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Supermarkets in Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg and Ireland were hit by a suspected cyber-attack that sabotaged refrigerators and freezers, forcing stores to discard millions of euros worth of food.
A retrospective look at how old computer magazines from 1984–2004 envisioned the future, from smart-home controllers and online services to AI-powered software, illustrated with vintage ads and reviews.
Show HN: An updated website and API (syscall.sh) that aggregates Linux system call tables for 27 architectures, covering Linux 3.3 to 7.3, with numbers, arguments, registers, calling conventions, and machine-readable JSON exports for each architecture.
ERICI (European RISC-V Industrial Computing Initiative) launches an open, non-commercial reference stack spanning firmware, hypervisor, real-time and Linux OSes, verified to boot together on new RVA23 RISC-V hardware to break the software-hardware adoption deadlock in industrial computing.
Antimony is an experimental CAD tool where solid modeling is done by connecting scriptable nodes in a DAG, using functional representations for CSG and Python-defined shapes. It supports automatic change propagation, interactive viewport editing, and STL/heightmap export with feature detection.
A reflective essay marking 100 years since Hilbert's program, tracing how Gödel's incompleteness and Turing's halting problem defeated it, and arguing that AI agents powered by proof assistants like Lean now realize Hilbert's 'proof machine' with profound consequences for mathematics and computer science.
China's Ministry of Commerce announces its first frontier AI export controls via Announcement No. 48, marking a significant policy shift in how advanced AI technologies are regulated for overseas transfer.
A Hacker News front-page roundup featuring Show HN posts such as HackerHack (HackerBooks-style post aggregator), Wikihack, HackerTube, and other trending stories including Postgres 19 delays attributed to AI-assisted bug finding.
Wikihack is a frontend-only web tool that scrapes Wikipedia mentions from Hacker News and presents them in a scrollable feed with Top, Random, and Rising rankings, inspired by Karpathy's HackerTube and Hackerbooks.
KatamariMet is a playful web project by Jay Mollica that lets you roll up every object in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access collection at its real size, from coins to the Temple of Dendur.
F/OSS Comics #13 以漫画形式讲述 BSD Unix 的起源：Bill Joy 和 Chuck Haley 在 Ken Thompson 返回 Bell Labs 后自行探索 Unix 内核，于 1977 年打包 Pascal 系统与 ex 编辑器发布首个 BSD，并在 2BSD 中加入 vi、C shell 等工具，随后与 Özalp Babaoğlu 一起为 VAX 上的 32/V 加入虚拟内存支持。
AI-generated fan wikis full of errors are crowding out legitimate game wikis in search results, frustrating players and forcing publishers like Hooded Horse to fight a 'whack-a-mole' against mass-produced low-quality sites.
PsiQuantum unveiled an 8×8-radix Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) demonstration vehicle built on its low-loss silicon photonics platform, reporting 1.2 dB insertion loss, 40 dB crosstalk, and under 3 ms reconfiguration time without amplification, targeting AI data center scaling challenges.
Research suggests bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span, pointing to skeletal signaling as a potential factor in longevity.
Vathography is a new creative approach that turns a photograph's inferred depth map into an artwork, using a diffusion transformer to estimate depth and letting authors treat focus as a mapping of depth to tone and color. Inspired by Marigold V2's detailed depth decomposition, it reframes a normally hidden technical pass as a form of artistic expression.
Trigger.dev disclosed a security incident in which an attacker gained unauthorized access to customer environment variables across a subset of organizations; the exploit has been blocked and impacted account owners notified.
OccupySaaS 是一场由被裁员工程师发起的抗议运动与开源项目，主张用 AI 从公开文档以 clean-room 方式重建专有 SaaS 的替代品，首批发布 ZeroAuthy（Auth0 兼容身份服务器）和 SalesCompel（Salesforce 替代 CRM），均采用 Apache-2.0 许可。
U.S. workers' labor share of national income fell to 52.8% in Q2 2026, the lowest since BLS records began in 1947, even as corporate profits and GDP soar. Economists point to automation and AI-driven jobless growth as key drivers, warning of a widening K-shaped economy.
The article explains why modern car key replacement is so expensive, tracing the history from simple metal keys to transponder chips, key fobs, and rolling encryption in an ongoing arms race between carmakers and thieves.
An arXiv study evaluates five LLMs asked to modernize 100 legacy WordPress 4.0 PHP files to PHP 8.3, finding that the best model breaks 59 previously working files versus the 83 that pass unchanged, while the rule-based Rector tool breaks only 7 — concluding that LLM modernization evaluations must include a no-change baseline and report behavioral preservation separately.