▸ AWS, GCP, and Azure bill on a multi-hour delay — there is no API a running workload can call to ask 'what have I spent in the last 60 seconds?'
▸ AWS is acquiring DuckDB Labs, the Dutch company behind the embedded OLAP engine that has quietly become the pandas replacement for anyone with more th...
▸ Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for roughly $13B, per The Information — the biggest AI infra deal since the compute arms race began.
▸ The Innovative Genomics Institute demonstrated a CRISPR variant that reads cancer-specific RNA signatures and selectively destroys the cells that matc...
▸ ATProto offers two DID methods — did:plc and did:web — but the default did:plc directory is operated entirely by Bluesky PBC.
▸ Beyond All Reason is a free, open-source RTS built on the 25-year-old Spring engine, now pulling thousands of concurrent players without a publisher, ...
▸ LastPass is notifying users of a fresh breach — the latest entry in a four-year incident log that started with source code theft in 2022.
▸ Meta agreed to pay $16.68B to resolve a multi-state coalition's claims that Instagram and Facebook were designed to hook minors.
▸ Dan Luu argues the perf ceiling on most apps is 10-100x higher than what ships — the gap isn't hardware, it's engineering priorities.
▸ Tom Bedor's essay hit 1,306 on HN by naming what every senior dev already feels: AI-generated artifacts are taxing the humans asked to review them.
▸ The U.S. State Department has paused processing of immigrant visa applications, per WSJ reporting that hit HN hard (379 points).
▸ 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...