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Your App Could Have Been a Webpage - And One Developer Proved It
A developer reverse-engineered a travel itinerary app, discovered it was just reformatting JSON, and replaced the entire 43MB app with a 0.05MB webpage.
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Bonsai 27B: How PrismML Fit a 27B Model on Your Phone
PrismML's Bonsai 27B uses 1-bit quantization to compress a 27B model to 3.9GB - small enough to run on an iPhone. Here's how it works and what HN thinks.
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Codex Now Encrypts Multi-Agent Prompts, Breaking Local Auditability
OpenAI's Codex CLI now encrypts inter-agent communications for Sol and Terra models, leaving users unable to inspect what their agents are actually doing.
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Cursor 0day: Why a 7-Month-Old Vulnerability Is Still Unpatched
Cursor 0day: opening a repo on Windows can auto-execute a malicious git.exe. How the flaw works, the 7-month disclosure timeline, and practical mitigations.
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Git Finally Gets a History Command Worth Using
Git history command: how the experimental fixup, reword and split subcommands in Git 2.54 and 2.55 replace scary interactive rebases, and what developers think.
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How to Stop Claude from Saying 'Load-Bearing'
A Hacker News discussion blows up over LLM vocabulary quirks, with developers sharing hooks, filters, and coping mechanisms for repetitive Claude-isms.
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Apple SpeechAnalyzer vs Whisper: Independent Benchmark Shows Apple Winning on Accuracy
Apple SpeechAnalyzer vs Whisper: an independent benchmark of 5,559 utterances puts Apple at a 2.12% word error rate, ahead of every Whisper size tested.
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Building and Shipping iOS and Mac Apps Without Opening Xcode
A workflow for archiving, signing, notarizing, and distributing Apple apps entirely from the command line - with AI coding assistants doing the heavy lifting.
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Clawk: Disposable Linux VMs for Coding Agents Without Cloud Bills
Open-source tool gives Claude Code, Codex, and other agents their own isolated Linux VM on your machine - network firewall included, no cloud account required.
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GhostLock: A 15-Year Linux Kernel Vulnerability That Affects Every Distribution
GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) is a 15-year-old Linux kernel use-after-free in rtmutex. How the exploit works, which kernels are affected, and what HN says.
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What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends Home: A Wire-Level Analysis
Grok Build CLI wire-level analysis: a researcher found it uploads whole repositories, including .env secrets, to xAI servers. What the captured traffic shows.
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Zig Creator on the Bun-to-Rust Rewrite: What the Controversy Reveals
Zig creator Andrew Kelley on Anthropic's AI-assisted Bun-to-Rust rewrite: the core arguments, the HN debate, and what it says about AI marketing claims.
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