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BUI decouples Blender's famously fast, battery-friendly interface from its codebase and ships it as a small C runtime with bindings for Python, Rust, JavaScript/React, C, C++ and Dear ImGui. You get…
ASN Bank, a Dutch bank that markets itself as ethical, now blocks non-Google Android builds, including GrapheneOS, from logging in. Users report the app fails without Google Play Services, and ASN to…
The UK is set to require salary disclosure in job advertisements, according to Reuters. Hacker News commenters immediately probed the loopholes: what happens when a candidate interviewed for one role…
Tesla is winding down Cybertruck production after the stainless-steel pickup failed to find buyers beyond a narrow niche. Hacker News commenters debate whether the original promise of cheap, paint-fr…
Elon Musk is winding down Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas to make room for the Cybercab, ending a pickup that drew over a million reservations but sold fewer than 50,000 units. Plagued by…
pwn.college is a free, hands-on cybersecurity education platform from Arizona State University. Learners start with a white belt and progress through belts by practicing core skills directly in the t…
In 1991, Linus Torvalds called his kernel project "just a hobby" that "won't be big and professional." Three decades later, Linux runs on billions of machines, from supercomputers to smartphones, dis…
Thinking Machines' second model generation is a 594B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts with 17B active parameters, scoring 31 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. It handles image inputs and var…
A deep dive into Ion Storm's 2000 classic Deus Ex, tracing its roots to Looking Glass Studios' immersive-sim ethic and Warren Spector's three-word mission statement: "Problems, not puzzles." The piec…
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is now generally available through the Gemini API and Gemini for business, generating native 15-second clips at $0.07 per second for 720p — a 30% drop from version 1.1. It adds…
Kugelblitz is a Mac-native alternative to Google Earth, rendering Earth and its neighbors as a 3D globe and atlas with open geodata. It streams OpenStreetMap from its own tile server, overlays imager…
Arjun Panickssery tested models like Astra on side projects — a Scrabble engine, an Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe bot, and a philosophy wiki — and found their judgment poor in basic ways. They miss the obviou…
World Strike is a browser-based multiplayer tank game built on OpenStreetMap data. Players pick any real city, drive a tank down actual streets, and knock buildings down — and the destruction persist…
Firenook is a drop-in replacement for the Firebase Local Emulator Suite, built in Rust. Keep your firebase.json, SDKs, and ports—just change one word in your script. It emulates eight services includ…
A colony of wood ants fell into a decommissioned Soviet nuclear bunker in western Poland and was sealed in with no way out. Researchers found the trapped workers had survived for years by cannibalizi…
The FAA plans to phase out floppy disks from its air traffic control systems by 2028, retiring a system that still runs on MS-DOS and 3.5-inch disks. Commenters note that the IDS-4 system, often desc…
Unleash is the most popular open-source feature management platform on GitHub, letting teams deploy code in smaller releases and toggle features without redeploying. It ships 15 official client and s…
NVKE is a management plane that platform teams install to spin up and operate isolated Kubernetes workload clusters on their own NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, provisioning machines through NVIDIA Infra…
I'm concerned that Ubuntu has marked CVE-2026-98432 as a 9.8 severity but hasn't released a fix for nearly a week, leaving it as "work in progress" with only a mitigation listed. I've had mitigations…
Data-scraping bots hunting content for LLMs are overwhelming academic library catalogues, sometimes knocking entire collections offline. One university logged more than 11,000 searches for Finnish mu…
Kevin Boone's five-part series walks experienced Linux developers through building bare-metal applications for UEFI-based PCs, assuming no prior UEFI knowledge. It covers the toolchain, compiling and…
Anthropic's planned IPO is being repriced in real time: investors now discuss a $1.2–1.3 trillion valuation, down from $1.5 trillion days earlier and $2 trillion in early October, after the Nasdaq 10…
The FAA is replacing four 1980s-era systems still running on floppy disks at more than 400 facilities with E-IDS, a single secure display system for weather, alerts, and pilot reports. The first site…
Tesla and SpaceX shares fell roughly 11% and 9% after Democrats won both chambers of Congress and Texas flipped blue, erasing over $420 billion in combined market value in two days. Investors fear ne…
Rune is a native Rust UI framework with its own GPU renderer, text engine, layout system and spring animations, targeting macOS, Windows, Linux and the web through WebAssembly. Every app can also run…
India's CERT-In rated four flaws in Tata Motors' iRA 2.0 and iRA.ev apps as high severity: service account credentials, API keys, and auth tokens baked into the app package, weak WebView URL validati…
Before World War I, telling time was a matter of church bells and sunrises; a wristwatch was a jeweled bracelet for women. The war changed that. With armies dug in across hundreds of miles, officers…
At MIT's 150th anniversary, Noam Chomsky derided machine-learning researchers who approximate unanalyzed data without seeking meaning. Peter Norvig responds point by point: engineering success is evi…
Village's LLM Atlas tracks the price-performance frontier, and the picture has flipped: open-weight models were the best buy across 41% of budgets in June 2026, but by October 31 that share had colla…
Anthropic analyzed 207,000 research sessions on Claude and Claude Code using privacy-preserving classifiers. Scientists lean on Claude for data analysis and writing, less for idea generation and data…
A punishing post-election selloff in AI stocks has forced prospective Anthropic investors to rethink what the company is worth ahead of its formal IPO marketing next week. Buyers are discussing a $1.…
A drop-in replacement for Apple's MacTCP on 68k Macs running System 6, MoofTCP swaps the aging stack for a fresh TCP/IP implementation in portable C with its own control panel, installer, and DHCP cl…
Obelisk Club analyzed 178,637 apps that hit App Store top charts across 173 countries since October 9, 2026. Nearly 10% mention AI in their listing, rising to 43% in Graphics & Design, and apps selli…
EUMETSAT has released the first full-disc image from the Flexible Combined Imager aboard MTG-I2, captured just over two months after the satellite launched on 27 August 2026. Shot from geostationary…
Kalshi had a brutal week in federal court: the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear its Nevada loss, the Second Circuit upheld rulings letting New York and Connecticut enforce gambling laws, and Arkansas'…
Using 2024 U.S. Census Bureau data, Visual Capitalist breaks down combined state and local tax revenue for all 50 states. Property taxes lead in 25 of them, peaking in New Hampshire at 64.3%, Alaska…
The Lippitt-Knoster model for managing complex change says any long-running project needs six components: vision, consensus, incentives, action plan, resources, and skills. Miss one and you get a mat…
Report URI has confirmed 15,579 websites running malicious JavaScript — card skimmers, ClickFix lures, iOS spyware loaders, and redirects — pulling in an estimated 135 million visits a month. Finding…
Vincent Bernat replaced Amazon CloudFront and Route 53 with Bunny CDN and Bunny DNS to serve his blog from seven NixOS VMs worldwide. Bunny's scriptable DNS runs user-supplied JavaScript on each quer…
For the first time, the AI backlash became a nationwide ballot fight — and Silicon Valley mostly lost. Residents in at least 10 states approved dozens of data-center moratoriums and zoning restrictio…
FGC, Brazil's credit guarantor fund, reported unauthorized access to personal data and payout information in its guarantee payment systems. The breach, detected on October 26, 2026, exposed names, CP…
Size It Up is a daily visual size-estimation game from Magnitudle. Players match a silhouette to its real-world scale across five rounds, adjusting height until the guess is close. Closer estimates e…
devvm is a free, open-source tool that spins up an isolated VM for each project folder, preloaded with the right toolchains and ready for Claude Code, Codex, or opencode. It ships sensible defaults:…
Perplexity is rolling out teammates, personal agents built on Perplexity Computer that take ownership of long-running projects rather than answering one-off queries. They plan, monitor, and follow th…
Memorilla gives frozen LLMs a memory system that encodes documents once into reusable embeddings, then learns to retrieve query-specific information directly into the model's input embedding space as…
A scored ranking of science fiction's AI predictions puts Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects first, for capturing the messy work of teaching, maintaining, and selling AI. Heinlein's The M…
A Democratic sweep in the US midterms sent investors fleeing tech stocks, wiping more than $3.2tn off US markets in a single day. The Nasdaq fell 5.5% and Nvidia dropped over 9%, while Japan's Nikkei…
A dependency-free trainer for Python 3.14 that walks you through 55 exercises, from 35 short warm-ups to staff-level builds like a generator event loop, a mini pydantic, and a DI container. Running p…
Agentic Identity Broker is an open-source identity broker from Zalando that gives AI agents secure, delegated access to resources through OAuth2. Instead of handing agents long-lived credentials, it…
Patrick McKenzie and Zvi Mowshowitz dig through Anthropic's S-1 and find a founder-controlled structure resting on a single Class F share holding 50.1% of the vote, an uncapped 3:1 employee donation…
Version 1.0.0 of flawless-ui-ux adds support for twelve agents, including Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, and Grok Build. A terminal wizard lets you pick project or global scope, sele…
Running Llama 3.2, Mistral 7B, Gemma 2, Phi-3 mini and Qwen 2.5 locally on an M3 Pro, the authors had each model answer questions and cite passages, then used Claude Sonnet 5.5 to verify whether thos…
In this letter, Pliny the Younger asks his friend Sura whether specters are real or just the products of frightened minds. He offers three accounts: a prophecy delivered by a supernatural figure to C…
Probabilistic LLM guardrails can't guarantee safety when autonomous agents start calling tools, so AegisKernel takes a different route: a zero-trust POSIX runtime that enforces deterministic capabili…
A preprint from James Nelson's lab at UT Health San Antonio found that castrating male mice in adulthood—around the human equivalent of 30—stretched their lifespan by about 33%, more than neutering b…
T. Udell's Living Maps project charts Bay Area workplaces from 1960 to 2026 for employers with more than 1,000 worldwide employees in at least one documented year. Bubbles mark headquarters, branches…
In the first eight months of 2026, LLM-driven bug discovery using models like Claude Mythos Preview became Firefox's largest source of security bugs, with reports rising more than sevenfold. Mozilla'…
A SpaceX rocket carrying a NASA crew docked at the International Space Station only about eight hours after liftoff, a strikingly fast trip compared with the multi-day journeys of earlier eras. The c…
Two new books reassess the postwar French thinkers who reshaped the humanities. Emily Eakin's memoir-history follows the craze as it crossed into American academia, while Onur Erdur traces the moveme…