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No Man's Sky Cosmos

Become director of a space station, join a galactic alliance, construct a space base and discover deep-space marvels in No Man's Sky Cosmos. Navigate space with a new star system map, strip colossal hulks for parts before hull integrity fails, recover and haul physical salvage to remote space outposts, celebrate 10 years of No Man’s Sky in the Our Journey Continues expedition, and much, much more

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Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract

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Use Vsock with Libzmq

Use VSOCK with libzmq AF_VSOCK VSOCK is not new anymore it has been around in Linux kernel since 4.8. For those who do not know what this is, it was previously developed by VMware under the name VMCI. AF_VSOCK is a socket address family like AF_INET or AF_UNIX. It’s an address family designed for communication between a VM (guest) and the underlying hypervisor (host), you can also build communication between multiple guests on the same host. Previously, this kind of communication was done with a serial port, a great example is https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent.,Use VSOCK with libzmq AF_VSOCK VSOCK is not new anymore it has been around in Linux kernel since 4.8. For those who do not know what this is, it was previously developed

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How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

A caller phones Radio Erywan. “Is it true that in Moscow, on Red Square, they give out cars?” “True. Not in Moscow, however, but in St. Petersburg. Not on Red Square, but on Revolution Square. Not cars, but bikes. And they don’t give them out, but steal them”. Edit: Through the apparent magic of Hacker News, my Google Ads account has been reinstated. ✨. Still no explanation of what triggered the suspension, but thank you to everyone who helped make it visible (and/or fixed).

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Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.

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GNU Radio in the browser

Build and run GNU Radio flowgraphs in your browser — no install. A GRC-style SDR editor with hundreds of DSP blocks, live QT GUI plots and RTL-SDR support.

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Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

A deep dive into the massive June 2026 DDoS attack on Read the Docs, the attack patterns we observed, and the mitigations and defenses we used to defend our infrastructure.

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What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

tautology.town is a blog that contains tautologies.

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AirPods 5

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The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor

The desire to own an Apple Studio Display has probably been hanging over most Mac desktop users since time immemorial (well, since 1998 at least, but most ...

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Shopify acquires Tailwind

We're joining Shopify to give Tailwind a stable long-term home where it will be actively maintained for the millions of people who depend on it.

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Planet Labs' open satellite feed

Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...

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iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=49630026. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Apple Watch Series 12

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Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

Mounting crash data and bold safety standards reshape the debate: are self driving cars safe as a life‑saving public health intervention?

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I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

God save us from economists who think they can competently talk about biology

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iPhone Duo

iPhone Duo. The largest iPhone display ever. In a thin, foldable design. 48MP Dual Fusion camera system. A20 Pro chip. All-day battery life.

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GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

A Look at Recurrent Depth, Hidden Chains of Thought, and Recent Research on Looping Transformer Blocks

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Factoring RSA 260

How Devin and a Cognition researcher built the world’s highest-performance GPU lattice siever, to make factoring numbers 10x cheaper than the previous…

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On this day

American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is assassinated while onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

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Top Stories from Hacker News

No Man's Sky Cosmos

Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract

Use Vsock with Libzmq

How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads

Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device

GNU Radio in the browser

Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs

What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks

AirPods 5

The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor

Shopify acquires Tailwind

Planet Labs' open satellite feed

iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

Qwen 3.8 follows GPT-5.5 Pro reasoning prefills

Apple Watch Series 12

Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives

I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

iPhone Duo

GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning

Factoring RSA 260

On this day

American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is assassinated while onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Polaris Dawn, the first private crewed spaceflight to involve a spacewalk, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $77.2 billion (2017 USD) in damage.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.

Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.

Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.

During his appearance on the British TV game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, contestant Charles Ingram reaches the £1 million top prize, but it was later revealed that he had cheated to the top prize by listening to coughs from his wife and another contestant.

Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.

Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.

A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.

TWA Flight 355 is hijacked by five Croatian nationalists. The hijackers surrender upon landing in Paris.

An Indian Airlines flight is hijacked by six Kashmiri separatists and diverted to Lahore International Airport, where the passengers and crew are released.

Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.

The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.

In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 15 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.

A President Airlines Douglas DC-6 crashes just after takeoff from Shannon Airport, Ireland. All 83 passengers and crew are killed.

At the Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.

World War II: In the course of Operation Achse, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.

World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.

World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.

World War II: The Canadian declaration of war on Germany receives royal assent.

Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.

The first world individual Speedway World Championship was held at London's Wembley Stadium.

The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally owned IND, is opened.

The Republic of German-Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ceding significant territories to Italy, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.

Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.

Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.

George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.

Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.

The treaty of Tangier ends the Franco-Moroccan War, which Morocco lost, and forces it to recognise the French possessions in Algeria.

The United States defeats a British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.

At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.

American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.

Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, a chorale cantata based on a passion hymn by Johann Rist.

Reapers' War: Junta de Braços (Assembly of Estates) of the Principality of Catalonia summoned. It assumes the sovereignty and enacts a series of revolutionary measures which will lead to the Catalan Republic.

Fifty-five Christians are executed in Nagasaki during the Great Genna Martyrdom.

John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.

Edward Maria Wingfield is ousted as first president of the governing council of the Colony of Virginia; he is replaced by John Ratcliffe.

German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew are beheaded in Hamburg.

Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.

Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima: Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.

The Battle of Pinkie, the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.

Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.

An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.

John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.

The first synod of pope Urban II starts in Melfi, with seventy bishops and twelve abbots in attendance. The synod issues several decrees about church law and deals with the relation with the Greek part of the Church.

The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.

Election of pope Celestine I following the death of pope Boniface I earlier that month.

On this day

American right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk is assassinated while onstage at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Polaris Dawn, the first private crewed spaceflight to involve a spacewalk, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Hurricane Irma makes landfall on Cudjoe Key, Florida as a Category 4, after causing catastrophic damage throughout the Caribbean. Irma resulted in 134 deaths and $77.2 billion (2017 USD) in damage.

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan after seven years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999.

Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, becomes a full member of the United Nations.

Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.