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241. Dutch House of Representatives advances controversial 36% tax law
The Netherlands’ House of Representatives advanced a legislative proposal on Thursday to introduce a 36% capital gains tax on savings and most liquid investments, including cryptocurrencies.The legislation reached the 75-vote threshold required to advance, with 93 lawmakers voting in favor of it, a…
242. Chiplets Get Physical: The Days of Mix-and-Match Silicon Draw Nigh
243. Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?
244. Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
245. Researcher skeptical of 'Havana syndrome' tested secret weapon on himself
246. CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for 'Tactical Targeting'
US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.
247. Reverse Engineering Sid Meier's Railroad Tycoon for DOS from 1990
248. Show HN: rari, the rust-powered react framework
rari is a React Server Components framework with a Rust runtime. The HTTP server, RSC renderer, and routing run in Rust with embedded V8. Zero to RSC in minutes.
249. Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers' Technical Manual (1990) [pdf]
250. ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could
The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, "necessary" is something that's on a continually sliding scale with Trump back in office, which means everything (legal or not) is "necessary" if it can help White House advisor Stephen Miller hit his self-imposed 3,000 arrests per…
251. Zvec is a lightweight, fast, in-process vector database
A lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database - alibaba/zvec
252. 'It's over for us': release of AI video generator Seedance 2.0 spooks Hollywood
An AI clip featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting has caused concern among industry figures
253. Show HN: Auto-Layouting ASCII Diagrams
ASCII/svg diagrams generated from simple configuration with auto-layouting - switz/box-of-rain
254. Jikipedia: The encyclopedia of people, places, and events from the Epstein files
Jwiki — The Epstein scandal encyclopedia. 64 articles grounded in Jmail data. AI-generated from government-released emails and documents. Formerly Jikipedia.
255. So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
256. Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
257. Disney Blasts ByteDance with Cease and Desist Letter over Seedance 2.0 AI Model
Disney sent a cease and desist letter to China's ByteDance for stocking its Seedance 2.0 platform “with a pirated library of copyrighted characters."
258. I broke my rule and built on Spotify's API. Then they pulled the plug on indies
259. ByteDance Seed2.0 LLM: breakthrough in complex real-world tasks
Seed2.0 正式发布
260. Exposure Simulator
261. Paper Plotter
Paper plotter is a plotting tool that cuts 3D Math functions into a PDF so you can cut it out. Math made easy so you can grasp the functions easier.
262. Generalized on-policy distillation with reward extrapolation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.12125: Learning beyond Teacher: Generalized On-Policy Distillation with Reward Extrapolation
263. Saudade
264. Show HN: Open-source CI for coding with AI
A self correcting system for AI coding loops. Autonomous development with multi-modal review, backed up by git hooks and branch protection. - sburl/CrossCheck
265. I spent two days gigging at RentAHuman and didn't make a single cent
Rather than offering a revolutionary new approach to gig work, RentAHuman is filled with bots that just want me to be another cog in the AI hype machine.
266. A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST
By Rohan P. Naidu, Pascal A. Oesch & 44 more. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a bright galaxy, MoM-z14, located 280 million years post-Big Bang, challenging previous models and suggesting a rising star-formation history.
267. Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data
Summary
268. Pandoc in the Browser with WASM
Pandoc 3.9 was released yesterday. Release pandoc 3.9 · jgm/pandoc · GitHub This is the first release for which an official wasm version is available. This is possible thanks to the amazing work done by the compiler bui…
269. GPT-5 outperforms federal judges 100% to 52% in legal reasoning experiment
270. Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.