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Tell HN: PSA: AI can make old games run on 64-bit macOS
An AI tool has demonstrated a practical use case that sits at the intersection of software preservation and modern platform compatibility. A user on Hacker News reported that a game incompatible with recent versions of macOS was b...
Show HN: LabLoop – isolated infrastructure for LLM-driven scientific experiments
A developer working with AI agents for scientific research has published an open source project that tackles a specific but growing problem: how to let an AI agent run experiments on real data without giving that agent unrestricte...
Running local LLMs on your Mac: what fits, what's free, and what's overkill
Every Mac sold today can run a language model locally. That is not a claim about the high-end Mac Studio. A MacBook Air from 2020 qualifies. The barrier to running AI on a personal computer has dropped to the point where the hardw...
Who Is Open Source About?
A new essay on the glyph.im blog challenges one of the most influential arguments in the open source community. The author contends that Rich Hickey's famous 2021 post, which argued that open source is not about the user, mischara...
What is LLM-as-a-Judge, and How It Works?
LLM-as-a-judge is an evaluation method where one large language model scores or compares the output produced by another. A team provides the judge model with a short prompt that states the criteria, the question, and the answer to...
Tell HN: No company scaled revenue as fast as AI companies
The pace at which artificial intelligence companies are scaling their recurring revenue has no precedent in recorded business history, according to a widely discussed claim making the rounds on Hacker News. The post, submitted by...
Vercel Labs Ships scriptc, a TypeScript-to-Native Compiler That Leaves the JavaScript Engine Behind
Vercel Labs has shipped scriptc, an experimental compiler that promises to let developers distribute ordinary TypeScript programs as standalone native binaries with no Node.js runtime, no V8 engine, and no JavaScript runtime embed...
AI Agents are breaking into Online Retailers for $25 a target
A financially motivated operator has been running autonomous AI agents against hundreds of online retailers since July 2026, stealing more than 600,000 unexpired credit card records and deploying card-stealing skimmers across doze...
Evolving programming languages in the AI era
When José Valim, creator of the Elixir programming language, published a wide-ranging essay on how programming languages should evolve in an era where AI agents write most of the code, the argument boiled down to a single provocat...
OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
An unredacted court filing unsealed this week in the New York Times versus OpenAI copyright lawsuit contains a series of admissions from Microsoft and OpenAI executives that amount to a rare, documented acknowledgment of what crit...