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'I don't care about Direct File': IRS chief says agency plans to end free filing program
IRS head says free Direct File tax service is ‘gone’ | Uncertainty surrounding the government-run tax filing service has been swirling for months
Tech CEOs don't seem to realise just how anti-human their AI fanaticism is, and I think it's all because of the Enlightenment
Death Row Inmate’s Attorneys Say Heart Implant Will Repeatedly Shock Him as He’s Executed | Nashville General Hospital says it won't deactivate the device because it "has no role in State executions."
Reddit pauses its paywall plans / Subreddits that would charge a fee for access aren’t happening anytime soon.
Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same
Apple says Trump’s tariffs are adding another $1 billion to its costs | The iPhone maker already spent $800 million on tariffs during the June quarter.
Amazon CEO wants to put ads in your Alexa+ conversations
Tesla must pay $329 million in damages in fatal Autopilot case, jury says
Linus Torvalds still uses an AMD RX 580 from 2017 — also ditches Apple Silicon for an Intel laptop
How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games
Far-right extremists using games platforms to radicalise teenagers, report warns
Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
No, the UK’s Online Safety Act Doesn’t Make Children Safer Online
Tesla Autopilot plaintiffs seek $345 million in damages over fatal crash in Florida
Steam Doesn't Think This Image Is ‘Suitable for All Ages’ | The decision highlights hurdles faced by developers as they navigate a world where credit card companies dictate what is and isn't appropriate.
Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power | The grid is becoming cleaner thanks to projects that have been in the works for years.
Zuckerberg says Meta needs to be ‘careful about what we choose to open-source,’ citing risks from superintelligence
Fatal Tesla Autopilot crash triggers $345 million lawsuit and safety questions | Lawsuit claims Tesla ignored known Autopilot risks
YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say
Hacker News
Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others
Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations
Gemini 2.5 Deep Think
At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery
Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved
I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
Hyrum's Law
Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security audits
Make Your Own Backup System – Part 2: Forging the FreeBSD Backup Stronghold
Deep Agents
Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
Self-Signed JWTs
Build an AI telephony agent for inbound and outbound calls
Show HN: TraceRoot – Open-source agentic debugging for distributed services
Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?
Researchers map where solar energy delivers the biggest climate payoff
When Flatpak's Sandbox Cracks
Coverage Cat (YC S22) Is Hiring a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer
The Verge
Tesla to pay more than $200 million in damages after being found partly liable for fatal Autopilot crash
Fujifilm is raising camera prices by up to $800
Bose’s QuietComfort Headphones are $130 off for back-to-school season
The best deals on MacBooks right now
The biggest fighting game tournament is a little smaller this year — but still exciting
Why Nintendo didn’t raise the price of the Switch 2 (yet)
Google backtracks on plans to deactivate shortened goo.gl links
Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now
Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its ‘personality’ — and what makes it ‘evil’
Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filing
ArsTechnica
Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict
Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike
The curious case of Russia’s charm offensive with NASA this week
Delta denies using AI to come up with inflated, personalized prices
ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results
Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations
Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles
Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers
Backpage survivors will receive $200M to cover medical, health bills
Lotus still knows how to make a driver’s car: The 2025 Emira V6, driven
After just five years, Microsoft will end support for low-cost Windows 11 SE
The military’s squad of satellite trackers is now routinely going on alert
Vast majority of new US power plants generate solar or wind power
Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM
The King Is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen
Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
Man had a cross tattooed on his neck—it vanished, then his flesh started dying
Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies
YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say
Bleeping Computer
OpenAI may be testing a cheaper paid plan for ChatGPT
SonicWall firewall devices hit in surge of Akira ransomware attacks
Pi-hole discloses data breach triggered by WordPress plugin flaw
AI-powered Cursor IDE vulnerable to prompt-injection attacks
Pwn2Own hacking contest pays $1 million for WhatsApp exploit
Kali Linux can now run in Apple containers on macOS systems
Microsoft to disable Excel workbook links to blocked file types
Microsoft now pays up to $40,000 for some .NET vulnerabilities
CISA open-sources Thorium platform for malware, forensic analysis
Microsoft: Russian hackers use ISP access to hack embassies in AiTM attacks
Inside a Real Clickfix Attack: How This Social Engineering Hack Unfolds
Spikes in malicious activity precede new security flaws in 80% of cases
Proton launches free standalone cross-platform Authenticator app
Lobsters
Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun
Lobsters Interview with Icefox
How NixOS is built
agendafs: A filesystem for syncing notes to your calendar
Wayback 0.2 released
If Odin Had Macros
You might not need tmux
Vibe code is legacy code
Long Term Support
6 Weeks of Claude Code
Our first outage from LLM-written code
It's rude to show AI output to people
What are you doing this weekend?
The Math Is Haunted
Pride Versioning
I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself
The smallest embeddable scripting language, part 1
'Hello world' in Bismuth
Sync primitives are Functionally Complete
What Declarative Languages Are (2013)