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GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot
Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.
I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to draw (with 9front)
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Show HN: 18 Words
407 points, 166 comments on Hacker News
AI Attacks Move in Minutes. Join This Webinar on Building a Defense That Keeps Up
AI has changed how fast attacks move. Work that once took an attacker days now takes minutes. Using models like Mythos, attackers write tailored bait, pick targets, test what lands, and jump to the next host before your team clears the first alert. That is the gap, and it is not your fault. The tools and runbooks most teams run on were built for attackers who work at human speed. AI-driven
How Open Source Enables Collaboration in Creating a Platform
A platform is a collaboration system: platform teams depend on application teams, and both need shared standards. Engineers trust a platform through its predictable behavior, not its features. Being an engineer is about problem-solving and being passionate about it. And being an engineer means sharing your passion for problem-solving. By Ben Linders
Show HN: Wyrm – Solve algebra by touch, built on an open-source soundness engine
31 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"
399 points, 223 comments on Hacker News
Summer of Clearinghouses
Everyone seems to have announced a clearinghouse over the past few weeks. We did too. Ours is called Athena, and the main thing that sets it apart is that it was already real and running when we announced it — built quietly months earlier, heads down, taking findings and shipping fixes, because customers kept asking us to. We only announced it now because everyone else started announcing theirs,
Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation
13 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
GodDamn Ransomware Uses PoisonX Driver to Disable Endpoint Defenses
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new ransomware family called GodDamn that employs the PoisonX kernel driver to neutralize security software as part of its defense evasion strategy. According to a new report published by the Threat Hunter Team from Symantec, the ransomware was first publicly spotted in the wild on May 21, 2026. It's assessed to be a rebrand of the Beast ransomware,
OpenAI Fixes 18-Year-Old GNU libunwind Bug by Treating Crash Debugging Like Epidemiology
OpenAI found two unrelated bugs masquerading as one in ChatGPT's data infrastructure. Silent hardware corruption on one Azure host and an 18-year-old race condition in GNU libunwind's setcontext function with a one-instruction vulnerability window. The breakthrough came from switching to population-level crash analysis rather than examining individual core dumps. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Bonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75
282 points, 109 comments on Hacker News
ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work
ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.
GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition
More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.
GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
Details about the OpenAI Bio Bounty program
My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite
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Article: Beat-Aligned Mobile Audio Streaming with Virtual Chunks and Native Playback
In this article, I describe the challenges and the design of a React Native real-time mobile beat-aligned playback system for iOS and Android. The system combines personalization with low-latency, and seamless navigation and was the result of careful analysis and experimentation to address strict mobile and network constraints as well as meet user expectations. By Vladyslav Melnychenko
Microsoft Patches RoguePlanet Defender Flaw That Can Grant SYSTEM Privileges
Microsoft has released security updates for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, nearly a month after details of the flaw became public. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a privilege escalation issue in the Microsoft Malware Protection Engine ("mpengine.dll"), which provides scanning, detection, and cleaning capabilities for its antivirus and
two case studies of NaN
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Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
Article URL: https://www.howtogeek.com/why-developers-are-ditching-github-for-codeberg-and-self-hosting-alternatives/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842611 Points: 81 # Comments: 48
Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
126 points, 27 comments on Hacker News
AlloyDB Ships Proxy Models That Replace LLM Calls with Local Inference Inside the Database
Google shipped AlloyDB AI functions GA with a proxy model architecture that trains a lightweight local model from LLM outputs, then runs queries at database speed without external calls. Smart batching delivers 2,400x throughput improvement. The proxy model reaches 100,000 rows per second in preview, but benchmark numbers apply only to ai.if in internal testing. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Peace For All – Re: Factor
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AWS Details How One Customer Scaled to One Million Lambda Functions
AWS has outlined how ProGlove, an industrial-wearables manufacturer, was able to scale its SaaS platform to run more than one million AWS Lambda functions spread across thousands of dedicated customer accounts. By Matt Foster
Meta's New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images
Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default. "You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific Instagram profiles right into your images," the social media giant said in a post. "Whether you want to design a custom event invitation
The Kubernetes Approach to AI-Assisted Maintainership Prioritises Human Accountability
The Kubernetes community has introduced a framework for integrating AI into open-source maintainership, emphasising human accountability in code quality and oversight. AI tools may streamline workflows, but ultimate responsibility lies with human maintainers. The framework requires disclosure of AI usage in contributions and prohibits AI-generated commit messages. By Olimpiu Pop
CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/P646Yw6-founding-account-executive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841963 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Cursed circuits #6: reverse avalanche oscillator
28 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Article URL: https://github.com/malisper/pgrust Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841676 Points: 135 # Comments: 171
Keygen Church - Oscuro Domine
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