Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions
Recover files created and modified by Claude Code from its JSONL session transcripts — even if you lost track of them across sessions. Claude Code stores a full log of every tool call in ~/.claude/projects/. This tool parses those transcripts, replays Write, Edit, and Read operations in order, and reconstructs the files so you can […]
How Next-Gen Spacecraft Are Overwhelming Our Communication Networks
26 Feb, 2026 The aerospace industry has been experiencing an unprecedented boom in both ambition and capability. High resolution Earth observation satellites and complex multi-instrument science spacecraft are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. But this push forward has created a challenge that threatens the full potential of these missions: the growing gap between how […]
Tove Jansson’s criticized illustrations of The Hobbit
In the year 1960, Tove Jansson was asked to make the illustrations for the new Swedish translation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s book The Hobbit. The request came from the Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren, who at the time was publisher at Rabén & Sjögren. She wrote: ‘God bless you for Toffle!! But who […]
A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation
A sprawling Chinese influence operation — accidentally revealed by a Chinese law enforcement official’s use of ChatGPT — focused on intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials, according to a new report from ChatGPT-maker OpenAI. The Chinese law enforcement official used ChatGPT like a diary to document the alleged covert campaign of […]
Experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
ChatGPT Health regularly misses the need for medical urgent care and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation, a study of the AI platform has found, which experts worry could “feasibly lead to unnecessary harm and death”. OpenAI launched the “Health” feature of ChatGPT to limited audiences in January, which it promotes as a way for […]
We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM
Last week, our agent traced a flaky test to a dependency bump three weeks prior. It did this by writing its own SQL queries, scanning hundreds of millions of log lines across a dozen queries, and following a trail from job metadata to raw log output. The whole investigation took seconds. To do this, the […]
An ode to houseplant programming (2025)
@hannahilea: home | projects | blog 28 Apr 2025 Recurse Center (RC) peer Ryan recently coined a phrase that I instantly fell in love with: houseplant programming. In Ryan’s words: [The tool I built] solves my idiosyncratic problems and may not address yours at all. That’s fine—take it as an ad to write tiny software […]
Tenth Circuit: 4th Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data. The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose after a housing protest in […]
The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
Since late 2024, Anthropic’s models have been approved for classified US government work thanks to a partnership with Palantir and Amazon. In June, Anthropic announced Claude Gov, a special version of Claude that’s optimized for national security uses. Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Defense Department in July. Claude Gov has fewer guardrails […]
OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
OpenAI has raised $110 billion in private funding, the company announced Friday morning, commencing one of the largest private funding rounds in history. The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion pre-money valuation. Notably, the round remains open, […]