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Sun, Sep 6, 2026
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QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes beige.party
The Mastodon web application requires JavaScript to function correctly.
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Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice github.com
The Nitter project, a privacy-focused alternative front-end for Twitter, will continue its operations despite receiving cease and desist letters from X Corp.
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Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025) bcantrill.dtrace.org
Using Large Language Models to generate social media content destroys authenticity and alienates readers because the resulting prose is stylistically grating and predictable.
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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone cloudinabottle.org
Cloud in a Bottle aims to restore user autonomy by making self-hosting as easy and integrated as using a smartphone.
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A/I shuts down keepitfree.ai
The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down its infrastructure because it was designated as a global terrorist organization.
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Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings lapcatsoftware.com
Google Chrome is once again ignoring user-defined site data deletion settings specifically for Google-owned websites.
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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight isaraerospace.com
Isar Aerospace has become the first European commercial space company to successfully reach orbit and deploy payloads, marking a significant shift toward sovereign space access for Europe.
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The revolt of the reader bcantrill.dtrace.org
Readers are increasingly repelled by LLM-authored content because it lacks authenticity and violates the social contract between writer and reader.
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Asahi Linux on M3 asahilinux.org
Asahi Linux has officially merged support for M3 series SoCs into its installer, bringing Linux compatibility to the latest Mac hardware.
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Doomscrolling ourselves to death edwest.co.uk
The decline of literacy and reading for pleasure is leading to a cultural and intellectual decay that threatens the foundations of democracy.
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GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard grapheneos.social
Accessing the Mastodon web application requires the user to have JavaScript enabled in their browser.
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Music Theory for Programmers runjs.app
Music theory is not a set of arbitrary conventions but a system derived from physics and arithmetic.
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It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis anubis.techaro.lol
The provided text is a security check designed to prevent automated bots from accessing a website.
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Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue github.com
Nitter provides a free, open-source alternative front-end for Twitter that prioritizes user privacy and performance.
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GPT-6 Astra on robot arms openai.robocurve.org
GPT-6 Astra demonstrates significant improvements over Claude Fable 5 and 5.1 in simple robotic manipulation tasks, particularly in success rates and operational efficiency.
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You Don't Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, US Court Rules motherjones.com
A Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling has determined that the US Constitution does not guarantee a right to safe drinking water or truthful information from officials during health crises.
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M-DISC – DVD/Blu-ray compatible discs that may last up to 1000 years en.wikipedia.org
M-DISC is a write-once optical disc technology designed for extreme long-term data preservation by replacing organic dyes with a glassy carbon material.
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How I feel about AI beza1e1.tuxen.de
Artificial intelligence presents a paradoxical blend of technological wonder and societal dread.
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AI, Tools and Transformation ben-evans.com
While AI makes building tools easier, it cannot automatically eliminate corporate inefficiency because the hardest part of digital transformation is identifying the right problems to solve and coordinating organizational change.
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I changed my license bergie.iki.fi
Permissive open source licenses often benefit large corporations more than the developers who create the software.
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NetBSD 9.5 released and EOL for NetBSD-9 blog.netbsd.org
The NetBSD Project has released NetBSD 9.5 as the final update to the version 9 stable branch.
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Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one kepter.app
Traditional folder hierarchies are an outdated system from 50 years ago that place an unnecessary cognitive load on users by requiring them to remember file locations or names.
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Topologist's Map of the World futilitycloset.com
A Reddit user created a unique map of the world that focuses solely on the topological relationship between countries.
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AMD Based FreeBSD Desktop Reloaded vermaden.wordpress.com
The author demonstrates that a cost-effective, high-performance Mini-ITX build using an AM4 platform is fully compatible with FreeBSD.
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Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet twitter.com
The Liquid Network has experienced a security incident where approximately 4,000 BTC ($320 million) was withdrawn from the Liquid Federation wallet.
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Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings arxiv.org
Text embeddings from different AI models share a universal semantic structure that allows them to be translated between vector spaces without paired data or encoders.
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2026 Hugo Awards thehugoawards.org
The 84th World Science Fiction Convention, LAcon V, successfully concluded the 2026 Hugo Awards by announcing winners across various categories of speculative fiction and fan contributions.
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The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay a.wholelottanothing.org
General Motors' decision to remove Apple CarPlay and Android Auto from its EVs in favor of a proprietary Android Automotive OS has negatively impacted sales.
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Research carried out using NetBSD netbsd.org
NetBSD serves as a versatile and scalable platform for diverse scientific and technical research across global institutions.
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How Swiss tables work in Go built-in map victoriametrics.com
Go 1.24 replaces its old map implementation with Swiss Tables to reduce pointer chasing and improve lookup speeds.
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'Old Person Smell' theguardian.com
The distinct musty odor associated with aging is caused by the production of a chemical compound called 2-nonenal, which occurs as skin lipids oxidize and break down over time.
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Site Is Closed on Sundays v7.robweychert.com
Rob Weychert maintains a digital space to document his diverse interests in art, design, and archival data.
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Show HN: Mador – Make any DOM reactive with a tiny 80-line Proxy state tuple github.com
Mador is a tiny, reactive DOM runtime designed for developers who want to add dynamic state management to existing HTML without the overhead of a full framework.
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OpenBSD Stories: Strange Medieval Devices miod.online.fr
Maintaining and operating legacy SMD (Strange Medieval Devices) disks on old Sun Microsystems hardware requires overcoming significant hardware degradation and deep-seated software bugs.
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IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2 ibm.com
The IBM Quantum Nighthawk r2 processor significantly increases quantum computation throughput by replacing slow conditional resets with a high-speed dissipative reset architecture.
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Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011) atlasobscura.com
The Black Hole of Los Alamos was a unique retail establishment that functioned as both a museum and a store selling surplus equipment from the Los Alamos National Laboratories.
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Show HN: Kadō – open-source habit tracker, with non-binary habit score, for iOS github.com
Kadō is an open-source iOS habit tracker designed to prioritize user privacy and sustainable progress over fragile streaks.
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Recreating Minecraft Is Not a Benchmark kuber.studio
Popular AI demonstrations, like recreating Minecraft or drawing complex SVGs, function as marketing tools rather than genuine measures of intelligence.
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Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations vidact.dev
Vidact is a build-time compiler that transforms a subset of React 19 function components into optimized Vanilla JavaScript.
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The pencil case model of creativity dub.uu.nl
Creativity is not the absence of constraints but rather the ability to find imaginative space within established boundaries.
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I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering shukla.io
Many quantum speedup claims are unrealistic because they rely on theoretical oracles that cannot be efficiently implemented in practice.
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RecurseCenter.return() mm-dev.rocks
The Recurse Center provides a supportive, self-directed environment for programmers of all backgrounds to accelerate their learning and build professional networks.
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Electronic skin for prosthetics to sense temperature and pressure news.wsu.edu
Researchers at Washington State University have developed a customizable electronic skin capable of detecting both pressure and temperature at a high resolution.
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Household Laser Cuts cceckman.com
The author shares their transition from Cuttle to OpenSCAD for laser-cutting projects to gain full ownership of parameterized designs.
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ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward isaraerospace.com
Isar Aerospace has become the first commercial space company from Europe to successfully deliver satellites into orbit during its second flight, Mission 'Onward and Upward'.
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Ganon's Mysterious Origins (Revisited) thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com
Ganon's origin and name in The Legend of Zelda may be derived from Ganikomoru, a monster from the Kamen Rider series.
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The Empire of Information lareviewofbooks.org
Data is not a neutral set of facts but a powerful tool that has been used for millennia to organize, control, and dominate human societies.
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CHC5: Open Camera System – Image Sensor Specification Comparison circuitvalley.com
The CHC5 Open Camera System utilizes a modular PCB design that allows users to swap different image sensors to suit specific project needs.
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Fileregister: Tagging and reference layer for your files, in plain text github.com
Fileregister provides a way to track files using permanent IDs and plain-text indexes, ensuring that references to files remain valid even if the files are renamed or moved.