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Lego deploys Hubble Space Telescope as detailed desktop model

The orbiting observatory in minifigure scale.

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. 

An AI-supervised remote exam went so badly that 58,000 students must retake it

Top scores increased by 5x.

KisakCOD – open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

KisakCOD is an open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4's multiplayer executable, designed for mod developers and…

Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K.

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be.

ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound

The ZX Spectrum had two sound options: a 1-bit beeper present on all models and an AY-3-8910 synthesizer chip available…

Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app…

WhatsApp says it is is fixing an issue that disabled several accounts

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users…

The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare

Cloudflare has launched a new Billable Usage API that provides programmatic access to account usage and costs broken…

Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Cloudflare uses three optimization techniques—KV cache quantization, model weight compression, and shared cache…

Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years

C-Kermit, a file transfer protocol created in 1981 to enable communication between incompatible computer systems, has…

Why winner of biggest prize in maths has decided to work on AI instead

Jacob Tsimerman won a Fields medal last month – now he is leaving mathematics to work on AI safety

Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone

Swiftlet is a Swift + Metal runtime that enables running large Qwen AI models on Apple devices by streaming…

Use Task Runners for Common Coding Tasks

Software developers working across multiple repositories with different tech stacks can use task runners—simple tools…

Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

SearXNG in Rust

A developer has created a metasearch engine in Rust that aggregates results from multiple search engines (DuckDuckGo,…

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying…

Launch HN: Hoplite (YC S26) – Effortlessly deploy cloud coding agents

Hi HN, we’re Bence and Ryan, founders of Hoplite (https://hoplite.sh).

Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action…

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP

Armature is a product analytics platform that captures and analyzes user sessions within AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT) and…

What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?

Researchers created MirrorCode, a benchmark that tests AI's ability to complete large-scale software projects by…

OpenAI announces solutions to 10 longstanding maths problems

Ten conundrums that stumped human mathematicians for years have been cracked by OpenAI's Astra model, continuing a hot…

2026 Volkswagen Jetta Sport: The cheap car isn't completely extinct yet

At $25,305, you won't find many new cars for less. But you get what you pay for.

Explanation of INT8 ConvRot (FP8 is no longer needed)

ComfyUI v0.27.0 introduced INT8 ConvRot, a quantization method that outperforms the previously standard FP8 formats on…

The Hidden Trillion-Dollar AI Commitments Behind Big Tech 

Big Tech’s largest artificial intelligence wager is no longer measured solely by processors, data centers, or…

Twenty Years of Pandoc

John MacFarlane released the first version of Pandoc on August 3, 2006, as a Haskell-based document converter supporting…