President Trump touched down in Beijing overnight for a high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping while the Iran war rages and the South Carolina Supreme Court threw out Alex Murdaugh's murder convictions, setting up a day defined by geopolitical tension and judicial reckoning.
The US president arrived in Beijing with tech leaders including Elon Musk and Tim Cook for trade, AI and Taiwan talks overshadowed by the continuing conflict with Iran.
The state's highest court ordered a new trial, ruling that a court clerk improperly influenced the jury during one of America's highest-profile homicide cases.
Dr. Makary privately opposed the administration's tobacco and vaping policies and stepped down after the president sided with cigarette makers over his own regulator.
The Labor Department reported a sharp 6% jump in producer prices last month, intensifying inflationary pressure throughout the supply chain.
State lawmakers pushed forward a new congressional map that would dissolve a majority-Black district following a federal court decision.
The tented immigration detention camp in the Florida Everglades will begin winding down next month after widespread condemnation from advocates and lawmakers.
Moscow launched one of its largest drone attacks of the war, killing at least six people just hours after a previous overnight barrage.
Gunshots echoed through the Senate building in Manila as police tried to arrest a senator allied with Rodrigo Duterte who is wanted by the International Criminal Court.
A British cruise ship docked in Bordeaux, France, confined passengers and crew after 49 people fell ill in a suspected gastrointestinal outbreak.
The bank appointed three new co-heads of global investment banking in a sweeping management reorganization affecting several senior divisions.
Arm Holdings and majority owner SoftBank approached the AI computing firm weeks before its expected IPO, according to people familiar with the matter.
Undersea fiber-optic cables traversing the Strait of Hormuz carry vast shares of global internet traffic and face growing risk as regional tensions escalate.
A mysterious new Google portal called Googlebook drew massive curiosity and skepticism from the HN community.
A startup squeezed Gemini's tool-calling capability into a 26-million-parameter model that can run entirely on local hardware.
An essay argues senior engineers often struggle to mentor juniors because expertise erases the memory of what it feels like not to know.
A developer chronicled migrating every service — hosting, email, domains, analytics — from US providers to European ones for privacy and resilience.
An open-source project restored cloud-network functionality for Bambu Lab 3D printers after the manufacturer restricted third-party slicers.
A deep-dive into the graphic-design and typography tricks that make sci-fi movie interfaces feel convincingly futuristic.
Researchers disclosed six new vulnerabilities in dnsmasq, the lightweight DNS forwarder and DHCP server used in millions of routers and IoT devices.
DuckDB introduced Quack, an official client-server protocol for running remote analytical queries against the embedded database.
The popular Android screen-mirroring and control tool released version 4.0 with new capture features and latency improvements.
A developer detailed the complete migration from GitHub to self-hosted Forgejo, covering issues, pull requests, CI pipelines, and team workflows.
A research paper proposes a deterministic approach to translating entire compiled binaries to new CPU architectures without heuristic guessing.
A newly developed alloy withstands the corrosive conditions required to produce hydrogen directly from seawater, a potential clean-energy breakthrough.
A government-funded suicide-prevention website was caught sharing visitor data with advertising and analytics firms without informed consent.
Cloudflare traced a rare QUIC protocol death spiral to a Linux kernel scheduler optimization that behaves unexpectedly under sustained network load.
An engineer reverse-engineered and documented the Fisher-Price Pixter, a 2000s handheld educational toy, to preserve its software and hardware for posterity.