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Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets): “🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they’re free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain “all the books in the world.” My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb’s website literally says “‘AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy,” and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it “digital preservation.” I’ve covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it’s irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can’t replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it’s legal. So it’s going to accelerate. “We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out” is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗”

Hedgie (@HedgieMarkets): “🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they’re free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain “all the books in the world.” My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb’s website literally says “‘AI company destroys two million books’ is not a headline that generates sympathy,” and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it “digital preservation.” I’ve covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it’s irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can’t replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it’s legal. So it’s going to accelerate. “We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out” is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗”

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💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: 🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My…
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How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going? | Tom Lockwood

How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust Going? | Tom Lockwood

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: I think it’s important to be very Canny when someone makes a claim that supports a company’s large valuation. The Bun rewrite seems well positioned as proof-positive that AI and specifically Anthropic’s AI can do the work of open-source maintainers, for some money, but faster. On the 8th of July 2026 Jarred Summner of Bun fame posted about “Rewriting Bun in Rust”. At the time, I felt pretty Canny, having already read about Anthropic’s C compiler and Cursor’s FastRender web browser. It seems like…
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An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: ← Home / All posts threat-research llm-security June 28, 2026 · Matt Lenhard · 9 min read My Story I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about token fraud, a problem I first stumbled upon while working as a software engineer on an AI gateway. We faced constant abuse. At first it was free-credit abuse, where users spun up accounts en masse. Then it was our support chatbot. I started talking to friends about it and hearing stories of companies losing millions of dollars…
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How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: How do you fit a 250kB dictionary in 64kB of RAM and still perform fast lookups? For reference, even with modern compression techniques like gzip -9, you can't compress this file below 85kB.In the 1970s, Douglas McIlroy faced this exact challenge while implementing the spell checker for Unix at AT&T. The constraints of the PDP-11 computer meant the entire dictionary needed to fit in just 64kB of RAM. A seemingly impossible task.Instead of relying on generic compression techniques, he took advantage of the properties…
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Design is compromise — Steph Ango

Design is compromise — Steph Ango

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When did the word “compromise” become vilified? Compromise is neither good nor bad, it’s something we do every day. It’s decision making. Prioritizing. Deciding that one thing is more important than another. It’s finding the right balance between two competing desires. Which compromises you make   — that’s what matters. Choosing the right compromises is what defines good design. Companies like to tout products as “uncompromising” or having “no compromises”. That’s impossible. Once you decide on an approach, you inherently decide against other options. Another word for…
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moonshotai/Kimi-K3 · Upcoming release · Hugging Face

moonshotai/Kimi-K3 · Upcoming release · Hugging Face

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✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: K3 is the next generation of open frontier models from Moonshot AI. It is the world's first open 3T-class model, designed for frontier intelligence across long-horizon coding, knowledge work, and reasoning. What to expect New architecture built on Kimi Delta Attention and Attention Residuals Native agentic capabilities: tool calling, browsing, and multi-step planning Extended context window designed for repository-scale code understanding Open weights, released right here on this page Stay in the loop Hit Like and Notify on release and we will send you…
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How to Write English Prose

How to Write English Prose

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The Ideals There are few if any passages in the works of Sir Thomas Browne that I do not find thoroughly delightful; but two afford me particularly intense pleasure. One is the opening paragraph from his essay “On Dreams”: Half our dayes wee passe in the shadowe of the earth, and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives. A good part of our sleepes is peeced out with visions, and phantasticall objects wherin wee are confessedly deceaved. The day supplyeth us…
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AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation: This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg · GitHub

AARomanov1985/Audio-Cassette-Simulation: This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg · GitHub

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🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: This project simulates cassette tape audio profiles using ffmpeg. It applies tape noise, wow and flutter pitch modulation, bandwidth limits, and equalizer adjustments. bash ffmpeg (compiled with libmp3lame) BASF LH Extra C90: German ferric tape. Moderate hiss and mild flutter. Maxell UD C90: Higher-grade ferric tape. Lower hiss, wider frequency range. Sony CHF60 Type I Normal (1978): Vintage 60-minute normal tape. Warm mid-range. Sony CHF90 (1978): Vintage 90-minute normal tape. Slightly higher tape speed drift. TDK D90 (1995-1997): Late-era Type I tape. Clean sound, subtle…
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We have proof automation now

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I've long had a soft spot for dependently-typed languages like Coq Rocq and Lean. They offer the possibility of a type system capable of encoding and enforcing arbitrarily subtle invariants. The sort of thing that, in regular languages, ends up (at best) as a comment, and which quickly gets lost as the size of the team grows. Then you get subtle misunderstandings and components that don't quite fit together. It's often the case that those components have grown to a sufficient size that, when the…
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US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search

US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search

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🔥 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A hot potato: A federal case in Atlanta is raising questions about a privacy-focused mobile operating system, with prosecutors arguing that its features were used to erase evidence. The US Department of Justice is attempting to prosecute Atlanta resident Sam Tunick under a federal statute that makes it a crime to destroy property in an effort to prevent it from being seized. The case centers on Tunick's use of GrapheneOS, an open-source operating system that works on Google Pixel phones and lets users enter…
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