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Hacker News Highlights — 81 episodes

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7.17.26 | Kimi K3 Open Frontier Intelligence, Microsoft Comic Chat open source, Decoy Font

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7.16.26 | Inkling open-weights model, Stripe and Advent's PayPal acquisition offer, Grok Build open source

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7.15.26 | Your app could have been a webpage, Bonsai 27B runs on a phone, how to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

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7.14.26 | Apple's SpeechAnalyzer API benchmarked, building Mac and iOS apps without Xcode, Japan recovers lithium from EV batteries

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7.13.26 | Ask HN flag for AI-generated articles, Claude Code sends 33k tokens OpenCode sends 7k, xAI's Grok build CLI wire-level analysis

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7.12.26 | Prefer strict tables in SQLite, Ant JavaScript runtime ecosystem, Nvidia CoreWeave Nebius GPU financing

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7.11.26 | Apple sues OpenAI over trade secrets, QuadRF detects drones and WiFi through walls, New York City to ban deceptive subscriptions

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7.10.26 | EU Parliament approves Chat Control 1.0, GPT-5.6 update, Show HN 18 Words

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7.9.26 | Decoding obfuscated bash script on Uniqlo T-shirt, Chatto open source, John Deere owners gain repair rights

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7.8.26 | StreetComplete improves OpenStreetMap, Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 explained, EU mandates driver monitoring cameras in new cars

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7.7.26 | OpenWrt One open hardware router, resetting Xbox, CoMaps FOSS offline maps

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7.6.26 | Organic Maps offers offline navigation, OpenPrinter is a new printing project, It's about ownership not physical versus digital games

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7.5.26 | Command and Conquer Generals ported, GPT-5.5 Codex clustering performance, Button's sole purpose

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7.4.26 | Costco is the anti-Amazon, the bottleneck might be air in the room, Jamesob's guide to running SOTA LLMs locally

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7.3.26 | Virginia bans geolocation data sales, Podman v6.0.0 released, Linux 6.9 LUKS suspend no longer wipes keys

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7.2.26 | A first cell grown and divided, new Android malware from Google, ZCode harness for GLM 5.2

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7.1.26 | Claude Code marks requests, Claude Sonnet 5, Department of Commerce lifts controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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6.30.26 | Qwen 3.6 27B is ideal for local development, transporting zines leads to a 30-year sentence threatening free speech, .self is a new top-level domain for self-hosting

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6.29.26 | GLM 5.2 outperforms Claude, age verification leads to speech attribution, HackerRank ATS scores vary

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6.28.26 | Anonymous GitHub account releases undisclosed 0-days, OpenRA, Fintech Engineering Handbook

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6.27.26 | Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol, U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI, We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme

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6.26.26 | Herculaneum scroll read for first time, Om Malik has died, internet era threatens privacy

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6.25.26 | OpenAI unveils first custom chip built by Broadcom, Anthropic alleges Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI capabilities, RubyLLM offers Ruby framework for major AI providers

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6.24.26 | FUTO Swipe new swipe typing model, former Google employee fired for creating Google workspace CLI, Jerry's Map

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6.23.26 | Steam Machine launch, police using flock surveillance, Canada plans nuclear reactors

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6.22.26 | Identity verification on Claude, old job possibly fraud-dependent, Deno Desktop

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6.21.26 | Loupe raises app permissions awareness SMPTE makes standards free F 15 Strike Eagle II reverse project seeks DOS test pilots

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6.20.26 | Hyundai acquires Boston Dynamics, Norway nearly bans AI in elementary schools, Project Valhalla brings a decade of work to JDK 28

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6.19.26 | Ten thousand GitHub repositories with malware, Git offers more than .gitignore for ignoring files, CS 6120 online course on advanced compilers

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6.18.26 | Lore open source version control system scalable, Midjourney Medical, Volkswagen blocks GrapheneOS users

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6.17.26 | Running local models is good now, SpaceX to buy Cursor for 60 billion dollars, GrapheneOS ported to Android 17

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6.16.26 | Backdoor in LinkedIn offer, Iroh 1.0, replacing Claude GBT with local model

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6.15.26 | Firewood Splitting Simulator, Your ePub Is fine, Kage—Shadow websites offline

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6.14.26 | Banned noise infusion from Census Bureau, Every Frame Perfect, Amazon CEO's talks sparked crackdown on Anthropic models

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6.13.26 | US government halts Fable 5 and Mythos 5, open source AI must prevail, CRISPR targets "undruggable" cancers

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6.12.26 | Homebrew 6.0.0, human effort needed for attention, AI agent bankrupts operator scanning DN42

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6.11.26 | Building an HTML-first site doubled users overnight, πFS, Eric Ries, "The Lean Startup," "Incorruptible" AMA

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6.10.26 | Claude Fable 5, old-school graphics, dependency on Claude Fable

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6.9.26 | Performative-UI, Apple’s new AI architecture with Google Gemini, Siri AI

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6.8.26 | LLMs threaten software careers, rebuilding after addiction and felony, Linear's speed explained

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6.7.26 | "Readers share 'oh shit' moments with GenAI, Meta confirms Instagram hacks via AI chatbot, Ntsc-rs offers open-source analog TV and VHS emulation."

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6.6.26 | Mouseless controls, S&P 500 blocking SpaceX and AI firms, UK government replacing Stripe with Adyen

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6.5.26 | SpaceX and mega IPOs denied S&P entry, Anthropic offers open-source AI vulnerability framework, developing Ladybird is evolving

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6.4.26 | Gemma 4 12B is a unified multimodal model, Elixir v1.20 is now gradually typed, and They’re made out of weights

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6.3.26 | Gmail criticized user, MAI-Code-1-Flash, GitHub token theft via VSCode bug

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6.2.26 | Instagram exploit, Language Modeling course, Stanford AI agent guidelines

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6.1.26 | Cloudflare Turnstile requires fingerprintable WebGL, the Website Specification, Dav2d

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5.31.26 | Microsoft Office Mac conversions, domain expertise, OpenRouter raises $113M

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5.30.26 | The dead economy theory, SQLite for durable workflows, Notes from Mistral AI Now Summit

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5.29.26 | Claude Opus 4.8, theft of a $200k Lego collection, and a dorm room startup making a million

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5.28.26 | YouTube labels AI videos, Anthropic and OpenAI find market fit, DuckDuckGo searches increase after Google's AI mode announcement

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5.27.26 | Spain blocks prediction markets, worst job interview experience, interesting modern pixel fonts

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5.26.26 | Magnifica Humanitas, California exempts Linux from age-verification law, Using AI to improve coding slowly

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5.25.26 | DeepSeek native coding agent, drawing a line graph, AI memory costs increase

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5.24.26 | Green card rules, On The <dl> (2021), Writerdeck discussion

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5.23.26 | LLMs are advised to read, Japanese companies diversify, Bun support is deprecated

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5.22.26 | Flipper One seeks help, Project Hail Mary features a stellar navigation chart, Google faces an antigravity bait and switch

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5.21.26 | OpenAI disproves a discrete geometry conjecture, GitHub reports breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension, and analysis questions N tokens per second speed

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5.20.26 | Joined Anthropic, Gemini 3.5 Flash, built virtual museum with many operating systems

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5.19.26 | Elon Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI, five-minute summary of the last six months in LLMs, Anthropic acquires Stainless

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5.18.26 | AI won't speed up processes, $80 RK3562 Android tablet becomes Debian Linux workstation, Semble offers 98% more efficient code search for agents

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5.17.26 | Moving away from Tailwind and learning CSS, Zerostack—a Unix-inspired Rust coding agent, SANA-WM—a 2.6B open-source world model for video

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5.16.26 | Companies in AI psychosis, Project Gutenberg improving, California bill opposes publishers killing online games

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5.15.26 | Removing modem and GPS from 2024 RAV4 hybrid, RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air gaming potential, Mullvad exit IPs revealing identities

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5.14.26 | Linux gaming speeds up, free *.city.state.us domains in 2025, twin brothers erase 96 government databases

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5.13.26 | Bambu Lab accused of open source abuse, Googlebook discussed, senior developers struggle to communicate expertise

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5.12.26 | TanStack NPM supply-chain attack, GitLab workforce reduction and CREDIT end, AI-written code questions Python use

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5.11.26 | Hardware attestation enables monopoly, local AI should be the norm, returning to AWS revealed reasons for leaving

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5.10.26 | Bun's Rust rewrite achieves near-perfect Linux compatibility, EU calls for VPN regulation, and Claude Code highlights HTML's effectiveness

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5.9.26 | Google's reCAPTCHA issue for de-googled Android users, David Attenborough's 100th Birthday, Introduction to Meshtastic

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5.8.26 | Cloudflare layoffs, AI affecting online communities, Canvas outage due to ShinyHunters threat

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5.7.26 | Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license, appearing productive in the workplace, and Vibe coding and agentic engineering are converging dangerously

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5.6.26 | DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains, faster inference with Gemma 4, Three Inverse Laws of AI

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5.5.26 | Talking to strangers at the gym, Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust, How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale

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5.4.26 | Mercedes-Benz restores physical buttons, DeepClaude launches Claude Code agent with DeepSeek V4 Pro, London unveils Banksy’s blind man statue

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5.3.26 | VS Code adds 'Co-Authored-by Copilot'; Dav2d; Do_not_track

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5.2.26 | Ti-84 Evo, dreaming communication skills, Ask.com closed

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5.1.26 | Claude Code's policy on "OpenClaw," Belgium halts nuclear decommissioning, and vehicle data collection removal options

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4.30.26 | Zed 1.0, HERMES.md commit messages billing issue, Copy Fail

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4.29.26 | Ghostty leaving GitHub, concerns over phone privacy, Localsend as open-source AirDrop alternative

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4.28.26 | Microsoft, OpenAI end deal; GitHub Copilot shifts to usage billing; Men stare at walls