Hacker News Digest
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OpenAI has notified SpaceX that it will terminate its contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026. The decision stems from concerns that SpaceX, now…
A federal appeals court ruled that sports betting is not a 'swap' under the Commodity Exchange Act, undermining a judge's injunction that blocked Arizona from prosecuting prediction market Kalshi. Th…
An exploratory statistical analysis tests the hypothesis that the antediluvian reign lengths in the Sumerian King List encode real paleoclimate events. Using a Gaussian kernel proximity score, the an…
The author, a vulnerability researcher, found that LLM agents lose track of established facts during long investigations, leading to hallucinations. To solve this, they built Lemmalog, a Datalog engi…
StemDeck is a free, open-source desktop app that splits any song into six stems—vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other—using Meta AI's Demucs model. It runs entirely on your machine, so your a…
The EU's new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is forcing small tabletop RPG publishers to stop shipping to EU countries. Designers like Josh Fox of Black Armada and Jason Pitre of Gene…
Monzo has built a completely separate backup banking infrastructure, Monzo Stand-in, to keep customers spending, transferring, and checking balances even during a full AWS outage. Running on GCP with…
TurboKV is an async embedded key-value store for Rust, offering atomic batches, ordered range scans, configurable durability, compression, and background compaction. Benchmarks on an Apple M4 show it…
A developer repurposes an old Ender 3 3D printer into a pen plotter by attaching a fineliner with magnets. Using Inkscape and the Simple Inkscape Scripting extension, they generate gcode from vector…
Kumander Linux is a new Linux distribution that offers a desktop experience inspired by Windows 7, aiming to ease the transition from Windows. It comes with the Software Center for apps and Flatpaks,…
- ▲ 15I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's Insatiable AI Platform
In this satirical first-person account, 'Book Doug' describes his job as Senior Legacy Media Completion Specialist: after his company's AI scanners digitize rare antique books, he shreds and burns th…
For over five centuries, a Shinto shrine in Japan has documented the freezing of Lake Suwa, creating one of the longest continuous climate records in existence. The data, now digitized and available…
Chuwi's Unibook, priced at $449, is one of the few laptops to undercut Apple's MacBook Neo, but it's a mixed bag. It offers a decent keyboard, plenty of ports, and easy upgradeability, but suffers fr…