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Stop treating AI like an "Improv Actor" and start building it like a "Logic Engine."

Most users fail because they use "Persona-Based" prompting—asking the AI to "act like a CEO." The result? Conversational fluff, hallucinations, and 30% token waste. ​The Solution? …

Opencode reading file again and again and fill context.

So I am using 3.6 35B A3B, pretty good for my work, but the first 64k tokens feels bigger like not a problem, but second time onwards it starts to read every file again and fills u…

Summer Is Almost Here. I Let AI Fill My Calendar With Fitness, Fun and Music

Take advantage of the warmer weather with a full schedule, without breaking a sweat.…

Examining NATO: Inside the ‘commitment gap’ as US carries alliance deterrence

Trump pressures NATO allies to boost defense spending as experts describe a decades-long commitment gap between political promises and military capability.…

AI music is flooding streaming services — but who wants it?

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on how AI is changing music and the music industry, follow Terrence O'Brie…

My Kid’s School Is Going Through a Financial Scandal. What Parents Have Chosen to Do About It Is Breaking My Heart.

I'm holding it against them.…

Rays' brutal stadium appears to cost Giants home run, leading to ejections

The Tropicana Field catwalk struck again as a Heliot Ramos fly ball sparked ejections and controversy in the Giants' 5-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays.…

Ukraine hits key Russian oil-loading port and 3 ‘shadow fleet’ tankers - AP News

Ukraine hits key Russian oil-loading port and 3 ‘shadow fleet’ tankers AP News…

Newsom's Illegal-Alien Funding Spree

DAVID MARCUS: How Democrats sneaked in reparations, and how they'll protect em

Commentary argues reparations already exist through marijuana equity loans, DEI training mandates, and race-based wealth redistribution programs.…

Ukraine on Sunday launched a wave of strikes against Russian oil targets, hitting a key loading port on the Baltic Sea and two tankers that Ukraine alleges were illegally used to transport Russian crude

Trump signs bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, ending record shutdown - AP News

Trump signs bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, ending record shutdown AP News…

Kenya battles to stop the 'goons and guns' as fears of political violence grow

More than 100 gangs are operating nationwide as the growing use of political thugs raises fears of election violence.…

Germany troop cuts send wrong signal to Russia, say two top US Republicans

The chairs of the House and Senate armed services committees said withdrawing 5,000 service personnel risked undermining deterrence.…

Why this tribe is buying up hundreds of acres of farmland — and flooding it

The Stillaguamish Tribe in Washington state has been buying land in its traditional territory and removing levees. The goal is to turn farmland into wetlands with the hopes of rest…

Taxpayers could foot $100 million jet fuel bill for wildfires as prices spike

Taxpayers may face a wildfire season with a soaring price tag, as aviation fuel costs, sharply higher since the outbreak of the war with Iran, threaten to push expenses to $100 mil…

Woke bills could spring NY’s worst killers, including ‘Son of Sam’ and John Lennon assassin

Notorious monsters, including John Lennon's murderer Mark David Chapman and the Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz, may soon be free men if a pair of woke parole bills pass the stat…

Reform UK council backs release of beavers amid party row over rewilding

Councillors in Leicestershire support move in efforts to reduce flooding as Reform faces divisions on nature policy A Reform UK council has backed the release of wild beavers into …

How weddings got (even more) expensive

I have been a bridesmaid six times. I’ve traveled across the country and outside of it to see my friends get married. I’ve planned bachelorette parties in New Orleans and gone to b…

OpenAI introduces AI-generated pets for its Codex app

It's like Microsoft's Clippy, but useful.…

Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

'We’re not selling and we’re not giving way': Lone farmer defeats Tennessee's TVA as US electricity giant grapples with exploding demand from AI-fuelled data centers from Google and Elon Musk's xAI, encouraged by slow legislature

A Revolutionary War era farm in Tennessee blocked TVA's power line using social media, petitions, and help from country star John Rich.…

Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters

Hello HN, I was away from my computer for two weeks, and after coming back and reading the latest discussions on HN about coding assistants (models, harnesses), I felt very out of …

Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar bills (Sanya Mansoor/The Guardian)

Sanya Mansoor / The Guardian : Maryland becomes the first US state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores, as other states including CO, CA, MA, IL, and NJ consider similar …

An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date (NIST)

NIST : An evaluation by NIST's CAISI says DeepSeek V4 Pro lags behind leading US AI models by about eight months and is the most capable Chinese AI model to date — In April 2026, t…

Claude Code with a local LLM running offline is the hybrid setup I didn't know I needed

Local LLMs are great, when you know what tasks suit them best…

Keychain-size ‘GameCube’ uses genuine Nintendo silicon — system also includes a dock, design shared to GitHub

Video showcases the Nintendo Kawaii project, in which modders have shrunken a boxy GameCube down to a keychain.…

I ditched my motherboard's fan presets and built my own curve, and the difference is massive

The default curve is safe, but often times leaves a lot to be desired…

Startups challenge Apple over curbs on AI 'vibe coding' apps

Massive fire destroys University of South Florida laboratory building: 'Total loss'

A massive fire broke out at the University of South Florida's Marine Science Laboratory in St. Petersburg, with no injuries reported, authorities said.…

6 Georgia teens injured in high-speed rollover crash on deadly winding road

"I could hear all the kids in the car and they were trying to get themselves out and I just knew something was bad."…

Reform frontbench promotes JCB’s pothole machine after firm’s £200,000 donation

Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson and Robert Jenrick, among others, have sung the praises of the JCB PotHole Pro Reform UK’s leading figures have repeatedly promoted a new pothole-fixing …

UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms

Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding ‘crazy’ scientific projects to benefit the UK Britain’s “invention agency” has pledged £50m of UK taxpayer money…

Secretary of State Marco Rubio takes on yet another job — wedding DJ

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has a new job to add to his long resume of Trump administration responsibilities: wedding DJ.…

Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge

Nervous lefties launch LA billboard campaign defending Jimmy Kimmel after ‘hateful’ Trump joke

The latest brouhaha between President Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel has sparked a billboard campaign from MoveOne.org targeting Disney and ABC offices in Southern California.…

Golden Tempo wins 2026 Kentucky Derby

Golden Tempo captured the 152nd Kentucky Derby, earning Cherie DeVaux her first Triple Crown victory and making her the first female trainer to win the Derby after upsetting Renega…

California’s other transit ‘boondoggle’ laid bare as costs double: ‘I’ll be retiring by then’

The Golden State has more than one transit "boondoggle" to wrestle with.…

With 5th Circuit's Temporary Block of Abortion Pill by Mail, Louisiana v. FDA Might Get SCOTUS Review

On Friday, the Fifth Circuit United States Court of Appeals issued a ruling in the case of Louisiana v. FDA, which rendered a major blow to the abortion industry. The Fifth Circuit…

Avi Lewis, New Socialist Leader of Canada’s NDP: “Life Just Doesn’t Have to Be So Grindingly Unfair”

‘Sexology 101’ truck hits NJ colleges, handing out sex toys, condoms and ‘pleasure expert’ advice

The event also hosted Dirty Lola, a Netflix-featured "pleasure expert," who fielded anonymous questions from eager attendees ranging from relationship advice to kink curiosities.…

Shocking cost to fuel world’s largest flying firefighting fleet as California wildfire season looms

California is staring down soaring fuel costs and expanding fire danger, yet state leaders are sticking with an expensive, all-in wildfire strategy.…

Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races

Senator decries "blatant, brazen corruption," wants to target Trump admin next.…

Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell

At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is as…

The things we’re building

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 126, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I need 10 or 15 skirts from Calvin Klein, and als…

AI spending is the only thing from keeping the US economy from falling off a cliff

The only thing keeping the US economy from falling off a cliff is AI spending.…

VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder

While the Alliance For Open Media had been aiming for the AV2 release by the end of 2025, as of right now the AV2 specification remains in a draft status. VideoLAN developers thoug…

Usage-based pricing killing your vibe - here's how to roll your own local AI coding agents

Take those token limits and shove them by vibe coding with a local LLM With model devs pushing more aggressive rate limits, raising prices, or even abandoning subscriptions for usa…

'No viewfinder, no deal' — why Nikon's new rumored full-frame compact is already dividing fans

Nikon is being tipped to release a fixed-lens full-frame compact camera that could rival the Fujifilm X100VI, Ricoh GR IV, Sony RX1R III, and Leica Q3, but its rumored specs make f…

Gigabyte Z890 Aorus Elite Duo X Motherboard Review: CQDIMM support with Arrow Lake Refresh

Gigabyte’s Z890 Aorus Elite Duo X lands square in the mid-range sweet spot, offering ample connectivity, five M.2 sockets, native Arrow Lake Refresh support, and CQDIMM compatibili…

Enthusiast creates Peltier thermoelectric cooler from scratch — impressive rig uses two 360mm AIOs, homemade DC controllers, and a custom loop

A YouTuber made his own Peltier liquid cooling system to see if GPUs benefit from thermoelectric cooling. Sadly, the cooler was barely capable of cooling an RTX 3070 below ambient …

Instagram will stop recommending accounts that dont post original content

Instagram will mark accounts ineligible for recommendations if they reupload other people's content.…

Think vibe-coding will turn you into a rich entrepreneur? You might want to read the risk brief

A new report from the Association for Computing Machinery says vibe coding carries serious risks around security, testing, and long-term code quality.…

Ukrainian vet saved humans and animals before finding refuge in Australia

Wildlife veterinarian Maria Mykytiuk led an idyllic life in Bucha, Ukraine, before Russian forces invaded the city in 2022.…

Trump ‘Not Satisfied’ With Iran’s Proposal on Ending War

The details of the latest plan were unclear, and President Trump did not specify his objections.…

Video of NYC police killing machete-wielding man at Grand Central station released - AP News

Video of NYC police killing machete-wielding man at Grand Central station released AP News…

The Iran War Remains Unpopular—Unless You’re a Weapons Contractor

As peace talks with Iran continue to stall, the Trump administration announced on Friday an additional $8.6 billion in fast-tracked weapons sales to Israel, Qatar, Kuwait, and the …

Obama Is Still Screwing Over Taxpayers After All These Years

There's a massive solar power plant glowing in the Mojave Desert near the California–Nevada border, and it's costing you money whether you know it exists or not. It’s called Ivanpa…

Ex-Vikings captain Jack Brewer opens up on witnessing Somalis flooding luxury stores amid alleged fraud

Jack Brewer, former Vikings captain, claims he saw Minnesota's Somali population buying luxury goods as FBI raids alleged fraud operations statewide.…

Ilhan Omar’s name came up six times in $250M fraud case — after she loosened oversight of fed funded food programs

Ilhan Omar's name came up several times in recently resurfaced exhibits from Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock's 2025 trial, adding to speculation the embattled Squad rep had a…