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Your daily TLDR of the top Hacker News stories. Hosts Kai and Maya break down the biggest tech news, open source drama, AI breakthroughs, and community hot takes -- in about 15 minutes, every day.
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Sunday roundup: Cloudflare Turnstile and the WebGL fingerprinting tradeoff Bonsai Image 4B — 1-bit and ternary image generation for local devices Creatine and brain energy — small uncontrolled study, big headline The Chu
Monday roundup: Instagram AI support bot lets attackers reset any account with a username and a VPN Red Hat npm packages compromised in a supply chain attack hitting 30+ libraries Anthropic files a confidential draft S-1
Saturday roundup: OpenRouter raises $113M Series B led by CapitalG Domain Expertise Has Always Been The Real Moat Accenture to acquire Ookla (Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau, RootMetrics) Microsoft degrades perpetual Off
Friday roundup: The Dead Economy Theory — when AI eliminates labor faster than productivity grows Notes from Mistral's AI Now Summit in Paris Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B with 38T training tokens SQLite Is All You Need
Thursday roundup: Claude Opus 4.8 lands with fast mode and dynamic workflows Anthropic raises $65B Series H at $965B post-money valuation YouTube starts auto-labeling AI-generated videos EU fines Temu €200M for letting i
Friday roundup: Anthropic's Project Glasswing and the Mythos Preview model that found 10,000+ critical vulnerabilities in a month CISA's vulnerability-data leak gets worse as lawmakers demand answers yt-dlp deprecates Bu
Thursday roundup: Flipper One asks the community to help finish an open Linux pocket cyberdeck (8-core RK3576, NPU, 8 GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, dual GbE, M.2 expansion, mainline kernel) Google's Antigravity 2.0 silently replaces
Wednesday roundup: An OpenAI model disproves an 80-year-old conjecture in discrete geometry (the Erdős unit-distance problem) GitHub confirms ~3,800 internal repos breached via a malicious VS Code extension on an employe
Tuesday roundup: Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead a new Claude-helping-build-Claude pre-training research group Gemini 3.5 Flash lands as Google's "frontier intelligence with action" — and gets repriced like Pro Google r
Monday roundup: Musk loses lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman - jury accepts statute of limitations defense The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden: CEO swap, retired "always free" promise, edited values Archestra uses Git'
Sunday episode: Mozilla pushes back on UK regulators considering age-gating VPNs Why AI doesn't make your processes faster - it just moves the bottleneck upstream Gruber: AI is technology, not a product (like wireless ne
Saturday roundup: Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format - scoreboards now measure orchestration budget, not skill Mitchell Hashimoto: "entire companies are under AI psychosis" Julia Evans on moving away from Tailwin
Friday roundup: DOJ subpoenas Apple and Google to unmask 100k+ users of EZ Lynk's car-tinkering app Project Zero ships a 0-click Pixel 10 exploit chain (Dolby + VPU kernel) A Wikipedia explorer styled as a Windows XP des
Sunday episode: GrapheneOS: hardware attestation is becoming a monopoly tool, not security Local AI needs to be the norm - why on-device beats cloud for user data CVE-2024-YIKES: a satirical supply chain post-mortem that
Saturday roundup: Tim Gowers says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro produced PhD-level math in under two hours Microsoft's DELEGATE-52 paper shows LLMs corrupting documents under autonomous edits Internet Archive expands to Switzerland fo
Today's top Hacker News stories: Google quietly broke reCAPTCHA for de-Googled Android — new QR-code verification requires Play Services 25.41.30+, which GrapheneOS and other custom ROMs don't ship. iPhones are unaffecte
Today's top Hacker News stories: Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE — chained ESP and RXRPC kernel bugs let any local user escalate to root on every major distro, with no patches yet. Mitigation today: blacklist the modules.
Today's top Hacker News stories: Valve open-sources the Steam Controller — the original 2015 controller's CAD files released under Creative Commons. Fork it, 3D print replacement shells, build your own variant. Anthropic
Today's top Hacker News stories: The .de TLD went offline — a DNSSEC key rollover went sideways and validating resolvers refused to serve German domains. The fix, the workarounds, and why this pattern keeps repeating. Go
Sunday edition. Today's top Hacker News stories: Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons — the company admits the touchscreen-everything era didn't work, and the manufacturing reason it happened in the fi
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