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Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed] 476 by pszypowicz | 279 comments on Hacker News.

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats 488 by raahelb | 528 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived 468 by boredjohnny | 250 comments on Hacker News. Visual FoxPro stopped at version 9 in 2007. A surprising amount of it is still running, in 32 bits, because rewriting a 20-year-old business app is how you lose the business. A customer wanted to keep milking their app for the foreseeable future, so here it is: the same language on a new runtime (Rust, compiled to wasm, checked against the real vfp9.exe), tables no longer stopped at 2 GB, the old 32-bit .fll add-ins still loading, and lambdas, JSON and an HTTP server bolted on for good measure. Reports are not done and the builds are unsigned. MIT because why not?

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy 505 by geox | 326 comments on Hacker News.

Jev in 25 Lines of Python 582 by bashbjorn | 189 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005 612 by sohkamyung | 373 comments on Hacker News.