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Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them

Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.

Ask HN: My domain registrar (Hover) rug-pulled me for $3000

A user's domain registrar Hover charged them $3,000 to renew a .sexy domain that had previously renewed at $38 per year,…

Superlogical – Mitchell Hashimoto

Mitchell Hashimoto has launched Superlogical, a new company focused on building terminal software, after spending…

Mitchellh starts a new company: Superlogical

Mitchell Hashimoto has launched Superlogical, a new company building a "multiplexer for all work" that unifies…

Elon Musk’s X settles multiyear legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers

X sued the WFA in 2024 for conducting what it called a "systematic illegal boycott" of the platform after it saw a…

Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property…

New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck

Improved efficiency in EPP mode leads to ~32% jump in "1% low" frame rates.

Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system

Apple's App Store rating system is fundamentally flawed because it was modeled after the iTunes Music Store, a design…

Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer

"I'm beginning to suspect we are not in Jumanji."

Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite's creator

The 2026 Cesium Developer Conference released recordings of its technical sessions, keynotes, and panels showcasing…

Mark Zuckerberg Says AI Should Be Open to Everyone, Not Controlled by a Few

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has outlined his vision for an AI-powered future where superintelligence is widely available…

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

TurboFieldfare is an open-source engine that enables running Google's Gemma 4 26B language model on Apple Silicon Macs…

Hugging Face: Anatomy of a frontier-lab agent intrusion

Hugging Face experienced a significant security incident in July 2026 involving an unauthorized agent intrusion that…

Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work

Polar has come out with an AI-first browser aimed at knowledge workers, and it has now raised a $5.7 million seed round…

PostgreSQL's MVCC is bad. So is everyone else's

PostgreSQL's MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) design, while criticized for write amplification, bloated tables,…

OpenAI and Anthropic Employees Urge U.S. Support for Global AI Safeguards

More than 1,000 employees from leading artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google…

GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5 for Physical AI, which performs best?

Claude Fable 5 outperformed GPT-5.6 variants in physical AI modeling and simulation tasks, achieving a weighted score of…

Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold

Google has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold project, reassigning most team members to focus resources on…

Show HN: Qwen Scribe – local transcription and dictation for Apple Silicon

Qwen Scribe is a new open-source application that enables private, local audio and video transcription on Apple Silicon…

A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks…

Anthropic’s AI Finds New Crypto Weaknesses, Samson Mow Sounds Caution

Anthropic says its latest AI model has uncovered new weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms that had survived years of…

Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution

A benchmark comparing self-hosted Kimi K3 against commercial APIs and other models found that while self-hosting costs…

Graph Engineering Needs a Compiler

AI can generate code faster than humans can understand its combined execution, creating a problem where locally…

CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches

CipherX has developed a painless alternative to traditional tattoos using dissolving microneedle patches that deposit…

Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite

DuckDB significantly outperforms SQLite as an embedded database for observability data, achieving 4-15x faster write…

Show HN: A verification browser for AI agents – 13ms windows, one-call checks

A developer has created Hwatu, a verification browser for AI agents that performs page checks in approximately 13ms with…

AI in Linux

Linus Torvalds has endorsed the use of AI tools in Linux kernel development, settling a debate within the community.

‘No one’s making a phone like this’: Light’s co-founders on building for the anti-smartphone generation

With the Light Phone, Kaiwei Tang and Joe Hollier have spent over a decade exploring the value of simplicity in our…