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The latest AI and developer news from Hacker News, with short summaries.
Visit website →NIST Gives Up on Enriching Most CVEs
NIST is scaling back NVD enrichment to focus on critical vulnerabilities.
Healthchecks.io started using self-hosted object storage
Healthchecks.io shared why and how it moved from managed S3 to self-hosted object storage.
Ban the sale of precise location data
It calls for banning the sale of precise location data and examines the reality of AI accelerating hacking.
What Are Skiplists Good For?
A case study of how Antithesis used a skiptree to solve tree queries in BigQuery.
Floating Point Fun on Cortex-M Processors
Explains the differences between Cortex-M's soft, softfp, and hard ABIs and Zephyr configuration.
Ada, Its Design, and the Language That Made Languages
Ada was the first to implement the safety features of today's modern languages.
Big Tech Inserted a Secret Clause into EU Law to Hide the Environmental Burden of Data Centers
Big Tech lobbying got the EU to keep data center environmental information confidential.
Bluesky has been experiencing a DDoS attack for almost a day
Bluesky suffered a DDoS attack for nearly a day, causing instability in feeds, notifications, and search.
Discourse will not go closed source
Discourse declared it will keep its open source stance even in the AI era.
Solitaire simulator in search of the optimal strategy: current record is 8.590%
A change in the search strategy of a Klondike Solitaire simulator has pushed the win rate up to 8.590%.
SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verified with Claude Code
Connected an oscilloscope and SPICE to Claude Code to build a hardware verification workflow.
Newly Unsealed Records Reveal Amazon's Price-Fixing Tactics, California AG Claims
California's AG has raised allegations of Amazon's price control practices based on unsealed documents.
AI-driven hardware hacker arm built from duct tape, an old cam, and a CNC machine
An AI agent automates everything from microscope mapping to safe pin probing.
A Better R Programming Experience Thanks to Tree-sitter
Tree-sitter has greatly improved editing, search, and linting in the R ecosystem.
How Playdate's Handheld Changed Game Design Education at Duke University
Duke is using Playdate for rapid prototyping education.
Android CLI: Build Android Apps 3x Faster with Any Agent
Android CLI, skills, and Knowledge Base accelerate Android agent development.
Show HN: Stage - putting the human back in control of code review
A human-first code review tool that breaks PRs into chapters to read
Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-engineering apps into APIs
It intercepts traffic from web, mobile, and desktop apps and automates it like an API.
Is the Future of the World All a Lie? Where Do We Go From Here?
The author argues that, facing the confusion and risks created by LLMs, we should pause and refuse.