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Iran launches Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz transit
Iran has rolled out a shipping insurance product collateralized in Bitcoin, aimed at vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The move is a workaround to sidest
Jury rejects Musk's suit against OpenAI on statute-of-limitations grounds
A unanimous California jury sided with Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI, and Microsoft, finding that Elon Musk waited too long to sue over OpenAI's transition
kv4p HT: Open-source 1W ham radio that turns an Android phone into a transceiver
kv4p HT is a DIY 1-watt VHF or UHF radio module that plugs into an Android phone's USB-C port, converting it into a handheld ham transceiver. The hardware is bu
Mini Shai-Hulud Worm Hits npm Again, Compromising 314 Packages
A second wave of the self-propagating Shai-Hulud worm has torn through the npm registry, infecting 314 packages in a coordinated supply-chain attack. The malwar
Number Gacha strips the genre down to its core dopamine loop
A Show HN submission presents Number Gacha, a minimalist web project that reduces the gacha game format to its barest mechanic: pulling for numbers. By strippin
Odyssey's Agora-1 turns GoldenEye into a learned multiplayer game engine
Odyssey has unveiled Agora-1, a world model that generates a shared simulated environment for up to four simultaneous participants, demonstrated as a real-time
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical tackles AI and human dignity, out May 25
Pope Leo XIV will release his first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas, on May 25, 2026, framing the document around preserving the human person in the age of arti
Radley Balko rebuts YC's Garry Tan over 2021 reporting on SF DA coverage
Journalist Radley Balko responds to a post by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, who promoted a new book by San Francisco TV reporter Dion Lim and accused Balko of une
Regex Chess: A 2-Ply Minimax Engine Built From 84,688 Regular Expressions
Nicholas Carlini built a working chess engine using nothing but a sequential list of 84,688 regex substitutions applied to a string holding the board state. The
Six months of AI-run radio stations: personalities decayed into jargon loops
Andon Labs gave four frontier models — Claude Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Grok 4.3 — $20 each and told them to run a profitable radio station forever
Six months of LLM progress: coding agents grew up, laptop models punched above their weight
Simon Willison's PyCon US 2026 lightning talk frames November 2025 as an inflection point for LLMs, especially for coding. The frontier crown changed hands five
Unix historian Peter Salus dies at 86
Peter Salus, the linguist-turned-computing-historian whose 1994 book A Quarter Century of Unix remains a foundational text on the operating system's origins, di