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Designing a Personal Pebble Watchface
3 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
ARIA, anti-patterns, and you
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Gossamer: a Rust-flavoured language with real goroutines and pause-free memory
Article URL: https://gossamer-lang.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690231 Points: 48 # Comments: 39
Slisp: Simple Lisp compiler (Linux/amd64)
Article URL: https://github.com/skx/slisp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690200 Points: 43 # Comments: 1
Making devenv start fast, and the whole nixpkgs with it - devenv
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U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
https://archive.ph/PCQQl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690101 Points: 569 # Comments: 717
New SharkLoader Malware Deploys Cobalt Strike in StrikeShark Cyberattacks
A newly discovered cyber attack campaign has been observed delivering a previously undocumented malware family called SharkLoader that acts as a loader for deploying Cobalt Strike Beacon on compromised hosts. Kaspersky, which is tracking the activity under the moniker StrikeShark, said the campaign has targeted a diplomatic organization in Indonesia, government organizations in Taiwan,
How to corrupt an SQLite database file
84 points, 15 comments on Hacker News
Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It
Article URL: https://acoup.blog/2026/06/26/collections-pre-modern-armies-for-worldbuilders-part-iii-paying-for-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689859 Points: 20 # Comments: 1
I'm building a Space Cadet Pinball Machine! [video]
33 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
Webradio server – broadcasts audio source to clients
Article URL: https://github.com/tau-org/tau-tower Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689760 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Scaling Laws, Carefully
33 points, 10 comments on Hacker News
From Hallmark to neon signs: A look at Jim Parkinson's career in letter art
4 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
What Is a Nomogram and Why Would It Interest Me?
Article URL: https://lefakkomies.github.io/pynomo-doc/introduction/introduction.html#what-is-a-nomogram-and-why-would-it-interest-me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689277 Points: 49 # Comments: 13
Data centers trigger voter backlash
Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/cost-me-the-election-data-centers-trigger-voter-backlash-12118327 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689275 Points: 121 # Comments: 184
Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
System card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48689028 Points: 656 # Comments: 401
Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/liva-ai/jobs/gvtc3Ep-founding-operations-lead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688961 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
GitHub and UNDP team up to advance development priorities in Ghana with open source
GitHub joined the United Nations Development Programme in Ghana to explore how open source governance can support one of West Africa's most ambitious digital reform efforts. The post GitHub and UNDP team up to advance development priorities in Ghana with open source appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor
113 points, 79 comments on Hacker News
Vercel Introduces Eve, an Open-Source Framework for Building AI Agents
Vercel has released Eve, an open-source framework for building, deploying, and operating AI agents in production. The framework uses a filesystem-based project structure to organize agent instructions, tools, skills, subagents, communication channels, and scheduled tasks, enabling developers to define agent behavior while reducing the amount of supporting infrastructure they need to implement. By Daniel Dominguez
Chinese-Speaking APT Deploys New TinyRCT Backdoor in Southeast Asia Campaign
A Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been linked to a new custom backdoor called TinyRCT as part of cyber attacks aimed at government entities and critical infrastructure in Southeast Asia. The activity, particularly aimed at state-owned enterprises in the energy and government sectors, has been attributed to a threat actor called CL-STA-1062, which Palo Alto Networks
One man, two kernels, and a lot of RISC-V
64 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art
11 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Type-checked non-empty strings
34 points, 11 comments on Hacker News
Why software engineers are grieving
13 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Matrix URIs, a URL syntax from Tim Berners-Lee that never shipped (1996)
36 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections
Article URL: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-industry-is-pouring-hundreds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687483 Points: 24 # Comments: 8
Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack
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Jolla Phone, Over 13 500 units sold
Article URL: https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-october-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687272 Points: 64 # Comments: 37
SQLite improving performance with pre-sort
44 points, 4 comments on Hacker News
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