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AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included

Researchers have developed a novel "Locksmith Loop" method to validate AI-generated Java migrations of legacy COBOL…

Apple engineer says he was fired after refusing to send cust. device IDs to AT&T

An Apple engineer claims he was fired in June 2024 after refusing to send customer device identifiers (serial numbers…

OpenAI's super PAC is funding AI-generated news site attacking industry critics

OpenAI's super PAC is funding an anonymously operated AI-generated news site called Acutus that publishes articles…

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork

RFC 9851: TLS 1.2 is in Feature Freeze

RFC 9851 puts TLS 1.2 into feature freeze, prohibiting any new changes except for urgent security fixes, new TLS…

Show HN: Isopolis – isometric pixel map of SF

CP/M-386 – CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M‑68K

CP/M-386 is an early-stage operating system implementing CP/M for 386 protected mode, derived from CP/M-68K, featuring…

Show HN: ssh ssh.place

ssh.place is a collaborative drawing canvas accessible via SSH that allows anyone with an SSH key to draw pixel art…

Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App

Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, described an experiment where he tasked Claude with rewriting the Claude…

Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap

Book Corners, a library for public bookcases that sources data from OpenStreetMap, initially planned to sync…

Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours

"Shitty" is a fast terminal emulator written in C++ that prioritizes performance over memory safety.

AI poster wins Ohio State Fair contest

An AI-generated poster won first place in the 2026 Ohio State Fair Poster Contest, prompting organizers to announce they…

Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1

Starting August 1, California's DROP (Delete Request Opt-out Platform) becomes enforceable, requiring registered data…

Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents

Mu is a suite of 67 internet tools (including news, web search, mail, weather, and more) accessible to AI agents through…

The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air

The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac.

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI…

Bubble Memory

Bubble memory was an obsolete type of non-volatile computer memory, as exemplified by Intel's 7110 magnetic-bubble…

Show HN: Draco – A single-binary, self-hostable Firecrawl alternative in Rust

Draco is a single-binary, self-hostable web scraper written in Rust that serves as a lighter alternative to Firecrawl,…

AI Mania: From Tulips to Tokens

The article draws parallels between historical market manias (tulips, cryptocurrencies) and the current AI boom, arguing…

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

The EU's open-source age-verification project requires hardware-bound attestation to prevent credential copying, but…

Show HN: Make your Framework 12 sound like a creaky door

A developer created a tool that uses a Framework 12 laptop's hinge sensor to generate creaky door sounds, with pitch…

Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild

X11 clients fail to connect when run in containers or over SSH because the .Xauthority cookie is keyed to a specific…

Let the Machines In

The author, who runs an AI company, reflects on the paradoxical nature of using statistical prediction machines (LLMs)…

Adding Go's Defer to the TypeScript Compiler

A developer explored adding Go's defer statement to the TypeScript compiler as an experiment and concluded it probably…

Show HN: MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C++ <1MB binary

MicroCodex is an ultra-lightweight coding agent written in C++23 that runs locally in your terminal with a binary size…

TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console

The TinyNES is a niche console that combines original NES CPU and PPU chips with modern, open-source hardware design to…

My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."

Claude Opus 5 successfully generated an SVG illustration of a frog with a Habsburg jaw—a distinctive feature…

EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?

The EU's AI Act rules on large language models became enforceable on August 1, 2026, establishing the European…

Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share

European electric vehicle sales surged 50% year-over-year in June 2026, with battery electric vehicles (BEVs) reaching a…