Today so far 2026-09-06 · 12:00 UTC

Major news publications including the Seattle Times and Newsday are joining ongoing litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged unauthorized use of copyrighted content for AI training. Meanwhile, Google continues to face scrutiny over Chrome again exempting Google from user site data settings, highlighting broader concerns about tech giants' self-preferential practices. On the AI adoption front, America's Two Largest School Districts Impose AI Moratoriums, signaling growing institutional caution about deploying AI in education despite the industry's rapid advancement in tools and applications.

Backpressure is all you need

2026-05-31 · 12:11

The article argues for a "backpressure" approach to using AI coding agents—neither fully unattended (risky) nor…

Dav2d

2026-05-31 · 11:44

VideoLAN has announced dav2d, a fast software decoder for the new AV2 video codec, following the success of their dav1d…

The Website Specification

2026-05-31 · 07:09

The Website Specification is a platform-agnostic technical checklist covering 168 topics across ten categories—from HTML…

Telli (YC F24) is hiring in engineering, design, and GTM [Berlin, on-site]

2026-05-31 · 07:00

The ~500kB NBSDGames 6 managed to be published ahead of GTA 6

2026-05-31 · 06:18

NBSDGames version 6, a ~500KB open-source game collection, was released in April 2024 ahead of GTA 6, featuring improved…

Show HN: Komi-learn – continuous memory and self-improvement for coding agents

2026-05-31 · 05:11

Komi-learn is a tool that adds continuous memory and self-improvement capabilities to AI coding agents like Claude Code…

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

2026-05-31 · 04:42

# Summary Digital Equipment Corporation shrunk the PDP-8 minicomputer into the DECmate II (1982), a word processor with…

Building a LangGraph pipeline for production data engineering

2026-05-31 · 04:38

LangGraph is a framework for building stateful, multi-step AI workflows organized as graphs with nodes and edges,…

86Box v6.0

2026-05-31 · 04:03

86Box v6.0, released May 31, 2026, adds hard disk sounds, a local networking switch for connecting multiple emulated…

Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software – Rsync

2026-05-31 · 03:16

Mechanical Pencin: A website about the hidden engineering in everyday objects

2026-05-31 · 00:25

Mechanical Pencil is a website created by mechanical engineer and artist Bryan that features illustrated tear-downs and…

Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products

2026-05-30 · 23:26

Microsoft will convert perpetually-licensed Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac to view-only mode on July 13, 2026, when a…

Custom Errors Are Non-Negotiable in My Rust Applications

2026-05-30 · 23:14

Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing

2026-05-30 · 22:58

Cheese Paper is a text editor designed specifically for fiction writers that keeps notes, character information, and…

Ferrari wanted to take on Chinese EVs with the Luce - then the backlash started

2026-05-30 · 22:23

The brand's first EV has been heavily criticised, with some saying it has abandoned Ferrari's roots.

Shantell Sans

2026-05-30 · 22:06

Artist Shantell Martin created Shantell Sans, a variable typeface with adjustable Weight, Italic, Informality, and…

AWS Budgets Has an 8-Hour Delay. Your Bedrock Bill Doesn't

2026-05-30 · 21:52

The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)

2026-05-30 · 21:46

The Alliance for Open Media has released the final v1.0 specification for AV2, the next-generation video coding standard…

SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers

2026-05-30 · 21:45

The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.

This weekend’s two biggest movies were both directed by YouTubers

2026-05-30 · 21:12

The YouTube-to-prestige-horror pipeline is looking very strong.

Rotary GPU: Exploring Local Execution for Large MoE Models Under Limited VRAM

2026-05-30 · 21:05

Researchers present Rotary GPU, a method for running large Mixture-of-Experts language models on consumer hardware with…

Kore: Binary File Format Optimized for Modern Data Systems (Open Source)

2026-05-30 · 20:54

KORE is an open-source columnar binary file format and distributed data processing engine written in Rust that…

Design Engineering Magazine

2026-05-30 · 20:46

Interfaces is a design engineering magazine founded by Jakub Krehel that focuses on the principles of creating polished,…

I am against GenAI and everything it stands for

2026-05-30 · 20:44

# Summary An author argues that generative AI is fundamentally harmful, characterizing it as a capitalist scheme where…

wolfSSL releases a new product; wolfCOSE a zero alloc C embbedded COSE stack

2026-05-30 · 20:42

wolfSSL has released wolfCOSE, a lightweight C library implementing CBOR, COSE (Cryptographic Object Signing and…

Domain expertise has always been the real moat

2026-05-30 · 20:40

# Summary As AI agents can now generate code without human developers needing deep domain expertise, the competitive…

Show HN: Breathe CLI – Paced resonance breathing in the macOS terminal

2026-05-30 · 20:30

I built a terminal app that paces slow breathing at 6 breaths per minute for vagal tone training.

Dusklight – GC Twilight Princess Decompiled

2026-05-30 · 20:24

Dusklight v1.4 is a decompiled version of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that brings the GameCube classic to PC…

A disappearing Service Processor (2025)

2026-05-30 · 20:05

Oxide engineers debugged a critical issue where their Service Processor would disappear from the network when integrated…

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