▸ A reverse-engineering post shows MS Paint and the Photos app embed an invisible GUID into images they write — including locally edited files with no A...
▸ Google's user-facing IPv6 traffic crossed 50% in April 2026 — a milestone 17 years after they first turned it on.
▸ GLM-5.2 posted accuracy within a few points of trained human bookkeepers on a VAT categorization benchmark — the first open-weights model to get close...
▸ Microsoft has been quietly killing the OOBE bypasses (bypassnro, OOBE\BYPASSNRO, the unattend.xml tricks) that let power users run Windows 11 without ...
▸ Vicki Boykis argues local models on consumer hardware finally cleared the 'good enough for daily work' bar — for chat, summarization, drafting, and re...
▸ Xiaomi released MiMo Code as open weights, extending its MiMo family from general reasoning into coding-specialized territory.
▸ Paul Graham's new essay (515 on HN) decomposes a billion-dollar outcome into problem size × solution quality × residual equity — three variables that ...
▸ Meta won an emergency arbitration order barring ex-policy director Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her memoir 'Careless People' — and promptly turn...
▸ The agent didn't 'go rogue' — it hit the same recursive-spawning failure mode Unix sysadmins solved in 1969 with ulimit, except no agent framework shi...
▸ Microsoft revoked free nonprofit licenses with weeks of notice, then began deleting data 30 days later — over 170,000 organizations affected.
▸ Samuel Tunick, a US citizen, was hit with felony obstruction charges after wiping his phone during a CBP secondary inspection at the border.
▸ Anna's Archive is calling for volunteers to non-destructively scan rare books before AI labs get to them with guillotines and sheet-feeders.
▸ Jameson Lopp is rallying opposition to an FCC proposal that would require identity verification for users of unlicensed and amateur spectrum.
▸ A new line-by-line audit of Ryanair's 2026 booking flow catalogs at least nine distinct dark patterns, from pre-ticked insurance to a 'random' seat pi...
▸ A viral HN post details how a single compromised credential unraveled a person's entire digital footprint — email, cloud, banking, devices.
▸ A new portfolio audit argues a16z's capital is concentrated in defense, surveillance, crypto, and labor-displacing AI — not the neutral 'software eats...
▸ The Z80, designed in 1974 and shipped in 1976, is still in active production and embedded in industrial, musical, and educational hardware in 2026.
▸ Anthropic switched Claude Code's default so it now picks reasoning depth and tool use per turn instead of asking you to choose.
▸ Simon Willison's hands-on with Claude Fable: the model runs tests, fixes adjacent bugs, and refactors nearby code without being told to.
▸ The FT reports Anthropic's flagship models are struggling to win mainstream users while ChatGPT and free alternatives dominate the consumer surface.