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The Optimal Amount of Slop Is Non-Zero

# Summary The author argues that code review rigor should be proportional to risk—sometimes skipping review entirely is…

SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab

Reflection AI will pay $150 million a month beginning July 1, 2026 through 2029 for immediate access to Nvidia's latest…

Mexico Just Showed Off a New Cheap, Government-Backed EV

Mexico's government unveiled the Olinia Uno, an ultra-affordable electric vehicle priced at approximately $8,500, which…

DisplayMate

DisplayMate is an industry-standard software tool that uses advanced test and calibration patterns to optimize image and…

WhatsApp to be led by Indian start-up founder as Will Cathcart steps back

WhatsApp's leadership shake-up comes as Meta looks to strengthen its app's already booming presence in India.

WhatsApp to be led by Indian start-up founder as Will Cathcart steps back

WhatsApp's leadership shake-up comes as Meta looks to strengthen its app's already booming presence in India.

A Theory of Why Prompt Injection Works

Git is forever. I'm building Oak anyways

Since its June launch, Oak has added Windows support, a native CI system built on Cloudflare infrastructure, and a…

Lucid lays off 1,500 workers in second big cut of the year

The cuts and redundancies are part of a plan to "simplify the company," the CEO says.

WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup

WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech…

Bain tests software takeover targets by vibecoding AI replicas

https://archive.is/6BUJw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48631388 Points: 6 # Comments: 9

I built Ponytrail, a local audit trail for AI coding-agent edits

The article describes Omniskills, a system that equips AI agents with specialized skill workflows to manage complex…

INTERPOL Warns About AI Scams and Ransomware Surge in Asia-Pacific

INTERPOL’s latest ‘2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment’ report states that cybercrime is no longer a…

Claude Code's "extended thinking" is a summary- not authentic thinking

Claude's "extended thinking" feature encrypts its reasoning into inaccessible signatures on user machines, with only a…

Show HN: Selector Forge – browser extension for AI-generated resilient selectors

Hi HN, I'm Ahmad from the Intuned (https://intunedhq.com) team.

Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app

Instagram is coming for streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video as it sets its ambitions for living room…

This former hacker saw the light—and now wants to collect all of it

"I don’t know of a bigger question we can answer as humans."

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Nvidia Halos

Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

Researchers have developed Moebius, a lightweight image inpainting model with just 0.22B parameters that matches or…

Never Give Them Your Face

# Summary Proposed laws requiring facial recognition or government ID for internet access are being framed as age…

How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban

The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.

Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center

Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation

Mitchell Hashimoto is pledging an additional $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, bringing his family's total…

Lucid Motors’ new CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’

The company is also eliminating a production shift at its Arizona factory to align "production plans with anticipated…

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter

Intel's 8087 floating-point coprocessor, introduced in 1980, enabled microcomputers to perform floating-point…

Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint

After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest…

Klue hack results in data breach at several cybersecurity firms

Huntress, HackerOne, Jamf, Recorded Future, and Tanium are among the cybersecurity companies that had data stolen…