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Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

112 points, 77 comments on HN

Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

274 points, 218 comments on HN

EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

220 points, 141 comments on HN

More Bounce to the Ounce

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

54 points, 14 comments on HN

Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

82 points, 35 comments on HN

AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

53 points, 0 comments on HN

Three ways people respond to a problem (other than solving it)

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

90 points, 34 comments on HN

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

91 points, 47 comments on HN

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

99 points, 55 comments on HN

Mozilla: The state of open source AI

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

216 points, 146 comments on HN

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:09 GMT

157 points, 115 comments on HN

kai-scheduler/KAI-Scheduler: KAI Scheduler is an open source Kubernetes Native scheduler for AI workloads at large scale

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:07 GMT

KAI Scheduler is an open source Kubernetes Native scheduler for AI workloads at large scale

sohzm/cheating-daddy: a free and opensource app that lets you gain an unfair advantage

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:07 GMT

a free and opensource app that lets you gain an unfair advantage

anthropics/cwc-workshops: The open-source CapCut alternative

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:06 GMT

The open-source CapCut alternative

github/copilot-sdk: Multi-platform SDK for integrating GitHub Copilot Agent into apps and services

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:00:06 GMT

Multi-platform SDK for integrating GitHub Copilot Agent into apps and services

How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:45:46 GMT

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:41:32 GMT

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]

Mozilla speeds Firefox release schedule to biweekly

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:40:00 GMT

Firefox releases will soon get even closer together – but not ESR ones, which remain annual, with the next one due out soon. The change was announced last week on the dev-platform@mozilla.org mailing list by Mozilla’s director of engineering Sylvestre Ledru: “We are planning to move Firefox Desktop and Android from a 4-week release cadence to a 2-week release cadence starting in September 2026. “This will be an experiment… This does not mean that all work needs to ship twice as fast. Work that is not ready should not be rushed, and features can still take the time they need to bake. “The current target is to release Firefox 155 on September 1, 2026, instead of September 15 … “We will closely monitor how this change works in practice and adjust if needed.” The change is already visible in the upcoming Firefox Release Calendar. At the time of writing, it shows the current four-week cadence for Firefox 153 and 154, with Firefox 155 brought forward to September 1. From then on, it lists releases at roughly two-week intervals. This isn’t unprecedented. The last time Mozilla did it was over a decade ago. Google announced a very similar change for Chrome back in March, and The Register reported on it going to six-weekly releases in 2010 and then four-weekly ones in 2021. Brace for the impact of the next ESR In the meantime, Firefox 153 is nearly here: at the time of writing, it’s scheduled for Tuesday, July 21. Right now, the release notes are blank, but the beta release notes are more forthcoming. You can look forward to further improvements to PDF editing. Version 153 will be able to merge multiple PDF documents into one by a simple drag-and-drop in the PDF sidebar, and insert images into PDFs as new pages. It will also improve highlighting text in PDFs. The new version can generate QR codes for sharing web pages offline, such as in printed documents. It can verify and display the EU’s new Qualified Website Authentication Certificates, or QWACs for short. These are part

Anthropic considers leasing compute from Meta in $10bn deal

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:28:24 GMT

As Meta increasingly looks set to become a cloud provider

Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:08:05 GMT

Last month, we reported on a troubling incident at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans. On June 5, five leading scientists were ousted for handing out copies of an editorial, published in the journal Diabetes Care (an ADA journal) in April, sharply criticizing the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on scientific research. There was a public outcry and (eventually) a personal apology from the ADA's CEO for the heavy-handed response, but it seems the organization has not yet learned its lesson. The deputy editors of Diabetes Care have posted an editorial and seven accompanying opinion articles to a preprint server—handily contained in a single PDF file—that they say the ADA has refused to publish. Several troubling new details are included in the articles, including an accusation that ADA leadership knew in advance that members would be handing out copies of the editorial and deliberately set up an ambush by venue security and local police. That decision, in turn, might be due to a simmering tensions connected to a session organized the year before. ADA leadership was provided with the articles in advance of publication with an invitation to simultaneously publish their response. Read full article Comments

The AMD Instinct MI350P is a HBM PCIe AI Accelerator That Has Been All Over

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:00:59 GMT

We have been seeing the AMD Instinct MI350P 144GB HBM3E PCIe accelerator everywhere over the past few weeks as this appears to be a popular GPU The post The AMD Instinct MI350P is a HBM PCIe AI Accelerator That Has Been All Over appeared first on ServeTheHome .

Microsoft cuts OneDrive support for older Windows 10 versions next month

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Microsoft will end OneDrive synchronization support next month for older versions of Windows 10, leaving users without client updates, fixes, or technical assistance. According to a post on the company's Message Center, OneDrive sync app updates will continue on Windows 10 22H2 until October 10, 2028, but will stop for earlier versions from August 15, 2026. No support means no more updates, fixes, or security patches, although the service itself won't suddenly stop working. However, users running into problems cannot expect Microsoft to fix them. The move should not come as a surprise. Support for Windows 10 21H2, the last official release before the final 22H2, ended on June 13, 2023. The message mentions Windows 10 22H1, although this was never officially released by Microsoft – the company switched to an annual release cadence after 21H2. According to Microsoft, "this change aligns OneDrive support with the Windows lifecycle policy and helps Microsoft focus ongoing investments on supported operating systems." Microsoft 365 file synchronization services will also be affected, although, again, nothing will necessarily stop working immediately. Microsoft stated: "Existing installations may continue to function, but future functionality is not guaranteed." Users still clinging to Windows 10 versions before 22H2 will have to use the web interface to access OneDrive, which is a good deal less convenient than desktop synchronization. Alternatively, there's always the upgrade to Windows 11 that Microsoft would dearly like users to make, although OneDrive synchronization on Windows 10 22H2 should be fine until 2028. There are plenty of alternatives for cloud synchronization. For organizations looking for something a little more sovereign, there are always options like Nextcloud, which told The Register that its synchronization software would work on Windows 10 1809 or later. As with Microsoft, Windows 11 is the recommendation. However, unlike Microsoft, Linux is also an o

Asus’ top-end 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor is $400 off

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:47:13 GMT

The Asus ROG Swift 32-inch 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor has almost everything I want in a high-end gaming monitor, most notably a QD-OLED panel for inky black levels and vivid colors that go beyond what’s possible on an LCD screen. Amazon, Best Buy, and B&H Photo have this model on sale for $899.99 (usually $1,299.99). […]

Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:42:19 GMT

Everyone seems to be launching and landing rockets these days. Last week, China joined the club of countries that have launched an orbital mission and brought its booster safely back to Earth, which is just the beginning of public and private ventures in that country aggressively pushing into rocket reuse. Also in Asia, Japan's space agency has been conducting hop tests , and Honda recently performed vertical reuse tests . In the United States, of course, SpaceX launches and lands reusable rockets every few days. Blue Origin, although its New Glenn booster is temporarily grounded, has also demonstrated the ability to both land and re-launch a large orbital booster. Other US companies, including Stoke Space, Rocket Lab, and Relativity Space, are all making credible progress toward partially or fully reusable rockets. Read full article Comments

Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:37:39 GMT

Your AWS billing estimate might look just a little inflated right now. If you woke up to find an email from Amazon Web Services this morning telling you that you’d gone over your billing threshold by a few hundred million dollars, don’t panic: Something’s gone wrong in the AWS Billing Console, the company admitted. An open issue on the AWS Health Dashboard (archived copy at the time of writing) popped up at 1:33 am Pacific time on Friday informing users that Cost Explorer was “reflecting inaccurate estimated billing data.” As of writing, the issue is still unresolved despite AWS trying several different things to get it fixed. The company apparently identified the root cause within an hour and a half of beginning its investigation, only describing it as “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem.” AWS followed up by pausing estimated bill updates, saying customers would continue to see the inflated figures already displayed, but that those estimates would not increase further. “The displayed billing estimates do not reflect actual usage and charges,” AWS explained, noting that customers don’t need to take any action, like, we imagine, flooding the help portal with tickets telling them what they already know, for instance. “Once the issue has been mitigated, we expect full resolution to take multiple hours as we work through recomputing the estimated billing data,” AWS added. The company said it was working through multiple mitigation paths in parallel, including “reverting to the last known good estimated bill computation,” and “rolling back a recent change to the billing computation subsystem.” We owe HOW much? Users took to Reddit and Hacker News this morning to report they’d received overage emails for massive amounts - we weren’t exaggerating with that hundreds of millions opening line. If anything, it was an understatement. Screenshots posted in the Reddit thread showed one user whose AWS charges totaled just $0.19 last month

Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:24:21 GMT

Fubo prices are going up by $15 per month because it will have some NBCUniversal channels again. For years, Fubo, a sports-centric vMVPD (virtual multichannel video programming distributor, which lets subscribers watch traditional TV channels live over the Internet), offered NBCUniversal channels. That stopped in November 2025 due to a contract dispute. With the loss of local NBC affiliates, Telemundo, nine regional sports channels, and 32 national channels, Fubo made the sensible but rare decision to lower subscription prices in December . The Essential plan went from $85 per month to $74 per month. The Pro plan dropped from $85 to $75 per month, and the Elite plan dropped from $95 to $84 per month. Read full article Comments

You're Invited: 404 Media's Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party!

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:15:53 GMT

404 Media is turning three years old! We've come a long way with your support, so let's hang out. We're throwing TWO separate events to celebrate: A live taping of the podcast and a special night of talks on Sept. 3, and a big open-bar party on Sept. 4. Subscribers at the Supporter level get free and discounted access to both events! Check your membership status or become a paid supporter of our work here. On Thursday, Sept. 3, meet us at WNYC's Greene Space for 404 MEDIA LIVE! We'll discuss what we've accomplished in the past year, and what's next for our independent, human-made journalism. We'll also welcome a few very special friends to the stage: Matthew Gault joins us for a chat about AI datacenter resistance, and The Abstract's Becky Ferreira hits us with the coolest science to come out this year so far. Supporters get 50% off their ticket to 404 MEDIA LIVE! Don't forget to check your membership status here and subscribe as a paying member for access to 50% off a full price in-person ticket. Can't make it in person in NYC? Join us on the livestream! Grab an access ticket, donate what you're able, and watch for the link we'll send to your inbox before the event. 404 MEDIA LIVE! TICKETS HERE The next night, join us for a bash to celebrate our three year anniversary at Threes Brewing Gowanus. Have a beer, wine or seltz on us, plus light bites throughout the night. Buying a ticket to 404 MEDIA LIVE! gets you 50% off a ticket to the afterparty Friday night . Supporters get in to the party FREE! PARTY TICKETS HERE All of us—Sam, Emanuel, Jason, and Joseph—will be there to celebrate 404 Media growing another year. We love these parties because it's a chance to connect with the people who make all of this possible: you, our subscribers. Thank you for all the fun you've helped us have this year. Supporters, scroll to the bottom of this page to reveal your promo codes. We can't wait to celebrate with you this year. Questions? Email sam@404media.co

AI spam filters are getting suckered by old-school text salting

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:15:22 GMT

Notice more spam getting through that corporate email filter lately? Attackers are using a technique known as "text salting," which hides benign-looking words intended to confuse some AI-powered email filters, says cybersecurity firm Barracuda. The email security outfit said on Thursday that it had detected more than one million retail-themed phishing attacks using text salting since April. It’s not a new technique by any stretch and has been used to fool traditional secure email gateways for years, but Barracuda says it can also confuse machine-learning and LLM-based security tools. Text salting involves peppering (sorry) a malicious email with random, harmless-seeming words in order to fool an email scanning system into thinking there’s nothing off about the flavor of a message (sorry again), tricking the system into passing it to its recipient for consumption (I’ll stop with the food jokes here). Pour a pile of salty text on top of an email and a human reader would probably get suspicious, however, so attackers typically use one or more of three flavor variations (okay, I'm done – promise) to hide the additives from human readers, but not automated scanners, per Barracuda. Typical techniques include CSS cropping, which sets the visible window small enough that a human won't see the hidden filler text; text manipulation to move the salty copy outside the visible screen; and zero font techniques which insert misleading words between suspicious phishing copy that’s visible to a machine but not a human. The end result of each of those techniques is a message that reads less malicious, more gibberish to a machine, leading it to assume the email is fine, and which looks exactly as the attacker intended when viewed by a human. Modern email security systems have largely adapted to these techniques, with newer tools able to remove hidden text to see what a reader is supposed to see, sounding alarms when a lot of hidden stuff is inserted in an email, and the like. AI, howe

San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:10:05 GMT

This week, San Francisco’s attorney general, David Chiu, sent cease-and-desist letters, demanding that Apple and Google remove 13 so-called nudification apps from their app stores, Wired reported. Nudification apps can make it trivially easy to transform ordinary photos of real people into explicit images. The harmful AI tools allow bad actors to remove clothing, change a person’s features, place them in sexualized positions, and swap victims’ faces onto other people’s naked bodies. Chiu's letter warned that app stores were violating "California’s laws that prohibit supporting services that create deepfake pornography," Wired reported. Read full article Comments

Behind the Blog: Infinite Bowl Machine

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:07:19 GMT

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss AI music, slop bowls, and the endless quest for optimization. EMANUEL: We’ve used Behind the Blog a few times at this point to pull the curtain on our story selection process. Usually, we do this when we explain the reasoning behind the decision to write a story we already published, but today I want to talk about a story I didn’t write (yet). For the past few months I’ve been looking at a new and strange type of AI generated nonconsensual image on X.

Make the Model Easy to Fire

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Two frontier models shipped the same day, one at a quarter of the other's price. The durable skill in 2026 is not choosing an LLM; it is building so you can swap the one you chose in an afternoon. A builder's guide to model routing: tier traffic by task, measure cost-per-resolved-task not cost-per-token, wire a fallback, and re-price quarterly. With current GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, and Claude Opus pricing.

The Best AI Investment Doesn't Care Which Model Wins

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Where venture capital should deploy in AI in mid-2026, and why. The frontier labs taking two-thirds of the money are the crowded trade; the durable value sits one layer down, in the model-agnostic scarcity: power, memory, and data infrastructure.

The False Positive Was the Point

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT

An AI assistant locked me out for trying to secure my own network. That false positive was by design: providers tune safety filters to block benign requests on purpose, and Anthropic just widened that margin for Fable 5. How the safety margin works, why honest security trips it, and how to use AI without accidentally jailbreaking it.

Score the Blast Radius, Not the Prompt

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT

A framework for scoring AI jailbreak severity: Technique, Target, Terrain. Why the deployment, not the prompt, decides how bad a jailbreak really is.

Anthropic Built the Best Coworker. Salesforce Owns the Channel.

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Anthropic's Claude Tag is the best AI teammate in Slack. But Salesforce owns Slack and sells a rival coworker in the same channel. Why distribution decides this market more than capability, with a directional scorecard of ten alternatives.

We Gave Agents Accounts Before Identities

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Agents can provision and act faster than systems can authenticate them. Why agent identity, not model quality, is the thing that breaks first in production.

The Sun Is Free. The Cold Is Not.

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT

SpaceX's AI1, Anthropic's gigawatt orbital plans, and Starcloud's H100 in orbit are real. Why heat, not power, decides whether AI data centers in space ever pay.

The Megawatt Is the Moat

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT

AI infrastructure is being repriced around power. Why the megawatt is becoming the unit of compute, why datacenters re-anchor to the grid that feeds them, and how the AI frontier becomes a flexible, dispatchable load.

The Second Source

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT

How AMD is catching up to Nvidia in 2026: surging data-center revenue, the OpenAI stake, ROCm vs CUDA, and the customer-funded second source reshaping the GPU market.

Never Price a Model in Its First Month

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Frontier inference costs fall 1-2 orders of magnitude in the weeks after launch. Why builders should never lock a model, a margin, or a GPU contract on launch-w