Half of Europe’s towns and villages have fewer residents than 60 years ago
Article URL: https://correctiv.org/en/europe/2026/04/21/half-of-europes-towns-and-villages-have-fewer-residents-than-60-years-ago/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253813 Points: 13 # Comments: 2
BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems (CMS) platform's plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads. "Unlike traditional software supply chain...
Mozilla Issues New Firefox GPG Key Following Exposure
The previous GPG signing subkey was inadvertently added to a GitHub repository and Mozilla decided to revoke it. The post Mozilla Issues New Firefox GPG Key Following Exposure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
DeepSeek: Reverse Engineering an AI Assistant by Interviewing Itself
Article URL: https://manish.sh/writings/models/inside-deepseek-reverse-engineering-an-ai-assistant-by-interviewing-itself Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253738 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Mcptoon – MCP CLI client that cuts tool discovery tokens by 97%
Article URL: https://github.com/activeing123/mcptoon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253721 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Microsoft Responds to Outcry After Quiet Enterprise Install of Beta ‘Photos’ App
Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-11-admins-unhappy-as-microsoft-found-installing-unexpected-new-onedrive-photos-app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253329 Points: 14 # Comments: 2
A Keyboard with No Keys
For as capable as smartphone hardware is, the software running on them can be especially restrictive and cumbersome. Unlike a single-board computer with GPIO running a standard Linux operating system and some intuitive programming language like Python, smartphones are...
Updated GPG Key for Signing Firefox and Thunderbird Releases
Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/08/10/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-and-thunderbird-releases/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253250 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Why My Father Is Wrong: A Defense of Guitar Hero
Article URL: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/10/why-my-father-is-wrong-a-defense-of-guitar-hero/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49253176 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Hyperspace
Article URL: https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252493 Points: 11 # Comments: 4
US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/trump-secret-flight-nato-return Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252912 Points: 9 # Comments: 2
Recycle – Floppydisks
Article URL: https://www.floppydisk.com/recycle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252462 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Antirez/h3.c: MiniMax H3 inference engine for Mac computers
Article URL: https://github.com/antirez/h3.c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49252179 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Chicken Scheme 6.0
Article URL: https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251702 Points: 33 # Comments: 3
The PiShot Is Ready For Your Snaps
The formula for a Raspberry Pi camera is by now a straightforward one: take a Pi and camera module, add a display, buttons, and battery, and you’re done. This doesn’t mean that there’s no scope for more though, and [Irtaza2009] has one in the PiShot. It’s a few months...
Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Citizens Don’t
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-track-every-car-in-america-police-love-them-citizens-dont.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251978 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Chicken Scheme 6.0 Released
Article URL: https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251702 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-lexisnexis-millions-for-data-to-feed-to-palantir/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251643 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
The UK’s War on Anonymity Has Come to America
Article URL: https://www.effort.news/uk-lobby Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251411 Points: 14 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik’s Cube states
Article URL: https://everycube.alen.is/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251179 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.
As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.
World Train Map – 1247 train routes around the world
Article URL: https://worldtrainmap.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250894 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Why are brands suddenly all about wicker on social media?
It’s never been a better time to be in the wicker business. Brands are leaning into the woven art form as a forthcoming movie has people asking “What if a basket could be a sexy man?” The film, Wicker, which dropped its first trailer in early August, stars Olivia...
Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse
Article URL: https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250836 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team
Jeff Bezos is reportedly close to buying his first stake in a sports team: the U.K.'s famed Liverpool Football Club.
Cotton-Fiberglass Composite Makes Lightweight RV Countertops
You’ve seen fiber-reinforced-plastic before, no doubt, but perhaps never quite like in this video by [Whitburn Studio]: it’s still got the usual resin, but instead of glass or carbon fibers, he’s using printed Japanese cotton to create strong, lightweight and good...
Klaviyo Sign-Up Bug May Have Exposed Passwords to Ad Trackers
Klaviyo says fewer than 200 people are known to be affected by a sign-up bug that may have exposed passwords to third-party trackers. The post Klaviyo Sign-Up Bug May Have Exposed Passwords to Ad Trackers appeared first on TechRepublic.
Now Rippling is counter suing tiny startup Runlayer
This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas. It's a seller and buyer-beware market warning.
How Claude marks AI-generated content
Article URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250109 Points: 31 # Comments: 21