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ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source

ravynOS is a pre-alpha open-source operating system based on Darwin and FreeBSD that aims to bring macOS features like…

Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme

Corporate Mind Games is a web-based puzzle game collection with a sarcastic corporate theme, featuring daily logic…

VLC crosses 7 billion downloads

In our world of expensive streaming platforms, the very free and offline VLC media player has crossed 7 billion…

Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M

The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million…

Sony Argues in Court That Digital Games Can't Be Owned

The PlayStation maker is fighting a California class action over "Buy Now" buttons, and has asked the judge to send the…

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

Almanac is a Y Combinator-backed AI agent that autonomously handles work tasks by integrating with a company's existing…

Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.

How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools

AI is proving effective at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.

Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek.

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics.

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Show HN: 2x-4x cheaper GLM 5.3 for coding and research

Inference for Kimi and GLM.

Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP

Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform written in Rust, has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become an official…

Doubling of Kobo's U.S. sales in both 2025 and 2026, 70% US female customer base

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

The European Union has designated ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox as "Very Large" online platforms under the Digital…

Playa Phone

A functioning phone booth has been installed at Burning Man 2023 in Black Rock City, Nevada, allowing festival attendees…

C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments

C++26 introduces "hardened" standard library implementations that detect programming errors like out-of-bounds access in…

MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario

MapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario.

My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point

Eric Bailey argues that feedback mechanisms like Netflix's rating buttons oversimplify human experience—we all know our…

Marx, Keynes, and A.I

A new economic paper demonstrates that individual firms have rational incentives to adopt AI automation to reduce costs…

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

ChatGPT's work tool and skill reference catalogs 232 callable tool endpoints and 44 reusable instruction skill packages…

South Korea Will Give Every Citizen Free AI Access With Unlimited Tokens

Three consortia will run the service, sharing up to 512 Nvidia B200 chips supplied by the state, with beta testing due…

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules

Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.

Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

Serverbox is a lightweight Linux server management tool written in Rust and Tauri that provides SSH-based access to…

Hackers Are Using Google Docs and Claude.ai to Spread Crypto Malware

Cybercriminals are using Google Docs and Claude.ai to make malware attacks look legitimate.

Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers

Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month

Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Apple announced new Mac mini and Mac Studio models earlier than its typical autumn release schedule due to unexpectedly…

Show HN: SlideOps, slides from a repo that flag when they drift from the code

SlideOps is a tool that generates presentation slides directly from code repositories and automatically detects when…

AI-Written Code Is Still *Your* Code. Are You OK with That?

As AI coding agents reduce the cost of writing software, developers increasingly risk losing understanding of their own…