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.

I Think I Have LLM Burnout

You heavily rely on LLMs for work and personal tasks, but repetitive patterns and mistakes in their output are causing frustration. You're struggling to deal with the consistency of LLM writing styles and errors, affecting your productivity and comfort with AI-generated content.

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.

Chatto is now open source

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Chatto is an open-source group chat application that can be self-hosted for free. It offers end-to-end encryption, voice and video calls, and a snappy frontend.

Remote Attestation

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Remote attestation using a TPM can cryptographically prove a host's state after a reboot, ensuring it's in a trusted state or fails and breaks trust. This allows for strong guarantees about the initial state of hosts, enabling robust EDR and LSM policies to prevent kernel and driver supply chain attacks.

Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model

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Robostral Navigate is an 8B model that enables robots to navigate complex environments using only one RGB camera and plain-language instructions. It achieves 76.6% on R2R-CE validation unseen, beating previous approaches by significant margins.

Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit

The user fixed a bug in MechCommander 1 where large weapons were being concentrated in the left arm of a mech, making it vulnerable to losing that arm. The user created a patch to fix this issue by changing the game's code to distribute large weapons across multiple locations on the mech, and also updated the weapon classification function to default to small weapons instead of large ones.

Cloudflare Drop

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We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps

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Grok 4.5 excelled in speed and cost, building a great Breakout and gravity sim, but struggled with the 3D cube. Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 were reliable builders, but pricey.

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.

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.

Grok 4.5

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MIRA: Multiplayer Interactive World Models Trained on Rocket League

Multiplayer world model - a dream of Rocket League.

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.

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.

Benchmarking coding agents on Databricks' multi-million line codebase

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At Databricks, the way we build software is changing quickly as we aggressively adopt AI for engineering. The landscape of models and harnesses for code authoring has rapidly expanded in the last year, giving developers more choices than ever. With more options, it has become increasingly important to understand which coding agents offer the best performance on real-world coding tasks as well ...

FAANG Simulator

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You are 22. You just signed at Goggle for $190k. One tap = one quarter of your life. Fill the freedom bar and quit forever β€” or burn out, get replaced by an AI named Kevin, and join the permanent underclass.

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.

GPT‑Live

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ChatGPT introduces GPT-Live, a new voice model for natural conversations. It uses full-duplex architecture and delegates complex tasks to other models for smarter answers.

A bug which affected only left handed users

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A user's blog had a bug where a comment box appeared when scrolling with the left thumb due to a touchstart listener on links. The user fixed the issue by deleting unnecessary code, preventing the bug from affecting left-handed users.

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.

TypeScript 7

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TypeScript 7 is a native port that's 10x faster than TypeScript, with strong type-checking and rich tooling. It's compatible with TypeScript 6 and offers improved performance, stability, and editor support.

Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt

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The user's wife bought him a Uniqlo t-shirt with an obfuscated bash script that prints a happy Easter egg message when decoded. The user successfully decoded the script using OCR and confirmed it was a base64 encoded string referencing Linux and Akamai's Peace for All campaign.

Apache Shiro security framework releases 3.0.0

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The Apache Shiro team is pleased to announce the release of Apache Shiro version 3.0.0. This is a new major release of Apache Shiro, with many new features and improvements, culminating more than two years of work. Apache Shiro 1.x and 2.x are now considered end-of-life. If support for these versions is required, please check Commercial Support

My road trip with the do-gooding cactus smugglers

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Ran Fowler searches for rare succulents, specifically Agave shawii, with unique spines. Various stories of beauty, labor, and coolness are intertwined with Fowler's plant-hunting expedition.

OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage

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Our distribution experienced disruptions due to Davide Beatrici's actions. He joined our team despite limited contributions, offering to migrate our repository infrastructure.

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

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Cloudflare's Meerkat is a consensus service that provides strong consistency and fault tolerance for distributed systems. It uses the QuePaxa consensus algorithm, which allows all replicas to perform writes and provides linearizability without relying on a leader or timeouts.

Beyond Git: Real-Time Version Control for Godot – Lilith Duncan – GodotCon 2026 [video]

Show HN: Frugon – Find which LLM calls a cheaper model could handle (local, MIT)

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Frugon is a local, open-source tool that analyzes LLM call logs to save costs by switching or routing models. It runs locally, never sends data to the cloud, and provides a cost breakdown and routing recommendation.

EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why

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Fenris Creations has made its Carbon game engine open source, allowing anyone to use and contribute to the tech behind Eve Online. The company hopes to see a large community build around the engine, creating new experiences and infrastructure for the Eve universe.