2. Show HN: Ideogram 4.0 – open-weight 9.3B text-to-image model (github.com)
Ideogram 4: Open image model at the forefront of design - ideogram-oss/ideogram4
3. He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut (www.wired.com)
A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.
4. Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series (www.gateworld.net)
Amazon MGM Studios is not moving forward with Martin Gero's Stargate revival, which was to begin filming this fall.
5. Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5 (brume.aftertone.co)
A desktop multi-timbral music machine with four synthesis engines, a 10″ touch surface, and one cable to your DAW.
6. Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland (rootshell.is)
7. Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025) (www.thedial.world)
How American tourists took over everything.
9. Uber to cut 23% of jobs in HR (stocktwits.com)
Ride-hailing service provider Uber Technologies (UBER) is reportedly slashing 23% of jobs across its “People and Places” division.
10. Building iOS Apps with Doom Emacs (wassimans.com)
I shipped SPEEM, my first iOS app, from Doom Emacs. Not from Xcode.
I don’t mean I just edited a few files in Emacs and switched back when it was time to build. I mean the whole loop: write Swift, build, boot a simulator, install the app, launch it, stream logs, restart LSP, scaffold new projects. All from inside Emacs, all driven by SPC i keybindings I wrote myself.
This post is about how, and why it’s even possible.
I don’t mean I just edited a few files in Emacs and switched back when it was time to build. I mean the whole loop: write Swift, build, boot a simulator, install the app, launch it, stream logs, restart LSP, scaffold new projects. All from inside Emacs, all driven by SPC i keybindings I wrote myself.
This post is about how, and why it’s even possible.
11. Bun Has Been Converted to Rust. Now What? (bytecode.news)
Bun was ported from Zig to Rust by an LLM and passed nearly all its tests - while shipping more than ten thousand unsafe blocks. Memory safety is the main reason you'd pick Rust. So what did the rewrite actually accomplish?
12. Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video] (www.youtube.com)
Screw Sega CD - we're making Sega Vinyl!So is vinyl a good storage medium for video games? Absolutely not, but that won't stop me from trying.0:00 - Intro5:5...
13. Show HN: Rscrypto, pure-Rust crypto with industry leading public benches (github.com)
Rust crypto w/ zero default deps: BLAKE3, Ed25519/X25519, hashes, MACs, KDFs, AEADs, and checksums w/ full SIMD/ASM acceleration - loadingalias/rscrypto
14. Microsoft Doubles Down on Controversial Quantum Computing Claims (www.science.org)
15. HHS is overriding peer review to require changes to research scope, design (www.science.org)
16. AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI (dmanco.dev)
17. Show HN: Tired of duct-taping access control into agent prompts. Here's the fix (github.com)
Your agent team, on your machine. Open-source harness for multi-user Claude agents. - yaodub/cast
18. Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer source code (alphapixeldev.com)
Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Juggler raytracer source code AlphaPixel often gets involved with modernizing and updating old performance and graphics code. Sometimes that means client work under NDA. But sometimes it means a fun side quest in the mystical realms of curiosity, preservation, and the practical problem of getting old data into a form that can be read and used on a current machine. Today let's talk about Amiga Juggler ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpt_3D ). The Juggler animation was ground-breaking and Earth-shattering. Even the Amiga's creaators (Commodore) didn't believe it had been made on an Amiga. They thought the actual computation work[…]
19. Show HN: Phive, a Gomoku-like game to play with friends or solo (phive.app)
Race with up to three other players to connect five of your pieces in a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. It
20. OpenRidingController – DIY horse riding controller for the PC (github.com)
D.I.Y horse riding controller for the PC. Contribute to Squalius-cephalus/OpenRidingController development by creating an account on GitHub.
21. America's Data Center Build-Out Is Falling Way Behind Schedule (www.wsj.com)
22. Thomas Mann: Goethe Heartened by Panama (As Suez for English, or Danube-Rhine) (yalereview.org)
An essay by Thomas Mann: "For this essay on Goethe, a task of which I feel so unworthy, I shall fall back upon a memory, a personal experience, to hearten…
23. Take Action: LAPD Removed Crime Location Data. Here's Why It Matters (blog.spotcrime.com)
24. Which sparkling water is the best? (www.maximevidal.com)
three minds and gullets looking for the winning bubbles
25. Jonathan Franzen on Talent, Theatre, and His Next Novel (www.newyorker.com)
The author discusses his story “A Talent for Seeming.”
27. Show HN: Lint Your Markdown with ESLint (github.com)
Lint your Markdown with ESLint. Additional rules for use with `@eslint/markdown`.🛠️ - lumirlumir/npm-eslint-markdown
28. Sixteen Kids and a Hit Man (2024) (nymag.com)
Christopher Pence kept adding to his family. Then he decided to remove two people from the mix.