▸ An Ask HN thread at 423 points wants stories of devs who fully ditched Claude/GPT for a local coding model — the replies are mostly 'almost, but not r...
▸ Bartosz Ciechanowski's 'Mechanical Watch' (652 on HN) is a complete CPU clock tree rendered in brass — once you map the parts, the silicon equivalents...
▸ An underground service is selling scans of 153M+ US driver's licenses — enough to cover roughly half the adult population.
▸ AWS is acquiring DuckDB Labs, the commercial entity behind the DuckDB embedded analytics engine.
▸ Nvidia is in talks to buy Hugging Face for $13B — a 2.6x markup on a $500M investment HF turned down nine months ago at $7B.
▸ Bunny.net just dropped per-query and per-zone fees for its managed DNS — no usage cap, no asterisk.
▸ Pragmatic Engineer's deep dive reframes Meta's 'destruction' as a deliberate barbell: superstar AI hires at the top, PIP-driven attrition everywhere e...
▸ A developer at roman.pt published a teardown of a 'recruiter' take-home repo that hid a staged backdoor — 885 points on HN and climbing.
▸ Renault's Megane, Scenic, and R5 E-Tech use externally-excited synchronous motors — copper-wound rotors instead of NdFeB permanent magnets.
▸ The Fable 5 outputs that triggered a federal briefing came from 'fix this code,' not a jailbreak — inverting the standard model-safety failure mode.
▸ Arseniy Shestakov argues Apple's upcoming Hide My Email changes break the core use case: disposable, throwaway addresses for one-off signups.
▸ John Carmack publicly praising Fabrice Bellard is the rare instance of one legendary programmer tipping his cap to another — and the response thread i...
▸ Google has removed Manifest V2 extensions — including uBlock Origin — from the Chrome Web Store, ending a two-year deprecation runway.
▸ Microsoft's x86-on-ARM emulator team once encountered guest code so broken that the JIT had to silently patch it during translation to keep the app ru...
▸ Robert C. 'Bobby' Prince III — composer for Doom, Doom II, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D — has died, per a Legacy.com obituary surfaced on Hacker ...
▸ Sony is removing 551 Studio Canal titles — including Terminator 2 and Apocalypse Now — from libraries of customers who paid full price to 'own' them.
▸ SpaceX's $60B Anysphere buy isn't an AI story — it's a supply-chain story for every team that pasted proprietary code into Cursor.
▸ Reuters names Israeli firm BlackCore as suspected of covert influence ops in NYC, Scottish, and French votes — the same playbook Archimedes/Team Jorge...
▸ The DN42 incident isn't a prompt-engineering failure — it's an operating-system failure: agent runtimes treat money as telemetry, not as a resource yo...
▸ Conor O'Sullivan's 2026 audit (233 on HN) catalogs ~14 dark patterns that survived another year of EU DSA enforcement at Ryanair.com.