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Up to 8M Bees Are Living in an Underground Network Beneath This Cemetery

Score: 96 | Comments: 12

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Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national sec

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Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

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Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network

Score: 10 | Comments: 1

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Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe

Score: 92 | Comments: 42

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‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

There's a lot more code — but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

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Show HN: A working reference implementation of context engineering

Score: 26 | Comments: 9

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All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)

Score: 233 | Comments: 133

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Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists

Prediction market exchanges have created an environment where just about any piece of information is potentially monetizable: How well will BTS's new song perform this week? How hot will Los Angeles g

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Hackers are abusing unpatched Windows security flaws to hack into organizations

A security researcher published details of three security vulnerabilities in Windows Defender, and the code used to exploit them. Now, hackers are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities in real-life

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This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry

I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably

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Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines

Score: 226 | Comments: 89

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Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman's human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters

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Gigs turns your concert history into a personal live music archive

New iPhone app Gigs uses AI to turn old tickets, screenshots, and emails into a personal concert archive with stats, memories, and more.

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Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock

Score: 130 | Comments: 56

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Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects

Score: 128 | Comments: 106

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Writing string.h functions using string instructions in asm x86-64 (2025)

Score: 44 | Comments: 4

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Spending 3 months coding by hand

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Chef Robotics escaped the robot cooking graveyard and says it’s thriving — here’s why

The company, which deploys AI-guided robot arms for food production, says it is looking to expand its services to provide for a broader array of customers.

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Our new favorite budget phones

Over the last few months, every phone maker under the sun has refreshed its lineups, especially at the affordable end, with no major budget phone launches now expected until next year. That made it th

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