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• SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B

  The thing is, even the center of the road academics who refrain from such comparisons are noting the similarity. The MAGA movement meets the traditional defining characteristics of fascio. We can be rigid and say that only Mussolini‘s political movement can be properly be called fascist. But if we call Hitler and the Nazis fascists as well, then we open the door to any movement that meets the criteria. And Trump... - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

• AMA: I'm Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) & Author of New Bestseller Incorruptible

  Yes, it's much different in other countries. See https://substack.com/@doks/p-198191751. - Source: Hacker News / 22 days ago

• Show HN: Playing with genomics foundation model tutorial/explainer article

  Hi folks, I got curious about how genomics foundation models work and wrote an article explaining how they are trained + can be used. Feel free to use the following as learning resources if you wish to jump into ML for comp bio stuff, it may help: - Code: https://github.com/dillondesilva/nt-promoter-region-classification - Article/Tutorial:... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices

  The vast majority of people from the developed world have no problems going through any border in the developed world. Your experience is probably representative, but that's not what we're talking about. My understanding is that de facto you have no rights at all in China. The Americans take this sort of thing very seriously, which is why it's in the news and talked about. Some guy gets imprisoned for 37... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson's DOS Printouts

  There was never a serious claim DOS copied CP/M code. The controversy was mostly about legality of reimplementation of the API, plus some pretty vague claims about copying the design: https://substack.com/@nemanjatrifunovic/note/p-178321556. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

OpenRouter mentions (36)

• GLM-5.2 is the step change for open agents

  It's very easy to use other providers. See https://openrouter.ai/ which also let's you filter by where the provider is hosted and their data retention policy. - Source: Hacker News / 10 days ago

• Testing GLM-5.2 on OpenCode: I'm impressed!

  If you want to try it yourself: grab OpenCode, point it at OpenRouter, select GLM 5.2, and give it a real task instead of a benchmark. The z.ai docs have the rest of the details. - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

• AI Gateways in 2026: a field guide to the 106 cost problem

  Hosted, minimal ops. You want to be calling models in five minutes and you are fine paying a small fee for it. OpenRouter is the marketplace default — 400+ models, ~5.5% on credits. Vercel AI Gateway and Cloudflare AI Gateway go further and charge 0% markup, billing you at provider list price while adding routing and caching on top. - Source: dev.to / 20 days ago

• Self-hosting OpenClaw: a money trap and two silent failures

  I use OpenRouter as the single door to a pile of models. Its BYOK (bring-your-own-key) feature has a trap. You add your own OpenAI key for a model, flip on "Always use for this provider," and read that as never spend OpenRouter credits. It doesn't mean that. - Source: dev.to / 22 days ago

• Why I Use the Same LLM Key for Claude Code and My Character Chats

  Developer gateways - MegaLLM, Portkey, LiteLLM, OpenRouter. The pitch is reliability, failover, cost, analytics. They are headless: you get an API, you bring your own interface. Great for shipping code, nothing to actually use without building a client first. - Source: dev.to / 24 days ago