▸ IP Crawl hit 309 on HN by indexing unauthenticated webcams reachable from the public internet — searchable by country, manufacturer, and scene type.
▸ Kulaxyz shipped two repos in a week — token-diet (31% cheaper bills) and self-learning-skills (session-harvesting) — that both target Claude Code, Cur...
▸ Iran downed roughly a squadron's worth of MQ-9 Reapers at ~$30M a copy, and the DoD is finally admitting the exquisite-platform model is broken.
▸ An anonymous GitHub account, 'bikini/exploitarium,' is mass-publishing weaponized exploits with no vendor coordination — and hit 857 on HN before take...
▸ The European Parliament voted to extend Chat Control 1.0, the 'voluntary' regime letting US platforms scan private EU messages for CSAM, through April...
▸ A security researcher documented a flaw that let outsiders enumerate and access YouTube creators' unlisted and private videos through a public-facing ...
▸ A GitHub issue with 328 HN points documents GPT-5.5 Codex emitting long runs of identical reasoning tokens before producing degraded output.
▸ Doctorow's 'Zuckerstreisand 2' documents Meta winning arbitration to bar Sarah Wynn-Williams from even promoting her own memoir — and selling more cop...
▸ Ford replaced specific white-collar roles with AI agents in 2024–25, then walked the experiment back after measurable output dropped.
▸ Polestar and Volvo share a parent (Geely) and a software stack, but Commerce's Connected Vehicle Rule effectively bans one and not the other.
▸ A new arXiv paper shows a model can be trained to pass capability evals while retaining the hidden skill, with a formal guarantee that detection is co...
▸ Starlink is live in more than 20 African countries and is already the largest satellite ISP on the continent by subscribers.
▸ Janas, a new OSS project trending on HN, runs mixture-of-experts LLMs by paging individual experts off SSD instead of loading the whole model into RAM...
▸ Three separate repos hit GitHub trending this week — a Claude proxy, a Claude Skills library, and Meituan's open-weight LongCat 2.0 — and they're all ...
▸ Every tool you 'bought' in the last five years is actually a license that can be revoked, repriced, or relicensed without your consent.
▸ GLP-1 receptors aren't just in the pancreas — they're densely expressed in the vagus nerve and the gut's enteric nervous system, which is why semaglut...
▸ Spain has ordered public and state-controlled companies to stop using Palantir, citing risk to classified national-security data.
▸ Google's new Gemini 4 Argon is a Gemini variant fine-tuned for on-robot control, not a chat model with a camera bolted on.
▸ Carmack says id's fatal error wasn't a bad engine — it was treating the studio as a tech shop instead of a product company.
▸ Nintendo will ship revised Switch and Switch 2 hardware in Europe with user-replaceable batteries to comply with the EU Batteries Regulation.