Show HN: 18 Words

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Play 18 Words: a fast daily word challenge. Solve each scrambled word before the timer runs out and see how many of 18 you can survive.

John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement

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John Deere agreed to let farmers and independent shops fix their own equipment under a right-to-repair settlement with the FTC and several states. The company must provide diagnostic and repair tools to owners and shops, not just authorized dealers, and pay $1 million in antitrust enforcement costs.

EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"

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The European Parliament allowed the interim "Chat Control 1.0" regulation to pass, permitting mass scanning of private communications until 2028. Negotiations for a permanent regulation will resume in September, with the EU Parliament pushing for targeted detection orders and stricter security standards.

Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees

Researchers found peptides in Tasmanian cave spider and giant Japanese funnel-web spider venom that can kill varroa mites without harming honeybees. These biodegradable peptides could lead to a sustainable treatment for varroa mite infestations in honeybee hives.

Bonnie Tyler, singer of Total Eclipse of the Heart, dies aged 75

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Bonnie Tyler, a Welsh singer known for her hit song Total Eclipse of the Heart, had a 50-year music career spanning from her early days in Swansea clubs to international fame. She was awarded an MBE for her services to music and had a billion streams on Spotify for her iconic song.

The Glass Backbone: Why the Army's Logistics Will Break in the Next War

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The United States Army spent the last two decades optimizing sustainment for permissive environments defined by uncontested supply lines, contractor support, and static forward operating bases. As the National Defense Strategy shifts toward strategic competition and multidomain operations, however, this efficiency-driven model has become a liability. In large-scale combat operations, victory ...

Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip

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Meta developed Vistara, a custom chip to reuse older memory in new servers, improving efficiency and reducing costs. This technology can help address the rising memory prices and shortage, which may last until 2027.

How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom

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Git must evolve to store AI agent session logs as semantic memory, enabling collaboration and provenance tracking. Decentralized hosting ensures scalability, resilience, and data sovereignty for AI-driven development.

TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time

TrueBiz is an API that quickly evaluates business risk for financial institutions, replacing manual research with automated analysis. They're hiring a Senior Engineer to scale their system, expand the product, and improve reliability and performance.

Show HN: FableCut – A browser video editor AI agents can drive (zero deps)

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FableCut is a Premiere-style non-linear video editor that runs entirely in your browser — and exposes its whole timeline as one JSON document. Edit it by hand, from the UI, or let an AI agent (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, or anything that speaks MCP/REST) cut your video for you while you watch the timeline update live. Most "AI video" tools hide the edit behind an API. FableCut flips ...

AI builders outnumber AI governance hires 7:1 in Europe

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Skip to content Axipro analyzed 3,519 AI-related job postings across eight EU countries. For every professional hired to keep AI lawful, safe and accountable, nearly seven were hired to build more of it, and the gap is widest exactly where you’d least expect. Throughout our data-set we found the same pattern across all eight countries: the more a nation hires to build AI, the less it hires to ...

Show HN: 92% of US city websites fail ADA accessibility

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High city website scores (avg. 93/100) mask 42% with critical accessibility barriers, especially on CMS platforms like CivicPlus. Vendor choice and platform-level fixes are key, as automated scans miss 34% of homepages with hidden barriers.

In-browser programmable robot simulator

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Show HN: Arcaide – Explore code with multi-level call graphs

I Built the Only 2026 WWII Jeep

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The author, a media company co-founder, was tasked with building a brand new WWII Jeep from scratch using primarily parts purchased off eBay Motors within a tight deadline. With the help of experts and friends, he overcame numerous challenges to assemble the vehicle, which was sponsored by eBay Motors as a partnership.

Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives

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GitHub is facing issues with frequent downtime, political direction, and AI integration, leading some users to abandon the platform. Many projects are moving to alternative services like Codeberg, GitLab, and Sourcehut, citing concerns over technical quality and politics.

Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI

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This tool allows for sophisticated test selection and filtering, and provides features such as stress testing, test rerunning, and deep analysis. It supports multiple platforms and is open source, widely trusted, and powers Rust development at various scales.

How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari

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Nintendo released Donkey Kong in July 1981, which became the highest-grossing arcade game of 1981 and 1982, and launched the Mario franchise. Donkey Kong's success led to Nintendo's rise as a major producer of arcade titles and ultimately contributed to Atari's decline.

Lead Mines of Galena, Kansas

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Galena, Kansas, takes its name from its most valuable resource – lead sulfide ore, which is also known as galena. Lead was discovered in this part of Kansas in 1877 and caused a mining boom in the region. Lead was an incredibly important in the late 1800s because it was used in ammunition, plumbing, paint, and silver extraction. Galena became part of the “tri-state mining area” which included ...

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Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization language for AI agents

Flint is a visualization language that creates charts from simple specs, optimizing settings from data and semantic types. It supports 46 chart types and 3 rendering engines.

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

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A detailed audit of SWE-Bench Pro found ~30% of tasks are broken, affecting model evaluation and safety decisions. The audit suggests using experienced software developers to create new benchmarks that are hard to game and genuinely reflective of model capability.

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase

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Databricks built an internal coding benchmark to evaluate tools on actual coding tasks, finding that a mix of tools from OpenAI, Anthropic, and open source provides frontier performance. The results showed clear clustering of models and harnesses into 3 capability tiers, with the most intelligent models being very expensive but highly effective.

Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line

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The Yamanote Line soundscapes combine station melodies, announcements, and train sounds to recreate Tokyo's railway loop. The virtual loop has distinct melodies for each direction and can be traveled in 30 minutes at double speed.

My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite

Jarred's startup Bun initially attracted attention with its performance, but his focus on productivity and exit strategy led to poor management and a rift with the Zig community. The community was relieved when Bun was acquired and eventually rewritten in Rust.

Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base

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DocuBrowse is a local document search tool that indexes files on your machine using AI models. It supports multiple document types and directories, and provides a web interface for searching and managing documents.

Rewriting Bun in Rust

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The author of Bun rewrote the project in Rust using a pre-release version of Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model, and a dynamic workflow system, resulting in a 1,009,272-line diff and 6,502 commits. The rewrite took 11 days and was reviewed by 64 Claudes, with the project now having 24/7 coverage-guided fuzzing and 11 rounds of security review completed.

New Sweden: the US's long-lost 'secret' colony

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A Swedish colony called New Sweden existed in the US from 1638-1655, introducing log cabins and Lutheran Christianity. Its legacy lives on in the Delaware Valley, with remnants of the colony still visible in modern-day Philadelphia and Wilmington.

Unicode's transliteration rules are Turing-complete

Unicode's transliteration rules, used in ICU library, can simulate any Turing machine due to their unbounded rewriting capabilities with a revisiting cursor. This makes transliteration rule files, shipped in every OS, a type of program that should be reviewed and bound at runtime.