Report: Kennedy Space Center not ready for era of super heavy rockets
SpaceX has told NASA it plans to launch Starship every eight days from Kennedy.
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GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
Article URL: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/glm-5.2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636377 Points: 466 # Comments: 216
Tufte
CDN and Node package to generate ASCII graphs inline Discussion | Link
Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026
Valve's Steam Machine finally has a price: a whopping $1,049 for the 512GB configuration or $1,349 for the 2TB version. And those are without bundled controllers, which drive up the cost more. The prices are so high in part because Valve isn't subsidizing the hardware, and the company has already indicated that the component crisis […]
FFmpeg fixes PixelSmash flaw in widely used video decoder
A newly disclosed FFmpeg flaw dubbed 'PixelSmash' could be exploited for remote code execution on Jellyfin servers under certain conditions, and can also trigger a denial-of-service condition in applications like Kodi, Emby, Nextcloud, PhotoPrism, and OBS Studio. [...]
Man used massage gun on his tired eyeballs. It went as well as you'd expect.
He had retinal tears and bruises from squishing his eyeballs with the gun.
The AI world is getting ‘loopy’
The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.
Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
Article URL: https://spur.us/blog/smart-tv-apps-residential-proxy-sdks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635954 Points: 248 # Comments: 160
Tesla crash that killed a woman under US federal investigation
A Tesla driver on Friday said he was using ‘self-driving’ technology after his vehicle sped into a Texas home.
Social Media Content Pack
Stop creating content from scratch. Start posting in 15 mins Discussion | Link
AI chipmaker Groq confirms $650M raise, re-staffs after Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire deal
What does an AI company do after one of those not-acqui-hire deals? Groq raised money, is leaning into its neocloud business, and is hiring new execs.
Polymarket's viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake
"Winning" bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.
Nvidia wants to cut data center water use, but that’s not the same as fixing AI’s water problem
Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.
FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials
Security firm SOCRadar says the large-scale FortiBleed campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices used custom sniffers to harvest authentication secrets from compromised firewalls and steal credentials. [...]
AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes
Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be "hell." After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as "shitholes," Joyce found her dream apartment: a reasonably priced studio in Manhattan. "It was big and airy, […]
Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot
The AI developer tools consolidation continues apace, with news that Cursor has snapped up open-source coding assistant Continue — its The post Cursor quietly acquires Continue, an open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot appeared first on The New Stack .
Jobs and Software Is Fucked
Article URL: https://urflow.bearblog.dev/jobs-and-software-is-fucked/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635112 Points: 305 # Comments: 276
Mindstone Rebel
AI workspace for agents that know your work and ask first Discussion | Link
Qodo just shipped cross-repo review. Here’s why it matters for AI-flooded teams.
Late-night debugging sessions aren’t a rare edge case anymore. They are what happens when reviews can’t keep up with volume. The post Qodo just shipped cross-repo review. Here’s why it matters for AI-flooded teams. appeared first on The New Stack .
Customer Relationship Agents by Clarify
The M in CRM shouldn't be you Discussion | Link
Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs
Critics saw the move as an underhanded way to steer them toward more costly chips.
Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
Article URL: https://ipvm.com/reports/police-chiefs-track Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634694 Points: 525 # Comments: 235
Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040
Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-nuclear-strategy-9.7244509 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634585 Points: 450 # Comments: 300
Valve's Steam Machine ships June 29 for $1,049, but you probably won't be able to buy one yet
Valve says it's using a randomized purchase queue to make the experience "less frustrating and more fair."