▸ A Los Angeles jury ruled that Meta's Instagram and Google's YouTube were deliberately designed with addictive features targeting children.
▸ CERN uses neural networks with 100-1,000 parameters and 6-bit weights, compiled directly into FPGA gate logic via the hls4ml framework, to filter LHC ...
▸ Sid Sijbrandij, who co-founded GitLab and took it to an $11B IPO, is channeling his cancer battle into founding new companies rather than stepping bac...
▸ Reco.ai claims they replaced the JSONata library with custom AI-generated code in a single day, cutting $500k/year in compute costs.
▸ A blog post arguing against premature hardware replacement hit 608 points on HN, striking a nerve with developers tired of forced upgrade cycles.
▸ Slovenian counter-intelligence caught Israeli private intelligence firm Black Cube deploying operatives posing as fake investors to manipulate a Europ...
▸ A GitHub repo collecting the full system prompts of 30+ AI tools — including Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Devin, and Replit — has hit 133K stars, ma...
▸ ARC-AGI-3 is the first interactive reasoning benchmark where AI agents must learn novel rules through experimentation, not just static pattern matchin...
▸ The EU Parliament rejected the 'Chat Control' regulation that would have required platforms like Signal and WhatsApp to scan all messages — including ...
▸ A deadly strike on an Iranian school was widely attributed to an AI targeting system, but a Guardian investigation reveals the root cause lies in how ...
▸ Ente, the open-source encrypted photo storage company, has launched Ensu — a local-first LLM application that runs models entirely on-device with no d...
▸ AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition stacks 3D V-Cache on both CCDs, delivering 208MB of total cache in a single AM5 chip — roughly 3× what the origina...
▸ Iran-linked threat actors compromised FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email accounts, exposing sensitive communications of the nation's top law enf...
▸ Stanford researchers show that most applications make unsafe assumptions about file system behavior during crashes, leading to silent data corruption.
▸ Apple's Feedback Assistant automatically closes bug reports unless developers actively re-verify the bug still exists in newer OS releases — shifting ...
▸ A practical migration guide from GitHub to Codeberg scored 572 points on HN, signaling real appetite for GitHub alternatives among working developers.
▸ Jesse Vincent's obra/superpowers — a framework of structured prompt-skills for AI coding agents — has rocketed to 113.5k GitHub stars, signaling that ...
▸ The European Parliament has voted that Chat Control 1.0 — the temporary regulation allowing platforms to voluntarily scan private messages — must not ...
▸ Mario Zechner (libGDX creator) published a raw essay arguing developers have lost the ability to work deliberately — and Hacker News overwhelmingly ag...
▸ Apple has officially discontinued the Mac Pro, its $6,999+ tower workstation — the last Mac with PCIe expansion slots.