Software Engineering Hacker News

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

Google Chrome is updating its manifest/system in a way that may significantly limit the effectiveness of ad blockers.

Other The Verge

Florida sues TikTok for allegedly violating its social media ban for kids

Florida has filed a lawsuit against TikTok for allegedly failing to comply with state laws regarding child safety and parental consent.

Other The Verge

Amazon’s capable sound system is over $100 off ahead of Prime Day

Promotional content regarding discounts on Amazon Fire TV sound systems and Bambu Lab 3D printers.

Other Ars Technica

The Ars Technica 2026 Reader Survey: Let your voice be heard!

Ars Technica is conducting its 2026 reader survey to gather feedback on content and user experience.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

OpenClaw-Skill: Collective Skill Tree Search for Agentic Large Language Models

Proposed 'Collective Skill Tree Search' (CSTS) framework to automatically construct reusable skill trees for agentic LLMs to improve tool use and reasoning.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

LabOSBench: Benchmarking Computer Use Agents for Scientific Instrument Control

Introduction of LabOSBench, a web-based simulator benchmark for evaluating multimodal GUI agents in scientific instrument control.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Adaptive and Explicit safe: Triggering Latent Safety Awareness in Large Reasoning Models

A method to trigger 'Latent Safety Awareness' in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) using SFT and DPO to reduce jailbreak success rates.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Scaling LLM Reasoning from Minimal Labels: A Semi-Supervised Framework with a Lightweight Verifier

A semi-supervised framework that uses a lightweight verifier and entropy-based filtering to scale LLM reasoning with minimal labeled data.

Other Hacker News

An interview with an Apple emoji designer

An interview with a designer focusing on the creation and evolution of Apple's emojis.

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'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today

A story about a 1970s TV show causing panic in the modern era.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T

SpaceX's valuation has surged to $2.7 trillion, overtaking Amazon in value.

Other The Verge

The new PopSockets grip is so thin you’ll forget it’s even there

PopSockets has released a new Low-Pro Grip, a thinner and more comfortable phone grip compared to competitors.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

AgentFairBench: Do LLM Agents Discriminate When They Act?

Introduction of AgentFairBench, a benchmark for measuring demographic disparity in the actions of LLM agents across hiring, lending, and medical triage.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

A First-Principles Derivation of LLM Policy Optimization: From Expected Reward to GRPO and Its Structural Extensions

A first-principles derivation of LLM policy optimization, providing a unified framework to understand algorithms from REINFORCE to GRPO.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Skill-to-LoRA: From Using Skills to Learning Behaviors for Token-Efficient LLM Agents

Skill-to-LoRA (S2L) converts procedural agent skills from text instructions into dynamically loadable LoRA adapters to save tokens.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

Unicorn is a CPU emulator capable of simulating various architectures, providing a 것 as a framework for developers to build their own emulators.

Other Hacker News

Hans Schulz – The father of the VEF Minox lens?

An exploration into the historical contributions of Hans Schulz to the development of the VEF Minox lens.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

Probably AI raises $9M to develop systems that eliminate hallucinations and achieve deterministic-level accuracy.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

The Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 now come with Snapdragon X2 chips

Microsoft launches new Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 featuring Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips for improved ARM performance.

Other The Verge

Comcast Xfinity adds same-day delivery to get you online immediately

Comcast Xfinity introduces same-day delivery for routers to enable faster customer internet setup.