Daily Top Stories
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The new skill in AI is not prompting, it's context engineering (philschmid.de)
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Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion (xfinity.com)
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Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers (proton.me)
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There are no new ideas in AI, only new datasets (blog.jxmo.io)
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I write type-safe generic data structures in C (danielchasehooper.com)
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Melbourne man discovers extensive model train network underneath house (sbs.com.au)
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Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots (blog.cloudflare.com)
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Claude Code now supports hooks (docs.anthropic.com)
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Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus (jsgroth.dev)
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The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port (linaro.org)
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Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?
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End of an Era (erasmatazz.com)
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Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved (blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
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Why email startups fail (forwardemail.net)
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OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine (github.com)
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Price of rice in Japan falls below ¥4k per 5kg (japantimes.co.jp)
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Show HN: A continuation of IRS Direct File that can be self-hosted (github.com)
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Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder (kevinboone.me)
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The original LZEXE (A.K.A. Kosinski) compressor source code has been released (clownacy.wordpress.com)
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Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations (publichealth.columbia.edu)
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A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Rust CLI with Clap (tucson-josh.com)
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Small language models are the future of agentic AI (arxiv.org)
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Apple weighs using Anthropic or OpenAI to power Siri (bloomberg.com)
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The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia (sigops.org)
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Virtue garnish: A mental hack to short-circuit bad habits (ledgeroflife.blog)
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Auth for B2B SaaS: it's not like auth for consumer software (tesseral.com)
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Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages (simedw.com)
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DeepSeek app faces ban in Germany for illegal transfer of user data (searchenginejournal.com)
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The role of the University is to resist AI (danmcquillan.org)