▸ Fox is buying Roku for $22B, folding the largest US connected-TV OS into a legacy broadcaster's streaming portfolio.
▸ Vicki Boykis declares local model inference 'good now' — the threshold moved because of llama.cpp, MLX, and Ollama, not because of any single model re...
▸ Kage's HN score nearly tripled overnight (214 → 556) — the community is rewarding UX, not the crawler.
▸ The 381-point HN thread on 'the shadow hanging over Fable' isn't really about Anthropic's product — it's about what happens when your agent stack hard...
▸ G. Malandrakis's 'Ad Economicum' essay (128 on HN) argues a fully automated economy is technically feasible — and in 2026 the hand-waving steps that u...
▸ @ID_AA_Carmack publicly singled out Fabrice Bellard — the HN thread hit 871, almost all of it people enumerating Bellard's shipped projects.
▸ Google Research built a working cluster from end-of-life Android phones — each node is a complete computer with CPU, RAM, storage, NIC, and battery al...
▸ A Derbyshire Police officer is under investigation for allegedly using generative AI to manufacture evidence across multiple criminal cases.
▸ opensourceaimustwin.com tripled to 1,481 points in 24 hours — but the manifesto's three verbs (run, audit, fork) don't map cleanly onto any model peop...
▸ Microsoft has closed off the Rufus/OOBE\BYPASSNRO workarounds that let users finish Windows 11 setup with a local account.
▸ SMPTE — the body behind ST 2110, timecode, and basically every digital video container you've ever touched — just made its entire standards library fr...
▸ Researcher Richard Osgood says federal agents escalated a Fable 5 incident triggered by a plain 'fix this code' prompt — no jailbreak, no exploit, jus...
▸ AWS is acquiring DuckLabs, the services company run by DuckDB's core maintainers — the OLAP engine now has a hyperscaler patron.
▸ Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13 billion, folding the de facto model registry into the company that already owns the comput...
▸ OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra posts a 99.9% ARC-AGI-3 score, but the harness footnote quietly rerates the prior model from 7.8% to ~30%.
▸ CVE-2026-85046 is an actively exploited sandbox escape affecting every current Chromium build — Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Arc, and every Electron ap...
▸ A dark web service called Nexus is selling scans of 153M+ US and Canadian driver's licenses, apparently siphoned from a Louisiana-based ID verificatio...
▸ The Census Bureau is reversing its 2020 decision to use formal differential privacy, after sustained pressure from demographers, redistricting consult...
▸ An OpenAI Codex CLI logging path can write multiple terabytes of session data to local SSDs in a single workday, per a 377-point HN thread and GitHub ...
▸ Tonsky's 'Every Frame Perfect' hit 661 on HN by reframing dropped frames as correctness bugs, not performance tuning.