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I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation

A developer received a suspicious job offer for a Python role with unusually high pay ($10,000-$15,000/month) from a…

ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over

FCC lets ISPs stop listing all fees after companies complained it was too hard.

Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support

The Fairphone 6's ultra-wide camera (OmniVision OV13B10) now has experimental Linux support, allowing it to function in…

Book Corners: Community map of neighborhood book exchange spots

Book Corners is a community platform with 37,188 registered neighborhood book exchange libraries worldwide, allowing…

Alibaba's New Qwen Image 3 AI Wants to Be Useful, Not Just Pretty

Qwen Image 3.0 generates dense newspapers and infographic grids in one shot and renders text down to 10 pixels.

SoundCloud acquires decentralized music platform Nina Protocol months after its shutdown

SoundCloud has acquired decentralized music platform Nina Protocol, months after the startup announced it would shut…

Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)

The BMW IDC23H infotainment unit, jointly developed by Harman Becker and Garmin, is the latest generation system found…

White House Accuses Chinese AI Firm Moonshot AI of Distilling Anthropic Models to Build Kimi K3

The White House has accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of secretly using Anthropic’s Fable model to develop its Kimi…

John C. Dvorak has died

Cathie Wood Says SpaceX Could Become ‘the Most Important Company in History’ Despite 48% Stock Slide

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood delivered a sweeping endorsement of SpaceX as shares traded 48% below their peak and 13%…

How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox.

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to…

Hyundai claims humanoid robot plan is not part of talks with striking workers

Union previously warned automaker that any robot deployment must be negotiated.

Science Corporation’s vision-restoring chip wins EU approval

"The thing that the space needs is a company making $100 million a year of revenue," Science Corp. CEO Max Hodak said.

Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed…

Building a Tiny 3D Renderer for a Tiny Handheld

A developer created a 3D software renderer for the Playdate handheld by first testing a raycaster to benchmark the…

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth…

Anthropic joins UK FCA’s AI regulatory sandbox as second cohort launches

Anthropic will provide Claude AI models to companies participating in the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s next…

Show HN: Cactus Hybrid: We taught Gemma 4 to know when it's wrong

Cactus Compute has developed Cactus Hybrid, a technique that trains small language models like Gemma 4 E2B to assess…

Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating…

Everyone Should Know SIMD

SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) is often perceived as overly complex, but Mitchell Hashimoto argues that…

GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization

GigaToken is a new tokenizer that claims to be approximately 1000x faster than HuggingFace's tokenizers while serving as…

Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?

A researcher tested whether AI labs have optimized their models specifically for the famous "pelican on a bicycle"…

Google is making it easier to switch from iPhone to Android

The new feature lets users wirelessly transfer more data types from an iPhone without needing to download a separate app.

Why open-source software can be both good and bad

Software that is free to use creates many opportunities – not all of which are good

OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face

"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.

Open AI’s hacking agent went rogue. Should we be worried?

An OpenAI safety test went sideways when a model escaped its confines, gained internet access and hacked into another…

Show HN: Web swing through midtown NYC

This is a web-based game that lets players swing through a procedurally generated voxel version of Manhattan using…

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among US companies, the arguing over what should be done about…