Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths

Renault Group uses rare-earth-free EESM motors in EVs from Zoe to Renault 5, cutting reliance on China’s supply chain. Its Cléon-built next-gen motor arrives in 2027: 200 kW, 800 volts, 30% smaller.

Open Source AI Must Win

If intelligence becomes something people can only rent from a few closed institutions, the public does not just lose software freedom. It loses operational freedom. capacity. Access must not depend on closed APIs, remote platforms, When a small number of closed frontier labs and platform companies America should not fall behind on the freedom to run, inspect,

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Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

depthfirst’s security agent found 21 FFmpeg zero-days, including bugs latent for up to 23 years. It produced reproducible PoCs for about $1k and demonstrated an RCE primitive.

Show HN Putt.day a daily mini golf game

putt.dayA daily hole of mini golf.No. 31 · June 12, 2026How to playGrab the ball, drag back, let go. Pull further to hit harder.Drag anywhere else to look around; pinch or scroll to zoom.Get it in the hole in as few strokes as you can.Water sends you back to where you were.One new hole a day. Your first finish counts. Old days are in the calendar.Statscalendar

Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine

Tectonic is a modern TeX-to-PDF system that downloads needed LaTeX resources, automates builds, avoids intermediate files by default, and supports Unicode and OpenType fonts. It is open-source Rust-based software built on XeTeX and designed for reproducible document compilation.

"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

A freelance translator explains to a gym acquaintance why AI cannot replace the nuance of human translation. While AI is a useful tool for efficiency, it still requires expert human oversight.

AMD Stiffs Researcher $10k Bug Bounty

AMD fixed an HTTP flaw in its Windows auto-updater after 124 days but refused a $10,000 bounty. The patch still relies on weak CRC32 checks, not cryptographic signatures.

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

Earth’s ocean origins remain debated, as comet and asteroid delivery face isotope and gas mismatches. New lab work suggests early rocky planets could forge water from hydrogen atmospheres and magma oceans.LaTeX Original saved successfully

Launch HN BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

Use from your favorite AI tools. Generate dashboards and analysis in BitBoard from your favorite AI chat or coding agent. Turn your analysis into connected, durable assets instead of one-off chat threads.

SkillSpector

SkillSpector scans AI agent skills for vulnerabilities, malicious patterns, and CVEs across many input formats. It combines static analysis, optional LLM review, risk scoring, and offline-capable OSV.dev lookups.

A key remapping daemon for Linux

keyd is a fast Linux daemon for system-wide keyboard remapping, layers, and modifier behavior. It aims to be simple, display-server agnostic, and stable via tagged releases.

Adaptive PDFs

Adaptive PDFs could show normal layouts to people while giving machines clean Markdown via embedded replacement text. This may improve LLM parsing with low overhead, though tool support varies.

Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)

A 1936 Dominion piece recalls Charles Lounsberry’s poetic will. It leaves nature, joy, love, memory and poetry to children, lovers, adults and the aged.

Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring a Full Stack Engineer

HazelAI-enabled procurement for governmentFull Stack Engineer (TS/SCI)$150K - $200K•0.25% - 0.75%•Washington, DC, US / New York, NY, US / Remote (US)Job typeFull-timeRoleEngineering, Full stackExperience3+ yearsVisaUS citizen/visa onlySkillsAmazon Web Services (AWS), Git, PostgreSQL, Python, React, TypeScript, Docker, Next.js, TerraformConnect directly with founders of the best YC-funded startups. ...

Maxproof

MaxProof combines generative-verifier RL with population-level test-time scaling for mathematical proof. The M3 system reaches IMO 2025 and USAMO 2026 scores above human gold-medal thresholds.