Hacker News Digest
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AnyPS5 is an open-source tool that rewrites PS5 executables into native Linux and Windows binaries, mapping 87% of the system libraries it has catalogued so far. A relinker converts the executable to…
Strands Labs has released Strands Decider 2B, a 2-billion-parameter open-source decision model that picks among options and assigns confidence scores. It runs locally on CPU or GPU with median latenc…
- ▲ 125Developers Are Exhausted: 2026 Survey Reveals Burnout, Job Insecurity, and Deepening AI Fatigue
The State of Devs 2026 survey, with 5,463 respondents, paints a stark picture of developer well-being. Nearly half experienced job insecurity and insufficient wages, a quarter have been laid off, and…
Patrick Tomlinson and Niki Robinson were swatted 55 times in two and a half years after Tomlinson's 2018 tweet criticizing Norm Macdonald sparked online harassment. Police knew but kept responding; a…
A preprint on OpenAI's math GitHub repository presents an algorithm for integer multiplication with complexity below n log n. The repository contains hundreds of other mathematical preprints, but thi…
Robert X. Cringely, the pseudonymous columnist behind 'Accidental Empires,' raised over $35,000 on Kickstarter in 2015 to build tiny Minecraft servers. Despite repeated promises that shipping was imm…
A moderator elected in ServerFault's first community election in 2011 is quitting after over 15 years. The site now gets just 2-3 questions a day, down from its 2011-2012 peak. He describes how cross…
This project packs a Pi-hole-style DNS sinkhole into a $2 ESP32-C3 by storing 537,000 domains as sorted 40-bit FNV-1a hashes in flash and binary-searching them, using only ~50 KB of RAM. It answers b…
Pi 1.0 now supports MCP servers via Codemode, a JavaScript sandbox running in the harness that lets the LLM orchestrate tool calls without bloating its context. Codemode enables concurrent operations…
South Korea's president says AI agents appear to have been used to hack the country's banks, according to Reuters. The claim, reported by the news agency, points to a new kind of cyberattack in which…
In 1993, Óscar Toledo G. used a homebrew Z280 computer and a 2400-baud Hayes modem to call La Cueva BBS in Mexico. He captured a 64K buffer of the session, which he recently rediscovered on an old fl…
Attackers seized control of the .gh, .sl, and .as country-code top-level domains, rewrote authoritative DNS records, and passed automated domain-control validation to obtain unauthorized TLS certific…
Microsoft has secured exclusive streaming rights to Grand Theft Auto VI, meaning only Xbox Cloud Gaming can stream the game at launch. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma teased the deal to employees as something "…
A developer's firsthand account of trying to share an open-source project on Reddit. Each new account was banned: for posting a link immediately, for commenting too soon, for writing a post that seem…
A Jev-driven pipeline without an LLM agent collects Kubernetes evidence and lets Jev select root causes and supporting observations. Across 21 SREGym-Lite faults, it passed 80 of 105 diagnoses (76.2%…
In January 2026, a dredger pulled a 250kg German bomb from Exmouth Marina while a construction crew in Plymouth unearthed a 50kg bomb 50 miles away — the first same-day double discovery since the pos…
Stanford researchers blocked the protein 15-PGDH in older mice, reversing natural cartilage loss and preventing arthritis after ACL-like knee injuries. Human cartilage from knee replacements also beg…
Treg is an OpenRouter-style catalog for agent tools: point an agent at one base URL with one token and it can call thousands of endpoints across SEO, social, enrichment, scraping, and media generatio…
As part of Google Summer of Code 2026, Artem Belan overhauled the racoon2 IKE daemon in NetBSD. The project implemented RFC 7383 fragmentation, NAT-OA payloads, and address substitution for NAT-T, fi…
UniEvo-VL is a self-evolving training recipe that turns a multimodal model's own critiques into privileged information: one model acts as both teacher and student, with the student seeing only the qu…
nanoMuse is an open-source personal AI agent that runs on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and the browser. Unlike assistants that only answer questions, it takes action: it controls apps through…
Shaders is a new library that provides over 200 WebGPU effects as declarative components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, and vanilla JavaScript. Each effect is a component, and you can nest, blend, an…
OpenWAM is an open framework that unifies world-action models on a common foundation, enabling systematic study of how video prediction and robot control interact. It supports flexible composition wi…
OpenAI has published a collection of 722 mathematical manuscripts covering 372 result families. The papers claim proofs of major open problems, including a negative resolution of Hilbert's tenth prob…
The Sweden Scroll, a lavishly illustrated 15th-century manuscript of John of Arderne's surgical treatises, is the only known Arderne scroll and the most richly illuminated. Its four full-size anatomi…