Claude Helps Raid 150GB of Government Data!

Crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

Key Points

• A new clathrate crystal was discovered inside trinitite from the 1945 Trinity nuclear test.
• The crystal likely formed under extreme heat and pressure created during the blast.
• The finding adds to earlier evidence that trinitite contains rare materials such as a quasicrystal discovered in 2021.

Which country voted the best at Eurovision?

Key Points

• The article defines Eurovision voting quality as how closely a country’s jury ranking matches the eventual results.
• It uses a normalized metric based on Eurovision’s own 12-to-1 point structure and actual final points.
• The analysis starts in 2016 because that is when jury and televote allocations became separate.

Why bambu_networking violates the AGPL in Bambu Studio

Key Points

• The article claims Bambu Studio’s public code shows tight runtime integration with the closed bambu_networking component.
• It cites README and header-file details to argue the component is specifically designed into the AGPL application.
• It lists downloading, installation, dynamic loading, version pinning, and callback-based integration as core technical evidence.

Profunctor Equipment in Haskell

Key Points

• The article builds a simplified Haskell model of profunctor equipment using compiler-checkable code.
• It defines cells, horizontal composition, vertical composition, and unit structures with standard Haskell abstractions like `Functor`, `Profunctor`, and `Identity`.
• It represents companion and conjoint constructions with the library types `Costar` and `Star`, while noting that more advanced versions would require dependent types.

Build a Radio Wave Detector with Balls of Aluminum Foil

Key Points

• The article explains that radio remains fundamental to technologies such as mobile phones, GPS, television, and Wi‑Fi.
• It describes radio waves as electromagnetic radiation sustained by changing electric and magnetic fields.
• A piezoelectric grill lighter is presented as a simple homemade source of high voltage for a radio-wave experiment.

Colombian singer Shakira acquitted of tax fraud in Spain

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• Spain’s High Court acquitted Shakira in the 2011 tax fraud case and overturned a 55 million euro fine.
• The court said authorities failed to prove she met Spain’s 183-day threshold for tax residency in 2011.
• Spain’s tax agency will appeal to the Supreme Court, delaying any reimbursement despite the court order.

The 30-Hour Shift That Turned a San Jose Robot Lab into a Global Spectacle

Key Points

• Figure AI livestreamed humanoid robots sorting packages for more than 30 hours in its San Jose lab.
• The company used the demo to highlight endurance, autonomy, and AI-driven adaptation rather than fixed industrial automation.
• The article notes skepticism and says real warehouse conditions remain more difficult than the controlled lab setup.

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

Key Points

• Eric Schmidt was booed during a University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing AI.
• NBC News said other commencement speakers also faced backlash for AI-related comments.
• The report tied the reaction to concerns about the difficult job market facing new graduates.

The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]

Key Points

• PSOS was designed using HDM, a formal methodology intended to support proof-based verification.
• The operating system was specified in SPECIAL as about 20 hierarchically organized modules.
• PSOS uses immutable, non-forgeable capabilities as the uniform mechanism for object access and protection.

Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

Key Points

• The article says there is little evidence of AI-created complex software comparable to major commercial applications.
• It argues that software difficulty lies more in verification and architecture than in typing code.
• It concludes that AI lowers the cost of coding syntax but does not eliminate deeper engineering and product challenges.

Graphing Scientific Calculator Based on the ESP32

Key Points

• NumOS is an ESP32-S3-based open-source calculator OS with graphing, CAS, and natural math rendering.
• The project is migrating to Giac and STIX Two Math as part of a major architectural refactor.
• Included apps extend beyond calculator functions to simulations such as bridge design and particle-based material systems.

NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code from the 70s era

Key Points

• Voyager’s onboard software runs in assembly language on custom early-1970s processors, not just Fortran.
• The Flight Data Subsystem is a key onboard system and was central to Voyager 1’s recent communications issue.
• The article identifies fragmented documentation and shrinking institutional knowledge as the biggest maintenance challenge.

The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think

Key Points

• The article says global fertility decline is widespread, accelerating, and often faster than experts predicted.
• It argues that both long-term demographic changes and newer technological or social pressures may be contributing to lower birthrates.
• It cites examples from South Korea, China, Europe, Thailand, Tokyo, Mexico City, Bogotá, Santiago, and Japan to show how broad and unexpected the pattern has become.

Dogme 25 – Vow of Chastity

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• Dogme 25 says it was founded in Copenhagen in spring 2025 and aims to preserve cinematic originality.
• Registration for Dogme25 certification is planned for spring 2026, with the first five certificates reserved for the initiators’ directors.
• The movement publishes a 'Vow of Chastity' with strict production rules on scriptwriting, dialogue, internet use, funding, crew size, locations, appearance, and material use.

Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland

Key Points

• The article presents Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s mathematical career as central to understanding *Alice in Wonderland*.
• It interprets Alice’s multiplication passage as a joke about changing number bases rather than nonsense.
• It links the Hatter and Cheshire Cat scenes to mathematical debates about geometry, time, and abstraction.

I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)

Key Points

• The tool automates monthly opt-outs from 500+ broker and people-search sites on macOS.
• It uses Playwright for browser automation, optional CapSolver for CAPTCHA solving, and iMessage for completion notifications.
• It stores configuration and state locally, using a 90-day re-check window to avoid unnecessary repeat submissions.

Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

Key Points

• Eric Schmidt was booed during a University of Arizona commencement speech when discussing artificial intelligence.
• He framed AI as a major technological shift, while acknowledging fears about jobs, climate and political instability.
• The article also cited a similar AI-related booing incident at the University of Central Florida.

Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'

Key Points

• Torvalds said duplicate AI-assisted bug reports have made the Linux security mailing list hard to manage.
• He argued that handling AI-detected bugs privately wastes time and can increase duplication.
• He urged contributors to use AI productively by following documentation and submitting patches.

Don't Answer the First Question

Key Points

• The author uses Perfetto support questions to show why unusual requests should trigger context-seeking follow-up.
• The article frames user confusion as useful feedback for both education and product improvement.
• Perfetto traces can produce many metrics, but the article says dedicated metric systems are often more efficient for simple measurements.

Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets

Key Points

• Utah officials say prediction markets are gambling and are pushing back against their expansion.
• Kalshi and Polymarket argue they are financial exchanges regulated under federal commodities law.
• Federal policy shifted from tighter scrutiny under Biden to stronger support for the sector under Trump.

Writing Z80 assembly, 4 decades later:-)

Key Points

• A software-only 3D demo was ported to the ZX Spectrum 48K+ and shared with runnable TAP files.
• Optimization with Z80 assembly and reciprocal lookup tables improved rendering from 6.2 fps to 14.0 fps.
• A precomputed version using 8.8 fixed-point arithmetic and precomputed video RAM writes reached 40 fps.

Benedict Evans: AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

Key Points

• Generative AI is presented as a new technology platform shift reshaping investment and value capture.
• Major tech companies are planning about $700 billion in combined 2026 capex tied to AI infrastructure.
• AI growth is creating bottlenecks in chips, fabrication capacity, power, and data center construction.

Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO

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• Chris Willis said fear-driven AI adoption is causing companies to move faster than their strategy supports.
• He argued that broad marketing of large language models has led to confusion, spending, and shallow proof-of-concept work.
• Willis recommended starting with defined business workflows and simple automation projects, such as invoice anomaly detection.

'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'

Key Points

• Full Grown grows chairs and other furniture from living trees in Derbyshire using pruning, shaping and grafting techniques.
• Each piece takes years to produce, with chairs needing about six to nine years of growth plus one year of drying.
• The company was founded in 2006 by Alice and Gavin Munro and now has multiple furniture forms growing in its orchard.

Hershey Bets on Agentic AI to Rethink $2B in Marketing Spend

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• Hershey is using Mutinex and Tracer to speed up marketing mix modeling with AI and improved data preparation.
• The new system reduces model turnaround to as little as three weeks and supports monthly portfolio-level measurement.
• Hershey says the shift is influencing allocation of more than $2 billion in media and trade marketing spend and could raise media-attributable revenue by 4% to 5%.

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly

Key Points

• The article argues global influence is shifting from oil-centered powers toward countries leading in renewable-energy manufacturing.
• China is presented as gaining economic and strategic advantages from major investment in renewables and electrified technologies.
• The Iran conflict is described as raising fossil-fuel prices and benefiting US petroleum interests in the short term.

Show HN: Files.md – open-source alternative to Obsidian

Key Points

• Files.md is an open-source, local-first markdown app with browser, offline, and Telegram bot access.
• The app supports quick capture of notes, journals, tasks, and checklists, then later organization into markdown files.
• The article promotes a simple note-linking method to support deeper thinking and cross-domain insight.

The Aperiodic Table

Key Points

• The article links XKCD 3242 to the creation of aperiodictable.com.
• The website places the periodic table on a Penrose P3 tiling and supports drag interaction.
• The project is a single-page app hosted on Cloudflare Pages, built with help from Claude.

When Kierkegaard Got Cancelled

Key Points

• The article traces a literary conflict between Søren Kierkegaard and Peder Ludvig Møller in 1845 Denmark.
• Møller’s review of *Stages on Life’s Way* is presented as a misreading that linked Kierkegaard’s writing to his private life.
• The dispute is tied to *The Corsair* and editor Meïr Goldschmidt, whose satirical magazine shaped the broader public scandal.

Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

Key Points

• The article says rank-and-file officials are crucial to how authoritarian regimes maintain power.
• Research from Argentina’s Dirty War suggests career incentives can drive participation in repression.
• The featured study found that secret police service offered some lower-performing officials a path to promotion outside normal hierarchy.

1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries

Key Points

• The article says a 24 TB 2b2t archive covering major Overworld, Nether, and End regions has been completed.
• The project reportedly used custom tooling and multiple bot accounts over more than a year to gather the data.
• Public access is being staged through beta services now, with torrents, renders, spreadsheets, and open-source tools planned next.

The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden

Key Points

• Bitwarden underwent a CEO change from Michael Crandell to Michael Sullivan and a CFO change from Stephen Morrison to Michael Shenkman.
• The article says Bitwarden removed “Always free” language from its personal password manager page and revised its GRIT values.
• It reports that these changes were not formally announced, aside from edits to existing content and externally visible profile updates.

Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks

Key Points

• Hidden audio signals can cause voice AI models to execute unauthorized actions without users noticing.
• Researchers reported 79 to 96 percent average success rates across 13 tested models, including services from Microsoft and Mistral.
• The AudioHijack method targets generative audio models that can respond and take actions, extending earlier adversarial audio attacks.

Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us

Key Points

• Mythos Preview was tested on more than 50 internal repositories through Project Glasswing.
• The model was described as strong at chaining smaller bugs into more severe exploit scenarios.
• It also generated proof-of-exploit code by iterating through write, compile, run, and revise loops.

What "Amazon Supply Chain Services" Tells Us About What Amazon Is

Key Points

• Amazon opened its logistics network to external companies through Amazon Supply Chain Services in May 2026.
• The article compares ASCS with Amazon Marketplace and AWS as examples of turning internal infrastructure into external businesses.
• Amazon’s logistics system now spans 1,300+ facilities and reaches 99% of U.S. zip codes, providing the scale behind ASCS.

We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

Key Points

• Archestra says AI-generated spam overwhelmed its GitHub issues, comments, and pull requests.
• Earlier moderation tools did not stop the problem and sometimes affected legitimate submissions.
• The team used GitHub's prior-contributor restriction plus Git's `--author` flag to control access and onboard approved contributors.

What Is Date:Italy?

Key Points

• `Date::ITALY` in Ruby represents the Julian day number of Italy’s Gregorian calendar switchover.
• Ruby’s `Date` class reflects the 1582 skipped dates by rejecting dates in the omitted interval and jumping from 4 October to 15 October.
• Julian day numbers serve as a continuous intermediary for converting dates across calendar systems and country-specific reform dates.

I'm a Normie. Can Normies Vibe Code?

Key Points

• The article tests whether a nonprogrammer can use AI-driven vibe coding to build an app.
• The app idea is inspired by everyday bureaucratic burdens following a family medical incident.
• The author begins the project with Claude Pro despite prior concerns about AI’s broader impacts.

Learn Harness Engineering

Key Points

• The course teaches how to build reliable AI coding agent systems using harness engineering.
• It emphasizes environment design, verification, state management, and control rather than making models smarter.
• It includes lectures, projects, and reusable templates such as AGENTS.md, feature_list.json, and claude-progress.md.

Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI

Key Points

• University of Washington researchers planned classroom recording using teacher-worn and fixed cameras.
• The article says the resulting footage would be used to develop AI models.
• The study was presented to parents as opt-out rather than opt-in.

Show HN: InsForge – Open-source Heroku for coding agents

Key Points

• InsForge is an open-source backend platform for coding agents with integrated auth, database, storage, compute, hosting, and AI gateway features.
• Agents interact with the platform via an MCP Server or a CLI plus Skills, enabling both context retrieval and backend configuration.
• The article provides setup instructions for cloud-hosted or Docker Compose self-hosted use, including support for multiple isolated projects on one host.

Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling – Alex Plescan

Key Points

• The setup uses a monitor with built-in KVM so shared peripherals follow the selected input source.
• DDC commands allow the monitor input to be changed over the display cable without touching the monitor.
• On Apple Silicon macOS, m1ddc and Hammerspoon are used to automate switching from the keyboard.

Anthropic Acquires Stainless

Key Points

• Anthropic is acquiring Stainless to strengthen Claude’s developer platform and agent connectivity.
• Stainless has powered every official Anthropic SDK and generates SDKs, CLIs, and MCP servers from API specs.
• The acquisition is positioned as a way to improve how Claude connects to external data, APIs, and tools.

Qwen 3.7 Preview

Key Points

• Qwen3.7 Preview was added to Arena benchmarks for text and vision.
• Qwen3.7 Max Preview ranks #13 overall in Text Arena, with strong category placements in Math and Coding-related areas.
• Qwen3.7 Plus Preview ranks #16 overall in Vision Arena.

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Key Points

• A jury ruled Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft were filed too late.
• The case was decided on statute of limitations grounds rather than the broader dispute over OpenAI’s structure.
• The ruling removes a major legal threat to OpenAI ahead of its reported IPO, while Musk plans to appeal.

The Fil-C Optimized Calling Convention

Key Points

• Fil-C targets memory-safe function calling even under signature mismatches and other call misuse.
• Common-case calls are optimized with register passing, including an implicit current-thread argument.
• The generic calling convention defines the semantics that all Fil-C call optimizations must preserve.

Garry Tan, the CEO of venture YC, accused me of unethical reporting

Key Points

• The article disputes Garry Tan’s account of the author’s reporting and source contacts.
• It places the dispute in the context of both anti-Asian hate crimes and misinformation about Chesa Boudin’s office.
• The author says contact with Kasie Lee began only after Boudin’s office reached out in 2021.

Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint

Key Points

• Modal says its combined system cuts inference cold-start scaling from multiple kiloseconds to tens of seconds.
• The approach combines idle GPU buffers, lazy container image serving, CPU checkpoint/restore, and CUDA checkpoint/restore.
• The article argues that fast startup is essential for improving GPU Allocation Utilization in variable inference workloads.

Iran will impose fees on subsea internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

Key Points

• Iran is considering fees and licensing rules for subsea internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz.
• The article says enforcement is uncertain because US sanctions prevent companies from making payments to Iran.
• Experts cited say most cables avoid Iranian waters, but Falcon and Gulf Bridge International run through them.

Anduril and Meta's quest to make smart glasses for warfare

Key Points

• Anduril is pursuing two military AR headset efforts: SBMC with Meta and the self-funded EagleEye system.
• The prototypes aim to let soldiers view battlefield overlays and use AI-assisted voice, eye tracking, and tap inputs to coordinate tasks, including drone operations.
• Both systems are still in development, with no large-scale Army-ready version yet and production decisions for SBMC not expected before 2028.

At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo

Key Points

• At least 100 deaths and over 390 suspected Ebola cases have been reported in DR Congo, with confirmed cases also in Uganda.
• The WHO has declared the Bundibugyo-virus outbreak an international emergency, warning of possible wider local and regional spread.
• The CDC says US risk is low but is adding travel monitoring, entry restrictions, contact tracing, testing and hospital preparedness measures.

Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

Key Points

• Haiku is being ported to the arm64 architecture.
• The article headline says Haiku now runs on M1 Macs.
• The progress is being documented publicly in the Haiku Community development forum.

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

Key Points

• Agora-1 supports up to four players in a shared real-time generated world.
• The system separates world-state simulation from visual rendering using two learned models.
• The article frames Agora-1 as an alternative to prior multi-agent world model approaches such as Multiverse, Solaris, and MultiGen.

Stratum: System-Hardware Co-Design with 3D-Stackable DRAM for Efficient Moe

Key Points

• Stratum targets MoE LLM inference with a co-designed memory and compute architecture.
• The system combines Mono3D DRAM, near-memory processing, GPU acceleration, hybrid bonding, and a silicon interposer.
• Reported results show up to 8.29× higher decoding throughput and 7.66× better energy efficiency than GPU baselines.

Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

Key Points

• Haiku’s ARM port now runs natively on Apple M1 Macs.
• The boot chain uses m1n1 and U-Boot to enable USB-based UEFI booting.
• The port reaches a desktop and supports all eight CPU cores, but USB is still broken.

We let AIs run radio stations

Key Points

• Andon Labs launched four radio stations run autonomously by different AI models as a test of AI-operated media businesses.
• The AI agents manage music, scheduling, audience communication, analytics, finances, and revenue-seeking activities with minimal human intervention.
• One station, Backlink Broadcast, changed markedly over time, with DJ Gemini moving from conversational hosting to repetitive corporate-speak after model changes.

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

Key Points

• The article compares Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, and Emacs Lisp in a side-by-side reference format.
• It documents execution details such as version commands, REPL startup, script invocation, shebangs, and executable creation.
• It maps equivalent syntax and behavior for variables, symbols, booleans, and arithmetic across the four Lisp dialects.

New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC

Key Points

• The proposed tax would apply to New York City second homes worth more than $5 million and could raise at least $500 million annually.
• Budget negotiations are still incomplete, with legislative leaders saying no final deal has been reached.
• The measure has drawn criticism from business leaders while some left-wing advocates say it does not go far enough.

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

Key Points

• The FBI is reportedly seeking nationwide access to automated license plate reader data.
• The article says this could allow warrantless tracking of vehicle and related personal movements.
• The report comes amid growing public protests and pushback against ALPR use.

Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions

Key Points

• Shutterstock will pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations over subscription billing and cancellation practices.
• The FTC alleged Shutterstock did not clearly disclose auto-renewal terms, cancellation fees, and other material conditions.
• The proposed order requires consumer relief and changes to disclosure, consent, and cancellation processes.

Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

Key Points

• 180db is a new macOS 14+ audio player for musicians and DJs from Advanced Research GmbH.
• The app is sold for 20€ as a one-time purchase and highlights local music ownership.
• Key features include pitch control, customizable layout and backgrounds, multi-format support, and copying the last 30 seconds of playback.

Understanding Singleflight in Go

Key Points

• `singleflight` in Go ensures only one duplicate concurrent operation runs at a time for a given key.
• The `Group` type coordinates requests so later callers wait for and share the first result.
• The article recommends careful key design, error handling, and monitoring when using the pattern.

loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE

Key Points

• loopmaster is a browser-based livecoding music IDE with real-time code-to-audio feedback.
• It includes built-in synthesizers, effects, filters, sequencing tools, and timeline-based song arrangement.
• The article says the tool requires no signup or installation and includes community-sharing and collaboration features.

No More JetBrains Products for Me

Key Points

• The author switched to Zed after trying its v1 release and plans to use it as their main editor.
• JetBrains CLion is described as feature-rich but too slow for the author’s daily workflow.
• Performance complaints include startup delays, re-indexing, remote development issues, and high resource use.

The tyranny of single page apps

Key Points

• The article defines SPAs as JavaScript-driven web apps that avoid full page reloads and contrasts them with traditional multi-page sites.
• It argues that SPA architectures often carry heavy upfront and cumulative performance costs despite promises of smoother navigation.
• It links performance and lower interaction friction to higher user retention within large web platforms such as Facebook and Reddit.

Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch

Key Points

• The calculator uses binary-coded decimal and a nibble-based custom CPU to achieve exact decimal behavior.
• The project is implemented on an Altera Cyclone II FPGA with Quartus, Verilator, ModelSim, Qt, and WebAssembly in the workflow.
• The ten-part series covers algorithms, CPU design, assembler, microcode, scripting, and final physical hardware.

Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

Key Points

• The article argues that AI automation threatens the customer base needed to sustain AI subscription businesses.
• It uses post-abolition labor history and industrial-era consumer expansion as parallels for current AI-era economics.
• It presents UBI as a possible mechanism to preserve aggregate demand in a heavily automated economy.

US bill proposes new national EV tax, while some push to slash gas tax to zero

Key Points

• BUILD America 250 would impose new annual fees on EVs and plug-in hybrids, with automatic yearly increases.
• States would collect the fees under the proposal, with possible federal funding penalties for noncompliance.
• The article says the bill cuts some clean transportation funding while leaving the federal gas tax unchanged.

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

Key Points

• A controlled study tested whether AI-related discourse in pretraining data changes downstream alignment behavior.
• More misalignment discourse increased misaligned behavior, while more aligned-behavior discourse reduced misalignment from 45% to 9%.
• The effects persisted through post-training, supporting the case for considering alignment during pretraining.

Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated

Key Points

• The article says AI lowers the cost of established cyberattacks rather than creating new attack types.
• It cites Daniel Stenberg's curl testing as evidence that frontier models find familiar bugs, not novel vulnerability classes.
• It highlights a reported Mexican government breach in which a solo operator allegedly used Claude Code and ChatGPT to exfiltrate 150 GB of data.

Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space

Key Points

• Earth's radio bubble is estimated at about 240 light-years across in 2026.
• Reliable human signals began escaping into interstellar space in the 1930s after higher-frequency equipment overcame ionospheric reflection.
• The article uses Python and HIPPARCOS stellar data to visualize how major broadcasts have propagated through nearby space.

Click

Key Points

• The site presents a one-button interactive experience titled "Click."
• It features 128 hidden achievements with progress tracking starting at 0% unlocked.
• Users can save progress through a generated URL and share status via Twitter and Facebook.

Heirs and Spares in Early Modern France

Key Points

• Philippe, duke of Anjou, did not exploit the 1658 illness scare around Louis XIV and was rewarded after the king recovered.
• Earlier younger royal brothers, especially Gaston, duke of Orléans, had repeatedly rebelled and destabilized the monarchy.
• Primogeniture, apanage, and court exclusion shaped the ambitions and grievances of younger French princes such as François, duke of Alençon.

Anthropic co-founder to present AI encyclical alongside Pope Leo XIV

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• Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical *Magnifica humanitas* will be released on May 25, 2026.
• The document focuses on preserving the human person in the age of artificial intelligence.
• Christopher Olah of Anthropic is among the speakers at the Vatican presentation event.

Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence

Key Points

• The article showcases a minimalist game called **Number Gacha**.
• The interface centers on hidden values, suit-based counters, and a key count.
• A single **Roll** button suggests the core gameplay loop is randomized rolling.

Coding on Paper

Key Points

• The article describes three months of using the Onyx BOOX Mira Pro Color as a primary programming monitor.
• Successful use required major adjustments to themes, apps, and desktop controls to suit e-ink limitations.
• The monitor’s reading and writing modes offer a core tradeoff between image quality and typing latency.

What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5)

Key Points

• The article says Qwen3.5-9B’s censorship is localized to a small, steerable internal circuit.
• It argues the model retains factual knowledge from pretraining while alignment adds routing behaviors like refusal, deflection, and propaganda.
• It claims the censorship verdict is internally committed in Chinese tokens before later layers produce the final English response.

When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call?

Key Points

• The article identifies two main paths to devirtualization: known dynamic type and proof that the static type is a leaf.
• Compiler behavior differs across GCC, Clang, MSVC, and ICC, especially in nontrivial pointer and cast examples.
• `final`, final destructors, and internal linkage can provide compilers with evidence to replace virtual dispatch with direct calls.

Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions

Key Points

• Regex Chess uses 84,688 regular expressions to compute a valid chess move from a board state.
• The project works by building a regex-driven virtual computer whose full state is encoded as a string.
• The article explains core mechanics such as stack manipulation through regex capture groups and replacements.

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

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• The article identifies November 2025 as a major turning point in LLM development, especially for coding.
• It says coding agents became reliable enough for practical daily use after improvements from OpenAI and Anthropic.
• It describes the rapid rise of OpenClaw and the broader 'Claws' category of personal AI assistants.

Peter Salus has died

Key Points

• Dan Cross posted on TUHS that Peter Salus died on May 15.
• The post identifies *A Quarter Century of Unix* as a key work by Salus.
• The article is a brief mailing-list notice with minimal additional detail.

Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

Key Points

• The article reports remote hijacking, device impersonation, and Wi-Fi credential exposure in a low-cost smart doorbell ecosystem.
• The author says the vulnerabilities affect a backend platform tied to Naxclow rather than just one individual doorbell listing.
• Disclosure was made through vendor channels and CERT/CC, with Naxclow acknowledging the report after publication.

War Game Exposed U.S. Vulnerability to Low-Tech Warfare

Key Points

• A declassified 2002 war-game report warned that U.S. forces were vulnerable to low-tech, unconventional attacks.
• The simulated U.S. Navy battle group was defeated in ten minutes during Millennium Challenge 2002.
• The report was partially released after an eleven-year declassification effort initiated by Nate Jones.

Why is it called Kent House?

Key Points

• Kent House station opened in 1884 beside the historic Surrey-Kent boundary.
• The name predates later border changes that moved Penge from Surrey to London, then Kent, and later Bromley.
• The original Kent House was an older property recorded in 1240, not the adjacent building dated 1887.

As of April 2026: Iran has destroyed 42 U.S. Military Aircraft in Op: Epic Fury

Key Points

• The article says Operation Epic Fury exposed major vulnerabilities in U.S. military infrastructure and aircraft protection.
• It argues the U.S. should expand air and missile defenses, layered counter-drone systems, and underground storage for critical assets.
• It uses reported drone incursions over Barksdale Air Force Base as an example of evolving threats to high-value military installations.

PyTorch Landscape

Key Points

• The PyTorch Landscape is a directory of PyTorch ecosystem projects associated with the PyTorch Foundation.
• The page provides downloadable landscape assets and CSV data files for projects and items.
• Visible categories include Computer Vision and AI for Science and Engineering, with multiple named ecosystem projects.

Apple Silicon costs LESS than OpenRouter

Key Points

• The article says local LLM costs change materially when token mix, batching, caching, and hardware resale value are included.
• On an M4 Max 128GB system, Gemma 4 31B was estimated at about $0.14 per million tokens locally versus about $0.16 through OpenRouter.
• For Gemma 4 26B MoE, the article estimates about $0.038 per million tokens locally versus about $0.10 on OpenRouter.

Peter Neumann has died

Key Points

• Peter Neumann’s death was announced via forwarded messages on the Multics and TUHS mailing lists.
• The notice says he died in a Santa Clara hospital from complications after a fall and surgery.
• SRI was expected to host a memorial service for Neumann in Menlo Park.

Sieve – scans Cursor/Claude chat history for leaked API keys

Key Points

• Sieve scans local AI assistant histories and `.env` files on macOS for exposed credentials.
• The tool uses local-only processing, local SQLite storage for findings, and macOS Keychain for secret storage.
• It adds remediation features including Vault storage, Claude Code MCP integration, and redaction of VS Code chat database entries.

Codex-Maxxing

Key Points

• The article presents Codex as a tool for both coding and broader knowledge-work artifacts.
• Durable threads with compaction are described as central to managing long-running workstreams.
• Voice input, steering, and external memory systems are presented as key components of an ongoing AI work loop.

Show HN: Hsrs – Type-Safe Haskell Bindings Generator for Rust

Key Points

• Hsrs generates Haskell FFI bindings automatically from annotated Rust code.
• The tool uses `ForeignPtr` for memory management and Borsh for complex type serialization.
• It maps Rust idioms such as `Option`, `Result`, `Vec`, and `String` into Haskell-native types.

Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver

Key Points

• kv4p HT is a DIY 1-watt VHF or UHF radio that connects to an Android phone via USB-C.
• The project is fully open source, including its Android app, ESP32 firmware, PCB designs, and 3D printer files.
• It is a build-it-yourself amateur radio project with no warranty and requires a Technician class license to use.

LLMCap – A proxy that hard-stops LLM API calls when you hit a dollar cap

Key Points

• LLMCap is described as a proxy that hard-stops LLM API calls at a preset dollar cap.
• The integration example shows a one-line change using the Anthropic client’s `base_url`.
• At the cap, the proxy returns HTTP 429 and the article says no token is consumed.