Running local models is good now — Vicki Boykis on how local LLMs crossed a usefulness threshold for agentic coding on a 64 GB Mac, with GPT-OSS and Gemma as turning points.SpaceX to buy Cursor for sixty billion dollars — an all-stock deal for Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding editor, closing in Q3; effectively gives xAI a developer-distribution channel.GrapheneOS ported to Android 17 — same-day port complete, code being pushed, initial public release planned for tomorrow across Pixel 6a through Pixel 10 Pro Fold.Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless — new aliases will be issued from a private subdomain, making them trivial for services to identify and block.HTTP requests from Bash using slash dev slash TCP — a no-curl, no-wget trick for minimal containers using a Bash built-in pseudo-device.Mechanical Watch (2022) — Bartosz Ciechanowski's interactive deep dive on how a mechanical wristwatch actually works, back on the front page.Stop Using JWTs — the perennial argument that JSON Web Tokens are the wrong tool for browser sessions; use cookie sessions, or PASETO for short-lived signed tokens.Is Meta destroying its engineering organization? — Pragmatic Engineer reports that 30 to 50 percent of engineers on core teams have been reassigned to data labeling for AI training.Follow links to the original posts and HN threads via news.ycombinator.com.
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