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ZX Spectrum System Tour: Text Mode – Bumbershoot Software

The ZX Spectrum had minimal firmware interface consistency compared to competitors like Commodore and MSX, forcing…

LLMs reward expertise

Large language models reward domain expertise rather than eliminating skill gaps, as demonstrated by mathematician…

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers.

DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

Norwegian government IT infrastructure experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack starting around…

Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in…

DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. 

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

Top scores increased by 5x.

KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

KisakCOD is an open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4's multiplayer executable, designed for mod developers and…

Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K.

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be.

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound

The ZX Spectrum had two sound options: a 1-bit beeper present on all models and an AY-3-8910 synthesizer chip available…

Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app…

WhatsApp says it is is fixing an issue that disabled several accounts

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users…

The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

Cloudflare has launched a new Billable Usage API that provides programmatic access to account usage and costs broken…

Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Cloudflare uses three optimization techniques—KV cache quantization, model weight compression, and shared cache…

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

C-Kermit, a file transfer protocol created in 1981 to enable communication between incompatible computer systems, has…

Why winner of biggest prize in maths has decided to work on AI instead

Jacob Tsimerman won a Fields medal last month – now he is leaving mathematics to work on AI safety

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

Swiftlet is a Swift + Metal runtime that enables running large Qwen AI models on Apple devices by streaming…

Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

Software developers working across multiple repositories with different tech stacks can use task runners—simple tools…

Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

SearXNG in Rust

A developer has created a metasearch engine in Rust that aggregates results from multiple search engines (DuckDuckGo,…

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying…

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite (https://hoplite.sh).

Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action…

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP

Armature is a product analytics platform that captures and analyzes user sessions within AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT) and…