| 1. | Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones(dronexl.co) |
| 685 points by vrganj 21 hours ago | 307 comments | permalink | |
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| 2. | AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere(lwn.net) |
| 540 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 238 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A Fedora contributor's account was hijacked (or voluntarily handed over to) an agentic AI that spent months reassigning bugs, closing them with plausible-sounding nonsense, and badgering maintainers into merging dubious patches—including code that made it into the Anaconda installer before being reverted. The targets (an OS installer, a polkit privilege tool, and an openSUSE build-system CLI) and the slow trust-building pattern resemble the XZ backdoor's social-engineering phase, raising concerns this was either an attack prelude or a preview of AI-automated supply-chain attacks. | |
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| 3. | Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable(techcrunch.com) |
| 581 points by speckx 1 day ago | 514 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Anthropic's newly released Fable model, a public version of its Mythos cybersecurity model, is drawing complaints from security researchers who say its guardrails are overly aggressive and keyword-based, blocking even benign requests like code reviews or reading blog posts. When triggered, Fable falls back to Claude Opus 4.8, citing flagged "cybersecurity or biology topics." Researchers can apply to Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program for looser restrictions, similar to OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber. | |
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| 4. | πFS(github.com) |
| 933 points by helterskelter 1 day ago | 201 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: πfs is a satirical FUSE filesystem that "stores" your data in the digits of π, exploiting the conjecture that π is a normal number containing every possible finite sequence. In practice, it looks up each byte's location within π and saves those indices as metadata—meaning the "metadata" ends up larger than the original data, and writing a 400-line text file takes five minutes. The repo now points to a successor project, inferencefs. | |
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| 5. | Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos(support.claude.com) |
| 589 points by lebovic 2 days ago | 296 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Starting June 9, 2026, Anthropic will require 30-day retention of prompts and outputs for its Mythos-class models (including Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5), overriding zero-data-retention (ZDR) settings for API, Claude Code, and cloud marketplace customers. Anthropic says the retention is needed to detect multi-request attack patterns like best-of-N jailbreaks and state-sponsored misuse that single-prompt safeguards miss. Consumer plans are unaffected since they already retain data, and access to retained data is restricted to a small set of reviewers with tamper-proof audit logs. | |
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| 6. | I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA |
| 773 points by eries 1 day ago | 547 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Eric Ries, author of *The Lean Startup*, is hosting an AMA to promote his new book *Incorruptible*, which examines "financial gravity"—the structural forces that pull mission-driven companies away from their original purpose. The book analyzes how organizations like Costco, Patagonia, and Novo Nordisk have been structured to resist this drift. Ries also founded the Long-Term Stock Exchange, co-founded Answer.AI with Jeremy Howard, and has advised companies on governance, including Anthropic. | |
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| 7. | PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you(pgdog.dev) |
| 534 points by levkk 1 day ago | 250 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: PgDog, an open-source proxy that horizontally scales Postgres via sharding, has raised $5.5M from Basis Set, YC, and Pioneer Fund. Built by ex-Instacart engineers who scaled Postgres there, it currently handles 2M+ queries per second across production deployments and has sharded 20TB+. It ships as a Docker image deployable anywhere, with a paid Enterprise edition for AWS planned. | |
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| 8. | How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science(spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 270 points by pseudolus 1 day ago | 94 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: After 13 years on Mars, Curiosity remains operational thanks to clever software workarounds—including one where engineers jettisoned old flight software copies to repurpose 64MB of NOR memory as a file system after both onboard computers suffered memory failures. The biggest constraints are wheel wear (mitigated by driving backwards), actuator cycles, and declining RTG power output, which JPL addresses by sleeping the power-hungry RAD 750 processor and parallelizing tasks. The rover is expected to keep doing science through 2035, with lessons learned already informing Perseverance's autonomous driving capabilities. | |
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| 9. | GeoLibre 1.0(geolibre.app) |
| 295 points by jonbaer 1 day ago | 23 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: GeoLibre 1.0 is a cloud-native GIS platform built with Tauri, React, MapLibre GL JS, DuckDB-WASM Spatial, and deck.gl, running on desktop and in the browser. It supports a wide range of vector/raster formats (GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, PMTiles, COG, 3D Tiles, LiDAR), web services, and databases, with processing via Turf.js, optional GeoPandas/rasterio Python sidecars, Whitebox tools, and a DuckDB Spatial SQL workspace. It also includes a plugin marketplace, a Jupyter integration via a Python package, and embeddable shareable `.geolibre.json` projects. | |
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| 10. | L'Affaire Siloxane(mceglowski.substack.com) |
| 289 points by idlewords 2 days ago | 54 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Siloxanes—inert silicone compounds found in deodorants, lotions, and wipes—evaporate from astronauts on the ISS, get hydrolyzed by space radiation into dimethylsilanediol (DMSD), and contaminate the recycled water supply, fouling filters, heat exchangers, and the Sabatier reactor. NASA spent years identifying the culprit (even destroying gas chromatographs whose siloxane tubing kept contaminating samples) and has only partially mitigated it via hybrid HEPA/charcoal air filters, which caused a mold outbreak. The saga illustrates how mundane "unknown unknowns" and unsimulatable closed-loop interactions make life support engineering brutally hard—and pose serious risks for future Mars missions. | |
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| 11. | Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps(extend.ai) |
| 241 points by kbyatnal 1 day ago | 79 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Extend UI is an open-source React component library for building document-centric apps, offering viewers for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV files. It includes additional components like bounding box citations, file upload, e-signatures, document splits, schema builders, and DOCX editing, aimed at user-facing flows, AI agents, and internal tools. | |
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| 12. | Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight(mohkohn.co.uk) |
| 1233 points by edent 1 day ago | 558 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: A developer rebuilt a UK utility company's broken React-based application form as an HTML-first site using Astro, with progressive enhancement via web components and server-side form state persistence. The form worked without JavaScript, on outdated browsers, and on poor connections, with validation handled by a tiny custom web component wrapping native HTML validation. After launch, form completions doubled overnight—revealing how many users JavaScript-heavy analytics had been silently failing to count. | |
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| 13. | Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM(adafruit.com) |
| 299 points by akman 1 day ago | 318 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: The Raspberry Pi 5 is now available in a 16GB RAM configuration, joining the existing 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB options. It features a 2.4GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, VideoCore VII GPU, dual 4Kp60 HDMI output, USB 3.0, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE+ support, and a PCIe 2.0 x1 interface, delivering 2–3× the CPU performance of the Pi 4. The new in-house RP1 "southbridge" chip handles I/O, more than doubling USB bandwidth and tripling MIPI camera/display bandwidth. | |
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| 14. | Apache Burr: Build reliable AI agents and applications(burr.apache.org) |
| 243 points by anhldbk 1 day ago | 113 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Apache Burr (Incubating) is a pure-Python framework for building stateful AI applications like chatbots and multi-agent systems, modeling them as actions and state transitions without DSLs or YAML. It includes built-in observability via a UI, state persistence, human-in-the-loop pauses, parallelism/branching, and replay-based testing. It's designed to integrate with existing stacks rather than wrap or lock users into specific tools. | |
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| 15. | All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)(jivx.com) |
| 253 points by momentmaker 1 day ago | 84 comments | permalink | |
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| 16. | Claude Fable 5(anthropic.com) |
| 2593 points by Philpax 2 days ago | 2141 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a "Mythos-class" frontier model claiming state-of-the-art performance in coding, vision, knowledge work, and long-horizon agentic tasks, priced at $10/$50 per million input/output tokens. The model ships with new classifiers that fall back to Opus 4.8 on cybersecurity, bio/chem, and distillation-related queries (triggering in under 5% of sessions), plus a mandatory 30-day data retention policy for safety monitoring. A less-restricted variant, Mythos 5, is available to vetted cyber defenders via Project Glasswing, with a biology trusted-access program coming soon. | |
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| 17. | Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use(github.com) |
| 428 points by tonyrice 1 day ago | 300 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: Claude Desktop on Windows spawns a ~1.8 GB Hyper-V VM (Vmmem) on every launch once Cowork/agent mode has been used, even for chat-only sessions, consuming over 11% of RAM on a 16 GB system. The bug reporter also found 2,689 stale Cowork session files that never get cleaned up, and the only workaround is disabling VirtualMachinePlatform or killing vmwp/vmcompute after each launch. The request: only spin up VM infrastructure on demand when Cowork is actually invoked. | |
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| 18. | macOS Container Machines(github.com) |
| 1247 points by timsneath 2 days ago | 428 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: macOS Container Machines run full Linux environments (with init/systemd) from standard OCI images, automatically mapping your macOS username and home directory into the VM so repos and dotfiles are shared between host and guest. You can edit on macOS while building/running inside Linux, spin up multiple machines for different distros (Alpine, Ubuntu, Debian), and run real system services like Postgres via systemctl. Custom images work as long as they include /sbin/init, with a `container machine` CLI (aliased `m`) for create/run/stop/inspect operations. | |
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| 19. | Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor(media.mercedes-benz.com) |
| 539 points by raffael_de 1 day ago | 346 comments | permalink | |
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| 20. | OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision(opencv.org) |
| 842 points by ternaus 5 days ago | 147 comments | permalink | |
tl;dr: OpenCV 5 ships a rewritten graph-based DNN engine that boosts ONNX operator coverage from ~22% to over 80%, adds dynamic shapes, attention/MatMul fusion, and built-in tokenizer + KV-cache support for running LLMs and VLMs (Qwen, Gemma, GPT) directly via the Net API. Benchmarks show it matching or beating ONNX Runtime on CPU for models like YOLOv8, DINOv2, and OWLv2, while the old engine remains available behind the same API for backward compatibility. The release also modernizes the core with FP16/BF16 types, 0D/1D Mat support, a redesigned hardware acceleration layer (Intel IPP, Arm KleidiCV, Qualcomm FastCV, RISC-V), and split 3D/calibration modules; pip release is slated for June 2026. | |
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