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Reverse-engineering is cheap now

Coding agents have dramatically lowered the cost and effort required to reverse-engineer and automate home devices,…

Do we just want slaves?

Show HN: Ex Situ – open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts

Hi, I designed and developed a spatial index that maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin…

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding

Hidden debt at five major U.S.

Running Doom on Our Custom CPU and Going Viral

A team successfully ran the classic 1993 video game Doom on a custom CPU they built from scratch at the logic gate…

A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste

Jane Street: Incremental

Incremental is an open-source OCaml library developed by Jane Street that enables efficient computation updates when…

VTubing: How a Japanese Phenomenon Is Going Worldwide

VTubing, where performers use animated avatars controlled by their real-life movements, has grown from a Japanese niche…

Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

A Hacker News discussion explores whether surveillance concerns are causing people to self-censor online.

Ramp Router

Ramp has launched Router, an AI model routing system that automatically directs requests to the most appropriate large…

Show HN: I made email signatures less boring

Esigna is a free AI-powered email signature generator that creates personalized signatures with optional AI-generated…

Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public

The ACLU documents that Flock Safety, an automatic license plate reader company, repeatedly lied to city councils and…

Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved

The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI…

IREN Lands $2.8B in AI Contracts as Demand Pushes Target Above $4B

IREN has raised its year-end AI Cloud annualized revenue target to more than $4 billion after signing new multi-year…

Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation

The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.

Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)

Passkeys are presented as the most effective solution to phishing attacks, but server-side implementation remains…

Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned

The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks…

Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round

California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.

Donation Controversy

Mullvad addressed controversy over a private donation made by owner Daniel to a Swedish political party, clarifying that…

Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more…

AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure…

The creepiest 'sales demo' of all time

I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs

Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat tour of grace cathedral, San Francisco

The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism

Scott Larson, a computer professional, argues that major tech companies like Google and Facebook engage in surveillance…

Musk’s SpaceX Targets Thursday Starship Flight as Stock Slips Well Below Its $135 IPO Price

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is targeting Thursday, July 23, for the 13th test flight of its Starship rocket after a dramatic…

X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort

X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.

OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.