▸ The 2030 Census is dropping differential privacy and reverting to data swapping — the pre-2020 method that the 2018 reconstruction attack already brok...
▸ LibreOffice hit record download numbers after publicly stating it has no AI features and no plans to add any.
▸ Valve announced a new Steam Machine — a small-form-factor SteamOS box aimed at the TV, eleven years after the first attempt died on arrival.
▸ Three trending GitHub repos this week — anthropics/fermats-last-theorem, kajisho5/ffmpeg-skill, and Mantitup-Org/vista — all ship the same artifact: a...
▸ opensourceaimustwin.com climbed from 477 to 1,363 HN points in roughly ten hours — manifestos don't usually do that.
▸ A researcher factored 512-bit RSA keys belonging to Entrust root CAs issued in the mid-1990s — the same math that once protected the early commercial ...
▸ Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B, per Business Insider — nearly 2x the $7B valuation HF turned down from Nvidia last year.
▸ CVE-2026-85046 is an in-the-wild sandbox escape affecting every Chromium-based browser; Google shipped an emergency Stable-channel patch.
▸ OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra posted the first credible score on ARC-AGI-3, the puzzle benchmark Chollet designed specifically to resist LLM pattern-matching.
▸ Open-weight coder models (Qwen3-Coder, DeepSeek-V3.1, GLM-4.6) now match Sonnet-class output on day-to-day refactors — the gap closed sometime in Q1 2...
▸ TNO, NFI and SURF are building GPT-NL on roughly €13.5M of Dutch state funding — a rounding error next to frontier-lab training budgets.
▸ Mitchell Hashimoto pledged another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation for 2026, bringing his personal contributions close to $1M across three years.
▸ Tonsky's 'Every Frame Perfect' climbed to 691 on HN — nearly double its first-day score — because senior engineers recognized the measurement bug in t...
▸ Deno Desktop lets you ship cross-platform native apps using the system webview, not a bundled Chromium — same architectural bet as Tauri, but with Den...
▸ Chrome's rolling Manifest V3 enforcement is finally disabling the full uBlock Origin for the remaining holdouts on the stable channel.
▸ openclaw/openclaw hit 283.1k stars trending #1 on GitHub — ahead of facebook/react (243.9k) and torvalds/linux (221.6k).
▸ GPT-6 Astra is live on OpenRouter and OpenAI's API, with a 'max' tier that costs ~63 cents per pelican-SVG and takes 4 minutes to think.
▸ The three highest-starred repos on GitHub right now — freeCodeCamp (437.9k), public-apis (411.9k), free-programming-books (384k) — contain almost no c...
▸ Arch Linux says the AUR malware incident is contained after removing more than 1,500 compromised packages — the cleanup is the story, not the breach.
▸ A patient was submerged in ice water for 147 minutes, went into hypothermic cardiac arrest, and walked out neurologically intact — published in JACC C...