▸ A security researcher chained YouTube's own APIs — including the recommendation feed — to enumerate private and unlisted videos belonging to arbitrary...
▸ A new open-source tool, Adrafinil, keeps a closed-lid MacBook awake only while AI coding agents are actively working — then lets it sleep.
▸ Armin Ronacher's benchmark: newer frontier models score higher on reasoning but call tools worse than their predecessors without heavy prompt scaffold...
▸ Microsoft published a post titled 'Resetting Xbox' on news.xbox.com — a rare public acknowledgement that the platform's decade-long strategy needs a r...
▸ Justin Poehnelt, a 9-year Google engineer and Workspace DevRel lead, says he was fired after building and open-sourcing a Workspace CLI on personal ti...
▸ Codeberg's user count has roughly doubled in the last 18 months as developers react to Copilot training on public repos and Microsoft's tightening gri...
▸ Age-verification mandates in the UK, EU, and 24+ US states are forcing ID checks on a growing share of the public web — well beyond porn.
▸ Carmack says id's post-Quake strategy — licensing engines, chasing Trinity, slow-rolling sequels — traded a generational lead for a decade of drift.
▸ The US is proposing a $100,000 charge for international students who want to work in the country after graduating.
▸ Ford automated swaths of internal work with AI, watched quality and throughput collapse, and rehired displaced staff within months.
▸ Doubleword's analysis argues frontier open-weights models (DeepSeek V3, Qwen 2.5, Llama 3.3) now sit within 5-10 points of GPT-4-class closed models o...
▸ A 250-point HN essay revives a debate every engineer already knows the answer to: clicking 'Buy' on a remote server is a lease, not a sale.
▸ Publishing any Rust crate to crates.io still requires logging in with a GitHub account — there is no email, WebAuthn, or alternative SSO path.
▸ A 14-year-old Physics Stack Exchange thread is back on HN because the question — why v², not v? — is the cleanest intro to non-linear cost curves most...
▸ An anonymous GitHub account (bikini/exploitarium) published a batch of undisclosed zero-days, skipping every coordinated-disclosure norm.
▸ Crypto firms have committed $189M to 2026 US midterm races — more than doubling their 2024 pace with 16 months still to go.
▸ Matt Pocock published his personal Claude Code skills directory as a public repo — and it's climbing GitHub trending alongside the evergreen giants (s...
▸ Staff at Wikimedia UK, organising via @UTAW_tech, have filed the first formal union recognition request in Wikipedia's 25-year history.
▸ Jane Street benchmarked autoregressive diffusion against GANs and VAEs for generating synthetic order-book and price data.
▸ Cloudflare just made its internal OAuth 2.1 provider — the one powering its own MCP server auth — available to any Worker or origin behind the edge.