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Auth.md — an Open Protocol for Agent Registration From WorkOS

My thanks to WorkOS for sponsoring DF last week to promote Auth.md, their new open protocol for AI agent registration. (Who’d have thunk that I’d be getting paid to promote new uses for Markdown 22 years after releasing it?) Sign-up forms were built for humans in browsers, so how…

Writer Ian Bogost says ‘The Small Stuff’ can help us reclaim our lives from too much convenience

Has Silicon Valley been building the wrong things?

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is All About the Comics

If you're big on comics, watching 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' in theaters will also be a two-hour Easter Egg hunt

Meta Reportedly Got Too Addicted to Google AI Tokens and Had to Be Cut Off

That's enough AI for you.

Daniel Agee: ‘Remembering Om’

Daniel Agee, an early member of the team at Glass, writing on the Glass blog: It’s not lost on us that Om’s photography, often taken in frozen lands in or around the arctic circle, was the polar opposite of his personality. While he focused on subtle shapes and hidden landscapes,…

California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1

Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.

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Yash Raj Films Backs Rusk Media To Expand Into Vertical Entertainment

Bollywood production house Yash Raj Films has made a “strategic investment” in digital entertainment startup Rusk Media to expand its…

Love and Deepspace’s new romanceable character draws heavy criticism despite Paper Games’ apology

Paper Games’ 3D romance game Love and Deepspace has been caught in what appears to be its biggest controversy since launch following the reveal of its sixth romanceable male character, Ao Yin. The announcement triggered widespread criticism over the character’s visual design, sto…

Adults who reread the same handful of novels every few years aren’t avoiding new books, they’re returning to the version of themselves who first met those pages, before life asked them to be useful to everyone else

Adults who reread the same novels every few years aren't avoiding new books — psychology suggests they're using familiar pages to reconnect with the version of themselves that existed before life turned them into everyone else's reliable one.

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Huawei Mate 90 Series Set for September Launch with Kirin 2026 Chip, Aiming Directly at iPhone 18

Huawei's Mate 90 series is confirmed for a September launch, debuting the Kirin 2026 chip with logic folding technology and HarmonyOS 7 to challenge Apple's iPhone 18 lineup.

Sperm whales sleep in vertical pods, drifting tail-down near the surface in groups of five or six, completely motionless for about 15 minutes at a time, in one of the shortest sleep cycles of any mammal on Earth

Sperm whales rest in vertical clusters near the ocean surface, silent and motionless for roughly fifteen minutes at a time — the shortest sleep cycle of any mammal yet measured, and a posture marine biologists only confirmed in 2008.

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China's Photonic Computing Answer to Space: Lighter, Cooler, Radiation-Immune Alternative to Traditional Chips

Guangbenwei Technology and Dongfang Tianxuan launch the world's first space-based photonic computing satellite, using light instead of electrons to overcome radiation, heat, and power constraints.

Ford rehires ‘gray beard’ engineers after AI falls short

"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

Here’s What the Newly Formed Super El Niño Means for Summer in Your Region

Parts of the U.S. could see increases in certain types of extreme weather. Here's everything you need to know.

Matt Mullenweg: ‘All Roads Lead to Om’

Matt Mullenweg: Fundamentally, Om was a lover of humanity. He became a fast “regular” everywhere he went. He wouldn’t just buy coffee, he would also learn the name and story of every barista, the dogs and people in South Park. His deep curiosity and respect weren’t just for the f…

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Custom Hybrid Drivetrain Powers Boat

Offloading acceleration and braking to an electric motor in a hybrid configuration allows the less efficient combustion engine run in a more narrow set of RPM and torque ranges. In …read more

Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

Article URL: https://nonogra.ph/age-verification-is-just-a-precursor-to-attribution-of-speech-06-29-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714529 Points: 569 # Comments: 327

HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop onto 1.44 MB Floppy

It’s not every day that there’s a new OS in the works for 386 and 486-era hardware, but [John Swiderski] let us know he working hard to bring HamsterOS to retrocomputing …read more

It’s Linux, on a Sega Megadrive

If you were in the market for a games console in 1990, the chances are that the object of your desire was either a Super Nintendo with its 16-bit 6502 …read more

EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG

RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.

Phone Stand Aims To Fight Addiction

Sometimes, it’s hard to stop picking up your phone every few minutes to check on notifications and scroll endlessly through the slop of the day. [PushpendraC2] has been working on …read more

Reachy Mini Desktop Robot Gets All-local, Conversational AI

Reachy Mini is a limbless desktop robot from Hugging Face made for human interaction experiments, and to give you an idea of what it’s like is a guide on how …read more

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88

Article URL: https://danunparsed.com/p/hackerrank-open-source-ats Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48713832 Points: 543 # Comments: 219

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Pollen (CEO Negus-Fancey, CTO Wright) tried to remove article, and Google helped

Article URL: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/pollen-tried-to-remove-my-article-about-callum-negus-fancey-and-google-is-assisting-to-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716902 Points: 228 # Comments: 29

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