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A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history 353 by WithinReason | 71 comments on Hacker News.

Hacking IKEA Furniture 349 by greenlightning | 261 comments on Hacker News.

European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy 386 by nickslaughter02 | 164 comments on Hacker News.

“I just chose words carefully” 438 by zdw | 109 comments on Hacker News.

Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root 386 by trap0xcc | 388 comments on Hacker News.

Creepy Crawlies 420 by zdw | 200 comments on Hacker News.

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law 423 by shscs911 | 195 comments on Hacker News.

The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now 425 by ibobev | 288 comments on Hacker News.

Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" 475 by pluc | 441 comments on Hacker News.

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 503 by miniBill | 150 comments on Hacker News.

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven 586 by ckardaris | 290 comments on Hacker News.

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight 546 by jeudesprits | 196 comments on Hacker News. https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2093354097122455713 https://ift.tt/DqY3fNv

Get your Windows license refund 545 by smartmic | 211 comments on Hacker News.

Trade (and Tariffs) 532 by throw0101d | 261 comments on Hacker News.

Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache 546 by TangerineDream | 153 comments on Hacker News.

Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children 527 by bhouston | 530 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account 550 by motownphilly | 367 comments on Hacker News.

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B 639 by mfiguiere | 269 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/V7H4OyY... (paywalled) https://ift.tt/yj6WpcU...

Tim Curry has died 549 by mykowebhn | 189 comments on Hacker News.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next 538 by tosh | 173 comments on Hacker News.

GLM-5.3-Flash 562 by Philpax | 268 comments on Hacker News.

Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices 623 by Banditoz | 531 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/lq70oYD https://xcancel.com/

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game 586 by centrosphere | 168 comments on Hacker News. https://twitter.com/cdngdev/status/2091909073038082139 , https://ift.tt/dlR6kiC

Dolly Parton has died 711 by helsinkiandrew | 108 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/r8opEBA... https://ift.tt/ztXUTrI... , https://ift.tt/xFvIKgT https://ift.tt/CnDbdiP...

New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra 606 by interpol_p | 358 comments on Hacker News.

Oceans hit highest temperature on record 555 by tcp_handshaker | 430 comments on Hacker News.

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID 477 by ComputerGuru | 188 comments on Hacker News.

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded 491 by tosh | 321 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/TNY2OQU

I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch 419 by bilsbie | 532 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/mAK19Cy

Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed 303 by taubek | 239 comments on Hacker News.

I gave Qwen 3.8 27B a reverse-engineering job and it finished in 30 minutes 290 by raybb | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras 285 by dredmorbius | 115 comments on Hacker News.

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day 333 by dr_pardee | 138 comments on Hacker News.

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs 417 by jemoka | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down 483 by tartoran | 1223 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/TX519Gf...

I'm becoming AI-blind 473 by rcymerys | 478 comments on Hacker News.

DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp 494 by dares2573 | 153 comments on Hacker News.

Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border 550 by floathub | 725 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/UdMbHiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2rokxux5cU

AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late 445 by Cider9986 | 797 comments on Hacker News.

CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s 439 by EwanG | 262 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/KBl84Lo

The August 17 outage 589 by 0xedb | 671 comments on Hacker News.

HTML Can Do That 612 by encyclopedism | 168 comments on Hacker News.

Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence 644 by speckx | 128 comments on Hacker News.

Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full 487 by shdon | 222 comments on Hacker News.

Devices with GrapheneOS support should be available in 2027 542 by exceptione | 345 comments on Hacker News.

A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare 538 by kareiva | 69 comments on Hacker News.

Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM 536 by flaburgan | 297 comments on Hacker News.

Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit 565 by pseudolus | 386 comments on Hacker News.

Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study 639 by karakoram | 737 comments on Hacker News.

The Amazon tax 596 by herbertl | 409 comments on Hacker News.

GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on OpenRouter 605 by Topfi | 419 comments on Hacker News.

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) 500 by mooreds | 310 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub 454 by dhruv3006 | 290 comments on Hacker News. Github has been down consistently over the last few months - does it make sense to switch to alternatives?

Incident with Github.com 431 by SpyCoder77 | 824 comments on Hacker News. Just got this message: "No server is currently available to service your request. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists." Edit: at the time of posting there was not an incident on githubstatus.com. Now there is. https://ift.tt/adNg02e Original Title: "Tell HN: GitHub Is Overloaded"

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0 429 by ibotty | 68 comments on Hacker News.

A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better" 343 by Narishma | 179 comments on Hacker News.

Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure" 334 by Alifatisk | 116 comments on Hacker News.

Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI 314 by theanonymousone | 283 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/umQTrPD

Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker 338 by pentagrama | 133 comments on Hacker News.

Seven books I keep close because I love them 365 by surprisetalk | 168 comments on Hacker News.

Hello, me. It's been a while 374 by somesoftdev | 201 comments on Hacker News.

Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking 428 by vslira | 227 comments on Hacker News.

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption 443 by u1hcw9nx | 264 comments on Hacker News.

Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election 439 by tcp_handshaker | 351 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin 454 by DemiGuru | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Qwen 3.8 27B 541 by erdaltoprak | 357 comments on Hacker News.

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast 630 by pr337h4m | 248 comments on Hacker News.

Spaghettifying DRAM 632 by matt_d | 162 comments on Hacker News.

Gemini 3.7 Flash 505 by thisisauserid | 308 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/1VD8pNm...

DeepSeek Harness developer preview 504 by bjin | 229 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/HGP54h9 https://deepseek-harness.github.io/deepseek-harness/en/guide...

License plate reader searches should require a warrant 514 by apwheele | 318 comments on Hacker News.

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 509 by explosion-s | 189 comments on Hacker News.

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering 456 by florianherrengt | 383 comments on Hacker News.

OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining 455 by ilamont | 430 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/UGNwJ9D https://ift.tt/YcRbIf4...

Compression is prediction 472 by nikolay | 202 comments on Hacker News.

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs 432 by quantumgarbage | 174 comments on Hacker News.

England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C 422 by stevekemp | 299 comments on Hacker News.

The UK's War on Anonymity Has Come to America 405 by slowin | 269 comments on Hacker News.

What Happened to HackerOne? 367 by hipparchus | 193 comments on Hacker News.

Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open 386 by colesantiago | 131 comments on Hacker News.

Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM 381 by akyuu | 317 comments on Hacker News.

How I use LLMs to learn complex topics 403 by laurentiurad | 230 comments on Hacker News.

NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year 372 by wglb | 82 comments on Hacker News.

Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating 409 by theanonymousone | 193 comments on Hacker News.

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded 380 by Meleagris | 197 comments on Hacker News.

Assembly Hall of Shame 401 by piotrgrabowski | 98 comments on Hacker News.

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers 410 by RickJWagner | 531 comments on Hacker News.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 421 by tosh | 251 comments on Hacker News.

Quake – 30th Anniversary Update 393 by dsubburam | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak 394 by yusyd | 412 comments on Hacker News.

AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon 439 by itvision | 339 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/JK3rBhU... https://chatjimmy.ai/

Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index 423 by apitman | 272 comments on Hacker News.

The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing 411 by ExMachina73 | 201 comments on Hacker News.

Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models 414 by moonikakiss | 114 comments on Hacker News.

Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs 467 by colesantiago | 586 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/36FMxPY... https://ift.tt/q25XjYI... https://ift.tt/CJDYPsg , https://ift.tt/piVRKf6 https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724 , https://ift.tt/QyG7kwg

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work 450 by speckx | 228 comments on Hacker News.

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking 439 by dzdt | 237 comments on Hacker News.

Discovery Loop 442 by xtreak29 | 282 comments on Hacker News.

FFmpeg 9.0 444 by gyan | 96 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones 510 by automatoney | 92 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation algorithm based on the space as well as a bunch of other fun js features and demos throughout the page that use the equations. If you find it interesting, I have lots of explanations of how I built it and what properties the space has. The methodology might be a bit shaky, but hopefully the result is as helpful for others as I have found it! There's lots of room for improvements (see the Future Work section), but I'm really happy with how it turned out.

In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years 632 by jdcampolargo | 35 comments on Hacker News.

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc 513 by surprisetalk | 555 comments on Hacker News.

LLMs reward expertise 350 by MaxMussio | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code 351 by mpweiher | 289 comments on Hacker News.

Devtools must be open source 346 by bryanmikaelian | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork 388 by ai2027 | 153 comments on Hacker News.

Karpathy’s Pelican 344 by delichon | 272 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/Tu7YVlG

Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built 304 by tomilan | 98 comments on Hacker News.

How to Exist 365 by walterbell | 228 comments on Hacker News.

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science 383 by milkshakes | 256 comments on Hacker News.

The AI Aesthetic 370 by montroser | 176 comments on Hacker News.