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Hacker linked to Epstein removed from Black Hat cyber conference website

Emails published by the Justice Department revealed cybersecurity veteran Vincenzo Iozzo emailed, and arranged to meet, Jeffrey Epstein multiple times between 2014 and 2018.

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Trump administration undermines EPA enforcement of Clean Air Act

The EPA's new rule seeks to undo a 2009 finding that allowed the federal government to regulate six greenhouse gases.

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Automattic planned to target 10 competitors with royalty fees, WP Engine claims in new filing

WP Engine claims Automattic was going to target more hosting companies with royalty fees.

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Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

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RFK Jr. food pyramid site links to Grok, which says you shouldn’t trust RFK Jr.

Grok generated a meal plan to fit RFK Jr.'s food pyramid, then explained why it's bad.

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Show HN: Generate Web Interfaces from Data

Article URL: https://github.com/puffinsoft/syntux Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994255 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Show HN: rari, the rust-powered react framework

Article URL: https://rari.build/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993596 Points: 27 # Comments: 13

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A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k

Article URL: https://log.jasongodfrey.info/questions/The-Most-Expensive-Party-Balloon-in-History Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993417 Points: 80 # Comments: 68

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HDRify: True HDR image viewer, and tool set in pure JavaScript

Article URL: https://hdrify.benhouston3d.com/?image=%2Fexamples%2Fmoonless_golf_1k.hdr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993393 Points: 10 # Comments: 5

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Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-series-g-funding-380-billion-post-money-valuation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993345 Points: 58 # Comments: 59

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Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation

Article URL: https://pol.is/home2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46992815 Points: 54 # Comments: 6

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Show HN: Pgclaw – A "Clawdbot" in every row with 400 lines of Postgres SQL

Hi HN, Been hacking on a simple way to run agents entirely inside of a Postgres database, "an agent per row". Things you could build with this: * Your own agent orchestrator * A personal assistant with time travel * (more things I can't think of yet)

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Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere

Hey y’all, Kartik, Ishaan, and Christian from Omnara ( https://www.omnara.com/ ) here. We’re building a web and mobile agentic IDE for Claude Code and Codex that lets you run and interact with coding agents from anywhere. Omnara lets you run Claude C

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A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip

OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the chipmaker.

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Aurora’s driverless trucks can now travel farther distances faster than human drivers

CEO Chris Urmson called it a “superhuman” moment, adding that Aurora’s trucks can now carry freight 1,000 miles in 15 hours — faster than what a human driver can legally accomplish.