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Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals

Germany's competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, found that Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework gave…

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

A librarian provides a practical guide for disabling unwanted AI features across various devices and applications,…

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

A Hacker News user asks about alternatives to GitHub due to recent downtime, prompting community suggestions including…

How to ship a database every day

Turbopuffer deploys dozens of database upgrades daily across 100+ clusters spanning three deployment models—public SaaS,…

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

DuckDB v2.0, releasing this fall under the codename "Cyanoptera," introduces major features including DuckDB as a…

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

A 404 Media investigation tracked a shipment of rare books using a hidden tracking device and discovered that Amazon…

Incident with Github.com

GitHub experienced a widespread service incident on August 17, 2026, affecting multiple core features including Pull…

GitHub down again? no PR access

GitHub experienced a widespread outage affecting Pull Requests, Issues, and repository page loading, with an approximate…

Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models

1667 is a terminal-based writing tool that uses language models to help authors generate fiction, displaying multiple…

Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance

Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that.

Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network

Uber is also making investing in Zipline as part of the tie-up.

Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation

Wispr’s total funding is now over $361 million.

Speeding Up the Plush Garbage Collector

Plush is a toy programming language with an actor-based VM design that includes independent garbage collectors for each…

Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver

This project implements an optimal Sokoban puzzle solver using A* search with several optimizations including macro-push…

Anthropic IPO: Polymarket Bets on an October Listing

Anthropic officially filed its confidential IPO application in the United States on June 1, 2026.

David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post

Pirated Copies of 'The Odyssey' Are Hiding Crypto-Stealing Malware

Bitdefender says fake downloads of the newly released blockbuster are already spreading Lumma Stealer, malware that…

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model represents a major advancement in vision capabilities, particularly in object detection where…

Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed

Commodore, once a dominant home computer manufacturer in the 1980s with iconic products like the Commodore 64 and Amiga,…

AI Inference Is Entering a Pricing Reset, But Cheaper Models May Not Mean Cheaper AI

The AI industry’s next battle isn’t about who has the smartest model. It’s about who can run a task the cheapest.

Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis

What happens if the Falcon rockets stop flying?

Self hosted email continues to steeply decline

Self-hosted email among the internet's top million domains has declined sharply from 44.6% in 2016 to 22.4% in 2026,…

The Marxist Case for the Technofeudal Hypothesis

The author argues that a new form of capital called "cloud capital" has emerged—consisting of networked machines that…

Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux

Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

Desktopcolors.com is a museum cataloging the solid background colors used by classic operating systems and desktop…

HackEurope 2026: A short rant on AI and hackathons

At HackEurope 2026, despite organizational issues, the author identified key insights about modern hackathons: front-end…

Rogue hacking AIs have changed the cybersecurity landscape

Attackers with no technical skills can now use AI models to find and exploit loopholes quickly and they can deploy them…

India Is Training 1 Crore Youth in AI: Could Web3 Get Left Behind?

India has put a hard number on its next technology-skilling push: one crore young people trained in artificial…

Linear Algebra Done Right – Sheldon Axler

The fourth edition of Sheldon Axler's "Linear Algebra Done Right" is now available as open-access in multiple languages…