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Floating Companion: Exploring Design Space for Soft Floating Robots in Indoor

How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?

"The ISS radiators are expensive and heavy. We're focused on making them cheap and light."

Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse

Cofounded by senior entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60…

A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era

Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.

Stripe and Advent Offer $53 Billion for Paypal: Here’s What It Means for Crypto Payments

Payments processor Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have offered to buy Paypal for more than $53…

Stripe, Advent offer $53B to acquire PayPal: Report

Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for $53 billion, at a 28% premium compared to the company’s Tuesday…

Ask HN: How do you track feedback when you post across multiple places?

A developer describes the challenge of managing feedback scattered across multiple platforms (X, Reddit, Facebook, etc.)…

Who's running all those tiny RPKI servers?

RPKI (Resource Public Key Infrastructure) is a security system that prevents BGP routing attacks by allowing IP address…

I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

A security researcher demonstrated a vulnerability in Claude's web browsing feature by tricking the AI into exfiltrating…

RISC-V Is Inevitable: State of the Union Keynote Argues

LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft

Users on Hacker News criticize LinkedIn for becoming increasingly filled with scams, identity theft, and exploitative…

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

A detailed analysis reveals that Jurassic Park featured real, high-end computer equipment from the early 1990s,…

TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

Tailscale released security updates addressing two vulnerabilities in version 1.98.9: one allows a malformed HTTP…

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B

Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the funding round, sources say.

Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B

Data centers have already increased electricity prices for U.S.

Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

The Vancouver Police Department's website features a "Quick Escape" button that allows users to quickly leave the site…

Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”

"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said on stage.

Linear is always a lagging indicator

Issue tracking tools like Linear become ineffective as visibility metrics when used by management to monitor…

Casio FX-870P Emulator

A browser-based emulator for the Casio FX-870P, a 1986 programmable pocket computer, has been developed in TypeScript…

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LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros

Benjamin Bai reproduced LeWorldModel, a JEPA (Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture) trained on Super Mario Bros…

OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

OpenAI's first hardware device is reported to be a screenless, AI-guided smart speaker that can move.

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.

OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit

OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.

Probably check on your smart appliances

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Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]

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OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning.

Microsoft Deletes User's 25-Year-Old Account with Thousands Spent on Games

A user claims Microsoft permanently deleted his 25-year-old account and OneDrive storage containing thousands of euros…

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft released patches for a record 570 security vulnerabilities, nearly triple the number from the previous month,…