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Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down

Fly.io CEO Kurt Mackey is stepping down and handing leadership to Scott Johnston, citing an identity crisis at the…

The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

Anthropic removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for newer Claude 5 models without any measurable performance…

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to…

Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing

Writemark is a dependency-free web component for inline Markdown editing that can be embedded anywhere with a single…

Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look to Allow for Web-Based Remote Installations

Fedora 45 is proposing to support web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomic Desktop images through the Anaconda…

Show HN: Awsmux – Multi-account AWS CLI, up to 5.4x faster, 7.4x fewer tokens

Awsmux is a tool that enables running AWS CLI commands across multiple accounts in parallel with significant performance…

General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian

Debian held a general resolution vote regarding the use of large language models (LLMs) within the project, which has…

Show HN: Proxmox -> Share your host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network

A developer created a tool that allows Proxmox virtual machines to access the host's Bluetooth adapter over the network,…

Show HN: Minesweeper Raycasted

Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation

Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.

The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

Privacy activists across the US are engaging in vigilante actions to disable or destroy Flock Safety's automated license…

Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller

A developer successfully ran a 28.9 million parameter language model on an ESP32-S3 microcontroller costing about $8,…

Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers

Memory Safety Absolutists

A new tool called Fil-C enables C and C++ code to achieve memory safety by combining garbage collection and pointer…

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 Succeeds, but SPCX Stock Barely Moves, Still Trading at Just $115

SpaceX completed its 13th test flight on July 24, deploying 20 next-generation Starlink satellites and achieving its…

Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

Brolly.sh is a minimalist, plain-text weather forecasting website that displays current conditions, hourly forecasts,…

Show HN: SpinWin – A macOS menu bar app to visually rotate or spin any window

SpinWin is a macOS menu bar app that visually rotates or spins any window by hiding the original window off-screen and…

World Foundation Secures $52.5M to Scale Human Verification Infrastructure Amid AI Expansion

The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is reshaping the internet at an unprecedented pace, creating new opportunities…

Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary

Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”

Rauno's Field Notes #2

Vercel's design team optimized their project cards by reducing padding and removing unnecessary information like branch…

Politician reads AI prompt during assembly

I'm unable to summarize this article because the text provided only contains website footer/navigation links and…

Wise expected to resubmit US charter application under GENIUS

The OCC denied the UK company’s application this week citing AML/CFT risks, despite approving similar charters for…

Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Bringing PyTorch Monarch to AMD GPUs

AMD and Meta have brought PyTorch Monarch, a fault-tolerant distributed training framework, to AMD Instinct GPUs with…

The Dark Night of Mathematics

An mathematician expresses a profound spiritual crisis over AI language models' recent ability to disprove long-standing…

The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft

The author argues that obsessing over whether every word was manually typed misses the point of good writing, which…

Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed

A director of engineering argues that while LLMs have dramatically reduced the cost of producing code, most traditional…

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment. Let's not ruin it

Open-weight AI models are becoming foundational platforms similar to how Kubernetes disrupted the cloud infrastructure…

Task-centered iproute2 user guide

This is a task-centered user guide for iproute2, a Linux networking tool that provides comprehensive instructions for…