Misfits Attic recently announced Duskers 2.0 inside PC Gamer’s PC Gaming Show and that the game has been funded by Max McGuire’s project fund: Stray Signal. The official Duskers 2.0 teaser trailer debuted to delighted...
FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code (phoronix.com) 20 removed the last GPL-licensed code from its base system, retiring the old GNU 'dialog' implementation after the installer moved to 'bsddialog' and the final...
7 min read · Engineering There are only two ways a tool can learn the shape of your React code. Which one you pick decides the single most important thing about the tool: whether it's available in the exact moment you...
In January, Department of Homeland Security (dhs) officers killed at l east two people. In both cases, a federal agent grasped his gun, aimed it at a peaceful citizen, and shot them dead. I learned that Google sells its...
Our mission is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We have developed a platform that lets anyone customize models, previewed an AI system built for interactive collaboration, and published novel research...
Current federal debt, recent change, debt per person, and source methodology using official U. S. Treasury data. Updated March 19, 2026 · Official U. S. Treasury data What is the US Debt Clock? Compare presidents...
by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:14PM ( 66239858 ) You thought PayPal was shitty now? Come back in one year. Paypal has been clueless for a while, gave up on them years ago. I'd guess that you are...
OpenAI's first hardware device is a limited-edition desktop keypad called the Codex Micro that lets users monitor and control AI coding agents. Axios reports: Codex Micro is a collaboration with Work Louder, a boutique...
As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired. The dialog implementation was the last piece of GNU GPL licensed software in...
This week, GlitchyZorua brought to my attention the Ibiblio Icon Browser, a collection of many thousands of GIF icons curated in the 1990s by Gioacchino La Vecchia. Glitchy’s goal was to archive a copy of all of the...
The web was made by people. Not by algorithms, not by models, not by machines that dream in code. By people in rooms, garages, and workshops arguing over protocols, shipping software on floppy disks, building companies...
NAT Slipstreaming allows an attacker to remotely access any TCP/UDP service bound to any system behind a victim's NAT, bypassing the victim's NAT/firewall (remote arbitrary firewall pinhole control), just by the victim...
C3 0.8.2 is out. This release brings a batch of language ergonomics improvements — most notably reusable target templates for libraries and generic constdef — along with new reflection capabilities and a round of bug...
At Pantograph, we're working on training fully general robotics models that can act autonomously for hours at a time. Especially in robotics, it's difficult to get diverse data at scale. Learning to act from internet...
A British exam board has removed Orwell's books from its examinations in the name of inclusivity and diversity. But Sisa San Sebastián Hurtig argues such political correctness has the opposite effect. Preventing...
Graphic design solves a communication problem, and software engineering solves an information problem. For many, the world of computer science is a “black box”—dense, abstract, and hidden behind screens. But for me, it...
The first time the voice kept Cece Ogbuji awake was on a school night in the fall. Cece, who was fifteen, was having a busy week of classes and theatre practice and homework. She needed to sleep. So why was her mother...
There’s a server in my basement that has no business running a modern language model. It’s a repurposed HP StoreVirtual storage box, roughly thirteen years old, two Ivy Bridge Xeons, no GPU. It was built to hold disks,...
Building with an AI assistant? Generate a ready-made prompt tailored to Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, or any LLM. PRIMARY AUTOMATION · START HEREtask runsone goal, driven to doneworkflowsmany tasks, one...
NICHOLAS AIR has paused the planned installation of Starlink across its fleet. SpaceX’s recent doubling of the costs for Starlink “lacks any reasonable ethical process” and could be considered “reckless”, according to...
For Richard, a crazy idea was an opportunity to either prove it wrong or prove it right. One of the most popular pieces of writing on our site is Long Now co-founder Danny Hillis ’ remembrance of building an...
Strix pointed itself at n8n's token-exchange flow and found an identity-binding bug: two trusted issuers emitting the same sub map to the same local account. One trusted token could log you in as someone else
There’s a grass fire burning behind Raffael Hickisch when we speak on a video call on Tuesday. He’s not worried—fires like this are part of everyday life in Sub-Saharan Africa, where people burn off the tall growth as...
15.07.2026, 14:24 Uhr OpenAI, the US company behind ChatGPT, has lost its legal challenge against the refusal to register the trademark "OPENAI" at the European Union's General Court. The Luxembourg-based court ruled...
For my 50th birthday, I bought a Toyota Corolla. 1 Wait. Did this guy really pick both the BEST-SELLING and MOST-BORING model of all time as his mid-life crisis car? Well, yes. And no. My gift to myself was a GR...
AI and ML Anthropic finds Claude expresses different values across languages Aware that AI models exhibit different values in different languages, Anthropic researchers have taken steps to map out how Claude expresses...
I feel like no one has said the elephant in the room. QA teams were fired/never hired in the first place (put onto the Devs/support/customer to report and test) Management want features and selling not Lovability and...
Towards a Harness That Can Do Anything I've been thinking about how to free LLMs from the chat pane for a few years now. Watching what people have tried and seeing what worked (and didn't), I've formed my own opinions...
I sat down today to write a different article. For a while, I’ve been wanting to catalogue some of the frequent and dangerous errors that the LLMs I use in my day to day make, and today I did a couple of hours work, and...
Two consecutive titles on the HN front page yesterday had a 6 in them. This means nothing. But it’s the sort of nothing that lodges in your brain until you do something about it, so what is the most popular number in...
Set the boundary once. Stuck choosing between approving every outbound request the agent makes â death by a thousand interruptions â or running it wide open and hoping it doesn't reach somewhere it shouldn't? Set...
Winslow Homer’s most famous watercolor rendered as a child’s drawing. Lately I’ve been asking myself: what might artificial intelligence be good for besides answering questions and writing code? My answer is the latent...
Original paper Jüstel, Alexander; Becker, Stephan; Mamonov, Eugen; Reinsch, Thomas; Orth, Frederik; Pickarski, Nadine; Gaus, Garri; Delzig, Laura; Kruszewski, Michal; Jones, Adam; Ahrens, Benedikt; Salamon, Martin;...
There are certain Python features that are so straightforward to use, you forget they are doing anything at all. Consider for x in y. You write a list, or a string, or a range, and Python politely hands you back one...
This is a quick update about the status of Briar. Short version: the project is still active but we’re only making essential security updates and bugfixes for now. Long version: For several years we’ve been trying to...
Telegram claims to have 5 data centers (DCs), referred to as DC15 in Telegram’s code and documentation. Among them, DC1 and DC3 are located in Miami, USA; DC2 and DC4 are in Amsterdam, Netherlands; and DC5 is in...