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HACKER NEWS

.name Termination | comment
GPT-6 Astra | comment
Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived | comment
Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s | comment
Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? | comment
K2 Horizon: A connected fleet of six open models | comment
New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal | comment
OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra | comment
VC isn't VC anymore | comment
The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] | comment
Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly | comment
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 | comment
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | comment
Fastpotify | comment
Audacity 4.0 | comment
Hang on to Your Firefox | comment
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO | comment
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law | comment
Playa Phone | comment
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users | comment
AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link | comment
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? | comment
Muse Spark 1.3 | comment
I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system | comment
European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy | comment
OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before | comment
GPU World | comment
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses | comment
DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions | comment
A Note from LWN | comment

HACKER NEWS WEEKLY

Dolly Parton has died | comment
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 | comment
Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber | comment
CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO | comment
Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded | comment
Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices | comment
Fastpotify | comment
GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven | comment
GLM-5.3 is now open-weight | comment
Tim Curry has died | comment
MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID | comment
Hang on to Your Firefox | comment
Htmx 4.0 | comment
Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO | comment
Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache | comment
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law | comment
Playa Phone | comment
Tailcat – Like netcat, but over Tailscale’s data plane | comment
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users | comment
Small Models Have Arrived | comment
AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link | comment
AWS Acquires DuckDB | comment
My Friend Aaron | comment
Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future | comment
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? | comment
Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root | comment
Oceans hit highest temperature on record | comment
The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now | comment
Muse Spark 1.3 | comment
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs | comment
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