Daily Top Stories
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OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine (vmfunc.re)
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Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy (thebignewsletter.com)
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Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston (apple.com)
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Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) (therecord.media)
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Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge (time.com)
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Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness (pi.dev)
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How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week (blog.cloudflare.com)
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Never Buy A .online Domain (0xsid.com)
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Claude Code Remote Control (code.claude.com)
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Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times (mariannefeng.com)
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Mercury 2: Fast reasoning LLM powered by diffusion (inceptionlabs.ai)
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Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3 (github.com)
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US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives (reuters.com)
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Steel Bank Common Lisp (sbcl.org)
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Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14% (electrek.co)
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OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B (cnbc.com)
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Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment (github.com)
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US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards (theguardian.com)
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Looks like it is happening (math.columbia.edu)
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LLM=True (blog.codemine.be)
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Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play (llmskirmish.com)
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Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid (cape.co)
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Pentagon threatens to make Anthropic a pariah (cnn.com)
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100M-Row Challenge with PHP (github.com)
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New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use em-dashes (marginalia.nu)
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Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal (cnbc.com)
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Turing Completeness of GNU find (arxiv.org)
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Russian soldiers tell BBC they saw fellow troops executed on commanders' orders (bbc.com)
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Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards (axios.com)
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AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations (newscientist.com)