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Rockstar Devs Form IWGB Union After Mass Firings Ahead of GTA 6 Launch
Staff at Rockstar Games have formed the Rockstar Game Workers Union under the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain, going public this week with a video l
Shift offers free home cleanings in exchange for robot training footage
Shift, an AI training data startup, is offering free home cleaning services in New York in exchange for the right to record the work using camera-equipped hats
Snowboard Kids 2 Hits 100% Decompilation After Two-Year Community Effort
Chris Lewis has completed a fully matching C decompilation of the N64 game Snowboard Kids 2, meaning every original function now has a C implementation that com
Stop Defending Human Value With Benchmark Comparisons to AI
The common defense of human worth in the AI era—that humans still outperform models on certain tasks, or produce subtler output—rests on a shrinking capability
Tiny-vLLM: Build a CUDA LLM Inference Engine from Scratch in C++
Tiny-vLLM is an open-source project that pairs a working LLM inference server with a step-by-step course teaching readers how to build one themselves. The engin
Veteran open source developer quits tech, citing AI's toll on the craft
A longtime open source contributor and Sentry employee announces he is stepping away from the industry entirely, choosing an offline life. He frames AI as the f
Yegge: The Technical Interview Is on Borrowed Time
Steve Yegge argues that the traditional technical interview—whiteboard algorithms, live coding, system design quizzes—is rapidly becoming obsolete as AI coding
Zig Splits Build System Into Configurer and Maker, Cutting `zig build -h` by 90%
Andrew Kelley landed a major rework of Zig's build system that separates the build pipeline into two distinct processes. The new 'configurer' compiles only the
A 60-Second Browser Game Skewers AI Agent Permission Fatigue
A new Show HN entry turns the daily grind of approving AI agent actions into a minute-long browser game. Players face a rapid stream of "Continue? Y/N" prompts,
A forensic shell-history reading of Tron: Legacy's terminal scene
Simon Tatham turned a paused frame from Tron: Legacy into a day-long teaching exercise with a junior colleague, dissecting the Unix shell transcript Sam Flynn p
AMD Locks Vivado Linux Support Behind $1,200+ Paywall Starting 2026.1
AMD is restructuring licensing for Vivado, its FPGA design suite, in the 2026.1 release. The free Basic tier will be Windows-only, while Linux support gets push
Anthropic closes $65B Series H at $965B valuation as Claude revenue hits $47B run-rate
Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H round led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, pushing its post-money valuation to $965 billion. The comp