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Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug

A long-time Zsh user discovered and debugged a data loss bug where commands would mysteriously disappear from their…

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."

VisionQuest trailer kicks off Disney's D23 fan event

Also: Ahsoka S2 teaser, Doomsday trailer, news about MCU's X-Men and Star Wars: Starfighter

Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born

Great ideas are fragile and easily killed by social pressure, which is why solitude—understood not as physical isolation…

Humazon

Edward Stratemeyer pioneered the "content farm" model in publishing by creating fictional authors to meet reader demand,…

Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video]

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Kimi Work attaches raw agent sessions to feedback reports

Kimi Work automatically attaches the 5 most recent raw agent sessions to user feedback reports without notification or…

Israeli PR wants to answer your ChatGPT questions

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor

Tess's Android Wayland Compositor (tawc) is an application that allows users to run Linux CLI and graphical programs on…

Voltair (YC W26) Is Hiring a Test Flight Engineer

Voltair, a YC-funded startup building autonomous drones for earth observation, is hiring a Flight Test Engineer in San…

AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them

# Summary AI systems excel at solving complex mathematical problems not primarily through superior reasoning, but…

Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign

Thunderbird's design team is undertaking a comprehensive redesign of the application's calendar feature to modernize its…

BriskDB

BriskDB is an open-source database system that transforms SQLite files into a sharded database with parallel write…

TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In

TreasuryDirect will transition to ID.me for login authentication starting September 2026, with the new system becoming…

Apple Turns to Alibaba to Help Build AI Model for China

Apple is pairing its in-house model with Alibaba’s Qwen as it prepares to bring Apple Intelligence to Chinese iPhones.

I Remain a Skeptic

The author argues that despite four years of hype around large language models (LLMs), there is little concrete evidence…

SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX.

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.

OpenAI Must Reassure Investors After a Wave of High-Profile Exits

OpenAI is losing its leaders in cascade as it approaches a public offering that could value the company at $1 trillion.

Meta Patents Cameras That Recognize Faces and Log Your Actions

The filing would turn raw footage into labeled clips of who did what, without anyone opting in.

A Spectre Is Haunting Unicode

Japan's 1978 JIS X 0208 character encoding standard contained several "ghost characters" with mysterious origins and no…

Printytron – Type it. 3D Print it

Printytron is an AI-powered 3D design tool that generates print-ready STL files from plain English descriptions without…

The AI Situation in Software Development

The article examines practical challenges of using AI in software development, focusing on three main issues: the effort…

Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?

Secondhand booksellers worldwide have noticed an unusual surge in bulk orders, with suspicion that AI companies are…

Cloudflare's AI Psychosis

The author criticizes Cloudflare for losing its focus on core infrastructure excellence in pursuit of becoming a broader…

Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul

Zig's I/O interface underwent a major overhaul called "Writergate" (late 2023–August 2025), replacing generic types with…

Show HN: Quasicrystals Animation Playground with WebXR

Hi! This is my little project introducing quasicrystals animations with some parameters.

Yadda 3.0.0: BDD in the Age of AI Agents

Yadda 3.0.0, a BDD (Behavior-Driven Development) library for JavaScript, has been released with significant…