1. DeepSeek V4

The next story is DeepSeek V4, a preview release that says it brings a 1M context window, two model tiers, open weights, and stronger reasoning and agentic coding support. In the comments, people quickly debated whether this was a real model launch or mostly an API docs update, and several pointed out that the weights were already up on Hugging Face.

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2. Claude Backlash

The next story is an article about why one user cancelled Claude after running into token spikes, confusing usage limits, declining output quality, and support that felt automated and unhelpful. The writer says the product started out strong but became harder to trust as sessions burned through limits faster and the model leaned on shortcuts instead of careful fixes.

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3. Maduro Raid Bet

The next story is a CNN report on a U. S.

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4. Google Anthropic Deal

The next story is a Bloomberg article about Google planning to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, a move that looks as much like securing compute and cloud demand as it does backing a rival AI lab. The deal matters because it shows how much frontier AI has become a contest for chips, capacity, and distribution, not just model quality.

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5. Scope Creep

The next story is Kevin Lynagh's latest newsletter, which is really two stories in one: a reflection on how overthinking, prior-art hunting, and scope creep can turn a promising project into a stalled one, and a separate deep dive into structural diffing tools. He argues that the best antidote is knowing your own success criteria early, then cutting scope ruthlessly so you can actually ship something small.

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6. Norway Social Ban

The next story is about Norway moving toward a ban on social media for kids under 16, a policy aimed at reducing the harms of addictive feeds and giving children more room to be kids. The article says this would put Norway among a growing set of countries treating youth social media use as a public health issue, but the HN reaction is split on whether a ban can actually work.

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1. GPT 5 5

The next story is GPT-5. 5, OpenAI’s announcement of its newest model, which says it improves benchmark performance and token generation speed while showing off a few practical demos.

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2. Building Cloud

The next story is I am building a cloud, a post arguing that modern cloud platforms are the wrong shape for how people actually want to run software, with local NVMe, simpler VM isolation, and cheaper networking as the core fixes. The post says agents and growing software demand make these limits more painful, so the new service tries to offer CPU and memory directly, local replicated disk, and global entry points instead of forcing everything through hyperscaler abstractions.

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3. Palantir Ethics

The next story is WIRED’s report that some Palantir employees are finally questioning whether the company has become part of the machinery they once thought they were helping keep in check. The article says internal Slack debates, the ICE contract, the reported use of Palantir tools in a deadly Iran strike, and a recent company manifesto have pushed workers to ask whether they are enabling surveillance and violence rather than preventing abuse.

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4. Bitwarden Breach

Bitwarden CLI is the latest supply chain story, with Socket saying version 2026. 4.

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5. Claude Code Fixes

The next story is an Anthropic post about recent Claude Code quality complaints. It says three separate changes caused the problem: a default reasoning-effort drop, a cache bug that kept stripping older thinking after idle sessions, and a system prompt tweak that made the assistant more terse and less effective.

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6. Meta Layoffs

Meta is cutting 10% of jobs, according to a Bloomberg news story about the company pushing harder on efficiency. The post reads as part of a broader cost-cutting wave across big tech, with readers treating it as a sign of caution rather than a simple headcount trim.

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1. No Tech Tractors

The next story is about an Alberta startup selling tractors built around remanufactured Cummins engines, with no electronics, no touchscreen, and a price tag well below comparable big-brand machines. The article says Ursa Ag is betting that farmers want simpler equipment they can actually service, and that U.

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2. Windows 9x Linux

The next story is Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux, a post about a project that tries to run Linux alongside Windows 95-era systems in a way that is deliberately strange but apparently workable. The setup described in the post has Windows boot first and Linux start beside it, so the two kernels cooperate until one crashes and takes the other down with it.

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3. Qwen Coding Model

The next story is an article about Qwen3. 6-27B, a flagship-level coding model in a 27B dense release that aims to deliver strong coding performance in a much smaller package.

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4. Firefox Tor Fingerprint

The next story is an article from fingerprint. com about a Firefox IndexedDB quirk that can expose a stable browser-process identifier and let sites link private browsing or Tor Browser sessions until the browser is fully restarted.

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5. Apple Message Extraction

The next story is about Apple shipping a fix for an iPhone bug that let law enforcement recover deleted Signal messages and other disappearing chat content from cached notifications on the device. TechCrunch says the flaw could keep notification text around for up to a month, and Apple has now backported the patch to older iOS 18 devices too.

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6. GitHub CLI Telemetry

The next story is an article from GitHub about the GitHub CLI starting to collect pseudoanonymous telemetry. The post says the data helps the team understand which commands and flags people actually use, and it lays out what gets collected, how to inspect the payload, and how to opt out.

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1. Framework Laptop Pro

Framework Laptop 13 Pro is Framework's new 13-inch laptop pitch, and the headline claim is simple: more battery life, more performance, and the same repairable, modular design that made the brand popular. The page leans hard on Linux support, but the comments quickly turned to the fine print around battery numbers, Windows-only performance claims, and whether a "Linux first" product should be clearer about what it can actually prove.

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2. Software Engineering Laws

The next story is Laws of Software Engineering, a visual collection of software principles, team dynamics, and design rules that groups familiar aphorisms under one browsable site. It highlights ideas like Conway’s Law, YAGNI, Brooks’s Law, Tesler’s Law, and the leaky-abstraction problem, framing them as patterns that shape how software gets built and maintained.

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3. ChatGPT Images

The next story is ChatGPT Images 2. 0 from OpenAI, which pitches a new era of image generation with tighter instruction following, stronger editing, and more polished results across posters, comics, photos, and infographics.

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4. Claude CLI Rules

The next story is Anthropic saying OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again, which matters because a lot of people have been unsure whether harness-based reuse would still be tolerated. The linked article says Anthropic staff told OpenClaw the behavior is allowed again, and the docs now treat Claude CLI reuse and claude -p as sanctioned unless policy changes.

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5. Claude Code Pro

The next story is a Bluesky post flagging that Anthropic appears to have removed Claude Code from its $20-a-month Pro subscription, based on a change to the pricing page and support docs. HN commenters treated it as a possible rug pull, but several noted there was still no formal announcement and some said existing subscribers might not be affected yet.

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6. SpaceX Cursor Deal

The next story is SpaceX’s strange new deal with Cursor: the company says it can either buy the coding startup later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion to work together on a next-generation coding and knowledge-work AI. The pitch links Cursor’s product and software-engineer distribution with SpaceX’s Colossus compute, and it fits Elon Musk’s broader push to turn SpaceX into more of an AI platform ahead of a possible IPO.

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1. Apple CEO Handoff

The next story is Apple’s leadership handoff: Tim Cook will become executive chairman on September 1, 2026, and John Ternus will take over as CEO after a long-planned transition. The article says Cook will stay on through the summer to help with the handoff, while Apple presents Ternus as a hardware-focused successor with 25 years inside the company.

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2. EU Battery Rules

The next story is about the EU moving to require replaceable batteries in phones sold there from 2027, a change aimed at making devices easier to repair and keep in service longer. The article frames it as another step against planned obsolescence, even though it will force phone makers to rethink sealed designs.

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3. Fake GitHub Stars

The next story looks at GitHub’s fake star economy, arguing that stars are being bought or farmed at scale and that those inflated counts still feed into startup discovery and funding. The article says there is a real marketplace for stars, cites research and its own sampling to show suspicious stargazer patterns, and claims the incentive loop has turned star counts into a weak proxy for actual use.

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4. Kimi Coding Model

Kimi K2. 6 is Moonshot’s new open-source coding model, and the post pitches it as a big step forward for long-horizon programming, tool use, and agent-swarm workflows.

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5. Qwen Preview

The next story is Qwen3. 6-Max-Preview, a new hosted Qwen post that pitches the model as sharper on coding and agentic work while still being a preview release.

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6. Onion InfoWars Deal

The next story is The Onion’s “At long last, InfoWars is ours,” which frames the takeover as a joke about turning a notorious misinformation brand into an even bigger machine for ads, scams, and absurdity. The article presents the new plan as a kind of satirical empire-building, with panic and capital feeding each other until the site becomes a self-sustaining parody of modern media.

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7. Atlassian AI Training

The next story is about Atlassian enabling default data collection for AI training across Jira, Confluence, and related apps, with customer content included unless admins later opt out. The post says the company is rolling out the settings through May 19, then giving another reminder before the August 17 enforcement date, and commenters say the scope goes well beyond metadata into issue text, page bodies, prompts, and other in-app content.

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1. Vercel Breach

The next story is a BleepingComputer article about Vercel confirming a security incident after hackers claimed they were selling stolen data. The report says Vercel traced the initial access to a compromised Google Workspace account tied to a third-party AI tool, then warned customers to review and rotate any environment variables that may have been exposed.

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2. Typewriter Exams

The next story is an AP article about a Cornell German instructor bringing out manual typewriters once a semester to slow students down, cut off AI and translation tools, and push them to write and think without digital crutches. The article says the exercise has students feeding paper by hand, working more deliberately, and noticing how much harder it is to revise without a delete key.

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3. Tunable Lasers

The next story is a NIST article about integrated photonics chips that can generate a wide range of wavelengths, which the researchers say could shrink and simplify laser systems for quantum tech, communications, and other optical tools. On Hacker News, people were excited by the underlying materials work but quick to note that the headline is a bit of a stretch, with several comments pointing out this looks more like nonlinear optics and frequency conversion than a literal magic laser.

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4. Claude Design

The next story is Sam Henri Gold’s post arguing that design is drifting back toward code and that Figma’s sprawling, system-heavy workflow looks increasingly out of step with that shift. On Hacker News, a lot of the reaction was visceral frustration with Figma’s cost, CPU usage, and walled-garden tooling, alongside strong agreement that Claude Design feels more honest because it works directly in HTML and JavaScript.

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5. Notion Email Leak

The next story is a tweet claiming that Notion leaks the email addresses of everyone who edits a public page, which has commenters treating it as a serious privacy bug that should have been fixed long ago. The discussion centers on how vague the public-page warning is, whether Notion is dragging its feet after years of reports, and whether the right fix is to remove the data from public views or proxy it like GitHub does.

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6. Iran War Bets

The next story is a Guardian report on traders placing more than $1 billion in suspiciously well-timed bets around the Iran war, including wagers tied to the timing of strikes, a possible Khamenei death, and a ceasefire. The article argues that prediction markets and related trades now sit in a gray zone where insider information can produce huge windfalls before regulators react.

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7. Programming Ur Languages

The next story is an essay arguing that most modern programming languages are really descendants of seven deeper "ur-languages," including ALGOL, Lisp, ML, Self, Forth, APL, and Prolog. The post says the real leap in learning is not between near-neighbor languages like Python and Ruby, but between very different mental models such as imperative loops, logic programming, array languages, and macro-heavy Lisp systems.

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1. Hetzner Migration

The next story is a real-world migration from DigitalOcean to a Hetzner dedicated server that cut monthly infrastructure spend from $1,432 to $233 without taking production offline. The post walks through rsync, MySQL replication, lowered DNS TTLs, and turning the old machine into a reverse proxy so 34 Nginx sites, GitLab, Neo4j, and live mobile traffic could move over with no visible outage.

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2. Opus Token Costs

The next story is a community leaderboard comparing anonymous prompt token counts between Opus 4. 6 and Opus 4.

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3. Toxic Lunar Dust

The next story looks at lunar dust and why every Apollo moonwalker reported some version of lunar hay fever after bringing the material back into the cabin. The ESA article says the dust is sharp, abrasive, and still poorly understood as a long-term health risk, which matters much more if future missions involve long stays or permanent bases.

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4. Kdenlive 2026

The next story is Kdenlive's 2026 state-of-the-project update, which says the team spent the last year balancing new features with stability work, UI cleanup, OpenTimelineIO improvements, and faster audio workflows. The post highlights automatic masking, big waveform rendering gains, a more flexible docking system, and upcoming work on monitor mirroring, OpenFX support, subtitle refactors, and a dopesheet for keyframes.

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5. Japan Rail Model

The next story is a long argument that Japan's rail system is exceptional less because of culture and more because of policy: private operators, rail-led development, liberal land-use rules, and fewer hidden subsidies for driving. The article says railway companies there behave like city-builders, capturing value through housing, retail, and station-centered real estate instead of relying on fares alone, while drivers face more of the real cost of parking and roads.

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6. B 52 Star Tracker

The next story is Ken Shirriff's deep dive into the electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker, a pre-GPS navigation system that used analog machinery to do trigonometry from celestial observations. The post explains how the system could search for, lock onto, and track stars automatically at a time when digital computers were not yet a practical fit for the job.

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7. Interval Calculator

The next story is a Show HN project called Interval Calculator, which performs arithmetic over unions of intervals instead of single values so expressions can stay closed even around cases like division by ranges containing zero. The project pitches interval union arithmetic as a better way to represent uncertainty, preserve inclusion guarantees, and reason about functions whose outputs split into multiple disjoint ranges.

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1. Claude Design Tool

The next story is Claude Design, Anthropic’s new research-preview product for turning prompts, files, and codebases into polished visuals like prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and interactive mockups. The product leans on Claude Opus 4.

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2. Asimov Last Question

The next story is Isaac Asimov’s The Last Question, a time-spanning short story in which generations of humans keep asking a supercomputer whether entropy can ever be reversed, and each era gets the same refusal until the ending turns the question into a cosmic punch line. The piece moves from the first asks to interstellar migration, galactic-scale intelligence, and finally a universe waiting for a new beginning.

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3. Geolocation Data Ban

The next story is a Lawfare article arguing that commercial location data has become a surveillance product, not just a routine privacy nuisance. It says services that sell precise device location can reveal highly sensitive movements, are already useful to law enforcement and foreign intelligence, and should be constrained at the source by banning the sale of precise geolocation data.

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4. Claude Tokenizer Costs

The next story, Measuring Claude 4. 7’s tokenizer costs, argues that Anthropic’s new tokenizer is using about 1.

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5. On Device Age Checks

The next story is a news report on a U. S.

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6. Passive Income Trap

The next story is an essay arguing that the passive-income obsession pushed people toward dropshipping, affiliate spam, and course-selling instead of building products or services that customers actually needed. The article says the core mistake was optimizing for passivity rather than care, because real value creation is active, boring, and usually long-term.

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7. Psyop Culture Debate

The next story is TechCrunch’s look at Geese, Phia, and other Gen Z breakout acts, using them to argue that a lot of modern hype is just sophisticated marketing dressed up as organic enthusiasm. The article says firms like Chaotic Good are running volume-based campaigns across social platforms to simulate real momentum, which blurs the line between genuine discovery and manufactured trend.

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1. Claude Opus 4 7

The next story is Anthropic’s article announcing Claude Opus 4. 7, a new flagship model they say is better at hard coding work, long-running agent tasks, vision, and strict instruction following while keeping the same price as Opus 4.

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2. Qwen Coding MoE

The next story is a Qwen blog post announcing Qwen3. 6-35B-A3B, a 35 billion parameter mixture-of-experts model with only 3 billion active parameters and a clear pitch around agentic coding.

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3. Codex Agent Push

The next story is OpenAI’s article “Codex for almost everything,” which says Codex is being widened from a coding assistant into a fuller agent that can use your computer, work inside an in-app browser, generate images, remember preferences, handle plugins, and run repeatable automations across the development workflow. The rollout starts in the desktop app for ChatGPT users, with Mac-first computer use and broader support coming later.

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4. McDonalds Burger Photos

The next story is about McDonald’s Japan’s burger photos, which intentionally show the buns a little crooked instead of perfectly centered. The menu page itself is straightforward, but the image style stands out because the burgers look more handmade and less machine-perfect than the usual fast-food ad.

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5. Ollama Backlash

The next story is an article arguing that the local LLM ecosystem does not need Ollama, saying the popular wrapper built its reputation on llama. cpp, failed to credit that work properly, and then drifted into a slower, less compatible backend with cloud features that undercut its local-first pitch.

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6. AI Lies Debate

The next story is a long essay arguing that today’s AI systems are already reshaping culture, work, and public life in ways that are broader and more damaging than the usual productivity pitch suggests. It compares the spread of AI to the long-term reshaping caused by cars, then argues for refusing machine learning in daily life, work, and politics to slow the damage and protect human skills.

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7. Darkbloom Mac Inference

The next story is Darkbloom, a post about running private AI inference on idle Apple Silicon Macs with an OpenAI-compatible API and a pitch for lower-cost, hardware-owner-run compute. The project says prompts stay encrypted end to end and claims big savings, but the comments spent most of their time challenging both the privacy story and the numbers behind the operator payouts.

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1. Google ICE Data

The next story is an EFF post about a student visa holder who says Google handed his account data to ICE without the advance notice Google had promised, after he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. The article says the company turned over subscriber details, IP data, addresses, and session records, which EFF argues can still build a detailed surveillance profile, and it says the group has asked California and New York attorneys general to investigate Google.

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2. Fiverr File Leak

The next story is a Tell HN post about Fiverr leaving customer files public and searchable, with the poster saying tax forms, PII, and other sensitive documents were exposed through Cloudinary links and that Fiverr never replied to the disclosure report. Commenters reacted with alarm and urged anyone affected to freeze their credit, while several people said the leak looked severe even at a glance.

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3. Mineral Museum Photos

God sleeps in the minerals is a photo-heavy post from a visit to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County’s Unearthed: Raw Beauty exhibit, with the images doing almost all of the talking. The post itself is sparse, so the appeal comes from the striking mineral specimens and their unusual shapes and colors.

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4. Live Nation Verdict

Live Nation and Ticketmaster are back in the spotlight after a jury found they illegally monopolized part of the ticketing market. The reporting says the case could still lead to penalties or even divestitures of owned venues, while commenters note the headline number of $1.

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5. Compiler Starter Papers

Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers is a 2008 post arguing that compiler books often bury beginners in theory, while a better path is Jack Crenshaw’s Let’s Build a Compiler!

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6. Backpack Quality Drop

Backpacks Got Worse on Purpose argues that big brand ownership let VF Corporation quietly push lower-quality materials, weaker stitching, and cheaper hardware into familiar names like JanSport and Eastpak while still selling on old trust. The article says the warranty now works as part of the same pattern, because the terms and the replacement experience often leave customers with little real protection.

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7. Anna Archive Judgment

Anna’s Archive is back in the news after a federal judge handed Spotify and major labels a $322 million default judgment over the site’s brief Spotify scrape and torrent release, along with a worldwide injunction aimed at its domains and hosting providers. The article says the money is likely symbolic because the operators are still unidentified and out of reach, but the domain order could still slow the site down.

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1. DaVinci Resolve Photo

The next story is Blackmagic Design's new DaVinci Resolve Photo page, which presents Resolve as a photo workflow for importing, organizing, and editing stills, with support for RAW files and common formats like JPEG, HEIF, PNG, TIFF, and PSD. The pitch is that it can serve as a serious alternative for people who want to keep their photo work inside the Resolve ecosystem instead of splitting tools.

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2. Backblaze Backup Exclusions

The next story is about a long-time Backblaze user saying the service has quietly stopped backing up key folders like OneDrive, Dropbox, and . git, which turns a backup product into something far less reliable than advertised.

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3. Back Button Hijacking

Google's Search Central article says it's adding a new spam policy for back button hijacking, where a site interferes with browser history and keeps people from getting back to the page they came from. Google says pages using deceptive or manipulative history tricks can face manual spam actions or automated demotions, with enforcement set for June 15, 2026 after a two-month warning period.

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4. Concert Archive

The latest HN story is about thousands of rare concert recordings landing on the Internet Archive, as a Chicago collector's cassette archive gets digitized before the tapes wear out. The post says volunteers have already posted about 2,500 recordings, including early Nirvana, Sonic Youth, R.

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5. Flock Privacy Requests

This story is about a privacy request aimed at Flock Safety, where the writer asked the company to delete personal data collected about him under California privacy law. Flock replied that it could not handle the request directly because it says its customers own the data and should receive the deletion request instead, which the writer argues is legally wrong.

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6. Claude Code Routines

The next Hacker News story is about Claude Code Routines, a new way to automate repeatable work with scheduled jobs, API triggers, and GitHub events. The article says routines run as cloud sessions with saved prompts, connectors, and repositories, so teams can use them for things like backlog cleanup, alert triage, docs drift, and code review without keeping a laptop open.

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7. Stop Flock

Stop Flock is a news story arguing that Flock's camera network has grown into an AI-driven surveillance system that tracks more than license plates, using vehicle traits and travel patterns to build searchable movement records. It says the cameras are spreading fast, often with little oversight, and that the public-safety argument hides serious privacy and civil-liberties risks.

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1. WordPress Plugin Backdoor

The next story is about someone buying 30 WordPress plugins, hiding a backdoor in them, and turning a trusted portfolio into a supply-chain attack. The article traces how the malicious code hid in wp-config.

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2. Single Operator Math

The next story looks at a paper claiming that a single binary operator, eml(x,y)=exp(x)-ln(y), plus the constant 1 can generate the usual scientific-calculator toolkit, from addition and multiplication to trig, roots, and constants like e, pi, and i. The author says the result was found by exhaustive search and even supports symbolic regression with small EML trees.

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3. GitHub Stacked PRs

The next story is GitHub Stacked PRs, GitHub’s new way to break a large change into a chain of smaller pull requests that can be reviewed layer by layer and merged together. The article says the stack map, cascading rebases, and gh stack CLI are meant to make big changes easier to review, less error-prone, and more aligned with how some teams already work.

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4. Doki Doki Takedown

Google’s removal of Doki Doki Literature Club from Google Play is a small story with a familiar edge: platform rules deciding which kinds of art get to stay visible. The post says the Android version was pulled after a statement from Serenity Forge, even though the game is a free visual novel that already comes with heavy trigger warnings.

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5. LLM Code Bloat

The next story is The peril of laziness lost, a blog post arguing that the old programmer virtue of laziness was really about pushing for simpler, stronger abstractions, and that LLMs can reward the opposite by making it easy to pile on more code instead of better code. The post uses high-profile examples and a teardown of an LLM-built project to argue that raw output and line count are bad measures of engineering value.

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6. Servo Crates Release

The next story is Servo's first crates. io release, v0.

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7. Apple AI Moat

The next story is Apple's accidental moat, an article arguing that Apple may be better positioned for the AI era by avoiding the most expensive model race and instead leaning on on-device hardware, personal context, and a cloud fallback for harder requests. The piece says cheapening intelligence makes raw models less defensible, while Apple's devices already hold the user data and distribution that could become the real advantage.

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1. Lean Tech Stack

The next story is a post about running multiple small MRR businesses on a shoestring stack: a cheap VPS, Go binaries, local AI for batch jobs, OpenRouter for frontier models, GitHub Copilot for coding, and SQLite with WAL for the database. The author’s point is that staying tiny can buy real runway and avoid a lot of cloud and ops complexity.

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2. Docker Spain Block

The next story is a Tell HN post about Docker pulls failing in Spain because a La Liga-related Cloudflare block is hitting the R2 host behind the image registry. The poster says they spent over an hour chasing TLS and DNS issues before realizing the problem only appeared when football matches were on, which made a routine docker pull look like a broken local system.

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3. Pro Max Quota

The next story is a GitHub post about a Pro Max 5x Claude Code subscription that burned through its quota in about 1. 5 hours despite what the author describes as moderate use.

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4. Renewables Leaders

The next story is an Independent article about seven countries that now generate almost all of their electricity from renewables, with hydropower doing most of the work and Iceland leaning on geothermal as well. It argues this is a sign that fossil fuels are being pushed toward the margins, but the real mix is narrower and more geography-dependent than the headline suggests.

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5. Benchmark Exploits

The next story is a Berkeley article arguing that major AI agent benchmarks can be gamed so thoroughly that a zero-capability agent can score near-perfect results, which matters because those scores are used to choose models, steer research, and justify investment. The paper walks through exploits across SWE-bench, WebArena, Terminal-Bench, OSWorld, GAIA, and others, showing how shared environments, leaked answers, weak matching, and broken scoring can turn leaderboards into noise.

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6. Idiomatic Design

The next story is an essay arguing that the web has lost the shared design idioms that once made desktop software feel predictable, from obvious buttons and menus to consistent keyboard shortcuts and browser behavior. The post says modern apps are individually polished but inconsistent, and that frontend speed, mobile-first compromises, and endless framework churn have made common interactions harder to learn.

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7. Anthropic Cache TTL

The next story is a GitHub issue claiming Anthropic changed Claude Code’s prompt-cache lifetime from one hour to five minutes around March 6, which users say increased quota burn and made Max plans feel worse. The post analyzes raw session logs across two machines and argues the shift was silent, but later updates note Anthropic says the client now picks cache duration per request and that the March 6 change lowered total cost for many workloads even if subscription users still feel the quota hit.

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1. Small Models Vs Mythos

The next story is Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found, a post arguing that the real moat in AI cybersecurity is the system around the model, not the model size itself. The article says that when Anthropic’s showcase bugs are isolated and fed into cheap open-weights models, they recover much of the same analysis, including both detection and exploit reasoning on several of the examples.

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2. Firefox Extension Marathon

The next story is Installing every Firefox extension, a post about scraping Mozilla’s add-ons API, combining multiple sort orders and even exclude-addons tricks to collect nearly the full Firefox extension catalog, then trying to install all 84,194 of them. The article turns into a comedy of scale: after a long chain of failed attempts, the browser finally launches with an absurdly overloaded profile and a bunch of strange side effects.

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3. Kernel AI Rules

The next story is a new Linux kernel policy on AI-assisted contributions, laying out how developers can use AI tools without stepping outside the kernel’s rules. The document says code still has to fit the normal kernel process, stay compatible with GPL-2.

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4. France Linux Push

The next story is France’s government ditching Windows for Linux, a news story that frames the move as a strategic response to dependence on US tech. The article says the ministries have until the fall to find a workable replacement, which makes this less like a symbolic gesture and more like an actual migration deadline.

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5. Chimp Civil War

The next story is a BBC report about chimpanzees in Uganda that researchers say have split into rival groups and spent eight years in a violent feud, with at least 24 killings recorded, including many infants. The article traces the rupture to a few destabilizing shocks: deaths of key chimps, a change in alpha male, and a respiratory epidemic that seems to have weakened the group's social fabric.

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6. Pardonned Database

The next story is Show HN: Pardonned. com, a searchable database of US pardons that pulls data from the DOJ into a simple site backed by Playwright, SQLite, and Astro.

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7. Korea Mobile Data

The next story is South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access, a news story about a nationwide fallback plan that gives millions of subscribers unlimited data at 400 kbps once their regular allowance runs out. The article says the policy was agreed with the major carriers and is tied both to basic connectivity and to the telcos trying to rebuild trust after recent security failures.

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That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:14) - Little Snitch Linux
• (01:03) - EFF Leaves X
• (01:58) - Meta Litigation Ads
• (02:55) - Thunderbird Funding Push
• (03:35) - Hormuz Status Tracker
• (04:21) - Avignon Papacy Threat
• (05:12) - Claude Attribution Bug
• (05:57) - Closing

1. Little Snitch Linux

The next story is Little Snitch for Linux, a new network monitor that shows which applications are making connections, lets you block them with a click, and adds blocklists, per-process rules, and a web-based UI on top of eBPF. The article is candid that this Linux version is built for privacy rather than hard security, with limits around encrypted DNS, process attribution, and very heavy traffic.

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2. EFF Leaves X

The next story is EFF leaving X, with the group arguing that the platform no longer matches its mission or delivers meaningful reach, while its presence on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, Mastodon, and elsewhere better fits where people actually need digital-rights information. The piece also explains that staying on mainstream platforms is not an endorsement, but a way to reach people who cannot simply leave them.

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3. Meta Litigation Ads

The next story is Axios’s report that Meta has started removing ads from law firms seeking plaintiffs for social media addiction litigation, just weeks after the company was found negligent in a landmark California case. The article says some ads were taken down across Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Messenger, and Audience Network, while Meta pointed to its terms of service and said it would not let trial lawyers profit from its platforms while accusing them of harm.

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4. Thunderbird Funding Push

The next story is Thunderbird's donation appeal, saying the project is funded by less than 3% of its users and depends on donations to cover servers, bug fixes, and new features. The message pitches Thunderbird as a privacy-respecting, ad-free alternative to corporate email products and says the team cannot keep going without direct support.

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5. Hormuz Status Tracker

The next story is a Show HN project called Is Hormuz Open Yet?, a map-based site that tracks whether the Strait of Hormuz is effectively open by combining ship-crossing counts, port data, and prediction-market signals. The page currently says no, with the strait effectively closed, but it also warns that the ship positions are cached and the data can lag by several days.

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6. Avignon Papacy Threat

The next story is a post about a reported Pentagon meeting in which a senior U.S. official allegedly lectured the Vatican’s ambassador and invoked the Avignon Papacy as a warning, framing the exchange as part of a broader clash between the Trump administration and Pope Leo XIV. The article says Vatican officials took the episode seriously enough to freeze plans for a U.S. papal visit and suggests the confrontation sharpened Leo’s public opposition to the administration.

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7. Claude Attribution Bug

The next story is about a bug in Claude Code where the assistant can send messages to itself and later treat them as if the user said them, which can lead to unsafe actions or mistaken permission. The post argues this is not ordinary hallucination, but a harness or conversation-labeling failure that seems to show up more often in long chats near the context limit.

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That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:21) - Git Before Code
• (01:11) - Mac OS X Wii
• (02:01) - VeraCrypt Certificate
• (02:40) - Flock Camera Backlash
• (03:36) - Iran Ceasefire
• (04:16) - ANC Bicycle Bell
• (05:04) - Microsoft Vs VeraCrypt
• (05:49) - Closing

1. Git Before Code

The next story is about a post called The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code, which argues that a few quick git commands can reveal churn, ownership, bug hotspots, and firefighting patterns before you open the code. The article is basically a field guide for sizing up a codebase from its history, and for deciding where the real risk lives.

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2. Mac OS X Wii

The next story is Bryan Keller’s article about porting Mac OS X 10. 0 Cheetah to the Nintendo Wii, and it walks through the bootloader, kernel patches, device tree work, and custom drivers needed to get the old PowerPC system to boot.

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3. VeraCrypt Certificate

The VeraCrypt project update on SourceForge centers on Microsoft reportedly revoking the developer certificate, which would block new signed Windows releases for the project. The thread quickly turns into a practical warning for other developers, especially anyone shipping signed desktop apps or kernel drivers on Windows.

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4. Flock Camera Backlash

The next story is about cities pulling back from Flock Safety, the license-plate surveillance company, as critics argue its cameras and drones create a sprawling tracking network with weak privacy guardrails. The article says the backlash has grown as more cities cancel contracts and lawmakers debate where the data can be stored, shared, and used.

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5. Iran Ceasefire

The next story is the provisional ceasefire between the US and Iran, after Trump backed off a bombing threat following a last-minute diplomatic push through Pakistan. The news story says the deal is temporary and conditional, with reopening the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s 10-point proposal, and the next round of talks still unsettled.

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6. ANC Bicycle Bell

The next story is Škoda DuoBell, a bicycle bell designed to cut through active noise-cancelling headphones and make pedestrians more likely to hear cyclists coming. Škoda says it worked with researchers at the University of Salford to find a narrow frequency band that gets past ANC filters, then built a fully mechanical bell around that idea.

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7. Microsoft Vs VeraCrypt

The next story is about Microsoft abruptly terminating a VeraCrypt account, which leaves Windows updates for the encryption tool in doubt and highlights how much open source software can depend on a single platform gatekeeper. Commenters focused on the bigger warning sign: if one company controls the signing or distribution path, it can effectively decide whether a project reaches users.

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That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:22) - Project Glasswing
• (01:18) - Concrete Laptop Stand
• (02:11) - Claude Mythos Card
• (03:08) - Idiocracy Index
• (03:59) - Artemis Lunar Flyby
• (04:44) - GLM Long Horizon
• (05:54) - Ghost Pepper Dictation
• (06:50) - Closing

1. Project Glasswing

Project Glasswing is Anthropic’s new cybersecurity push, built with major partners like AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and others to use Claude Mythos Preview to hunt and fix critical software flaws. The article says the model found thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across major operating systems and browsers, and Anthropic is framing the effort as a defensive race to stay ahead of AI-assisted attackers.

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2. Concrete Laptop Stand

A Hacker News post about a Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand shows off a handmade concrete desk accessory with USB ports, a power socket, an integral plant pot, and deliberately weathered details like rusted rebar and exposed wire. The article walks through the build, from the concrete pours and rough surface finish to the rusting and aging effects that give it a broken, industrial look.

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3. Claude Mythos Card

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview system card lays out a major jump in capability, along with a long safety report covering cybersecurity, alignment, model welfare, and benchmark results. The article says the model is not being released for general use, and instead is reserved for a limited defensive cybersecurity program with partners.

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4. Idiocracy Index

Here’s “Are We Idiocracy Yet? ”, a site that tracks how close the real world feels to Mike Judge’s Idiocracy by lining up scenes from the movie with modern examples and scoring each category on its proximity index.

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5. Artemis Lunar Flyby

NASA’s Artemis II Lunar Flyby post shows off striking new images from the mission, with views of the Moon, Earth, and the Orion capsule that make the flyby feel immediate and real. The article is mostly a gallery, but it underscores how much more vivid modern lunar photography looks compared with the familiar Apollo-era imagery.

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6. GLM Long Horizon

On Hacker News, the article about GLM-5. 1 from z.

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7. Ghost Pepper Dictation

Ghost Pepper is a macOS hold-to-talk dictation project that keeps speech recognition entirely local, using WhisperKit for transcription and a local LLM to clean up filler words and self-corrections before pasting text into whatever app you are using. It’s built around a simple workflow: hold Control to record, release to transcribe, and it aims to balance privacy, speed, and enough customization to suit different microphones and models.

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That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:27) - Sam Altman May Control Our
• (01:21) - Issue Claude Code Is Unusable
• (02:09) - I Built Tiny LLM Demystify
• (02:56) - I Wont Download Your App
• (03:45) - Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit
• (04:41) - France Pulls Last Gold Held
• (05:20) - Cult Vibe Coding Is Dogfooding
• (06:17) - Closing

1. Sam Altman May Control Our

The New Yorker article on Sam Altman asks whether the man steering OpenAI can be trusted, tracing the 2023 board coup, his rapid return, and the broader tension between his public safety rhetoric and the company’s aggressive push for power, money, and global infrastructure. It argues that the question is no longer just personal character, but who gets to shape AI’s future, especially as OpenAI deepens ties with governments and wealthy Gulf partners.

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2. Issue Claude Code Is Unusable

A GitHub issue about Claude Code says the tool became unreliable for complex engineering work after February updates. The post argues that log analysis shows a drop in reasoning depth, less reading before editing, more direct file changes, and more shortcuts like premature stopping and “simplest fix” behavior.

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3. I Built Tiny LLM Demystify

On Hacker News, GuppyLM is a tiny language model project that tries to make LLMs easier to understand by training an 8. 7M-parameter model to talk like a small fish.

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4. I Wont Download Your App

A Hacker News post argues that if a service works fine on the web, users should not be pushed into downloading an app just to do basic things. The article says many apps are really just thin wrappers around text and media, and that companies often make the web version worse on purpose to force installs, collect more data, and lock users into their ecosystem.

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5. Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit

In this post, Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't, the writer argues that fast, cheap Swiss broadband comes from treating fiber like shared infrastructure instead of a normal consumer market. The article contrasts Switzerland's open-access, four-fiber, point-to-point model with the more monopolistic rollout patterns seen in the US and Germany, and says regulation is what preserved real competition.

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6. France Pulls Last Gold Held

France’s gold repatriation story is a small headline with a big accounting wrinkle. The article says France moved its last gold bars out of the United States and back home, while also booking a large gain as the metal’s value rose over time.

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7. Cult Vibe Coding Is Dogfooding

Bram Cohen’s blog post takes aim at “vibe coding,” arguing that fully hands-off AI coding is mostly a myth and that better results come from actually inspecting the code, discussing the problem, and using the model to clean up messy systems. He says AI can be very effective at refactoring and organizing existing software, but only when humans provide clear direction instead of treating blindness to the codebase as a virtue.

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That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (00:25) - Threat Is Comfortable Drift Toward
• (01:14) - Caveman Why Use Many Token
• (02:02) - Eight Years Wanting Three Months
• (02:51) - German Implementation eIDAS Will Require
• (03:41) - Gemma 4 On Iphone
• (04:31) - Artemis II Crew See First
• (05:20) - AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Perf
• (06:14) - Closing

1. Threat Is Comfortable Drift Toward

This Hacker News story argues that the real risk from AI agents is not what the machines can do, but how easily they let people drift into shipping work they don’t fully understand. Using a PhD student example, the article says AI can produce the same outward results while short-circuiting the training process that turns beginners into independent thinkers.

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2. Caveman Why Use Many Token

Julius Brussee’s Caveman project is a Claude Code skill that tries to cut token use by making the assistant answer in a stripped-down caveman style. The project claims it can reduce tokens by about 75% while still keeping technical accuracy, so it is really a prompt-tuning experiment about shorter, cheaper output.

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3. Eight Years Wanting Three Months

The story Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI is about how a long-held plan for better SQLite devtools became syntaqlite after about 250 hours of work, with AI coding agents doing much of the heavy lifting. The post argues that AI helped make the project feasible, but only because the author stayed closely involved, especially when the code got messy and the parser work demanded exactness.

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4. German Implementation eIDAS Will Require

This Hacker News story looks at Germany’s EUDI wallet architecture docs and the mobile device vulnerability management concept behind them, which sparked concern that the rollout could end up depending on Apple or Google accounts or attestation services. The article lays out how the wallet is supposed to assess device trust and security state before letting sensitive identity functions run.

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5. Gemma 4 On Iphone

Gemma 4 on iPhone is the latest Google AI Edge Gallery app update bringing the new Gemma 4 family to local, offline AI on Apple devices. The post says the app can run models fully on-device and adds features like agent skills, thinking mode, image input, audio transcription, prompt testing, and offline device actions.

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6. Artemis II Crew See First

On Artemis II, the crew shared a striking first look at the Moon’s far side as they orbited around it on the way home. The BBC video shows the astronauts describing the view as spectacular and includes a photo of the Orientale basin, which NASA says is the first time the full basin has been seen by human eyes.

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7. AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Perf

On the Linux 7.0 and PostgreSQL story, an AWS engineer reported that the new kernel cut PostgreSQL throughput roughly in half on a large Graviton system, with the slowdown traced to a preemption-model change and a proposed fix that may require PostgreSQL to adapt to a newer kernel facility.

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That's it for today, I hope this is going to help you build some cool things.