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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry

The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.

Archival Resource Key (ARK) Alliance

The ARK Alliance maintains a decentralized system of persistent identifiers called Archival Resource Keys that have been…

The Hacker's Renaissance

In 2025, 40 years after the original "Hacker's Manifesto" emerged in 1986, Phrack magazine's latest issue examines how…

Show HN: Alphabet Soup, a multiplayer game, build the longest word to win

Alphabet Soup is a multiplayer word game where players compete to spell the longest word from 7 random letters, with…

Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones

A PowerShell tool called deGDID removes Microsoft's Global Device Identifier (GDID)—a server-assigned tracking…

The tragedy of the commons, AI edition

Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

Ransomware gangs are increasingly targeting mid-level managers rather than executives, according to Zscaler research…

Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default

Programming with Claude Code will soon require even less human oversight.

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics

An engineer developed a novel method for learning complex topics by using LLMs to create accurate, interactive low-poly…

A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight database time machine for SQLite

A zero-dependency, ultra-lightweight web application called Time-Travel SQLite Debugger enables developers to track and…

OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment

OpenChamber is an agentic development environment that allows developers to set tasks with session goals that persist…

Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

Several developers shared their current projects in this Hacker News thread, including a new spec called TPX that allows…

Production Imminent: 40 Solar-Charging Aptera EVs Coming Soon

Aptera, a California-based electric vehicle company, has ordered major components to manufacture 40 solar-charging…

Show HN: A replayable A2A jury for tracing how agents influence decisions

A developer has created an interactive simulation called "AI Liability Tribunal" that places autonomous agents with…

FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US

The Federal Communications Commission is moving to ban drones equipped with LiDAR obstacle-avoidance technology from…

An OpenAI Strategist Says AI Labs Should Rival Government Power

TechCrunch Mobility: Zoox prepares for launch and Uber’s AV empire

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is…

UnYOLO: Agent credential broker and policy engine for your GitHub account

unYOLO is a framework that acts as a credential broker and policy engine for GitHub and other services, allowing agents…

Every fast write moves work somewhere else

Storage engines must choose when to confirm a write's success to the client, balancing speed against…

Show HN: Vibez – Open-Source Rust Based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)

Vibez is an open-source, Rust-based digital audio workstation that organizes music production into three workspaces:…

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

Human vs. AI – Diff-based line-level provenance for text under agentic editing

A tool called "Us vs.

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

Windows 11's built-in Weather app consumes over 1 GB of RAM—roughly five times more than Apple's native Weather…

Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy

On the latest episode of Equity, we spoke to Jill Lepore about "government by machines" and why Elon Musk is a bad…

I Wanted to Own the Harness. Then Codex Desktop Won

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

A "cool URI" is one that never changes, yet millions of links become broken because organizations lack foresight when…

The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk

AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about…

This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you

A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people,…

John C. Lilly on solid state intelligence and the elimination of man (1978)

In this 1978 excerpt from John C.