Hacker News Digest
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AI companies are secretly buying millions of secondhand books, scanning them, and destroying the originals to train their models, according to a guest post on Anna's Archive. The post cites Anthropic…
EU copyright law does not protect content entirely generated by AI, according to legal experts and recent court rulings. Daniel J. Gervais, a copyright scholar, says putting your name on an AI-writte…
A GitHub issue reports that Codex CLI 0.147.0 on Amazon Bedrock lacks explicit prompt cache controls for GPT-5.6 Sol, causing high cache-write spend. One user saw cache-write tokens account for 85% o…
OpenRouter now hosts Ox Alpha, a free reasoning model for coding and agentic work, with a 1M-token context window. The provider is anonymous during this preview, and prompts are retained but not used…
A 404 Media investigation tracked a shipment of rare books to an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, where employees cut bindings off books to scan them for AI training data, destroying the books. Amazon…
A small team running 20-100 coding agents in parallel can generate 500 commits, 200 pushes, and 100 PRs in a day, rivaling the output of large organizations. This shift makes modular code architectur…
The Netherlands has included Israel for the first time on its list of foreign states that pose a threat to the country, according to a report by the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Counte…
In 1989, a US trade report named Japan's TRON operating system a trade barrier, effectively killing its desktop variant BTRON. The project, backed by MITI and major Japanese firms, aimed to create a…
Zilog, the microprocessor maker, publishes a comic book series starring Captain Zilog, a superhero who battles villains like the Connectivity Constrictor and Vampirus, Destroyer of Light. The comics,…
Researchers report a high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet that achieves a 6-tesla field at 4.2 K, a temperature achievable with standard liquid helium. The magnet design uses REBCO tape and…
UC Berkeley Law School has adopted a default prohibition on generative AI use in classes, allowing it only when an instructor explicitly opts in. The policy, published on the school's academic rules…
A 1986 R. Crumb comic strip depicting Philip K. Dick's religious experience, originally published in Weirdo #17, has been reposted on philipdick.com, sparking a heated comment thread. The discussion…
Agentic coding tools have taken off, but non-programming use cases lag because they lack version control. The author argues that without git-like guardrails, LLMs can't safely edit docs, calendars, o…
Encore rebuilt its Linux microVM build stack to run natively on Apple Silicon, creating crackling, a single API that drives Firecracker on Linux and Apple's Virtualization.framework on macOS. The mov…
Seed is a minimal agent harness with no framework: a ~150-line frozen loop that connects a language model to one bash tool and loads its system prompt from a self-rewritable SELF.md file. Everything…
A 7-inch digital microscope sold as a "Tomlov 7" shipped with no model number, no firmware download, and no labels. Six weeks later, its own flash memory revealed it was a dashcam all along. The devi…
Sid Meier's Pirates! (1987) blended swordfighting, sailing, and family rescue into a game that still resists genre labels. Designer Nic Tringali calls it 'unstuck in genre,' with mechanics like wind…
Argentic is the internet's first machine-native toll booth, enabling AI agents to pay for web access in Bitcoin Lightning. With no accounts or API keys, agents simply send a request, receive a 10-sat…
A 12-airport traveling salesman problem was solved exactly at 62,741 km, while three heuristics chased that number with varying success. The OpenFlights dataset, with 3,425 nodes and 19,256 edges, re…
Moonshine, an open-source speech-to-text library, now runs in browsers through a JavaScript port. The official version, MoonshineJS, compiles the C++ core to WASM and offers high-level APIs, testing…