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.

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

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FableCut is a browser-based video editor using JSON timelines for real-time human-AI collaboration, supporting SVG animations, AI-driven edits via MCP/REST, and live project updates. It offers features like keyframe effects, font customization, conflict-safe editing, and fast MP4 exports with ffmpeg.

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.

Introducing Muse Spark 1.1

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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.

No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026

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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.

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.

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.

US seeks cheaper hunter-killer drones after Iran destroys $1B worth of Reapers

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The US military lost over $1 billion in Reaper drones in Iran, prompting a shift to cheaper drones to overwhelm enemy defenses, mirroring Ukraine's strategy. The Pentagon's $54B 2027 budget targets such drones, but success remains uncertain.

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.

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.

Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]

Transparency efforts behind the Helium Browser

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Helium is a special kind of project with transparency, privacy, and consent at the very core of every decision we make. This document outlines most of our efforts that we’ve done so far to ensure that Helium is private, secure, and transparent for anyone who wishes to inspect it. If any of the following efforts are no longer true, then we’ve broken our promise to you, consciously or not. If ...

Just Pay the Subscription

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The author argues app subscriptions are vital for sustaining indie developers and ensuring ongoing maintenance, aligning user and developer interests through recurring payments. They dismiss complaints by highlighting the impracticality of one-time purchases and stress that financial support is necessary for app improvement and survival.

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

Syria's solar boom is redefining Middle East's energy model

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Syria's civil war spurred widespread solar adoption, with 2,060MW of off-grid capacity by 2024, driven by broken grids and affordable Chinese panels. This crisis-driven shift highlights solar's role in crisis regions, offering resilience and decentralizing power amid rebuilding efforts.

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.

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

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The US Army's efficiency-driven sustainment model, optimized for permissive environments, is ill-suited for modern multidomain warfare, where survival under persistent attack determines victory. Historical and contemporary conflicts show that centralized logistics collapse under attrition, demanding decentralized, survivable sustainment networks to match industrial-scale combat endurance.

In-browser programmable robot simulator

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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.

The Backstory of Jiki

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I've spent the last 2 years building out Jiki, starting with an idea, running a bootcamp to test my thinking, and then building out a (what I hope is kickass) product with Aron and Nicole. I wanted to tell you about the journey. Why Jiki exists, why we invested our time and energy into it, and where I hope it will lead. For those who don't know, I've spent the last decade building ...

Lead Mines of Galena, Kansas

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Galena, Kansas, thrived as a lead-mining hub from 1877, fueled by the tri-state mining boom and the MKT railroad, which transported ore and workers. After mining declined by the 1970s, the town’s MKT depot was reborn as a museum preserving its industrial legacy, now a Route 66 landmark amid a dwindling population.

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.

Files over tools: how we built our agent with a virtual filesystem and bash

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In March 2026, we shipped the Knock Agent: an AI agent for managing all your customer messaging resources in Knock. It can create and update workflows, templates, and audiences, help segment users, and answer questions about how your customer messaging is performing. The agent can be invoked from the Knock dashboard, a connected Slack workspace, the API, or our MCP server. In this post, ...

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.

Vacuum at the Page Level

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PostgreSQL's VACUUM reclaims dead tuple space via pruning (marks LP_DEAD), index cleanup (removes stale entries), and heap cleanup (marks LP_UNUSED), with indexes requiring a two-step process. Regular VACUUM reuses freed space via FSM/visibility maps but cannot shrink files without VACUUM FULL, which compacts data at the cost of exclusive locks.

Grok 4.5

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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.