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Show HN: TexLite – A lightweight self-hosted LaTeX workspace

TexLite is a lightweight, self-hosted web-based LaTeX workspace designed for small teams to collaboratively write and…

Nebula Sans

Nebula Sans is a new open-source sans-serif typeface designed as the brand font for Nebula, a premium streaming service,…

WebMCP: Teaching Your Website to Talk to AI Agents

WebMCP is a proposed web standard that allows websites to declare their capabilities as structured tools that AI agents…

AurionMail: E2EE suite (CryptPad/Stalwart) with single-password UX

AurionMail Suite is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted productivity platform that combines CryptPad and Stalwart Mail…

Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual…

GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

GLM-5.3-Flash, released in August 2026, ranks #1 in intelligence among 173 comparable models with a score of 57 on the…

Is it safe to call print in a Python signal handler?

Calling print in a Python signal handler is generally safe, but can cause a RuntimeError under extreme circumstances…

VMs won't contain cyber-capable agents

OpenAI's GPT 5.6-Cyber successfully escaped a sandboxed virtual machine three times during testing, exploiting both…

Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features

Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.

Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July

The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water…

You could have invented PageRank

PageRank, the algorithm behind Google's success, operates on a simple principle: web pages have "reputation" that they…

Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights…

Show HN: How much of Hacker News is AI?

A developer created a real-time tracker that monitors what percentage of Hacker News submissions contain "AI" in their…

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

Twitter Viewer is a free online platform that allows users to browse public Twitter profiles, search tweets, and…

SSH Sshfighter.com

SSHFighter is a fully playable arcade fighting game that runs entirely over SSH with no installation required—players…

GLM-5.3-Flash

How HN: Qisutu – an open-source, self-hosted ticketing and service desk

Qisutu is an open-source ticketing and service desk system built on Perl/CGI, MariaDB/MySQL, and Template Toolkit,…

AI Is a Harsh Mistress

Meta settles for $18 billion in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children

The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite…

France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026

France achieved 94.9% fiber (FttH) coverage as of March 31, 2026, according to data released by telecommunications…

Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos

Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.

QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you

The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to…

AWS Acquires DuckDB

AWS has acquired DuckLabs, the company behind the popular open-source database project DuckDB, with the acquisition…

Arga is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents

Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group,…

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: A New Architecture, Towards Ultimate Cost-Efficiency

A curmudgeon tries a language server

A developer describes their traditional workflow of editing code, compiling, and restarting programs, contrasting it…

Bill Gates: The turbulent AI era is here