▸ Gergely Orosz's 576-point HN post documents Meta's PSC turning into a forced curve where ~10% must be labeled 'Below Expectations' regardless of actua...
▸ A bearblog essay titled 'Jobs and Software Is Fucked' cleared 168 points on Hacker News, the latest in a string of front-page posts diagnosing the sof...
▸ A trending GitHub issue (#29045) on anthropics/claude-code reports Claude Desktop silently spins up a background VM with no UI to stop it.
▸ A new survey pegs the average knowledge worker at 6+ hours/week supervising, correcting, and re-prompting AI — a line item nobody put on the ROI deck.
▸ ESA's Genesis-precursor measurements show GPS interference is roughly an order of magnitude more widespread than prior ground-based estimates suggeste...
▸ MusicDecoy (614 on HN) is the latest in a long line of micro-utilities fixing Apple's deliberate UX choices for free.
▸ A researcher pulled the STM32 firmware off a deactivated Cricut Maker, patched the activation check, and turned an e-waste paperweight back into a wor...
▸ A viral HN post (324 points) argues the 'code was never the hard part' talking point is a rhetorical trick to justify replacing engineers with LLMs.
▸ Apple is bumping MacBook and iPad prices mid-cycle, blaming a NAND and DRAM spot-market spike rather than tariffs or a new SKU.
▸ Peoria, Illinois is converting land donated for a public park into a 400-acre hyperscale data center site, breaking a 1950s-era deed promise.
▸ Niantic spun out Vantor to license its Visual Positioning System — built from a decade of player-uploaded AR scans — for GPS-denied drone navigation.
▸ Matthew Green's Usenix 2026 dispatch: the FBI's 'Going Dark' crisis quietly ended once agencies got good at buying and deploying phone exploits.
▸ Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter, the aggregator that fronts 300+ LLMs behind a single OpenAI-compatible API, at a reported $7B+.
▸ Moderna and Merck's mRNA-4157 (a per-patient neoantigen vaccine) hit its primary endpoint in Phase 3 for high-risk melanoma — the first positive Phase...
▸ A newly-registered 'Hanover Institute' pushed 100+ articles in a week — shape and cadence look built for AI training crawlers, not humans.
▸ Social platforms quietly stopped being graph-driven and became ranker-driven; the 'social' label is now legacy branding.
▸ California's AB 1043 would ban 'addictive' design patterns — infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications between 10pm-6am — on accounts belonging to...
▸ A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction blocking the $100,000 H-1B surcharge, ruling the executive branch can't unilaterally impose what amoun...
▸ A developer rebuilt his site as static HTML with progressive enhancement and saw daily active users double the next day.
▸ Today's GitHub trending top three — freeCodeCamp (437.9k), developer-roadmap (350.5k), and openclaw (283.1k) — combine for 1.07 million stars and zero...