▸ A developer spent $266 renting four frontier models to reverse-engineer Amazon's Fire HD bootloader lock — GLM-5.3 finished the job in a single day af...
▸ Samuel Tunick, a US citizen, faces federal felony charges for deleting data from his phone before handing it to CBP at a border crossing.
▸ A newly-created 'Hanover Institute' shipped 100+ articles in a week — the pattern fits LLM training-data seeding, not human readership.
▸ Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter, the multi-model API proxy that routes to the cheapest available provider by default.
▸ Signal published a PDF statement opposing the UK's revived client-side scanning proposal, calling it incompatible with end-to-end encryption.
▸ A developer's essay describing a learned reflex to skip past LLM-generated text hit 333 points on HN — because everyone recognizes the pattern in them...
▸ A developer rewrote his JS-heavy personal site as plain HTML and saw daily users roughly double within 24 hours.
▸ DeepSeek dropped an MIT-licensed agent harness with append-only session logs that record every prompt, tool call, and subagent handoff.
▸ AI coding assistants collapse the friction of typing, so the work *feels* faster even when cycle time stays flat or gets worse.
▸ Cobalt is an open-source runtime that lets any Kobo e-reader install and switch between multiple third-party apps — not just one-off hacks.
▸ GitHub Trending's top three this morning: freeCodeCamp (437.9k stars), free-programming-books (384k), and openclaw — a 283k-star 'AI assistant' brande...
▸ A security researcher registered abandoned e164.arpa subdomains and started receiving ENUM lookups for phone calls, including numbers at U.S. military...
▸ Anna's Archive says AI firms are buying up rare books, cutting the spines off to feed sheet-fed scanners, and pulping what remains — often the only co...
▸ Google won the auction for Spirit Airlines' customer database — names, itineraries, loyalty data — after the airline liquidated, and cited AI training...
▸ Bloomberg reports Stripe is nearing a $7B+ acquisition of OpenRouter — up from a $1.3B round just months ago.
▸ Aaron Swartz faced 35 years and $1M in fines under the CFAA for downloading JSTOR articles; Meta torrented 81.7TB of pirated books to train Llama and ...
▸ depthfirst.com disclosed 21 zero-days in FFmpeg — the codec library quietly embedded in nearly every video pipeline on the internet.
▸ A 2001 MIT paper by Repenning and Sterman is back on HN (243 points) — it explains why firefighters get promoted and preventers get fired.
▸ Mullvad's analysis frames mass surveillance as a competition between Western democracies — UK, France, Sweden, EU — each pushing the boundary of what'...
▸ Oak is a new version control system pitched as a Git replacement, optimized for AI agents working in parallel on partial clones.