▸ Google released Gemini 4 Argon, pitched as its first model built around tool-use and long-horizon agent loops rather than chat.
▸ The FTC has opened a 6(b) study into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier AI companies, focused on product risks to consumers.
▸ EDG, the Princeton-based firm that has licensed the most standards-conformant C++ front-end in the industry since 1988, is making its front-end public...
▸ Dan Abramov argues ATProto isn't federation at all — there's one logical global database, and 'PDS' is just where your bytes happen to live.
▸ Microsoft quietly extended free consumer Extended Security Updates for Windows 10 through October 13, 2026 — no Microsoft account gymnastics, no Rewar...
▸ Hyundai bought SoftBank's remaining 20% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325M, ending a 30-year ownership carousel.
▸ The EFF is pushing Congress to kill PACER's per-page fees, arguing federal court records are public documents Americans already paid for.
▸ Zig's @bitCast is no longer a single magic builtin — it now decomposes into explicit pointer, length, and representation conversions, killing a long t...
▸ A blog post cataloging Google's degraded SERPs hit HN's front page (~1,100 points), because every dev has the same tab-full of AI Overviews, sponsored...
▸ Livenerf is a community-run benchmark that re-tests Opus 5.5 daily to catch silent regressions — 860 HN upvotes in a day say the paranoia is mainstrea...
▸ OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Sol claims near-Astra-tier reasoning at roughly one-fifth the token cost of the flagship tier.
▸ A wilsoniumite.com essay hit 161 on HN by naming what every senior engineer already knows: the work that matters most is the work nobody bills for.
▸ US sanctions on ICC staff cut off Microsoft services for Dutch government users, forcing a scramble for alternatives.
▸ Inkeep open-sourced OpenKnowledge, a WYSIWYG markdown editor with first-class hooks into Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor — files stay local, no cloud a...
▸ FT reports companies are capping employee AI usage after token bills blew past forecasts — the 'unlimited pilot' era is over.
▸ Three of today's trending repos include a Discord Nitro generator (classic credential-stealer bait) and two projects with the fingerprints of star-far...
▸ Bluesky's did:plc method is a centralized log run by Bluesky PBC — technically migratable, practically not.
▸ JDK 28 (March 2026) ships value objects in preview — the payoff for ten years of design work, but the migration story is uglier than the launch slides...
▸ The FAA halted departures at multiple East Coast airports after a single fiber cut knocked out air traffic control communications.
▸ OpenAI's Dots reframes agents as persistent daemons — always running, always watching, no invocation required.