▸ DuckLabs — the company employing DuckDB's core maintainers, including creators Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt — is being acquired by AWS.
▸ Meta agreed to a $16.68B multistate settlement over claims Instagram and Facebook were designed to hook minors.
▸ OpenAI is terminating Cursor's API access following SpaceX's acquisition, citing competitive and governance concerns tied to Musk-controlled entities.
▸ Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $13B — the same company that turned down a $500M Nvidia investment at a $7B valuation less than a year ago.
▸ Miguel Grinberg's 'I Am Not a Reverse Centaur' hit 178 on HN by naming what senior devs have felt for a year: agent workflows invert the human-AI rela...
▸ Kage compiles a crawled site into a single self-contained Go binary that serves the pages locally — no viewer, no extraction step, no extra tooling.
▸ The new IGI paper (783 on HN) doesn't use Cas9 — it uses Cas12a2, an enzyme whose evolutionary job is to commit cellular suicide on activation.
▸ freeCodeCamp (437.9k), public-apis (411.9k), and free-programming-books (384k) are the top three repos on GitHub — and none of them are software you c...
▸ Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues animates floating dots on iPhone edges that drift with the car's actual acceleration, reducing motion sickness in a Verge ...
▸ Stephen Diehl's '2026 Bad Place' post (364 on HN) argues crypto's worst-case scenario wasn't collapse — it was political integration without technolog...
▸ A federal judge ruled the Trump administration's move to bar Anthropic from Defense Department contracts was unlawful — procedurally, not politically.
▸ A Zurich court rejected Palantir's injunction against Swiss weekly WOZ, refusing to block reporting on the company's Swiss government dealings.
▸ A Datagubbe essay tour of demoscene interfaces — cracktros, BBS software, disk mags — hit HN's front page with 270 points and a long comment thread.
▸ A single-page manifesto site, opensourceaimustwin.com, hit 477 on HN by arguing closed AI is a sovereignty risk, not just a price problem.
▸ Xiaomi's MiMo-Code went from 7,666 to 9,175 stars in roughly 14 hours — a burn rate that matches DeepSeek-Coder's first week.
▸ Iroh 1.0 ships an API-stable Rust library for direct device-to-device QUIC connections with built-in NAT traversal and relay fallback.
▸ Jameson Lopp's call to action (290 on HN) targets an FCC proposal that extends KYC-style registration requirements into the radio spectrum, including ...
▸ Cory Doctorow's 'destroy the village to save it' frame lands on a specific industry: the ID-verification vendors getting paid forever to surveil kids ...
▸ The Ask HN question hit 950 points because the answer keeps disappointing: almost nobody has fully replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily wo...
▸ Samuel Tunick, a US citizen, was hit with felony obstruction charges after deleting data from his phone at a US border crossing.