▸ TNO, NFI and SURF are building GPT-NL on roughly €13.5M of Dutch state funding — a rounding error next to frontier-lab training budgets.
▸ Mitchell Hashimoto pledged another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation for 2026, bringing his personal contributions close to $1M across three years.
▸ Tonsky's 'Every Frame Perfect' climbed to 691 on HN — nearly double its first-day score — because senior engineers recognized the measurement bug in t...
▸ Deno Desktop lets you ship cross-platform native apps using the system webview, not a bundled Chromium — same architectural bet as Tauri, but with Den...
▸ Chrome's rolling Manifest V3 enforcement is finally disabling the full uBlock Origin for the remaining holdouts on the stable channel.
▸ openclaw/openclaw hit 283.1k stars trending #1 on GitHub — ahead of facebook/react (243.9k) and torvalds/linux (221.6k).
▸ GPT-6 Astra is live on OpenRouter and OpenAI's API, with a 'max' tier that costs ~63 cents per pelican-SVG and takes 4 minutes to think.
▸ The three highest-starred repos on GitHub right now — freeCodeCamp (437.9k), public-apis (411.9k), free-programming-books (384k) — contain almost no c...
▸ Arch Linux says the AUR malware incident is contained after removing more than 1,500 compromised packages — the cleanup is the story, not the breach.
▸ A patient was submerged in ice water for 147 minutes, went into hypothermic cardiac arrest, and walked out neurologically intact — published in JACC C...
▸ Fox is buying Roku for $22B, folding the largest US connected-TV OS into a legacy broadcaster's streaming portfolio.
▸ Vicki Boykis declares local model inference 'good now' — the threshold moved because of llama.cpp, MLX, and Ollama, not because of any single model re...
▸ Kage's HN score nearly tripled overnight (214 → 556) — the community is rewarding UX, not the crawler.
▸ The 381-point HN thread on 'the shadow hanging over Fable' isn't really about Anthropic's product — it's about what happens when your agent stack hard...
▸ G. Malandrakis's 'Ad Economicum' essay (128 on HN) argues a fully automated economy is technically feasible — and in 2026 the hand-waving steps that u...
▸ @ID_AA_Carmack publicly singled out Fabrice Bellard — the HN thread hit 871, almost all of it people enumerating Bellard's shipped projects.
▸ Google Research built a working cluster from end-of-life Android phones — each node is a complete computer with CPU, RAM, storage, NIC, and battery al...
▸ A Derbyshire Police officer is under investigation for allegedly using generative AI to manufacture evidence across multiple criminal cases.
▸ opensourceaimustwin.com tripled to 1,481 points in 24 hours — but the manifesto's three verbs (run, audit, fork) don't map cleanly onto any model peop...
▸ Microsoft has closed off the Rufus/OOBE\BYPASSNRO workarounds that let users finish Windows 11 setup with a local account.