The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy

Migrating from Proxmox to NixOS and Incus

A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events

YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed

Dead Lithium Batteries Revived to 95% Capacity via Electrochemical Bath

Announcing Silk: a silky smooth fiber runtime for ClickHouse

GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11

Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators

An oral history of Bank Python (2021)

The Customer Who Almost Killed Slack, Stripe, and Airbnb

OpenAI Leans Toward Waiting Until Next Year for IPO

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds

Quit Your Job (2022)

Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover

Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion

Show HN: Persona.js – a vanilla-JS agent UI library with native WebMCP (MIT)

The annotated PyTorch training loop

Older tech workers are tapping out early

I built a GPU back end for Emacs

a16z-backed Base Power is offering cheaper electricity to the power grid that needs it most

Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended for Better Performance: 360% in MySQL

The Leiden Declaration: Mathematics, AI, and Making Our Values Explicit

The Declaration is a call to action for the mathematical community to make its values explicit at a time when AI systems increasingly are becoming part of mathematical research.

Meta forced engineers into AI training. Now it's giving some a way out

Discord Update: June 25, 2026 Changelog

Here's the Discord Changelog from June 25, 2026, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates!

Structured Primary Keys

IBM Debuts First Sub-1 Nanometer Chip Technology

General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status

Databricks’ former AI chief thinks he can cut AI’s power bill by 1,000x

Deno 2.9

Detecting and removing dangerous secrets on dev workstations before Shai-Hulud does

Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates

Achieving Near-Linear Training Scalability for Pinterest’s Foundation Models

Sheng Huang | Software Engineer, AI Platform; Pong Eksombatchai | Machine Learning Engineer, Applied Sciences; Saurabh Vishwas Joshi | Software Engineer, AI Platform; Gaurav Arora | Software Engineer, AI Platform; Karthik Anantha Padmanabhan | Engineering Director, AI PlatformAt Pinterest, foundation models power recommendations for over 600 million monthly active users. Our latest Foundation Model (ACM RecSys 2025) pre-trains on two years of user activity data and is deployed into Home feed...

Google Finance gets a dedicated app for Android

Parker Conrad knows which employees are worth their AI spend and says Rippling can help you, too

From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world

Tw-fade: pure CSS scroll-driven edge masking

How we built saga rollbacks for Cloudflare Workflows

Cloudflare Workflows, our durable execution engine for multi-step applications, now supports saga-style rollbacks, allowing developers to specify a compensating action for each step.do().

Connecting User Generated Content to Loyalty Engines

In the modern e-commerce stack, User-Generated Content (UGC) and Loyalty Programs are often treated as separate silos. One captures the voice of the customer (Ratings, Reviews, Q&A); the other manages the economy of retention. For brands and retailers, the challenge isn’t just “collecting reviews”—it’s building a high-performance bridge between user action and value generation. How […]

Tuning Android build nodes for maximum throughput

Introduction Our Android team uses Gradle as our build tool of choice. Gradle offers lots of options for tuning its resource consumption, giving engineers an opportunity to optimize performance for running tasks on well-known hardware. In this post, we’ll explore how the team tuned our Gradle setup for Amazon’s m7i.8xlarge EC2 instances. General concepts  Before... Read more

The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That's Taking over the Internet

Zig's New BitCast Semantics and LLVM Back End Improvements

Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments

Apple raises Mac and iPad prices, spares iPhone for now

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Toward an AI-Corps

The time is right for a federally supported, scalable framework that integrates AI education, research, and civic service to build a diverse, ethical, and technically capable AI workforce.

Repositioning retail for the AI era

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how products surface in search results, how inventory moves through supply chains, how engineers ship code faster, and…

A Look in the Mirror: ACM Demographics

Based on more than 110,000 responses, the first ACM Demographic Report reveals a profession in transition.

Technical Perspective: Synthetic Data Needs a Reproducibility Benchmark

The accompanying paper proposes an evaluation methodology that measures the likelihood that published findings would have changed had the authors used synthetic data.

Epistemic Parity: Reproducibility as an Evaluation Metric for Differential Privacy

In this paper, we propose an evaluation methodology for synthetic data that avoids assumptions about the representativeness of proxy tasks, instead measuring the likelihood that published conclusions would change had the authors used synthetic data, a condition we call epistemic parity.

UN hypocrisy in AI Environmental demands

Where every major LLM stands politically

Hidden Prompts in Manuscripts Exploit AI-Assisted Peer Review

The emergence of hidden prompts is a foundational security challenge to scientific evaluation that must be addressed now.

The Hermit Crab Strategy: Navigating a Global Career in Mission-Driven Tech

My 20-year journey through the global tech landscape is a story of three continents, three degrees, and the relentless belief that computing is not just a tool for efficiency but social equity.

A Solution to A.I.'S Growing Power Demand: Homes

Trump admin proposes axing brake pedal requirement for AVs in a boost for Tesla

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Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on

Adobe acquires image and video enhancement tool maker Topaz Labs

Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best

Apple just Increased Prices: here’s what’s changed

Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more

Why Does Everyone Hate AI?

You can't unit test for taste

OpenStreetMap running on an ESP32 with TypeScript and Canvas [video]

You didn't vibe code it, you stole it from open source&enterprise-licensed code

The Download: Europe’s heat wave hits the grid, and IBM’s chip targets Moore’s Law

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to its limits as people turn to…

Amazon ups India bet with fresh $13B AI infrastructure investment

New @bitCast Semantics and LLVM Backend Improvements

Words, Words, Words

Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606

IBM has unveiled chip technology that could help extend Moore’s Law another decade

IBM has built a new prototype chip with around 100 billion transistors on an area the size of a fingernail, which is twice the density of the company’s previous state-of-the-art technology announced in 2021. The design could pave the way for faster and more energy efficient computers for years to come. For more than half…

Less Is More: Why Audio on SoundCloud Looks Different

Last year, SoundCloud upgraded its AAC encoder for the first time in over a decade. The new one (Fraunhofer’s libfdk_aac) delivers higher…

Lies, Damn Lies and Database Benchmarks

SHRIDHAR KHANAL: PostgreSQL Disaster Recovery with pgBackRest TLS Transport

The Night When Things Almost Went DownHave you ever left for home on a Friday evening feeling confident about your work for the day, at peace knowing your system would survive the coming weekend? We’ve all felt that way at some point.Meanwhile, the disk on the server had quietly reached 90% utilization. Write-Ahead Log (WAL) files had accumulated enormously, one long-running query had been running for over an hour, and nobody noticed because, some time earlier, the dashboard had looked fine...

tropius: detect AI tropes in prose

Zero-copy in Go: sendfile, splice, and the cost of io.Copy

Aisle Discovers 6 New CVEs in Curl, Including the Oldest Issue Ever Reported