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241. Startup founder behind San Francisco pro-billionaire rally
242. Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown
Kaspersky GReAT experts discovered previously undocumented infection chains used in the Notepad++ supply chain attacks. The article provides new IoCs related to those incidents which employ DLL sideloading and Cobalt Strike Beacon delivery.
243. Claude Code for Infrastructure
fluid.sh
244. Advancing finance with Claude Opus 4.6
With Claude Opus 4.6, finance teams get better reasoning on complex analyses, cleaner first-pass deliverables, and new tools built for where analysts actually spend their time.
245. Japan's Sanae Takaichi wins a supermajority after gambling on a snap election
Japan’s conservative prime minister Sanae Takaichi has won a landslide victory after she gambled on a high-stakes snap election
246. An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller
IBM 3270 terminal controller - IBM 3174 replacement - lowobservable/oec
247. Show HN: Falcon's Eye (isometric NetHack) running in the browser via WebAssembly
248. The Worst Programmer I Know
The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.
249. Claude Code Is the Inflection Point
What It Is, How We Use It, Industry Repercussions, Microsoft's Dilemma, Why Anthropic Is Winning
250. Maple Mono: open-source monospace font
251. Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead
Statement Jeffrey Epstein death day before
252. War Department Cuts Ties with Harvard University
253. I miss thinking hard
254. Top AI models fail at >96% of tasks
Researchers tested AI on remote freelance projects across fields like game development, data analysis, and video animation. It didn't go well.
255. Tractor
256. Fake NZ news pages are swamping Facebook with AI slop
Analysis - "Fake NZ news" pages are bombarding social media with misleading slop, including using AI to animate photos of a teenage landslide victim.
257. CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
A statement on the CIA's website gives no reason for the decision, simply stating that the Factbook has been "sunset" while encouraging readers to "stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it".
258. The chaos in the US is affecting open source software and its developers
259. SMLL: Using 200MB of Neural Network to Save 400 Bytes
We compressed Jane Austen to 10 bytes. The model weights required to decompress it are 200 megabytes.
260. Every Failed M4 Gun Replacement Attempt
FREE Handguard Builder Tool: https://tacticalshooting.com/ar15hgtool/Breaking down every Wasteful and yet cool M4 replacement program in the US military. Con...
261. OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
262. An Oral History of Unix (Thompson/Ritchie/12-More Interview Transcripts)
263. OpenClaw Is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been
Something strange is happening with Mac Minis. They’re selling out everywhere, and it’s not because people suddenly need more coffee table computers. If you browse Reddit or HN, you’ll see the same pattern: people are buying Mac Minis specifically to run AI agents with computer use. They’re setting up headless machines whose sole job is to automate their workflows. OpenClaw—the open-source framework that lets you run Claude, GPT-5, or whatever model you want to actually control your computer—has become the killer app for Mac hardware. Not Final Cut. Not Logic. An AI agent that clicks buttons.
264. Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.00294: Self-Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation
265. Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge
Claims of penis injections in ski jumpers has fillers spewing into the news.
266. Washington Post CEO Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
267. Smart Homes Are Terrible
You shouldn’t need a tech tour and app to turn the lights on.
268. European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams
269. NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test
Artemis II mission was due to begin as early as next week and astronauts have spent almost two weeks in quarantine
270. Claude Is a Space to Think
We’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a genuinely helpful AI assistant, and how we plan to expand access without compromising user trust.