Show HN: 18 Words

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Play 18 Words: a fast daily word challenge. Solve each scrambled word before the timer runs out and see how many of 18 you can survive.

AI Content Is Everywhere on Social Media, Especially LinkedIn

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Pangram's Chrome extension detects AI-generated social media content, revealing 13.8% average AI prevalence, with LinkedIn's longform posts at 40% AI saturation and Reddit's replies mostly human. The dataset of 1M+ posts highlights AI's growing role online, urging transparency to reclaim attention control.

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0

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The European Parliament allowed the interim "Chat Control 1.0" regulation to pass, permitting mass scanning of private communications until 2028. Negotiations for a permanent regulation will resume in September, with the EU Parliament pushing for targeted detection orders and stricter security standards.

No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026

The IERS confirms no leap second will be added at the end of December 2026, keeping UTC-TAI at -37 seconds. Leap seconds may occur in June or December based on UT1-TAI, with updates provided every six months via Bulletin C.

TLS certificates for internal services done right

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The article explains securing internal services (like Grafana) with split-horizon DNS and a reverse proxy (nginx) using ACME (Let's Encrypt) certificates, avoiding self-signed cert issues. It leverages a WAF via nginx and NetBird's Custom Zones to restrict access, ensuring TLS works seamlessly for both internal and external clients without manual client-side trust configurations.

Hy3

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Hy3 outperforms similar-size models and rivals larger open-source models in productivity tasks, achieving 2.67/4 in expert evaluations. It addresses stability, hallucination, and context retention issues, is open-sourced under Apache 2.0, and reduces API costs.

A Possible Future for Damn Interesting

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Alan Bellows, founder of Damn Interesting, is launching a fundraiser to regain time for the project after transitioning to a full-time job, which has limited his ability to write and manage the site. The goal is to counter the influx of AI-generated content by funding more long-form articles, with donations separate from regular operational expenses.

Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

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Context.dev offers an API for web scraping, brand data extraction, and logo retrieval, with plans from Free to Enterprise. It includes self-service sign-up, a startup discount, and supports AI agents with tiered pricing and scalable credits.

PostHog Open Sourced

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PostHog provides free product analytics, web tracking, session replays, experiments, surveys, and data tools with a generous monthly free tier. It offers cloud or self-hosted deployment options, open-source code, and transparent pricing for scalable user behavior insights.

The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war

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The US Army's efficiency-driven sustainment model, optimized for permissive environments, is ill-suited for modern multidomain warfare, where survival under persistent attack determines victory. Historical and contemporary conflicts show that centralized logistics collapse under attrition, demanding decentralized, survivable sustainment networks to match industrial-scale combat endurance.

Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration

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One command installs 60+ community skills, 67 themes, MCP support, sub-agent support, Claude Code CLI provider support, memory, and more. You're left with a curated starting point that gets you an exciting, useful experience immediately, without the research and configuration tax.

Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts

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LastShelf helps families organize critical documents, contacts, and bills into clear emergency instructions, inspired by the founder's experience during a parent's medical crisis. It connects to 12,000+ financial institutions, securely guiding trusted contacts through necessary steps without handling money.

What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public

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Bending Spoons acquires and transforms digital brands using tech/AI, maintaining long-term ownership despite layoffs and pricing changes, backed by strong investor confidence and a $1.31B 2025 revenue. Its strategy, blending private equity tactics with growth through high-profile acquisitions like Evernote and Eventbrite, aims to scale further via AI-driven efficiency and selective take-privates.

How to Write an Email

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Effective emails state facts clearly, specify deadlines, and outline decisions upfront to enable quick action. Avoid vague phrases and ensure all context is included so the message remains clear when forwarded.

TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time

TrueBiz is an API that quickly evaluates business risk for financial institutions, replacing manual research with automated analysis. They're hiring a Senior Engineer to scale their system, expand the product, and improve reliability and performance.

New open access book on history of computers and politics

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Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip

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Meta developed Vistara, a custom chip to reuse older memory in new servers, improving efficiency and reducing costs. This technology can help address the rising memory prices and shortage, which may last until 2027.

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

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Coordination Without Consolidation: On Systems of States [pdf]

Written for the 250th anniversary of 1776, this essay reconsiders the United States as a “system of states” and asks whether federative and polycentric orders can coordinate at scale without drifting toward and polycentric theories rightly emphasise the virtues of exit, decentralised experimentation, local knowledge, and institutional diversity. Yet successful systems of states do not merely ...

Auditory and spontaneous movement responses to music over first postnatal year

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This well-designed study offers important insights into the development of infants' responses to music based on the exploration of EEG neural auditory responses and video-based movement analysis. The compelling results revealed that evoked responses emerge between 3 and 12 months of age, but no age group demonstrated evidence of coordinated movements to music. This study will be of ...

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

Researchers found peptides in Tasmanian cave spider and giant Japanese funnel-web spider venom that can kill varroa mites without harming honeybees. These biodegradable peptides could lead to a sustainable treatment for varroa mite infestations in honeybee hives.

Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools

Hey HN! We built a browser-based agent that runs inside an authenticated web app, watches how the app calls its own APIs, and automatically turns those into agent tools. You can think of it as an auto-generated MCP server that self-updates as the host app changes. The result is a skilled AI assistant that actually integrates deeply with any product (not just chat and RAG) with minimal effort. ...

Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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FableCut is a browser-based video editor using JSON timelines for real-time human-AI collaboration, supporting SVG animations, AI-driven edits via MCP/REST, and live project updates. It offers features like keyframe effects, font customization, conflict-safe editing, and fast MP4 exports with ffmpeg.

US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

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The US military lost over $1 billion in Reaper drones in Iran, prompting a shift to cheaper drones to overwhelm enemy defenses, mirroring Ukraine's strategy. The Pentagon's $54B 2027 budget targets such drones, but success remains uncertain.

Why we're moving off Cloudflare Durable Objects

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Wire transitioned from Cloudflare Durable Objects to a custom-built runtime for improved performance, control, and isolation, embedding SQLite with vector indexes to reduce latency and enhance retrieval accuracy. The new system offers faster warm/cold starts, regional placement, and dedicated resources, with plans to open-source the runtime after stability validation.

A Road to Lisp: Why Lisp

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Lisp's macros, code-as-data structure, and interactive REPL enable powerful language extensibility and dynamic programming, fostering a unique problem-solving approach. Mastering Lisp transforms programming by allowing developers to shape the language itself, creating domain-specific tools and adaptable systems through its homoiconic and extensible nature.

John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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John Deere agreed to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment under a right-to-repair settlement with the FTC and several states. The company must provide diagnostic and repair tools to owners and shops, not just authorized dealers, and pay $1 million in antitrust enforcement costs.

Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser

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Helium prioritizes transparency, privacy, and user consent through open-source code, public repositories, and no proprietary blobs. It enforces accountability via immutable releases and encourages community-driven privacy-first alternatives to combat data exploitation.

How version control will evolve for the agent boom

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Git must evolve to store AI agent session logs as semantic memory, enabling collaboration and provenance tracking. Decentralized hosting ensures scalability, resilience, and data sovereignty for AI-driven development.