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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado 825 by JaimeThompson | 332 comments on Hacker News.

How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack 858 by todsacerdoti | 568 comments on Hacker News.

xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B 755 by rvz | 1142 comments on Hacker News.

Debian bookworm live images now reproducible 753 by bertman | 200 comments on Hacker News.

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model 896 by Philpax | 310 comments on Hacker News.

Apple needs a Snow Sequoia 868 by trbutler | 650 comments on Hacker News.

Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood 748 by surprisetalk | 281 comments on Hacker News.

fd: A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find' 706 by tosh | 289 comments on Hacker News.

I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud 794 by HieronymusBosch | 520 comments on Hacker News.

The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans 759 by _tk_ | 233 comments on Hacker News.

Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) 749 by udev4096 | 423 comments on Hacker News.

Claude can now search the web 1184 by meetpateltech | 697 comments on Hacker News.

Two new PebbleOS watches 987 by griffinli | 337 comments on Hacker News.

Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones 952 by griffinli | 594 comments on Hacker News.

GIMP 3.0 924 by wicket | 311 comments on Hacker News.

The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available 841 by luu | 592 comments on Hacker News.

Docs – Open source alternative to Notion or Outline 865 by maelito | 295 comments on Hacker News.

The DuckDB Local UI 814 by xnx | 174 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini Robotics 756 by meetpateltech | 438 comments on Hacker News.

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died 775 by leotravis10 | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories 707 by noddybear | 204 comments on Hacker News. I'm Jack, and I'm excited to share a project that has channeled my Factorio addiction recently: the Factorio Learning Environment (FLE). FLE is an open-source framework for developing and evaluating LLM agents in Factorio. It provides a controlled environment where AI models can attempt complex automation, resource management, and optimisation tasks in a grounded world with meaningful constraints. A critical advantage of Factorio as a benchmark is its unbounded nature. Unlike many evals that are quickly saturated by newer models, Factorio's geometric complexity scaling means it won't be "solved" in the next 6 months (or possibly even years). This allows us to meaningfully compare models by the order-of-magnitude of resources they can produce - creating a benchmark with longevity. The project began 18 months ago after years of playing Factorio, rec...

Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator 823 by btilly | 167 comments on Hacker News.

A 10x Faster TypeScript 861 by DanRosenwasser | 422 comments on Hacker News.

uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store 836 by non- | 401 comments on Hacker News.

Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it 729 by nabla9 | 445 comments on Hacker News.

Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord 718 by OuterVale | 529 comments on Hacker News.

Tailscale is pretty useful 789 by marban | 398 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Bayleaf – Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard 725 by sgraz | 245 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I built a wireless, split, ultra-low profile keyboard from scratch called Bayleaf. As a beginner I learned all things electronics, PCB-building, designing for manufacturing, and many other hardware-related skills to put this together. This case study dives into the build process and of course the final result, hope you enjoy!

Mistral OCR 864 by littlemerman | 288 comments on Hacker News.

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license" 827 by tomp | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Apple's Software Quality Crisis 1142 by ajdude | 1126 comments on Hacker News.

How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps 1124 by xyzeva | 301 comments on Hacker News.