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Show HN launches a searchable index of 22k+ worker co-op products
A new site, workerowned.info, has surfaced on Hacker News as a Show HN project: a searchable directory cataloging more than 22,000 products made by worker-owned
Snorkel's Senior SWE-Bench stumps top AI agents 75% of the time
Snorkel AI released Senior SWE-Bench, an open benchmark that grades coding agents against the expectations placed on senior engineers rather than junior ones. I
Sony to Erase 551 Paid-For Movies From PlayStation Libraries, No Refunds
On September 1, Sony will strip 551 StudioCanal films and shows from the PlayStation Store libraries of customers who bought them outright — titles including Te
Sony to Halt Physical Disc Production for New PlayStation Games in 2028
Sony Interactive Entertainment will stop manufacturing physical game discs for all new PlayStation console titles beginning in January 2028. After that date, ne
The case for bringing back the crappy web forum
A Tedium retrospective traces the web forum from an awkward workaround to a foundational internet institution—and argues we abandoned it too soon. Before HTTP-b
Underhanded C Contest 2015: Sabotaging Nuclear Warhead Verification with NaN Tricks
The 2015 Underhanded C Contest challenged entrants to write C code that looks correct but secretly betrays its purpose — this year in a nuclear-verification sce
Weave's Isaac 1: a $7,999 home robot that falls back to remote human operators
San Francisco startup Weave Robotics has opened orders for Isaac 1, a wheeled, two-armed home robot pitched at household chores like laundry and tidying. It cos
Why China Can't Build Jet Engines: The Limits of Industrial Policy
China's state-capitalist playbook—marshal national resources, scale a mature technology, and dominate it vertically and horizontally—has won in industry after i
Zhipu launches ZCode 3.0, an agentic coding harness tuned for GLM-5.2
ZCode is z.ai's agentic coding environment, now at version 3.0 and optimized for the GLM-5.2 model. It positions itself as a full plan-code-review-deploy loop t
AI Sands Off the Friction That Once Made Us Truly Know Our Machines
The essay draws a distinction between two kinds of technical knowledge. In the 1990s, using a computer meant fighting it: editing autoexec.bat, building single-
Anthropic post claims US lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5
A social media post attributed to Anthropic states that the U.S. Department of Commerce has removed export controls on two Claude models, Fable 5 and "Mythos 5.
arXiv Splits from Cornell to Become an Independent Nonprofit
After 25 years housed at Cornell University, arXiv formally becomes a standalone nonprofit on July 1, 2026. The preprint server frames the spinout as a long-con