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Today's lineup:
Iroh 1.0 — A peer-to-peer networking library hits stable. You dial a key, not an address, and the library figures out how to get there.A backdoor hiding in a LinkedIn job offer — A bogus recruiter sent a npm package as a take-home; inside was a prepare-script that opened a reverse shell.Has anyone replaced Claude or GPT with a local model for daily coding? — HN reports on running DeepSeek V4 Flash on a dual-GPU rig and what the workflow trade-offs feel like.TinyWind — A tiny browser-based pirate sailing game with real wind physics and emergent multiplayer.My homelab AI dev platform — One developer's writeup of self-hosting an OpenCode agent behind a human-gated pull request workflow.US battery manufacturing keeps breaking records — FRED data shows domestic battery cell output at the highest level on record.A peopleless economy? Not technically impossible — An essay arguing the labor share could keep shrinking without breaking the math, and what that would mean.Banned book library in a WiFi smart light bulb — A maker stuffs censored texts into a cheap smart bulb's flash chip; it serves them over a captive portal.Follow links to the original posts and HN threads via news.ycombinator.com.
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Sunday roundup with Best of the Week:
Rio de Janeiro homegrown LLM appears to be a weighted merge of two existing modelsDid the makers of Claude Fable ask for this? The trust gap keeps wideningStanford grads stage a visible walkout during Sundar Pichai commencement speechThe Jqwik Anti-AI Affair: maintainer sunsets the project as protestThe only scalable delete in Postgres is dropping the whole table at onceFirewood Splitting Simulator: a Sunday front-page hitYour ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe.Best of the Week: the full Claude Fable saga, from leaked launch to fail-cleanly demands -
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Saturday roundup:
U.S. Commerce Dept bans noise infusion (differential privacy) from Census Bureau outputsGLM 5.2 ships with a 1M-token context window and MIT-licensed weights next weekTonsky's "Every Frame Perfect" — animation polish as a trust signalPyodide 314.0 — Python wasm wheels can now be published directly to PyPIDerbyshire police officer under investigation for using AI to create evidence in multiple casesIsraeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votesRunning DOS on a Behringer mixing console with a from-scratch x86 BIOSBonus: UC San Diego and Google propose a 2,000-Pixel-phone low-carbon datacenter -
Friday roundup:
If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort — the AI-slop pushback that owned the front page"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?" — the cultural pressure to outsource thinkingNew CRISPR technique selectively shreds cancer cells, including previously undruggable cancersMalware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to spyware — probably to poison AI classifiersWASI 0.3 lands with async, sockets, and unified streamsPalantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine RepublikTwenty one zero-days disclosed in FFmpeg — CCTV, ingest, and transcoding pipelines exposedBonus: Renault is shipping electric motors with no rare earth metals -
Thursday roundup:
Homebrew 6.0.0 ships — and surprises Mac users by auto-upgrading casks that were supposed to stay putAnthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails that silently downgraded benign requestsSolar generated more US electricity than coal for the first time ever"Lines of code got a better publicist" — a takedown of AI productivity metricsXiaomi releases MiMo Code, a terminal-native open source coding assistantThe remote code execution that AMD wouldn't fix — until HN got loudmacOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux on Apple SiliconBonus: a developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a 2007 Nokia N95 -
Tuesday roundup:
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5 (Mythos 5), leaked early via Google cacheIf Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know — competitive sabotage policy concernsApple yanks Siri AI from the EU rather than comply with the Digital Markets ActTechdirt: CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOsFCC proposes ID requirements that would end anonymous prepaid phonesOpenCV 5 ships with built-in multimodal model supportA solo developer makes graphics like it's 1993 — raycasting, software rasterization, no GPUBonus: a rare pair-instability supernova observed at the edge of the universe -
Monday roundup:
Show HN: Performative-UI, a React library of design tropes done well on purposeMusicDecoy stops the Apple Music app from launching on stray clicksBBC: It is fads, not friends, that now dominate social media feedsXiaomi releases MiMo v2.5 Pro UltraSpeed, a 1 trillion parameter model at 1000 tokens per secondApple announces Siri AI; Apple Intelligence reportedly built on Google Gemini infrastructureEssay argues xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier labEd Zitron returns with AI is slowing downBonus: OpenAI submits a confidential S-1 draft to the SEC -
Sunday roundup with Best of the Week:
An anxious blog post says LLMs are eroding software engineering careersHow is Linear so fast? A local-first architecture deep diveLinux developers ask Anthropic to ship an official Claude DesktopA 100 kilowatt FM radio feedline severed in broad daylight in the Ohio ValleyThe 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest winners are outBuilding from zero after addiction, prison, and a felonyGamers push laws to stop publishers from remotely disabling gamesBest of the Week: revisiting the Google to SpaceX compute deal for xAI capacity -
Friday roundup:
Astronauts shelter on the ISS during an air leak repair, then return to normal opsMicrosoft open-sources pg_durable, putting durable workflow execution inside PostgresGoogle ships Gemma 4 QAT models for efficient on-device inferenceMouseless: keyboard-driven control of your entire operating systemA blog post asks whether Claude is increasing bugs in rsyncGov dot uk drops Stripe in favor of Dutch payment processor AdyenWhy Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things -
Thursday roundup:
VoidZero joins Cloudflare, bringing Vite, Vitest, Rolldown and Oxc under one roofAnthropic publishes a recursive self-improvement research frameworkAnthropic releases an open-source vulnerability discovery harnessWhy IPv6 zone identifiers in URLs are a long-running mistakeIan Fieggen's Secure Shoelace Knot returns to the front pageA parent shares their retro-tech approach to limiting screen time -
Wednesday roundup:
Elixir v1.20 ships gradual type checking for the BEAMGoogle's Gemma 4 12B: an encoder-free multimodal modelUber caps engineering AI tool spending at 1,500 dollars per developer per monthPwnd Blaster: a Bluetooth speaker that hides a BadUSB keyboard attackMeta gives users a 30-minute opt-out window before AI training kicks in -
Saturday roundup:
Index gatekeepers refuse to bend rules for SpaceX, OpenAI, and AnthropicMeta confirms 20,225 Instagram accounts hacked through AI chatbot exploitGoogle to rent xAI data center compute capacity at large monthly run ratePokemon Emerald ported to WebAssembly, runs in the browserLWN on moving beyond fork plus exec as the kernel process primitiventsc-rs: open source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifactsZeroserve: a zero-config web server you can script with eBPFRecent US college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker -
Tuesday roundup:
Adafruit receives a demand letter from Fenwick on behalf of Flux.AI after a critical PCB reviewGmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left — the AI-overreach burnoutMullvad on age verification for social media as the end of the free internetMicrosoft drops MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5B-active coding model with explicit decontaminationWhy you don't love systemd timers enough — a love letter to a debuggable cron replacementTrump signs downsized AI executive order after weeks of reversalsAnthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150+ new orgs across critical infrastructureDon Marti on the advertising cartel coming to your web browser (Attribution Level One) -
Sunday roundup:
Cloudflare Turnstile and the WebGL fingerprinting tradeoffBonsai Image 4B — 1-bit and ternary image generation for local devicesCreatine and brain energy — small uncontrolled study, big headlineThe Chuwi Minibook X — the netbook we deserveRestartable Sequences — tiny database transactions in the kernelThe Website Specification — a platform-agnostic checklist for good websitesBest of the Week: revisiting Claude Opus 4.8 five days in.
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Monday roundup:
Instagram AI support bot lets attackers reset any account with a username and a VPNRed Hat npm packages compromised in a supply chain attack hitting 30+ librariesAnthropic files a confidential draft S-1 with the SEC, three days after its $65B Series HStanford CS336 + Claude.md — students build LLMs end-to-end with Tatsu Hashimoto and Percy LiangNvidia unveils RTX Spark, a new line of AI-first small form factor PCsFlorida AG sues OpenAI — first state-level lawsuit, post the FSU shooting caseThe Pirate Bay turns 20 — still resilient after the 2006 raidRGB 255 vs 256 — why dividing by 255 is the right call when normalizing colors -
Saturday roundup:
OpenRouter raises $113M Series B led by CapitalGDomain Expertise Has Always Been The Real MoatAccenture to acquire Ookla (Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau, RootMetrics)Microsoft degrades perpetual Office for Mac to view-only on July 13I Found A Seashell In The Middle Of The Desert — a shape-space CV projectVoxel Space — the Comanche-era terrain renderer in under 20 linesJef Raskin, the visionary behind the Mac (2013 interview returns)Zig ELF linker improvements catch up to LLD -
Friday roundup:
The Dead Economy Theory — when AI eliminates labor faster than productivity growsNotes from Mistral's AI Now Summit in ParisLiquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B with 38T training tokensSQLite Is All You Need For Durable Workflows responds to yesterday's DBOS postIs AI Causing A Repeat Of Frontend's Lost DecadeOver 600 UC faculty demand the SAT come back for STEM majorsMicrosoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens July 14 dropGTA 6 developers at Rockstar unionize -
Thursday roundup:
Claude Opus 4.8 lands with fast mode and dynamic workflowsAnthropic raises $65B Series H at $965B post-money valuationYouTube starts auto-labeling AI-generated videosEU fines Temu €200M for letting illegal products on the platformDBOS argues Postgres is all you need for durable executionVarious LLM Smells — the writing tells of generated proseContinue Y/N: a 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigueRaspberry Pi 6 pushed to 2028 as DRAM shortage bites -
Friday roundup:
Anthropic's Project Glasswing and the Mythos Preview model that found 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities in a monthCISA's vulnerability-data leak gets worse as lawmakers demand answersyt-dlp deprecates Bun after the maintainer ships a vibe-coded Rust rewriteAntigravity 2.0 dominates the OpenSCAD Pantheon benchmarkDeepSeek V4 Pro slashes API pricingU.S. researchers face new restrictions on foreign collaboratorsAnna's Archive publishes an llms.txt aimed at AI labsProject Hail Mary's interactive stellar navigation chart hits the front page -
Thursday roundup:
Flipper One asks the community to help finish an open Linux pocket cyberdeck (8-core RK3576, NPU, 8 GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, dual GbE, M.2 expansion, mainline kernel)Google's Antigravity 2.0 silently replaces the IDE with a chatbot via background update; engineer's chat history and settings purgedSeattle Shield: SPD-operated intelligence network shares surveillance bulletins with Amazon, Facebook, ICE, FBI, NYPD, and hundreds of others — 17 years, zero publicly cited arrestsGoogle packs new ad formats into AI Mode: Conversational Discovery, Highlighted Answers, AI-powered Shopping ads, Business Agent for Leads, expanded Direct OffersWaymo pauses Atlanta and San Antonio because robotaxis keep driving into floods; the recall last week didn't fix itPython 3.15 quietly ships: asyncio.TaskGroup.cancel(), threading.serialize_iterator / concurrent_tee, frozendict, json.loads(array_hook=...), Counter xorA 2021 M1 Max MacBook indexes a year of video locally with Gemma 4 31B Q4 — 28.4 GB model in RAM, 50.89 GB of swap, $140/mo cloud bill cut to $22No Slop Grenade publishes the AI-etiquette manifesto: stop pasting AI-generated walls of text into conversations - Visa fler