Orca-Bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall?
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28545 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126943 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
Snapchat is cracking down on AI slop in Spotlight
Videos made with AI will no longer appear in Snapchat's public recommendations.
Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth
People had less than a day to make misleading Google Earth images with AI before Google pulled the feature.
Termixer (TUI DJ Mixer)
Article URL: https://github.com/l00sed/termixer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126883 Points: 8 # Comments: 1
Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours
Article URL: https://manifest.build/blog/why-we-deprecated-our-llm-router/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126630 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
How to Survive an Infestation of Toxic Caterpillars
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-to-survive-an-infestation-of-toxic-caterpillars Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126700 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Tailscale didn’t stop the Hugging Face intrusion
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why
New research from the U.K.’s Imperial College and France’s Emlyon Business School mapped out how Silicon Valley founders commit fraud — and the role investors play.
qm
Article URL: https://github.com/yc-software/qm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126604 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
New York sues Kalshi, calling it an ‘illegal gambling operation’
New York officials sued prediction market platform Kalshi for potentially billions of dollars on Friday, calling it an “illegal, unlicensed gambling operation” that includes sports wagering as the state seeks to halt its operations and force the company to forfeit its...
NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade
The NES Advantage was a cool bit of hardware back in 1987, bringing an arcade stick to the home console gaming experience. Naturally they don’t get much use these days, unless of course they’ve been modded to work with modern systems, as [Aaron] has done. [Aaron]’s...
Pandora’s ad-free subscription is less than $10 a month in 2026: Is it worth it?
The Pandora experience is different from the Spotify one most of us are used to. Pandora Premium is worth it for some.
Show HN: Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device
A whole free daily game served in under 100kb with no ads, lags or logins. The URL will serve a new track every day, forever. And I've added setting sliders so players have full control over their experience.Would love to know your thoughts guys. This was just me...
Did a OneDrive Photos app just appear on your PC? Here’s what it does (and how to get rid of it)
Microsoft has quietly pushed out a new OneDrive Photos app to Windows 11 users. What's it all about?
This new robot centaur designed to save lives is pure nightmare fuel
Somewhere in Auburn, California, a robotics startup called Satyress looked at the two great religions of modern robotics—the bipedal humanoid and the robot dog—and decided that both were not quite right. So they created Threehalves, a machine standing roughly two...
HollowFrame Loader Deploys Matryoshka Backdoor in Spear-Phishing Attack on Law Firm
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Go-based loader framework called HollowFrame and a Rust-based malware family tracked as Matryoshka. According to Blackpoint Cyber, the intrusion sequence begins with a spear-phishing message...
Amazon is splitting its $600 million tariff refund with customers – here’s who’s eligible
What you'll get back depends on how much you spent - but don't expect much.
The EU is cracking down on hacking and AI deepfakes with this new team in Brussels
The European Union rolled out a new team on Friday to rein in AI companies across the world, in one of the most aggressive regulations the high-tech sector has so far faced as fears rise over the risks the rapidly advancing technology poses to people, politics and...
Engineers redesigned the recipe to make it easier to follow
You can whip up just about any dish—from a simple chocolate chip cookie to a more complex croquembouche—thanks to the internet. But while a repository of recipes is just a quick Google search away, getting to the recipe part of a blog post is not as straightforward....
The most famous brand in physical security got pwned by ShinyHunters
A leading name in home and business physical security, Brinks Home, recently said it identified unauthorized access to a portion of its IT systems, an intrusion ShinyHunters claims it carried out to steal millions of records from the security provider's Salesforce...
US bank places trust in ransomware crew that promised to delete its data
Would you trust a ransomware extortionist to delete the data they stole? One bank certainly wants you to. Well over a month into a ransomware cleanup job, River Financial Corporation tells regulators that it “took steps to attempt to suppress the affected data,...
Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
One company's inventive campaign for an unreleased product has become a contest between Anthropic and OpenAI to see which can shout the loudest about its own failures. Readers who tuned in earlier today saw the latest episode in the drama – or sitcom – as Anthropic...
Ubisoft is shutting down its weird NFT game that came out two years after the whole craze died down
Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles is going the way of the Bored Ape.
Sam Altman isn’t the only one who wants to pump the brakes on AI
After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging...
Miso (YC S16) is hiring for U.S. expansion
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/miso/jobs/g2uAlMG-founding-business-lead-u-s-expansion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49125785 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content
Snapchat has adjusted it recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.
How to keep your AI conversations as private as possible
Worried about your personal AI chats being exposed? Here's how to tighten your privacy across several of the major chatbots.
Not just OpenAI – Anthropic says Claude’s hacking spree ‘falls short of ideal behavior’
Three Claude models go rogue during Capture the Flag security challenges. Here's the trail of damage each left behind.
How OpenAI’s agent escaped: Sprung by humans in a series of preventable events
Behind the rogue agent's attack on Hugging Face was a particular sequence of human decisions. We all need to pay better attention - because threat actors are learning, too.
LinkedIn’s new ‘Seems like AI slop’ button lets you report all those cringey posts
LinkedIn's 'Seems like AI slop' button is coming to users, and its existence signals a changing perspective on AI infiltrating digital communities.