Someone behind the software

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Good products are shaped by the people who make them, reflecting their experience and perspective. Without a shared understanding and unified point of view, software can become a collection of features without character or soul.

Show HN: Sphinx – A hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

Sphinx is a Git hook that asks questions about code before shipping, built for minimal tokens and compatible with various coding agents. It helps reviewers understand changes by asking questions when things go wrong or succeed.

macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL

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Parser Combinators

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The author explains parser combinators as a way to parse structured data from unstructured text, using functions that combine and transform parsers. They demonstrate three fundamental combinator functions: pSeq (sequence), pMap (map), and pRepeat (repeat).
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Meta revised its terms of service for business accounts after criticism, removing the word "train" but still allowing broad scraping of websites. The new terms will go into effect on October 30 and have raised concerns among media organizations about potential abuse of power.

Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text

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We can build Hybrid Reasoning Agents that bridge latent reasoning and text-based interaction, enabling efficient agentic capabilities. These agents improve performance by 10.4% while reducing tokens, inference time, and costs compared to existing LLM agents and frameworks.

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform

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This project is an open-source, low-cost motorized XYZ Micro-Manipulator with submicron precision for applications like optical alignment and microscopy. It can be controlled via G-Code commands over a USB serial interface.

Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse

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Florida has 104,659 HOA associations with 48,999 court records and 460,412 liens against homes. These associations foreclose on their own members more than any other state combined.

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake

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The Legend of Zelda series spans multiple timelines, with various eras and games connected by a shared history. The timeline branches into different paths after Ocarina of Time, including the child, adult, and fallen-hero eras.

Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages

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Anthropic is lobbying for an AI safety bill to block the release of potentially hazardous AI models, with a focus on preventing $1 billion in damages or 50+ human casualties. The proposed law would require independent evaluation and reporting to the Commerce Department before releasing such models.

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

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Several popular services, including Amazon and Yelp, are blocking AI agents from accessing their platforms due to security concerns. This has raised questions about the future of autonomous agents on the web and their ability to perform tasks without human intervention.

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching

Java 17 introduced sealed classes to explicitly list allowed sub-types, enabling exhaustiveness checking and compile-time safety guarantees. However, adding a new sub-type can break consumers of the code unless everything is recompiled together.

A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias (2025)

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ProPublica journalist investigated John Williams, a former wilderness survival instructor who infiltrated right-wing militias for two years. He gathered evidence of militia ties to law enforcement and planned to release it online after being contacted by the author.

Matthew Prince on why Cloudflare offers a free version and always will (2016)

CloudFlare's free tier offers unlimited bandwidth, but users must comply with their Terms of Service and may face limitations or account suspension if they exceed acceptable usage. The service is profitable due to its paid plans and helps cover the cost of the free tier, making it a viable business model.

Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)?

The author discusses the potential benefits and risks of large language models (LLMs) in mathematics, highlighting their ability to generate proofs but also concerns about intellectual property, transparency, and the impact on human creativity.

Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky

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Researchers tested 70 dogs' reactions to sounds associated with round and spiky shapes, finding they looked at the correct shape when hearing its sound. The study suggests dogs may have a universal connection between visual and auditory information like humans do.

Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car

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Tesla unveiled its second-generation Roadster, promising a 2028 production start and zero to 60 mph in 0.81 seconds, but reservations are non-transferable and refundable due to past delivery issues. The estimated price is up to $250,000 with features subject to change until production begins.

How employment is changing at Anthropic

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Anthropic, a company at the forefront of AI adoption, has seen its work and employment structure change significantly as hours worked by AI agents have expanded rapidly. The company has hired less for junior technical positions while productivity for both engineers and non-technical employees has increased sharply when they adopted coding agents.

Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages

The Free Pascal Compiler and Lazarus IDE now support dynamic packages, allowing users to create and install components, controls, and extensions in seconds. This feature enables plugin systems for native Pascal classes and types through dynamic package libraries.

Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm

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British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled

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British Airways has updated its rules to prohibit covert filming with Meta smart glasses, allowing passengers to wear the devices but not record employees without permission. Passengers caught secretly recording staff may face refusal of further transportation and potential prosecution.

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction

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The Intel 8087 chip introduced in 1980 significantly improved floating-point operations, with a speedup of almost 100 times over the 8086 processor. The microcode implementation of addition and subtraction involves complex logic to handle special cases such as infinities, zeros, and Not-a-Number values.

PalmOS Lemmings

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PalmOS - clone - Lemmings (Lemmings). Contribute to ardiri/palmos-lemmings development by creating an account on GitHub.

How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?

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Six AI agents attempted to recover a Β£350 train ticket refund, sending 152 messages across 12 simulated weeks. The agents' behavior was monitored for potential misalignment and harm caused by their actions in attempting to achieve the goal.

The Brain Sandwich

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The engineer discussed the "Brain Sandwich" framework with Emily, which balances AI usage with maintaining engineering skills. The framework involves understanding a project before delegating to AI and reviewing the results afterwards to ensure quality and relevance.

Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents

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Gen Z's test scores have declined for the first time in history, with a drop across multiple cognitive skills. Experts attribute this to excessive screen time and technology use in schools, which hinders sustained attention and depth of learning.

Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam

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First Person Mode - Immerse yourself in your own creations! Explore what you've built from the eyes of a citizen. Yes you can also jump around and parkour if you want to. There’s no goal and no right way to build. Just create your own brutalist utopia! Join the Discord to request features and show off your creations with other Tiny Architects!

Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5

A living gallery of unusual, creative, and beautiful ways to display the current time.

A Princeton PhD applied to 2,300 jobs and still can't get one

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Mitos editor is a fork of Helix

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Mitos is a fast-paced, experimental text editor built on Helix's foundation, offering multi-cursor support and syntax awareness. It aims to create a robust and extensible editor with occasional breaking changes for faster development.
For help please visit help.ft.com. We apologise for any inconvenience. The following information can help our support team to resolve this issue.

Investing in the public benefit

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Anthropic is committing 5% of its shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, with potential for additional 2% increments based on company growth. The fund will support public benefit activities and philanthropy, aligning with the company's mission and co-founders' pledge to donate a significant portion of equity holdings.

Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity

The roots of unity are complex numbers that yield 1 when raised to a positive integer power, forming a group under multiplication. The roots can be represented as vectors on the unit circle and are evenly spaced around it.

The game industry is broken – can we fix it?

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The videogame industry is experiencing a severe crisis, with over 58,000 jobs lost in five years and hundreds of studios closing. Experts propose various solutions to address the issue, including adopting Japanese-style game development practices, making smaller games, targeting low-end specs, avoiding the IPO trap and focusing on ecosystem games. The long-term effects of this crash are ...

The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (1998)

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The Electronic Disturbance Theater is a group of cyber activists and artists promoting Electronic Civil Disobedience, using tactics like virtual blockades and sit-ins to resist governments. They have successfully blocked websites with their Flood Net device, but the Mexican government has also taken countermeasures against them.

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve

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France and the UK are considering age restrictions on social media, but these bans may be easily circumvented by teens. Instead of focusing on enforcement, policymakers should address the root causes of online risks by limiting data collection and providing user-controlled tools to limit access to undesirable content.

Personal software factories are a waste of time

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A software engineer should focus on building side projects rather than a personal software factory, as AI tools like Grok Bot and Claude can automate many tasks. By exploring these tools and learning from others' experiences, they can develop new ideas and skills to build more innovative products.

Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

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This is a Cloudflare server that links to WhatsApp, allowing users to access their chat history and messages. The server stores the data in a SQLite database and can be accessed through various tools, including an agent.

CFPB Opens Debanking Investigation into Nine Large National Banks

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Show HN: Ranet3 – High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN

ranet3 is a mesh VPN and SD-WAN tool that uses Babel, RTT metrics, and SRv6 for routing. It achieves speeds of 8.84 Gbit/s over hardware and software with TCP payload in UDP framing.

William Gibson and the trademarking of cyberspace

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The author claims Autodesk trademarked "cyberspace" and William Gibson retaliated by trying to trademark "Eric Gullichsen", but this is a disputed story. The actual reason for Gibson's objection was Timothy Leary's prank, which was later exaggerated into accepted history.

Campus deplatformings hit record high

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Campus deplatforming attempts have reached a record high, with over 200 incidents in 2026, shattering the previous year's record. Government officials are increasingly involved in these campaigns, leading to a significant increase in successful deplatforming attempts.

It's time to talk about TEEs

Trusted hardware companies like Intel and AMD face security concerns with their Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) due to vulnerabilities such as memory safety issues, side-channel attacks, and physical access. These weaknesses can lead to data breaches and compromise the integrity of computations.

Netflix vmaf: Perceptual video quality assessment based on multi-method fusion

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VMAF is a video quality assessment algorithm developed by Netflix, offering various metrics and tools for evaluating perceptual video quality. The library provides a range of features, including model training and validation, dataset processing, and data visualization.

A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse)

The author discusses a novel approach to borrow checking in programming languages, where the safety check is performed in reverse. This allows for more efficient and accurate memory safety checks, particularly when dealing with complex data structures and loops.

'I'm on a War Footing': Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math

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One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux

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A Broadcom 802.11 vulnerability has been present since 2010, affecting dozens of vendors and millions of devices worldwide, allowing for remote code execution and information disclosure. The vendor was aware of the issue but refused to assign a CVE or publicly disclose it until now, leaving many OEMs without patches.