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HN Digest — 100 episodes

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Facebook caps Pages at two links a month

2

The StarCraft game mobile ads promised

3

Hackers dump the AfD's email as AI summaries

4

DHS orders DeepSeek out of federal IT

5

It's still OK to enjoy programming

6

Shipping code you don't understand

7

A Ruby gem author archives everything

8

ICE agent used his wife's police login

9

Why run your own LLM proxy

10

Agents that think in numbers, not words

11

Claude payers reach for DeepSeek

12

One missed email, every domain offline

13

A macOS security update breaks OpenGL

14

Sony says a game purchase is just a license

15

DeepSeek sells its search to agents

16

Is the Holmes documentary deceiving you?

17

A million memories in one attention layer

18

Estonia's voting code, open to all

19

A weight-loss drug and the aging clock

20

DeepSeek's minor update beats its Pro

21

The crows that keep bringing gifts

22

One wrong card took down a network

23

JavaScript without parentheses

24

Claude reviews its own code

25

Benchmarks miss most of the work

26

Waymo starts mapping Toronto

27

Fortran from the fifties still runs

28

Netflix lost to a home server

29

Tesla's Roadster leaves the ground

30

The cat and car neuron was a V

31

Open model takes two Mac Studios

32

Ads install spyware without a click

33

Reality edit lost, a person blamed

34

Calling someone stupid ends thought

35

OpenCode scripts a thousand tools

36

Suicide rate peaks in early fifties

37

OpenAI left the test running

38

Amazon's prices follow you off site

39

Grace Hopper event cancelled

40

Idle Macs clear a ten-hour queue

41

The coding honeymoon is over

42

OpenAI engineer hid a recorder

43

Argon's price doubles in December

44

Apple's face-reading kitchen screen

45

Intel names a 480 GB AI card

46

China passes the U.S. on research

47

A model can still be a tool

48

Thinking will become a hobby

49

French freezers forced to defrost

50

QGIS bans AI-written code

51

Fable was cheaper than the engineer

52

Nicknames outlast your cookies

53

Fired for refusing webcam photos

54

Only the labs see the strongest AI

55

Yandex bot traffic falls to zero

56

IRC history is still unfinished

57

Yandex loses a third data center

58

A weekend prototype became GTA's cars

59

The city would prefer you didn't

60

Cheese becomes a byproduct of whey

61

Bitwarden store apps go commercial

62

Lobbying is legal corruption

63

Minesweeper opens like a blockbuster

64

The percent button says 220

65

Agents paint arrows on the Mac

66

The five-dollar server loses

67

OpenAI fires three safety staff

68

Deno support ends in a year

69

Math students are told to stay

70

A chart hit hidden by a new name

71

ADHD's late body clock

72

A $10 model that rivals Opus

73

OpenAI revenue comes in lower

74

Sign error sinks three proofs

75

Docker's agent hits version 149

76

A known answer can starve a field

77

Google builds games from a prompt

78

Microsoft caps Claude at $10,000

79

Pizzeria sues over card fees

80

Chrome ships JPEG XL again

81

Google hasn't verified the mail app

82

OpenAI's fast yes-or-no API

83

California closes a plate loophole

84

Skydance closes the Warner deal

85

Vibecoding frontloads the fun

86

Mistral's open model won't refuse

87

A flatter walk across San Francisco

88

Common Lisp, now that AIs code

89

ChatGPT forges cartoon signatures

90

AI flags a magnet made in 1999

91

Cloudflare's search privacy mismatch

92

Germany's RobCo hits $1 billion

93

Denmark's identity register leaked

94

Siberian plague lab death disputed

95

A hundred-kilobyte cloud kernel

96

Americanism, not effective altruism

97

OpenAI's safety lead quits

98

Ads pay for Meta's free assistant

99

Developers still skip the browser

100

Anthropic treats Claude like a person