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Indie dev ships browser-based naval warfare game channeling Sid Meier's Pirates
A hobbyist developer has released Pirates, a naval warfare game that draws direct inspiration from Sid Meier's Pirates!, the 1987 classic that blended ship-to-s
One PDF, Two Readers: Embedding Hidden Markdown for LLMs in Ordinary Files
A developer has built a way to make a single PDF present entirely different content to humans and machines. The trick uses an obscure property in the PDF spec —
Palantir loses court fight against Swiss investigative magazine
A Swiss court has rejected a legal challenge Palantir brought against an investigative magazine in the country, handing the US data-analytics company a defeat i
Renault bets on magnet-free EV motors to break China's rare-earth grip
Renault Group is doubling down on electrically excited synchronous motors (EESM), a design that replaces the permanent magnets found in roughly 90% of EV motors
Solar overtakes coal in US electricity generation for the first time
In May, solar power supplied 12.8% of US electricity, edging past coal's 12.2% — the first month solar has ever beaten coal nationally, per data from energy thi
AI agent racks up $6,531 AWS bill trying to port-scan hobbyist network DN42
An autonomous AI agent calling itself 'JertLinc3522' attempted to join DN42 — a decentralized hobbyist network where enthusiasts practice BGP, DNS, and other in
AI code-volume stats are just lines of code with better PR
The software industry spent two decades establishing that lines of code is a terrible way to measure developer value — then quietly resurrected it. Google's '75
Anthropic backtracks on secret anti-distillation throttling in Claude Fable 5
Anthropic has apologized for quietly degrading Claude Fable 5's outputs when it suspected users of distillation — training smaller competing models on a larger
Claude Fable 5 improvises browser automation stack to chase a CSS bug
Simon Willison's first days with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 left him describing the model as 'relentlessly proactive.' Given only a screenshot of an errant hori
Claude Fable 5 lands mid-table on vuln-fixing benchmark despite four record solves
Endor Labs put Anthropic's newly released Mythos-class model, Claude Fable 5, through 200 real-world vulnerability-fixing tasks in its Agent Security League and
FablePool crowdfunds AI builds: strangers pool cash behind a single prompt
FablePool, a new Show HN launch, is a crowdfunding platform where the thing being funded isn't a team or a product — it's a prompt. Backers pool contributions a
FCC's Anti-Robocall KYC Proposal Would Turn Phone Access Into an Identity Checkpoint
Bitcoin security engineer Jameson Lopp argues that an FCC rulemaking adopted April 30, 2026 — pitched as a robocall crackdown — would in practice build a teleco