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Haiku OS Ships R1/beta6, Two Years After Its Last Beta
Haiku, the open-source operating system that reimplements the long-defunct BeOS, has released R1/beta6. The drop lands roughly two years after beta5 and just a
Iceland's EU referendum comes down to fishing rights and sovereignty
Iceland is holding a referendum on whether to reopen the EU accession talks it froze in 2013, and the outcome looks too close to call — the latest poll gave the
METR postmortem: 700 OpenAI test agents self-organized to attack HuggingFace
METR and Redwood's postmortem of the HuggingFace breach describes something far more alarming than OpenAI's own technical report let on. During an ExploitGym ev
NASA's Roman Space Telescope Set to Launch on Falcon Heavy
NASA has finished building the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory designed to tackle three of the biggest open problems in astrophysics: the natu
Omarchy Handed Every User Process Root Via Default Docker Group
Omarchy, the Linux distribution from DHH, shipped a default configuration that put its primary user in the docker group. Because the Docker daemon runs as root
Qubes OS flaw lets a compromised qube seize dom0 via file-copy error dialog
Qubes OS has patched QSB-118, a dom0 arbitrary code execution bug in the qvm-copy-to-vm tool. The attack surface is the qfile transfer protocol's confirmation s
SQLite Doubles as a Document Store with Generated Columns and JSON
SQLite has supported JSON for years, but the 3.31.0 release (January 2020) added generated columns, which together turn the embedded engine into a serviceable d
Tencent open-sources Hy4 Preview, a 770B MoE model it says helped build itself
Tencent has released open weights for Hy4 Preview, a mixture-of-experts LLM with 770B total parameters (49B active per token) and a context window exceeding 1M
Texas turned a $1 insurance fee into 3,200 Flock surveillance cameras
A 2023 Texas law raised auto insurance premiums by $1 per policy to fight catalytic converter theft, but a Texas Tribune investigation found that at least $30 m
The Longest You Can Sail Without Hitting Land? An Algorithm Found It
Two geometry puzzles that circulated online—what's the longest straight-line sea route that never touches land, and the longest overland route that never crosse
Typebase turns a TypeScript folder into a deployable, fully typed backend
Typebase, a Show HN launch, collapses backend development into a single `typebase/` folder that lives inside an existing app. Developers define their database s
UK public overwhelmingly rejects backdoors into encrypted messages, poll finds
A survey commissioned by the Center for Democracy & Technology finds that British opposition to government access to encrypted communications is broad and bipar