The Google Publisher ID Linking 15 Kompromat Sites

Three pieces of code appear in the HTML source of every domain in the Konstantin Chernenko network. All three link fifteen differently-named, differently-registered sites to a single technical infrastructure: IP address 185.203.72.75, a content management system...

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When the System Flags the Human Who Was Helping It

A public record of months of stress-testing Grok, a spontaneous image generation previously seen only with Elon Musk, and a permanent suspension from Creator Revenue Sharing.On August 6, 2026, at 05:15 CEST, I opened an email from X Support.“After a thorough review,...

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What Gandhi and Open Source Have in Common

One of the greatest polymath and genius of all times, Albert Einstein, once said about the political views of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, called as Mahatma Gandhi by his millions of followers, that “I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the...

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What Building My First RAG Application Taught Me

I thought connecting an LLM to my documents would be the hard part. It wasn't. The real challenge was getting the AI to retrieve the right information, use it correctly, and admit when it didn't know. I thought building a RAG application would be straightforward: take...

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When AI Talks About Iran, Where Are the Iranians?

Sanctions hurt civilians, but grammar calls it pressure. Artificial intelligence does not need to hate anyone to reproduce political blindness. It only needs to summarize the world the way the world is usually written. That is the problem. Ask an AI system to explain...

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AI Can Build a Game. Can It Make One Good?

A single prompt can now produce a playable platformer, shooter or survival game before you finish your coffee. That is an extraordinary technical achievement. It is also a misleading way to measure progress in game development. The important question is no longer...

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How AI Copilots Turn Messy Dev Threads Into Action

I feel like this is one of those small things that doesn’t get talked about enough, but quietly drains a lot of time if you’ve been working in a typical dev setup. We’ve been running the usual stack for years - Slack, Jira, Confluence,BridgeApp. It works, nothing...

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This Website Is Served by an OS Written in Swift

TL;DR: I wrote an operating system in Embedded Swift for 64-bit ARM: kernel, drivers, TCP/IP stack, and userland. It runs on a Hetzner Cloud ARM VM and serves its own website, swiftos.tech, over HTTPS — nginx on my own kernel, my own syscall ABI, my own libc port. No...

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How to Check Whether a Benchmark Actually Has a Source

Somewhere in a sales deck that has been viewed a few hundred thousand times, there is a slide listing the standard contact-rate breakdown. Two percent of sales close on the first contact. Three percent on the second. Five on the third, ten on the fourth, and eighty...

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Check out the width of that Debian display

BORK!BORK!BORK! Wide, super wide, ultra wide, and monitor-munga screens might be all the rage these days. But check out the girth of this Debian display in Scotland. Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Kenny Millar, this digital billboard in the west central...

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Kusama Yayoi has died

https://archive.ph/axjMFhttps://yayoi-kusama.jp/en/news4518/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458709 Points: 153 # Comments: 13

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eeink Provides eInk, ESP32 Powered Text Adventures

There’s a niche genre of text adventure that’s halfway between a traditional novel and a videogame. Think Zork if it had an extra few novels worth of words of well-crafted story to go with the action. [t0mg] is a fan of such adventures, and also quite enjoys carrying...

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Why the dream of ‘having it all’ is finally dead

Ange, 32, used to have a clear idea of what “having it all” meant: a stable corporate job, a decent-size wedding, a house, and the ability to buy nice material goods every so often.  But, like many young people, Ange has found that checking all of these boxes has felt...

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