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Hacker News

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• Valve Corporation▲ 604

Steam Frame starts at $1059

VR and non-VR gaming

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• Apple Inc.▲ 506

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

Apple’s latest software updates introduce Siri AI and deliver helpful new Apple Intelligence features.

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• Andon Labs▲ 352

Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

Pion is the platform we built to run our autonomous businesses. Today we are opening it up so many more people can experiment with autonomous businesses, and here is why.

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• dbt▲ 176

Charts built for Chat

We

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• Nikita Vartolomei▲ 264

Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

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• The Register▲ 115

Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent

There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable

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• Justia▲ 197

Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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• Cloudflare▲ 102

Cloudflare AKE cuts origin HelloRetryRequests from 52% to 3.7%

Automatic Key Exchange probes TLS 1.3-capable customer origins to learn which key agreement algorithms they support. We then lead with the most secure algorithm when connecting to the…

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• Dariusz Gęsicki▲ 411

OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability

Today Reuters and the Wall Street Journal both reported about rogue AI agents at OpenAI attacking RubyGems.org. https://www.rubyhack.ai/ has an amazing writeup, and you should read it. I just wanted to make a quick post about it because it’s wild. TL;DR: It seems like OpenAI Bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability, tried to take advantage of it, and at the same time ran some weird web scraping code on RubyDoc.info. Back in May, socket.dev reported about a “GemStuffer Campaign” where someone (I guess OpenAI) was uploading tons of junk gems to RubyGems.org. For some reason, the gems would scrape UK…

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• Valve Corporation▲ 587

Steam Frame starts at $1059

VR and non-VR gaming

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• Apple Inc.▲ 484

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

Apple’s latest software updates introduce Siri AI and deliver helpful new Apple Intelligence features.

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• Andon Labs▲ 337

Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

Pion is the platform we built to run our autonomous businesses. Today we are opening it up so many more people can experiment with autonomous businesses, and here is why.

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• David Khoo▲ 318

How to write an effective software design document

Best practices for writing a design doc based on my experience working as a developer at Google and Microsoft.

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• XCancel▲ 539

XCancel service is suspended until further notice

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• The Register▲ 223

Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

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• Nikita Vartolomei▲ 258

Distributed Systems Classics (2017)

A selected list of timeless and influential papers in distributed systems that shaped the research in the field. Intended to serve as a good…

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