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Google's Filing Pegs Its SpaceX Stake at $94.1B — a Figure Worth Scrutiny
A disclosure attributed to Google reportedly values its holdings in Elon Musk's SpaceX at $94.1 billion, described as roughly a 6% stake. Beyond that single lin
Handing the Details to AI Isn't Empowerment — It's Abdication
This essay argues that much of the excitement around AI rests on a fantasy: the wish to bring things into being without ever grappling with their details. The a
Inside China's Relay Market: How Stolen AI Tokens Get Resold at 95% Off
A sprawling gray market has grown up around reselling access to U.S. AI models like Anthropic's, OpenAI's, and Google's, mostly serving Chinese developers hunti
LLMs as Proof Automation: Building a Zstandard Decompressor in Lean
Dependently-typed languages like Lean and Rocq (formerly Coq) can encode arbitrarily subtle invariants directly into the type system and have a machine check th
Microsoft debuts MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a low-cost model for hunting code vulnerabilities
Microsoft AI has unveiled MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a compact, code-focused security model derived from its in-house MAI-Thinking-1 lineage, deployed inside MDASH — a
Moonshot AI Teases Kimi-K3, Billed as First Open 3T-Parameter Frontier Model
Moonshot AI has put up a countdown page on Hugging Face for Kimi-K3, its next open-weights model, timed to go live July 27, 2026. As of the snapshot, the weight
PGSimCity turns PostgreSQL internals into an interactive 3D city
PGSimCity is an educational project that renders the PostgreSQL engine as an explorable 3D 'city,' aiming to make the database's internal machinery visible and
Russian Drones Repeatedly Breach Romanian Airspace During Strikes on Ukraine
Romania's Ministry of National Defence reported another airspace violation on July 27, when its radar network picked up an aerial target at 09:29 roughly 25 km
Show HN: A browser-based, physically accurate black hole for your room
A Hacker News "Show HN" submission points to blackhole.plav.in, an interactive demo that renders a black hole billed as physically accurate and placeable in the
Sunflowers: A Minesweeper Inverse Whose Solver Guarantees the Difficulty
Sunflowers is a browser-based logic puzzle billed as a 'reverse Minesweeper': instead of avoiding hidden mines, you plant flowers to satisfy numeric clues. Its
Vercel's scriptc compiles TypeScript to native binaries with no JS engine
Vercel Labs has released scriptc, a compiler that turns ordinary TypeScript into small, self-contained native executables — no Node, no V8, and no embedded Java
Vigilantes Are Smashing Flock License-Plate Cameras in a DIY War on Surveillance
A loosely organized protest movement is physically disabling Flock Safety's automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across the US. These solar-powered, pole-mou