Claude Code sends your email address to websites(github.com)
1516 points by motoroco | 477 comments
GitHub issue on anthropics/claude-code reporting that Claude Code includes the user's email address in the User-Agent header during web searches.
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Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI(github.com)
671 points by ppmpreetham | 270 comments
GitHub repository for BUI, Blender's GPU-accelerated UI decoupled into a standalone library with bindings for Rust, Python, JS/React, C and C++.
Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS(github.com)
585 points by microtonal | 394 comments
GitHub issue in the PrivSec-dev banking-apps-compat-report repo tracking whether the Dutch ASN Bank Android app works on GrapheneOS and without Google Play Services.
Deus Ex(filfre.net)
336 points by cybersoyuz | 179 comments
A Digital Antiquarian article by Jimmy Maher examining the 2000 game Deus Ex, its immersive-sim gameplay roots, reception, and reputation as a prophetic work.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash(blog.google)
353 points by thisisauserid | 241 comments
Google blog post announcing Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, a video generation model with 15-second clips, multi-turn editing, better consistency, and 30% lower pricing.
A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost(hightouch.com)
568 points by theanomaly | 142 comments
Hightouch blog post benchmarking cheap decision models (Jev, GPT-6 Luna) against frontier LLMs for grading identity resolution, finding a Jev+Opus hybrid matches Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost.
US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028(reuters.com)
396 points by ChrisArchitect | 321 comments
Reuters news article reporting that the US FAA plans to phase out floppy disks from air traffic control systems by 2028.
Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2(pwn.ai)
271 points by SerCe | 117 comments
Sodium-ion batteries approach cost parity with LFP(pv-magazine.com)
190 points by doener | 90 comments
Article page about CATL's sodium-ion battery reaching cost parity with LFP in 2026, but it shows a WordPress database connection error.
sshole(sshhole.com)
2888 points by josemrb | 707 comments
Vulnerability writeup explaining how OpenSSH on musl-based Linux without PAM accepts any 257–1024 character password for accounts locked with '*', with an in-browser demo.
Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production(nbcnews.com)
1112 points by PLenz | 1982 comments
Reuters article on MSN reporting Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at its Texas gigafactory around mid-2027 after weak sales, to make room for Cybercab output.
Search for everyone(kagi.com)
668 points by elashri | 344 comments
Kagi's changelog entry announcing that anyone can now search on kagi.com without an account, plus Android app, Assistant, News, and Translate updates.
AI is dramatically accelerating AI research(planned-obsolescence.org)
333 points by yurivish | 300 comments
Ajeya Cotra's Substack post arguing a METR report shows AI is already roughly doubling AI capabilities progress at Anthropic, implying rapid compounding toward superintelligence.
MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability(cve.org)
688 points by kuberwastaken | 256 comments
CVE record CVE-2026-83844 for a high-severity (CVSS 8.1) out-of-bounds read remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Paint.
Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative(apps.metaebene.me)
229 points by luoc | 61 comments
Product page for Kugelblitz, a free macOS app showing Earth and other bodies as a 3D globe and atlas with open geodata, OpenStreetMap tiles and terrain.
First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI(kevinboone.me)
242 points by LaSombra | 48 comments
Index page for Kevin Boone's five-part tutorial series on developing bare-metal UEFI applications for PCs using a Linux workstation.
Living beyond the limits of survival: wood ants trapped in a gigantic pitfall (2016)(jhr.pensoft.net)
156 points by hitekker | 49 comments
A 2016 Journal of Hymenoptera Research paper describing a colony of wood ants trapped for years in an old Soviet nuclear weapons bunker in total darkness.
Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web(github.com)
153 points by mik3y | 114 comments
GitHub repository for Rune, an MIT-licensed native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework targeting macOS, Windows, Linux and the web.
We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?(scotthelme.co.uk)
185 points by speckx | 151 comments
Scott Helme blog post saying Report URI has found 15,579 websites infected with malicious JavaScript and asking for ideas on how to notify them at scale.
FAA Begins Retiring Decades Old Floppy Disks from Air Traffic Control(faa.gov)
85 points by pseudolus | 53 comments
FAA press release announcing the E-IDS system replacing 1980s floppy-disk-based air traffic control information systems at 435 sites by 2028.
Tesla and SpaceX lose over $420B in combined market cap in the two days(techlaws.pages.dev)
62 points by Pepitobombito | 24 comments
CNBC article reporting Tesla and SpaceX lost over $420 billion in combined market value after Democrats won the 2026 midterms, raising regulatory concerns.
Pwn.college(pwn.college)
272 points by tripdout | 44 comments
Homepage of pwn.college, a free hands-on cybersecurity education platform from Arizona State University with dojos, challenges, and belt-based progression.
RIP Cybertruck(wired.com)
270 points by voxadam | 378 comments
WIRED opinion piece reacting to Tesla halting production of the Cybertruck, calling the polygonal pickup an unloved and absurd misstep.
Inkling 2 Small(thinkingmachines.ai)
269 points by Philpax | 88 comments
Thinking Machines announces Inkling 2 Small, a 594B-parameter (17B active) multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model available on Tinker, with benchmarks and planned Apache 2.0 weights.
Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap(worldstrike.fun)
148 points by n4ze3m | 111 comments
WorldStrike is a browser-based multiplayer tank game where players drive through real cities from OpenStreetMap and demolish buildings that stay destroyed for everyone.
We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years(github.com)
137 points by ivarconr | 97 comments
GitHub repository for Unleash, an open-source (AGPL-3.0) feature management and feature flag platform with SDKs and a web dashboard.
Nvidia Kubernetes Engine (NVKE)(github.com)
114 points by gkapur | 24 comments
GitHub repository for NVIDIA Kubernetes Engine (NVKE), an Apache-2.0 management plane for running GPU Kubernetes clusters on bare metal.
As the Japanese countryside empties out, wildlife is disappearing(e360.yale.edu)
68 points by rdmuser | 41 comments
Yale E360 digest item on how rural depopulation and farm abandonment in Japan are linked to declines in butterflies, fireflies, frogs, birds, and native plants.
Size-It-Up (Game)(magnitudle.com)
74 points by whoishiding | 26 comments
Size It Up is a daily browser game by Magnitudle where players resize silhouettes of objects to match their real-world scale against a reference, over five rounds.
App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps(obelisk.club)
53 points by Peter216 | 46 comments
A research report analyzing 178,637 App Store top-chart apps across 173 countries on AI mentions, in-app monetization, indie share, abandoned apps, and review complaints.
ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card(community.openai.com)
83 points by Aldipower | 35 comments
OpenAI Developer Community forum thread reporting that ChatGPT silently routed a follow-up MCP tool call, carrying a confirmation code, through a different connector.
Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass(alpinelinux.org)
610 points by pantalaimon | 128 comments
Alpine Linux security advisory describing an openssh-server password authentication bypass caused by musl crypt() behavior, with affected versions, fixes, and mitigations.
Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory(reuters.com)
482 points by 1659447091 | 411 comments
Reuters article reporting that Britain will require employers to disclose salaries in job advertisements; the capture shows only a device verification screen.
The Hackintosh Reborn(naut.ca)
385 points by rubatuga | 223 comments
Blog post arguing AI coding tools like Claude Code are reviving the Hackintosh community, citing macOS ports to Snapdragon, ARM SBCs, and Nvidia GPU support.
From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
326 points by jonbaer | 124 comments
MIT Press Reader essay adapted from the book "Peer Production" explaining how volunteer collaboration built Linux, Wikipedia, and other online commons.
I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious(lesswrong.com)
136 points by porridgeraisin | 155 comments
A LessWrong shortform comment by Arjun Panickssery arguing AI agents show poor research judgment in autonomous R&D side projects like a Scrabble engine and philosophy research.
The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo(utcc.utoronto.ca)
139 points by wondersky | 122 comments
Blog post by Chris Siebenmann on how Ubuntu 26.04's Rust-based sudo (sudo-rs) differs from standard sudo; the page served a 429 rate-limit error.
Closed AI models dominate the price-performance frontier(village.dev)
66 points by kevin_hu | 52 comments
Village research blog post using its LLM Atlas to show closed AI models now hold nearly all of the price-performance frontier, with open-weight models best at only 3% of budgets.
Perplexity launches AI agents for work(perplexity.ai)
53 points by cybermango | 38 comments
Perplexity blog post announcing "teammates," persistent AI agents within Perplexity Computer that own ongoing projects across marketing, sales, support, and operations.
The Valley Bubble Breaks(quirksmode.org)
38 points by cdrnsf | 29 comments
Peter-Paul Koch's QuirksBlog post arguing that the AI hype bubble is breaking and Silicon Valley will permanently lose its global dominance in tech.
My first and last telegram was from Rebecca West(thelampmagazine.com)
32 points by bryanrasmussen | 7 comments
A Lamp magazine blog post by Nic Rowan about finding a Rebecca West telegram inside a used copy of Black Lamb and Grey Falcon and the story of the singer it concerned.
Mbodi AI (YC P25) Is Hiring Research and Robotic Engineers(ycombinator.com)
0 points by chitianhao | 0 comments
Y Combinator jobs page for Mbodi AI (YC P25), an embodied AI robotics startup hiring a Founding Research Engineer and Senior Robotics Engineer in New York.
UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDR's to sell AI compliance software(up.codes)
0 points by Old_Thrashbarg | 0 comments
UpCodes careers page listing open positions and benefits at the YC-backed construction code compliance software company.
Window Sweaters(github.com)
440 points by nickswalker | 127 comments
GitHub repository for Window Sweaters, a GPL-3.0 macOS menu-bar app derived from JankyBorders that draws knitted-style borders around windows.
Tencent Launches Hy4, One of the Leading Open-Source AI Models(tencent.com)
92 points by gmays | 3 comments
Tencent press release announcing Hy4, its new large language model with vision, computer-use and agentic capabilities, benchmarks, pricing, and planned open-weight release.
Zero Hour: Telling time was a matter of survival and strategy during WWI (2014)(laphamsquarterly.org)
91 points by NaOH | 4 comments
A 2014 Lapham's Quarterly essay on how timekeeping and the rise of the wristwatch shaped strategy and soldiers' lives during World War I.
Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign(infohawk.com)
154 points by fiej | 81 comments
InfoHawk research report on 820 typosquatted .delivery domains impersonating US restaurant chains to skim credit cards and SMS verification codes via reverse proxies.
How octopuses squeeze through too small gaps(journals.biologists.com)
57 points by bookofjoe | 17 comments
An Inside JEB news piece summarizing research on how common and Mayan octopuses use 3- or 4-step strategies to squeeze through holes smaller than their bodies.
HN: CloneGuard – scan a repo for credential-stealing tricks before you run it(github.com)
15 points by tharun208 | 2 comments
GitHub repo for CloneGuard, a dependency-free Go CLI that statically scans a cloned repo for credential theft, suspicious network calls, obfuscation and auto-run hooks.
Show HN: Firenook – Firebase emulators in Rust: 40× faster writes, 10× less RAM(firenook.dev)
156 points by sanjevirau | 21 comments
Landing page for Firenook, an open-source Rust-based drop-in replacement for the Firebase Local Emulator Suite claiming faster writes and lower memory use.
How accurately did science fiction stories predict AI?(jamesyu.org)
30 points by jamesjyu | 38 comments
Blog post scoring and ranking science fiction works by how accurately they predicted the way modern AI was created, what it can do, and how it is deployed.
No CVE Today, Please(nocveday.com)
13 points by metalnix | 1 comments
A satirical one-page plea from a weary sysadmin asking the security community for a single day with no new CVEs, styled as a terminal broadcast.
Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3(github.com)
111 points by NathanFlurry | 58 comments
GitHub repository for Rivet, an open-source, self-hostable orchestrator that runs AI agents as lightweight actors with SQLite storage backed by S3.
Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs(arxiv.org)
101 points by handfuloflight | 10 comments
arXiv paper introducing Memorilla, a system that compresses document collections into query-dependent memory tokens in the input embedding space of frozen LLMs.
Hardcoded credentials and other issues in Tata Motors App(cert-in.org.in)
73 points by qtqtqt | 15 comments
CERT-In vulnerability note CIVN-2026-0537 describing four high-severity flaws, including hardcoded credentials, in Tata Motors' iRA 2.0 and iRA.ev connected-car apps.
Lippitt-Knoster in Practice (Field Notes for Managing Complex Projects)(sharedphysics.com)
56 points by goopthink | 2 comments
A Shared Physics blog post explaining the Lippitt-Knoster model for managing complex change and offering field notes on applying it to long-running projects.
Goodbye from Salon(salon.com)
587 points by mkeeter | 235 comments
Salon's farewell announcement that the online magazine is ceasing publication after 31 years, citing an unsustainable business model for independent digital journalism.
MoofTCP – A modern replacement for MacTCP on 68k Macs(github.com)
56 points by marcusbasant | 28 comments
GitHub repository for MoofTCP, an MIT-licensed, memory-lean drop-in replacement for MacTCP on 68000 Macs running System 6, written mostly in C.
Replit rebuilt its sandbox engine with microVMs(frontier.replit.com)
79 points by gaplong | 26 comments
Replit engineering blog post, part 1 of a series, on rebuilding its sandbox engine around microVMs with Cloud Hypervisor and KVM for stronger isolation and fast startup.
Castration extends life span in mice(science.org)
9 points by gmays | 8 comments
Science news article on a preprint finding that castrating older male mice extended their life span by about 33%, more than castration before or after puberty.