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Hacker News

hnrss.org25 items
• Openai▲ 808

Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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• Stephen Diehl▲ 408

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now

Personal blog of Stephen Diehl - Software engineer writing about technology, programming, and the future

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• the Guardian▲ 374

DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

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• Eng Leadership▲ 327

Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI

AI definitely helps with productivity, but only when you have the right culture in place first!

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• Bbc▲ 326

Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

Turbulent international affairs have brought the vote forward, but the campaign has focused more on Iceland's vital fishing industry.

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• Bluesky Social▲ 281

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

We have a partial port of GrapheneOS to the Pixel 11 series after a week of work on it. We're unable to complete the port due to lack of support for ARM hardware memory tagging in software,…

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• LWN.net▲ 477

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"

The results of the Debian general-resolution vote on the use of large language models have been [...]

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• Chipsandcheese▲ 255

Samsung's Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

In-memory compute with LPDDR5X

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• Tencent▲ 250

Hy4 preview

Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M…

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• The Texas Tribune▲ 228

Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras

The higher fee, meant to combat catalytic converter theft, provided millions to expand the Flock network across Texas. Some lawmakers say that wasn’t the intent.

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• GitHub▲ 215

StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator

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• Nasa▲ 173

Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

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• GitHub▲ 171

TurboKV: Insanely fast Rust key-value store

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HN — Best of the Week

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• En Refund4Freedom▲ 666

Get your Windows license refund

Get a Refund of your proprietary operating system license

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• Hugging Face▲ 641

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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• Htmx▲ 597

Htmx 4.0

Release announcement, 2026-08-28.

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• Chris Kardaris▲ 715

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

GUI applications should be fully driven by the keyboard using shortcuts

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• Shkspr▲ 642

“It works better in the app”

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• Inventati▲ 541

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

Autistici/Inventati provides internet support to activists and collectives coming from the world of grassroot and social movements

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• Anil Madhavapeddy▲ 284

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond

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• United States Environmental Protection Agency▲ 243

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws

This month, EPA issued guidance clarifying that the Clean Air Act Acid Rain Program does not apply to power generation facilities that are not connected to a public electricity grid,…

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