Software Engineering Hacker News

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

Jelly UI introduces soft-body physics for native HTML form controls.

Software Engineering Hacker News

I turned my bearblog into a text based adventure

A developer turned their bearblog into a text-based adventure game.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Judge pauses $110B Paramount-Warner Bros merger

A judge has paused the $110 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Bros.

Tech Business/VC The Verge

Judge pauses Paramount’s attempt to buy Warner Bros. Discovery

A judge paused the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger due to potential antitrust law violations.

AI/ML VentureBeat

A single AI agent conversation can look perfect and still be broken, leaders from LangChain, Conviva and CoreWeave said at VB Transform 2026

Industry leaders from LangChain, Conviva, and CoreWeave discuss the shift toward cohort-based evaluation and specialized judge models for AI agents.

Hardware/Chips Phoronix

AMD Talks Up The Great Opportunities Of SPIR-V IR With ROCm

AMD discusses the opportunities for using SPIR-V IR within ROCm to improve unified binaries and GPU hardware portability.

Open Source Phoronix

GNOME Changes Security Disclosure Policies Due To AI-Generated Reports

GNOME is updating its security disclosure policies to manage the increase in AI-generated security reports.

AI/ML Hacker News

Over 30% of new ArXiv submissions now read as AI-written

A significant portion of new ArXiv submissions are now being identified as AI-written, highlighting a growing trend of automated academic publishing.

Other Hacker News

Another Entry in the "Stuff Im Glad Im Not Responsible for" Ledger

A discussion about the burdens and responsibilities of managing complex technical systems.

Hardware/Chips Hacker News

Cross sectioning insects in an electron microscope with a femtosecond laser [video]

A technical demonstration of using a femtosecond laser to create cross sections of insects in an electron microscope.

Other Ars Technica

F1 in Belgium: The 2026 cars look pathetic on all the best racetracks

Critique of the 2026 Formula 1 car designs in relation to their suitability for legendary racetracks like Spa.

Tech Business/VC Ars Technica

AliExpress hit with record $625M fine after failing to make EU-ordered fixes

AliExpress faces a record $625M fine from the EU for failing to implement ordered regulatory fixes.

AI/ML VentureBeat

At VB Transform 2026, Zillow's engineering chief said AI ROI numbers only hold up if you measure before you build

Zillow discusses building a persistent context layer and using task-specific fine-tuned models to improve AI ROI in real estate transactions.

Cybersecurity VentureBeat

Safety guardrails blocked Hugging Face's defenders, not the attacker, when an AI agent breached its systems

Hugging Face suffered a breach by an autonomous AI agent, where commercial AI safety guardrails ironically blocked the security team's forensic efforts.

Hardware/Chips ServeTheHome

Intel To Add Support for Gen 2 MRDIMMs and Faster DDR5 RDIMMs to Xeon 6 Platform

Intel announces support for Gen 2 MRDIMMs and faster DDR5 RDIMMs for the Xeon 6 platform.

Other Hackaday

Hackaday Europe 2026: Project Gigapixel

Project Gigapixel explores the limits of extremely high-resolution digital photography.

Homelab/Self-Hosting Hackaday

Old SSDs Find New Life as Game Cartridges

A creative hardware project repurposing old SSDs to function as physical game cartridges.

AI/ML Hacker News

Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

Bloomy is an AI-powered mastery learning platform designed for K-12 education, recently launched on Hacker News.

Other Hacker News

Czechia moves to ban mobile phones in schools from September 2027

Czechia is planning to implement a ban on mobile phones in schools starting in September 2027.

Other Hacker News

I Stopped "Creating Content"

An author discusses their decision to stop creating content for the sake of content, shifting focus away from the content creation treadmill.