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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…

Gmail might partially be to blame for receiving emails from other Sean Conners

Gmail's practice of ignoring periods in email addresses (treating [email protected] the same as…

GIMP Development Update

The GIMP development team announced progress on GIMP 3.3.2, featuring a new zipped XML-based project file format to…

On A.I. regulation and messaging

https://xcancel.com/DarioAmodei/status/2088758816376807762 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49325789…

Data Breach Hits 39,798 Safepal Customers After Order Plugin Flaw

The hardware wallet manufacturer stressed that unauthorized threat actors gained access to the data through a…

AGI-64 Brings Sierra Adventures to the Commodore 64

AGI-64, a new free interpreter for the Commodore 64, brings classic Sierra adventure games like Space Quest 1 to the…

Prolly: A content-addressed ordered map built on prolly trees

Prolly is an open-source Rust library that implements a content-addressed ordered key-value map using prolly trees,…

Rhombus 1.1 is now available

Rhombus version 1.1 is now available, introducing new features including annotation definitions, an "as" binding form…

Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone

The article is a manifesto celebrating the role of webmasters—the early, self-taught web professionals who combined…

Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

Reticulum is a decentralized mesh networking stack designed to enable sovereign, censorship-resistant communication…

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B is a capable open-source vision language model that performs well on benchmarks, but defaults to…

Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing

Anthropic plans to implement watermarking in Claude by using steganography—subtly altering word choices during text…

Claude Seems Down

Claude's AI service is experiencing an outage with users reporting authentication service unavailability and OAuth…

Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee

Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast

Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+

OpenRouter's CEO recently described the startup as Stripe for AI.

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The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later

Engineers are increasingly excited about formal verification for software, driven primarily by AI coding agents that…

Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future

On the latest episode of Equity podcast, we discuss why not everyone is buying Zuckerberg’s vision.

Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter

Red queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI

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Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose

AI models are increasingly being optimized for reasoning and mathematical problem-solving while deliberately sacrificing…

Protobuf has LSP support. You're welcome

Buf has released the first production-grade Language Server Protocol (LSP) server for Protobuf, bringing modern IDE…