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Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI (🔥 Score: 153+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vUcp
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vUcp
Doctors could hack the nervous system with ultrasound (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vQjU
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQjU
AI Saved My Company from a 2-Year Litigation Nightmare (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vSGL
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vSGL
Why agents are bad pair programmers (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vSeq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vSeq
The Danish Ministry of Digitalization Is Switching to Linux and LibreOffice (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vTqJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vTqJ
Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why (🔥 Score: 151+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vT5A
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vT5A
Poison everywhere: No output from your MCP server is safe (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vNGv
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vNGv
Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime (Score: 150+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vRHR
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vRHR
RFK Jr.: HHS moves to restore public trust in vaccines (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vRP7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vRP7
See also:
Kennedy guts CDC's vaccine panel of independent experts https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/kennedy-guts-acip...
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee - https://apnews.com/article/kennedy-cdc-acip-vaccines-3790c89...
Show HN: Munal OS: a graphical experimental OS with WASM sandboxing (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vQXH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQXH
Hello HN!
Showing off the first version of Munal OS, an experimental operating system I have been writing in Rust on and off for the past few years.
https://github.com/Askannz/munal-os
It's an unikernel design that is compiled as a single EFI binary and does not use virtual address spaces for process isolation. Instead, applications are compiled to WASM and run inside of an embedded WASM engine.
Other features:
* Fully graphical interface in HD resolution with mouse and keyboard support
* Desktop shell with window manager and contextual radial menus
* PCI and VirtIO drivers
* Ethernet and TCP stack
* Customizable UI toolkit providing various widgets, responsive layouts and flexible text rendering
* Embedded selection of applications including:
* A web browser supporting DNS, HTTPS and very basic HTML
* A text editor
* A Python terminal
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee (🔥 Score: 154+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vRTu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vRTu
Discovering a JDK Race Condition, and Debugging It in 30 Minutes with Fray (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vLa5
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vLa5
AI Angst (Score: 151+ in 10 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vPGp
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vPGp
Apple Announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc. (🔥 Score: 164+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vQZu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQZu
Maintaining an Android app in Google Play Store is a lot of work (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vM8D
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vM8D
Reverse Engineering Cursor's LLM Client (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vJDR
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vJDR
What methylene blue can (and can’t) do for the brain (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vGL9
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vGL9
Apple has announced its final version of macOS for Intel (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vSGs
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vSGs
Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vSPU
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vSPU
Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction [pdf] (Score: 155+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vSuT
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vSuT
Hokusai Moyo Gafu: an album of dyeing patterns (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vQn2
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQn2
Go is a good fit for agents (❄️ Score: 151+ in 5 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vzYB
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vzYB
Marines being mobilized in response to LA protests (Score: 157+ in 5 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vS2G
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vS2G
Sly Stone has died (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vRUB
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vRUB
Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQus
Most feedback tools are built like people actually want to report bugs. They don’t. Unless you make it dead-simple, or better yet - a little fun.
After shipping a few SaaS products, I noticed a pattern: Bugs? Yes. Bug reports? No.
Not because users didn’t care but because reporting bugs is usually a terrible experience.
Most tools want users to:
* Fill out a long form
* Enter their email
* Describe a bug they barely understand
* Maybe sign in or create an account
* Then maybe submit it
Let’s be real: no one’s doing that. Especially not someone just trying to use your product.
So I built Bugdrop.app - It’s a little draggable bug icon that users can drop right on the issue, type a quick note, and they’re done. No logins. No forms. Just context-rich feedback that your team can actually use — with screenshots, browser info, even console logs if they hit an error.
And weirdly? People actually use it. Even non-technical users click it just because "the little bug looked fun."
I didn’t want to build another "feedback suite". I just wanted something lightweight, fast, and so stupidly simple that people actually report stuff. If you've ever had a user say “something’s broken” and then ghost you forever, you probably get where I’m coming from.
What I’m most proud of? People are actually using it. And their users? They’re actually reporting stuff. Even non-technical ones.
Would love to hear if you’ve faced similar problems, and if this feels like something that would’ve helped in your own projects. Not trying to sell you anything — just sharing something I built to scratch my own itch.
Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS (🔥 Score: 160+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vRKN
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vRKN
Curate your shell history (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vGFg
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vGFg
Apple introduces a universal design across platforms (🔥 Score: 156+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vQSW
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQSW
Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) (🔥 Score: 180+ in 41 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQJB
Companies building software in the US were hit hard a few years ago when the IRS stopped allowing tax deduction of software dev expenses. Now they have to be amortized over several years.
HN has had many discussions about this, including The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533 - (927 comments) a few days ago. Other threads are listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203869.
There's currently a major effort to get this change reversed. One of the people working on it is YC's Luther Lowe (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itsluther). Luther has been organizing YC alumni to urge lawmakers to support this reversal. I asked him if we could do that on Hacker News too. He said yes—hence this thread :)
If you're a US taxpayer and if you agree that software dev expenses should be deductible like they used to be, please sign this letter to the relevant committee members: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkRGeef2e_tU2xf3TyEyd2JLlmZ....
(If you're not a US person, please don't sign the letter, since lawmakers will only listen to feedback from taxpayers and we don't want to dilute the signal.)
I'm sure not everyone here agrees with us—HN is a big community, there's no total agreement on anything—but this issue has as close to a community consensus as HN gets, so I think it makes sense to add our voices too.
Luther will be around to answer questions and hopefully HN can contribute to getting this done!
Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user (🔥 Score: 150+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6vQgw
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6vQgw