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Proliferate (YC S25) is hiring to building open source Codex

Ripping a DVD, a federal crime in 1999, requires $22 and free software in 2026

# Summary DVD ripping, which was illegal under 1990s anti-piracy laws, now requires only a $22 USB drive and free…

The week I lost the plot at a startup where the tools worked as advertised

# Summary The author chronicles their experience at Cogentiv.ai, a European AI startup with a performative,…

OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’

"Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee.

The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games

A consumer rights campaign called Stop Killing Games, founded by YouTuber Ross Scott in 2024, is challenging publishers'…

TechCrunch Mobility: Inside GM’s $900M EV battery gamble

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

The OnlyFans Economy of American AI

The author argues that the AI industry is driven by hype and speculation similar to a speculative economy, criticizing…

Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job

Podman 6: machine usability improvements

Podman 6 introduces significant usability improvements to its machine functionality by reducing the prominence of…

sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3

Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux

A GitHub issue requests that Anthropic release an official Claude Desktop application for Linux, arguing the capability…

Claude Opus 4.8 Review: Better At What’s It Good At, Worse At What It’s Not

Anthropic's new flagship aced our math problem and shipped a spotless game—then drained our entire token quota in a…

Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

Anthropic and OpenAI's subscription models heavily subsidize the true costs of using large language models for intensive…

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

A 10-year software engineer with specialized expertise in finance and payments describes how large language models…

Google just made you a search quality rater. You won't get paid

Google is replacing link-based ranking signals with user ratings and "preferred sources" feedback to train its AI search…

9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring

9 Mothers, a Y Combinator P26 company based in Austin, is hiring for 11 open positions to build counter-drone systems…

Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video]

Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it

Hey HN!Lathe is an experiment in using LLMs to teach me something new, instead of doing the work for me.

School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

How accurate does an AI system need to be?

Efficient and Training-Free Single-Image Diffusion Models

Researchers have developed a training-free diffusion model that generates images matching a single reference image's…

Show HN: Kyushu – A self-hostable WASM sandbox for JavaScript workers

Kyushu is an open-source CLI tool that allows developers to write JavaScript or TypeScript handlers, compile them into…

Hut 8 Prices $4.25B Notes to Build 352MW Texas AI Data Center

Hut 8 has priced $4.25 billion of senior secured notes to finance a large artificial intelligence (AI) data center…

Travala Rolls out AI Concierge for 2.2M Hotels as Autonomous Travel Takes Shape

Travala has launched an agentic AI travel protocol allowing autonomous agents to book more than 2.2 million hotels with…

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 has announced its winners, featuring submissions at…

I design with Claude more than Figma now

A designer at Jane Street describes how Claude has replaced Figma as his primary design tool, allowing him to rapidly…

The circus freaks of open source

TempleOS, an operating system created by Terry A.

From $255M to $13.7B in 6 Quarters: Leopold Aschenbrenner’s Massive Bet on AI Infrastructure

Leopold Aschenbrenner just took Situational Awareness LP from $255M to $13.7B in only six quarters.

Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months

Valve's P2P networking has been experiencing major issues in Israel and possibly other Middle Eastern countries since…

Show HN: TakoVM – Isolated model and tool execution used by enterprises

TakoVM is a secure execution platform for running isolated code and AI agent workloads in Docker containers, built with…