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Since Chronium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS

Starting in Chrome 148, the Math.tanh() function has become a reliable fingerprinting technique to identify the user's…

Show HN: Adaptive Recall, persistent memory for AI assistants over MCP

Adaptive Recall is a memory API for AI assistants that goes beyond standard vector search by using cognitive science and…

Show HN: Zen Mode – a global focus mode for macOS

Zen Mode is a macOS tool that creates a global focus mode across all applications using a single hotkey (Option + Cmd +…

The State of MCP Security [pdf]

I cannot provide a summary of this document because the PDF content is corrupted or improperly encoded, displaying only…

Flash-MSA: Accelerating Million-Token Training with Sparse Attention Kernels

Researchers have developed Flash-MSA, the first open-source training kernels for MiniMax Sparse Attention that enable…

Tiny Emulators

Tiny Emulators is a collection of web-based emulators for classic computers and gaming systems from the 1980s, including…

Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

Irish datacenters consumed 23% of the country's electricity in 2025, up from 20% in 2023, with consumption increasing by…

Defining new Jax types with hijax

Hijax is an experimental JAX feature that allows developers to define custom types beyond standard arrays and pytrees,…

Neocities: Create your own free website

Neocities is a free platform that lets users create and host personal websites using an in-browser HTML editor or their…

The One-Step Trap (In AI Research)

Rich Sutton identifies the "one-step trap" as a critical flaw in AI research: the mistaken assumption that learning only…

I love LLMs, I hate hype

The author is enthusiastic about AI progress and LLMs but criticizes the surrounding hype—particularly doomsday…

Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k

A comparative analysis of Claude Code and OpenCode found that Claude Code consumes significantly more tokens before…

Can We Understand How Large Language Models Reason?

Claude Code May–July 2026 weekly limits promotion

Anthropic is offering a limited-time promotion that increases weekly usage limits in Claude Code by 50% from May 13…

Against Usefulness

The author, a venture investor, describes encountering Folk Computer, an innovative open-source physical computing…

Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper

Ploy migrated its AI agent from Claude Opus to OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol, achieving 2.2x faster build times and 27% cost…

Website is served from a 200KB binary

A web server written as a 200KB native binary with no runtime dependencies serves 20,000 requests with a flat memory…

LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders

LARP is a satirical tool that exposes how some startups artificially inflate revenue figures through circular financial…

Show HN: Shirei, cross-platform GUI framework in native Go

Shirei is a cross-platform GUI framework for Go that allows developers to write user interfaces natively in Go rather…

Automation Without Understanding

As AI systems increasingly produce research-level mathematics—exemplified by a 2026 AI disproof of an Erdős…

Noto: A Typeface for the World

TechCrunch Mobility: A robotaxi ultimatum

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is…

Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)

In a 2007 email, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt strongly criticized x86 virtualization technology, arguing that adding…

Why Investors Are Abandoning Crypto IPOs for Artificial Intelligence

The crypto initial public offering market is slowing down in 2026, with four major players in the sector having…

An explanation of our search results

Google addressed concerns about offensive search results appearing when users searched for the word "Jew" by explaining…

TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)

TK (journalism shorthand for "to come") is a writing technique that helps maintain momentum by inserting "TK" as a…

Croc: Securely transfer files and folders between two computers

Croc is a command-line tool that enables secure file and folder transfers between any two computers using end-to-end…

The power of collaboration: How we can reduce traffic congestion

Google Research conducted a large-scale study across 10 major US cities demonstrating that network-aware routing in…

Don't You Mean Extinct?

When Jurassic Park's groundbreaking CGI T-Rex demonstration in 1993 proved that computer graphics could replace…