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Claude Opus 4.8 Review: Better At What’s It Good At, Worse At What It’s Not

Anthropic's new flagship aced our math problem and shipped a spotless game—then drained our entire token quota in a…

Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

Anthropic and OpenAI's subscription models heavily subsidize the true costs of using large language models for intensive…

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

A 10-year software engineer with specialized expertise in finance and payments describes how large language models…

Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid

Google is replacing link-based ranking signals with user ratings and "preferred sources" feedback to train its AI search…

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

9 Mothers, a Y Combinator P26 company based in Austin, is hiring for 11 open positions to build counter-drone systems…

Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video]

Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

Hey HN!Lathe is an experiment in using LLMs to teach me something new, instead of doing the work for me.

School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

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Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models

Researchers have developed a training-free diffusion model that generates images matching a single reference image's…

Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers

Kyushu is an open-source CLI tool that allows developers to write JavaScript or TypeScript handlers, compile them into…

Hut 8 Prices $4.25B Notes to Build 352MW Texas AI Data Center

Hut 8 has priced $4.25 billion of senior secured notes to finance a large artificial intelligence (AI) data center…

Travala Rolls out AI Concierge for 2.2M Hotels as Autonomous Travel Takes Shape

Travala has launched an agentic AI travel protocol allowing autonomous agents to book more than 2.2 million hotels with…

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 has announced its winners, featuring submissions at…

I design with Claude more than Figma now

A designer at Jane Street describes how Claude has replaced Figma as his primary design tool, allowing him to rapidly…

The circus freaks of open source

TempleOS, an operating system created by Terry A.

From $255M to $13.7B in 6 Quarters: Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Massive Bet on AI Infrastructure

Leopold Aschenbrenner just took Situational Awareness LP from $255M to $13.7B in only six quarters.

Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months

Valve's P2P networking has been experiencing major issues in Israel and possibly other Middle Eastern countries since…

Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises

TakoVM is a secure execution platform for running isolated code and AI agent workloads in Docker containers, built with…

Show HN: Oproxy – inspect and modify network traffic from the browser

Oproxy is a local HTTP/HTTPS proxy tool that allows developers to inspect, modify, and replay network traffic from…

Tokenomics: Quantifying Where Tokens Are Used in Agentic Software Engineering

Researchers analyzed token consumption patterns in LLM-based multi-agent systems used for software engineering tasks,…

HateArena – A free and open source arena shooter

HateArena is a free and open-source multiplayer first-person shooter (FPS) based on the original CUBE engine, available…

An Ohio Valley 100k-Watt FM Signal Is Severed in Broad Daylight – Radio World

A 100,000-watt FM station in Kentucky, WDGG(FM), was knocked off the air after a suspect allegedly severed its main…

Show HN: DomainTasker – avoid losing domains and surprise renewals

Public Domain Image Archive

The Public Domain Image Archive offers over 11,200 free, out-of-copyright images available for browsing, downloading,…

Human-Like Neural Nets by Catapulting

A researcher proposes that human-like artificial neural networks could be created by training massively…

Show HN: Ironwall, a safety-first native programming language and compiler

Hi HN,I have been working on a new programming language and compiler.Website: https://ironwall-lang.devGitHub:…

Context Sculpting

The author proposes "context sculpting," a concept where a larger AI model monitors and edits the context window of a…

Show HN: Keybench – Scriptable, extensible performance tool for key value stores

I've been working with storage engines for quite a while and really there was no similar tool to sysbench and or…

AI Is Helping Discover Tech Vulnerabilities—And Zcash Is Just the Latest Example

Frontier AI models have evolved into bug-finding tools, uncovering vulnerabilities across the tech world—and now in…