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Ars Live recap: How can we stop publishers from killing their own games?

The Stop Killing Games movement faces an uphill battle.

RayforceDB – a pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax

RayforceDB is an open-source, pure C analytics database with a Lisp-like syntax (Rayfall) that combines columnar…

AI by Hand

"AI by Hand" is an educational platform by Prof.

Show HN: Online SNMP MIB database - upload/view your own MIBs

A developer created an online SNMP MIB database that allows users to upload and view their own Management Information…

"Solving a largely imaginary user goal"

Lea Verou proposes that dark-mode toggles should use a "smart" two-option interface (light and dark) rather than…

Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play

Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast…

Google Is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption

Google has introduced HEIR, an open-source compiler that enables private AI inference by allowing computations to be…

Show HN: Graft – Claude Code hooks that cut grep tokens by 42%

Graft is a tool that optimizes Claude Code and other AI coding agents by reducing token usage by 42% and improving…

Introducing Toast 1

Mixedbread has launched Toast 1, a specialized search agent that matches the performance of frontier AI models like…

Unsloth Qwen3.8-27B GGUF files

Unsloth has released Qwen3.8-27B, the latest generation of the Qwen open-model family, featuring improved performance in…

Qwen3.8-27B

Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS

Kukuroo is a self-hosted web push notification system that runs on a single Cloudflare Worker, enabling users to send…

Qwen 3.8 27B is out: open weights, best local dense model yet

Alibaba's Qwen has released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight dense language model featuring 27 billion parameters with native…

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store

Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links…

Gemini 3.7 Flash Could Make Crypto the Ultimate Testing Ground for AI Agents

Google just released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new AI model built for coding and autonomous agents.

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.

When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs

Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness collapsed this week after he had gained prominence as part of…

Every Fucking Website

This satirical piece mocks the repetitive and intrusive design patterns found on modern websites, including pop-up…

Test moderators use AI-generated writing to judge literacy standards

To cut the cost of key stage 2 assessments, a UK government project proposes to use scripts generated by ChatGPT instead…

OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground

US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.

AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph

I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone

A developer created "feedpaper," a tool that converts RSS feeds into e-pub format for reading on a pocket-sized e-ink…

Show HN: APIMart: Discounted AI API Aggregator for GPT-5, Sora 2

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In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half

Australia's home battery subsidy program, launched in July 2025, has led to over 500,000 installations in just over a…

US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware

The Administrative Office of the U.S.

Cursor Is Joining SpaceX

SpaceX has completed its acquisition of Cursor, an AI coding assistant company, following a partnership announcement in…

Bitmine Immersion Technologies Announces Record and Payment Dates for Cash Dividends on 9.50% Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock

(NYSE: BMNR; BMNP) Bitmine Immersion Technologies, Inc.

HashAgent – Share an AI agent as a URL, runs locally via WebGPU