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Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes

Motorola phones were hijacking the Amazon app through a Smart Feed app update to inject affiliate codes, redirecting…

Dozens of drones crash into Sydney harbour after light show glitch

Vivid Sydney organisers and the UK company behind the drone show blamed it on technical difficulties.

Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up

Earthion is a new shoot-em-up game from Ancient styled after classic 16-bit Mega Drive games, featuring eight…

Why the Smart Home Bubble Popped

The smart home market collapsed over the past decade due to a fragmentation of incompatible standards, abandoned…

Show HN: Rapel – chunked resumable downloads in unstable networks

Rapel is a cross-platform HTTP downloader tool written in Go that enables chunked, resumable downloads optimized for…

Does Anybody Actually Like React?

Multiple industry voices are criticizing React as an over-engineered solution that has become the default choice for…

Browser-based file encryption tool using WebCrypto

Secvant is a browser-based toolset that performs cryptographic operations and file handling entirely locally using…

Designing for and against the manufactured normalcy field (2012)

TP-7 Field Recorder

The TP-7 is a portable field recorder designed for capturing audio in high quality with minimal friction, featuring a…

CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude

Apple released security updates for macOS Tahoe 26.5 on May 11, 2026, addressing multiple vulnerabilities across various…

Performance of Rust Language [pdf]

Rust is a safe, low-level programming language designed to compete with C++, but this talk examines whether its safety…

Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore

Programming book sales have declined sharply—down 16.9% year-over-year through 2023, with the professional books segment…

Using AI to write better code more slowly

The author argues that AI coding tools like Claude and GPT can be used to improve code quality through rigorous…

Chatbot Has a Long Memory. That Isn't Always a Good Thing

What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable

Every Frontier AI Is INTJ

A researcher tested six frontier AI models (Claude, GPT-5.5, Gemini, GLM, Grok, and MiniMax) by having each take a…

How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works

Shamir's Secret Sharing, published in 1979, is a cryptographic method that splits a secret into pieces where any k…

Agentic Patterns

Show HN: OpenBrief – Local-first video downloader/summarizer

OpenBrief is basically a GUI for yt-dlp with some AI on top — paste a link, it downloads locally, and transcription and…

Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files

Researchers demonstrated a vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot Cowork that allows attackers to exfiltrate sensitive…

Ferrari Luce, Maranello's first ever electric car

Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI

In an age of AI, Pope looks for "artisans of hope."

Riscrithm – An intuitive RISC-V assembler and optimizer coded in Go

Riscrithm is a RISC-V assembler and optimizer written in Go that provides a high-level macro-assembly dialect bridging…

Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive

A few interesting modern pixel fonts

Andrew Gleeson designed Analog Mono to fix problems in the classic VCR OSD Mono font, while other designers created…

Yoti age checks share facial photos and device fingerprints with third parties

Ninth Circuit Panel Goes Out of Its Way to Question Section 230–DOE vs. Meta

# Summary A Ninth Circuit panel ruled that Section 230 protects Meta from liability in a lawsuit brought by Rohingya…

Tidy PSU – PD-64 C64 PSU Brings USB PD to Commodore 64

Hacker News front page as a site

England is on track to become one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C, having already treated over 80% of…