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Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder

Jim, a bootcamp developer with charisma and ambition, rapidly ascended in tech through a network connection that led to…

YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs…

But can your calculator run Linux?

The HP Prime G2 graphing calculator can run Linux, allowing users to execute applications like xcalc and even Doom on…

Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now

Google News has significantly degraded as a research tool, with its filtering features becoming increasingly unreliable.

Show HN: Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust

Episko is a Cockpit interface for managing Claude Code agents in Rust, providing a dashboard to monitor multiple…

Signal Structure of the Starlink Ku-Band Downlink (2023) [pdf]

Chess Engine Dev Community Openly Hostile to AI Assisted Development

A chess engine developer has publicly criticized an AI-assisted project for incorporating optimizations from open-source…

CISA Alert: Water Sector PLC Targeting

I cannot provide a summary of this article because the text provided does not contain the actual content of a CISA alert…

Should you still buy your next smartphone — or subscribe to it instead?

Apple's new Upgrade program is the latest sign that smartphone ownership is changing.

Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576

A soundness bug in the Lean kernel's handling of nested inductive types with phantom parameters was discovered on July…

Scanning 7.6 Petabytes of HuggingFace Training Data for Secrets

Researchers scanned 7.6 petabytes of public datasets on Hugging Face and found 221,303 live credentials across 6,003…

How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

# Summary Google systematically undermined RSS feed adoption through an "Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish" strategy,…

NetBSD 11.0

NetBSD 11.0 has been released, with installation images available for multiple architectures including separate CD-ROM…

Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

A directory of people who love RSS

A new directory called "I ♥ RSS" has been launched to catalog websites and people who use RSS feeds.

Kaisel – Routes as Values. Dart 3 Native Router for Flutter

Kaisel is a Dart 3 native router for Flutter that uses typed routes as values instead of string paths, eliminating the…

Franken.domains: Stitched-Together Domains, Because Every .com Is Taken

Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast

Pgtestdb, a Go/Postgres testing package, uses Postgres template databases to clone test databases extremely…

Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export

Cursor removed dollar cost information from its usage page and CSV exports, replacing it with token counts for…

Explorative modeling: Train on the best of K guesses

Explorative Modeling (XM) is a new generative modeling paradigm that improves existing models by training on multiple…

Uber is building an autonomous vehicle empire, and here’s every company it’s using to do it

Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — about 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the…

The More Americans Know About AI, the Less They Like It: Gallup

Gallup says Americans are growing more skeptical of artificial intelligence, with rising concerns about job losses,…

The Art of 64-bit Assembly

"The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 2" by Randall Hyde is a technical guide scheduled for June 2026 that teaches…

Apps that help you break free from doomscrolling and get active

If you’re looking to cut back on screen time and get a little more active, here’s a roundup of the apps that might help.

What’s the best handheld mini fan?

From premium Shark and Dyson offerings to random Amazon devices, these mini fans will make your sweaty summer a little…

RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches

RipGrep's x86_64-unknown-linux-musl binaries occasionally crash with a segmentation fault during very-large searches due…

As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews

Reddit may still be considering ending its licensing deal with Google.

Kontigo (YC S24) Is Hiring

Kontigo, a Y Combinator-backed neobank targeting Latino communities, is hiring a Founding Engineer with 3+ years of…