▸ The US has suspended a visa program used by major tech employers including Microsoft, freezing new entries and extensions in the middle of fiscal plan...
▸ Om Malik — GigaOm founder, one of the first paid tech bloggers — published a self-written obituary dated 1966–2026 while still alive, framing it as a ...
▸ Justin Poehnelt says Google fired him for building a Workspace CLI — a tool thousands of admins had been begging Google to ship for years.
▸ Google shipped a specialized Gemini 2.5 model that drives a browser via 13 UI actions — click, type, scroll, drag, key combos — through an agent loop.
▸ Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-AgentWorld, a 'language world model' that predicts environment state transitions instead of just emitting tool calls...
▸ Carmack publicly relitigates the mistakes around Quake — and the verdict isn't 'Romero left,' it's scope discipline.
▸ Anthropic has publicly accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting capabilities from Claude — almost certainly via API-based distillation that violates it...
▸ Three of today's GitHub trending repos — zhongerxin/cowart (2,633), kanavtwtgg/birds.cafe (757), huang-sir1/radiology-skills (173) — are agent skill p...
▸ A new project statically recompiles 90s PC demoscene productions to WebAssembly so they run natively in-browser — no DOSBox, no x86 emulator in the cr...
▸ Age-verification mandates in the UK, EU, and a growing list of US states are pushing every general-purpose site toward ID checks or third-party 'age e...
▸ Margaret Hamilton, who led the Apollo onboard flight software team at MIT's Instrumentation Lab, has died at 90.
▸ A preprint in OpenAI's public math repo claims an integer multiplication algorithm that beats the n log n bound Harvey and van der Hoeven proved in 20...
▸ sindresorhus/awesome (444k ⭐), freeCodeCamp (437.9k), and public-apis (411.9k) — the three most-starred repos on GitHub — are curated lists and curric...
▸ Slate Auto unveiled a stripped-down electric pickup at $24,950 — no paint, no infotainment, no power windows by default.
▸ Elastic is cutting ~7% of staff while CEO Ash Kulkarni reframes the company around 'Search AI' and vector workloads.
▸ A founder documented spending €9,600 and 152 days to form a UG in Germany — and still can't legally send an invoice.
▸ Reid Hoffman pushed back on the Musk-as-AI-titan narrative, calling SpaceX 'not an AI company' and xAI a 'complete train wreck'.
▸ Bunny.net just zeroed out DNS pricing — queries, zones, records, GeoDNS, all free with no query cap.
▸ Stephen Diehl's post hit 364 on HN arguing crypto's 2026 victory isn't technological — it's political capture of US financial regulators.
▸ SpaceX's investment-grade bonds are trading roughly 10% below issue price, one notch above junk territory.