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Chat Control Must Be Stopped
Chat Control is back to undermine everyone's privacy. There's an important deadline on October 14th, 2025. We must act now to stop it!
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,111 posts.
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Signal Secure Backups
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet messages, important documents, or anything else you don’t want to lose forever. This explains wh...
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I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher
I'm the founder and original developer of Nova Launcher. I've been the only one working on Nova for the past year. I needed to let you know that I have left Branch and am no longer involved with Nova Launcher.
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Job mismatch and early career success
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
The popular packages debug and chalk on npm have been compromised with malicious code
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Will Amazon S3 Vectors kill vector databases or save them?
AWS S3 Vectors aims for 90% cost savings for vector storage. But will it kill vectordbs like Milvus? A deep dive into costs, limits, and the future of tiered storage.
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64
Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games
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How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads
The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.
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I solved a distributed queue problem after 15 years
Learn how queues make horizontal scaling, scheduling, and flow control easier in cloud systems, and how to make them durable and observable.
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SQLite's Use of Tcl (2017)
The design of SQLite was inspired by the design of TCL, both in the way it handles datatypes and in the formatting of its source code. The index use case for SQLite was in a Tcl/Tk application for an industrial company. From its inception, SQLite has always depended heavily on TCL. These days, SQLite no longer uses…
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The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are
stlab hosts modern, modular C++ algorithms and data structures.
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Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)
The Consumer Council keens to be the trusted voice of consumers in striving to build in the market an environment of safe, fair and sustainable consumption.
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How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
A rare and revealing breach attributed to a North Korean-affiliated actor, known only as “Kim” as named by the hackers who dumped the data, has delivered a new insight into Kimsuky (APT43) tactics, techniques, and infrastructure. This actor's operational profile showcases credential-focused intrusions targeting South…
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Why language models hallucinate
OpenAI’s new research explains why language models hallucinate. The findings show how improved evaluations can enhance AI reliability, honesty, and safety.
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1TB Raspberry Pi SSD on sale now for $70
Unlock outstanding performance for I/O intensive applications on Raspberry Pi 5 with our most powerful SSD yet.
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ML needs a new programming language – Interview with Chris Lattner
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026
For many years, Mozilla has continued to provide Firefox for 32-bit Linux systems long after most other browsers and operating systems ended support. We made this choice because we care ...
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Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector
Fil-C uses a parallel concurrent on-the-fly grey-stack Dijkstra accurate non-moving garbage collector called FUGC (Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector). You can find the source code for the collector itself in fugc.c , though be warned, that code cannot possibly work without lots of support logic in the rest of the…
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io_uring is faster than mmap
Sourcing data directly from disk IS faster than caching in memory. I brought receipts. Because hardware got wider but not faster, the old methods don't get you there. You need new tools to use what is scaling and avoid what isn't.
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Hitting Peak File IO Performance with Zig
This post goes through how to maximize file IO performance on linux using zig with io_uring.
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Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety
Even if you can’t stop Flock’s use entirely, you can still help protect civil liberties in your community.
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WiFi signals can measure heart rate
Engineers prove their technique is effective even with the lowest-cost WiFi devices
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Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories
The most powerful AI platform for enterprises. Customize, fine-tune, and deploy AI assistants, autonomous agents, and multimodal AI with open models.
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Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available
We launch Polars Cloud; the distributed Cloud Architecture to run Polars anywhere
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We're Joining OpenAI
Alex is the ultimate tool for iOS and Swift app development, empowering developers with AI for Xcode to streamline workflows, tackle complex coding challenges, and boost productivity. Discover what makes it an essential asset for modern app creation.
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Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels
Our lab investigated whether frontier models can write optimized GPU kernels for Apple devices to speed up inference. We found that they can: our AI-generated Metal kernels were 1.24x faster across KernelBench v0.1 problems, and 1.87x faster across KernelBench v0 problems.
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Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
New research: Eight popular, commercial VPN apps operate deceptively and put more than 700 million users at risk of authoritarian surveillance.
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Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed
From the Zed Blog: You asked, and here it is. Use Claude Code in public beta directly in Zed, built on the new Agent Client Protocol.
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Finding thousands of exposed Ollama instances using Shodan
We uncovered 1,100+ exposed Ollama LLM servers—20% with open models—revealing critical security gaps and the need for better LLM threat monitoring.