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The article discusses the backlash surrounding Ring's Super Bowl ad, which appeared to depict a neighborhood search party hunting down an intruder. Critics argued the ad promotes a culture of surveillance and fear, raising concerns about the company's surveillance-focused products.

The article discusses Garry Tan, the co-founder of Initialized Capital, and his involvement in California politics. It highlights Tan's efforts to support progressive candidates and causes, as well as his views on the state's political landscape and the challenges it faces.

Apple has released iOS 26.3, which addresses multiple security vulnerabilities that could potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or gain elevated privileges on affected devices. The update is recommended for all iOS users to enhance the security and protection of their devices.

The U.S. National Labor Relations Board has abandoned its authority over SpaceX, a victory for Elon Musk's company. The ruling means SpaceX will no longer be subject to the NLRB's oversight and regulations regarding labor relations and worker protections.

The article discusses the history and technical details of the Telnet protocol, which was used for remote access and terminal emulation on early computer networks. It explains how Telnet worked, its role in the development of modern networking, and its continued use in certain specialized applications despite the rise of newer protocols.

The article discusses how the FBI obtained doorbell camera footage from Nancy Guthrie's home without a warrant, raising concerns about privacy and the increasing use of surveillance technology by law enforcement agencies.

Hi HN,

I’m Vincent from Aden. We spent 4 years building ERP automation for construction (PO/invoice reconciliation). We had real enterprise customers but hit a technical wall: Chatbots aren't for real work. Accountants don't want to chat; they want the ledger reconciled while they sleep. They want services, not tools.

Existing agent frameworks (LangChain, AutoGPT) failed in production - brittle, looping, and unable to handle messy data. General Computer Use (GCU) frameworks were even worse. My reflections:

1. The "Toy App" Ceiling & GCU Trap Most frameworks assume synchronous sessions. If the tab closes, state is lost. You can't fit 2 weeks of asynchronous business state into an ephemeral chat session.

The GCU hype (agents "looking" at screens) is skeuomorphic. It’s slow (screenshots), expensive (tokens), and fragile (UI changes = crash). It mimics human constraints rather than leveraging machine speed. Real automation should be headless.

2. Inversion of Control: OODA > DAGs Traditional DAGs are deterministic; if a step fails, the program crashes. In the AI era, the Goal is the law, not the Code. We use an OODA loop to manage stochastic behavior:

- Observe: Exceptions are observations (FileNotFound = new state), not crashes.

- Orient: Adjust strategy based on Memory and - Traits.

- Decide: Generate new code at runtime.

- Act: Execute.

The topology shouldn't be hardcoded; it should emerge from the task's entropy.

3. Reliability: The "Synthetic" SLA You can't guarantee one inference ($k=1$) is correct, but you can guarantee a System of Inference ($k=n$) converges on correctness. Reliability is now a function of compute budget. By wrapping an 80% accurate model in a "Best-of-3" verification loop, we mathematically force the error rate down—trading Latency/Tokens for Certainty.

4. Biology & Psychology in Code "Hard Logic" can't solve "Soft Problems." We map cognition to architectural primitives: Homeostasis: Solving "Perseveration" (infinite loops) via a "Stress" metric. If an action fails 3x, "neuroplasticity" drops, forcing a strategy shift. Traits: Personality as a constraint. "High Conscientiousness" increases verification; "High Risk" executes DROP TABLE without asking.

For the industry, we need engineers interested in the intersection of biology, psychology, and distributed systems to help us move beyond brittle scripts. It'd be great to have you roasting my codes and sharing feedback.

Repo: https://github.com/adenhq/hive

A new analysis finds that new onshore wind and solar power in the UK are now over 50% cheaper than new gas-fired power plants. This highlights the growing cost-competitiveness of renewable energy compared to fossil fuel-based electricity generation.

The article discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of a developer company going public, including access to capital, increased visibility, and challenges with regulatory compliance and shareholder expectations.

The article discusses the rising electricity prices across various regions and the potential impact on consumers. It examines the factors contributing to these price increases, such as supply chain disruptions, increased demand, and changes in energy policies, and explores potential solutions to mitigate the burden on households and businesses.

Apple's plans to overhaul its virtual assistant Siri have reportedly been delayed again, according to sources. The revamp was initially scheduled for release in 2023 but has now been pushed back to a future update, raising questions about the company's progress on the project.

The article explores the conditions inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) family detention center in Dilley, Texas, where children are reportedly falling ill due to inadequate medical care and unsanitary living conditions. It highlights concerns raised by immigrant advocates about the health and well-being of the detained families.

The article discusses the recent announcement that Heroku, a popular cloud platform, will be shutting down its free tier, raising concerns about its future among developers. However, the article argues that Heroku is not dead and remains a viable option for hosting web applications, highlighting its continued evolution and the company's commitment to its customers.

The article discusses how the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency is overwhelming the court system in Minnesota by dramatically increasing the number of deportation cases, leading to long delays and a backlog in immigration proceedings.

The article discusses key lessons learned from the Zig programming language, including its focus on simplicity, flexibility, and providing low-level control over system resources. It highlights Zig's design principles and how they can inform the development of programming languages and software in general.

Creator here. Hologram compiles Elixir to JavaScript to run in the browser, enabling full-stack development in pure Elixir - and soon, Local-First applications.

This release is a milestone for our porting initiative. 49 contributors ported 150 Erlang functions across 19 modules, pushing client-side Erlang runtime coverage from 34% to 96% and overall Elixir standard library readiness from 74% to 87%.

This means the vast majority of Elixir standard library functions needed for full-stack web and basic local-first apps now work in the browser - string processing, collections, sets, binary operations, Unicode normalization, math, time operations, file path handling, and more.

Beyond porting, the release includes enhancements, bug fixes, and infrastructure groundwork.

Happy to answer any questions!

Hey HN. I built this because my Anthropic API bills were getting out of hand (spoiler: they remain high even with this, batch is not a magic bullet).

I use Claude Code daily for software design and infra work (terraform, code reviews, docs). Many Terminal tabs, many questions. I realised some questions are ok to wait on and with that comes some cost savings. So here is a small MCP that lets you send work directly to Anthropic's Batch API from inside Claude Code, for the same quality responses just 50% cheaper, results come back in ~30min-1hr.

  How it works: you type /batch review this codebase for security issues, Claude gathers all the context, builds a self-contained prompt, ships it to the Batch API via an MCP server, and you get notified in the status bar when it's done (optional). 

  The README has installation instructions, which were mainly generated by claude. I removed the curl | bash setup and at this stage of the project i feel more confident sharing the manual setup instructions. 

 My main hope with this project is to monetize it. Not by asking for money, rather I am hoping others have ideas or improvements  to add and use those to save more on cost.

China successfully tested a new reusable rocket and demonstrated a prototype lunar lander, showcasing its growing capabilities in space exploration. The test marks a significant step forward in China's plans to send astronauts to the moon and develop a sustainable lunar program.

"I am a software developer from Yemen, coding on a smartphone while living under siege. I have successfully built and encrypted the core logic for NOOR—a decentralized and unbiased AI system. Execution Proof: My core node is verified and running locally via Termux using encrypted truth protocols. However, I am trapped in a 6-inch screen 'prison' with 10% processing capacity. My Goal: To secure $400 for a laptop development station to transition from mobile coding to building the full 'Seventh Node'. This is my bridge to freedom. Codes from the heart of hell are calling for your rescue. Wallet: 0x4fd3729a4fEdf54a74b73d93F7f775A1EF520CEC"

I've been using LLMs for long discovery and research chats (papers, repos, best practices), then distilling that into phased markdown (build plan + tests), then handing those phases to Codex/Claude to implement and test phase by phase.

The annoying part was always the distillation and keeping docs and architecture current, so I built Unpack: a lightweight GitHub template plus docs structure and a few commands that turns conversations into phases/specs and keeps project docs up to date as the agent builds. It can also generate Mintlify-friendly end-user docs.

There are other spec-driven workflows and tools out there. I wanted something conversation-first and repo-native: plain markdown phases, minimal ceremony, easy to adapt per stack.

Example generated with Unpack (tiny pokedex plus random monsters):

Demo: https://apresmoi.github.io/pokesvg-codex/

Phases index: https://github.com/apresmoi/pokesvg-codex/blob/main/.unpack/...

I’d love feedback on what the “minimum good” phase/spec format should be, and what would make this actually usable in your workflow.

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Repo: https://github.com/apresmoi/unpack