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726 points by rapnie · 367 comments
Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications ("Chat Control 1.0") to pass, a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 ag...
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teekert: This is a nice piece of democracy right here: "a measure it had rejected twice in March. Although a majority of voting Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) actually opposed the regulation (314 against, 276 in favor, 17 abstentions), the motion to reject it failed to secure t...
mrtksn: FTA: What changes with the return of Chat Control 1.0—and what stays the same: What is coming back: US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion.
bradley13: Stupid parliamentary trick: Hold the vote on the day before the summer break - ensuring that many people have already returned to their home countries. Then use a sort of "reverse" parliamentary trick: the default is that this legislation is accepted.
budududuroiu: Roberta Metsola's actions this week jeopardise the legitimacy of the EU project as a whole. It's clear that member countries use the EU as a blame-laundering mechanism to pass domestically unpopular laws, but the forcing of this vote under the urgency procedure that requires abso...
699 points by logickkk1 · 493 comments
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minimaxir: The developer's guide (https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model) has some interesting semantic tips for using the model: > Intent understanding: GPT-5.6 can better infer the user’s underlying goal and intended level of work without you specifying every step.
simonw: Here are 18 pelicans - six each for Luna, Terra and Sol at the six different reasoning effort levels (plus the price to generate each one): https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-5.6-pelican...
meetpateltech: GPT-5.6 Sol sets a new SOTA on ARC-AGI-3: 7.8% Sol is the first verified frontier model to ever beat an ARC-AGI-3 game https://arcprize.org/results/openai-gpt-5-6
Syntaf: Ok long time Claude Code user here; lately I've started to realize there's other great models out there I should be trying, but I'm hesitant to leave Claude Code behind for something new. What's the consensus today on codex vs claude code, does it really matter anymore?
674 points by pompomsheep · 251 comments
A fast daily word challenge. Can you survive all 18 words?
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pompomsheep: Thanks everyone for the feedback! Two questions 1. For a version without the timer what would you like to happen if you are just completely stuck on a word? Hints to reveal letters or skip the word? 2.
Waterluvian: The timer makes it not enjoyable for me. It seems necessary to the game design and I’m not being negatively critical. Just sharing an additional perspective. I’ve been playing Zanagrams and the ability to hide the clock really improved my enjoyment of that game.
gopalakrishnans: Would be nice to have a ‘scramble!’ button so it makes it slightly easier when we get stuck
dirkc: I like the idea, but I didn't like losing after a few words. Now it might just be me not being good at losing, but who is? Maybe the game can always progress to the next word with your total score being reduced. So if you get all within 30 seconds you score 18/18.
276 points by Jedd · 126 comments
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worldvoyageur: I grew up on a farm on which the apiary and all connected with it was a major part of the farm's output. Honey, beeswax, nukes (a queen and 10K or so worker bees as a starter colony, sold to other apiaries in the spring if they'd had too many winter losses), fertilizing services...
tomaytotomato: Check out Paul Stamets' research using Mycelium to give honeybees an immuneboost. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32194-8
schainks: Honeybees are not native to North America. It is great and currently necessary we use them the way we do. It makes one wonder in the age of AI and evolving farm practices, can we start finding ways to cultivate already-climate-adapted native bees to do the work? Can we leverage a...
roboben: The hard truth these days is that the work of bee keeping is like 80% keeping the mites in check. Plus all current treatments render the honey inedible so you can only do it at the end of the season.
261 points by ihsw · 176 comments
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snowwrestler: At the beginning of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, the protagonist is trying to sell 3 MB of RAM in underground markets. This is often cited as one of the ways the book has not aged well.
rob74: Why not go directly to the source article that has a lot more details? https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/06/29/zuck-saves-me...
kjs3: I have always wondered why there was never a big market[1] for "cheap PCI/PCI-X/PCI-e card you can stick a boatload of your old/surplus/n-generation old simms/dimms on and use as swap/slow memory/ram disk/etc".
lizknope: There are standard product CXL memory expander chips if you don't want to design a custom chip. https://www.marvell.com/products/cxl.html
256 points by Tiberium · 109 comments
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postalcoder: I just installed this. I am very confused. I no longer have a Codex app on my computer. ChatGPT is now Codex. But what happened to ChatGPT? Where am I supposed to casually chat? Also, when you toggle btween ChatGPT Work and ChatGPT Codex, nothing changes. This is super confusing.
todfox: This unification is garbage. Chats that are about topics other than programming projects are relegated to a tiny, unsearchable popup window. Renaming the old app "ChatGPT Classic" implies that it will be discontinued at some point. This is a serious regression.
thomas_witt: It took me a while until I found that you can switch between those two parts Work and Codex within the app on the left top corner when clicking on "ChatGPT Codex". And then - nothing happens. The old ChatGPT projects of my chats are gone, only appearing on the web.
asim: This thread is so spot on but I can also imagine the product development internally is moving so fast that they're trying to reconcile everything and can't. And this is the huge mistake so many companies make. Leave what's working alone. Build new adjacent things.
255 points by ot · 148 comments
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GodelNumbering: Lot more details in the linked report https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/muse-spark-1-1-evaluatio... From Terminal-bench-2.1 details, > We use a bash-tool-only agent harness to evaluate 89 Terminal-Bench 2.
simonw: I had a few days of preview access, which was long enough to put together a plugin for LLM. You can try the model out in the terminal like this: uv tool install llm llm install llm-meta-ai llm keys set meta-ai # paste API key here llm -m meta-ai/muse-spark-1.
jacobgold: Maybe Zuck should double down on his "spoiler" role with models rather than compete head-to-head. He doesn't have to match Anthropic or OpenAI model revenue if he can deflate theirs by 99%.
Tiberium: The pricing is insane: $1.25/$4.5 for 1M tokens, and $0.15 for cached input! https://dev.meta.ai/docs/getting-started/pricing-rate-limits
244 points by andai · 63 comments
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simonw: Pelican from a few days ago: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/hy3/ - I was using the free tier on OpenRouter, which expires on July 21st. I tried the preview model 41 days ago and got a pelican with a "change pelican color" button: https://static.simonwillison.
minimaxir: A month ago I wrote a blog post about how Hy3 was topping the OpenRouter rankings despite no one talking about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317294 As of today, it has fallen to 8/9th on the rankings.
andai: Novita is offering free Hy3 on OpenRouter until July 21st https://openrouter.ai/tencent/hy3:free https://x.com/novita_labs/status/2074158304159510819
Catloafdev: Curious how people feel about this compared to DS4 Flash, given they are pretty close in size. Also curious how well it holds up to heavy quantization. DS4 Flash can currently run reasonably well on systems with ~96gb+ RAM, I wonder if Hy3 can compete there.
207 points by baud147258 · 266 comments
The United States Army spent the last two decades optimizing sustainment for permissive environments defined by uncontested supply lines, contractor support, and static forward operating bases.
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kayo_20211030: A very insightful, and correct, piece. I'll quote in full the following, which I think gets to the heart of the matter. If you have no push, you can't apply pressure to the point.
bad_haircut72: When Russia invaded Ukraine, nobody (even the Ukranians) imagined that 5 years later they would have their own missiles hammering Russia 2500kms in the rear. Americans need to start accepting that a) the Iran war will also probably still be going on in 5 years and b) Iran will pr...
a34729t: China has missed their window of opportunity, sadly. For the next big war, the US will simply not even need to air or sea to deliver weapons or supplies (see SpaceX's StarFall, of which 60x4 should fit into Starship).
diddid: This has been true for as long as war has been a thing. The Army logistics won’t break, it’ll adapt, because that’s what war machines do. What’s good today isn’t good tomorrow. It’s a nice piece but nothing Sun Tzu or a good game of hearts of iron couldn’t teach you.
180 points by ChrisArchitect · 145 comments
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bombcar: "To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time" is just the best preamble ever.
doctoboggan: What causes the unpredictability in this? I would have guessed we have earth's rotation and orbit down to many decimals. Does geological activity, weather, or something else cause rotation speed differences that we just can't predict?
delichon: Hear me out. We can just mount jet engines along the equator and rotate them 180 to gain or lose time. And then connect them to my snooze button.
t1234s: They should have a global holiday to celebrate the people who maintain time/date related code in OS kernels that keeps the world from imploding.
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