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Free the Icons
Apple should end their prohibition on shapes in MacOS app icons
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 5,955 posts.
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Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
More than a decade ago, a group of young, internet-connected Belarusian dissidents launched a series of increasingly high-stakes, increasingly surreal confrontations with the corrupt, authoritarian government of Alexander Lukashenka, a man who is often called "the last Soviet dictator."
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Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on
As some of those fears, uncertainties, and doubts about Mythos are starting to feel real, what can we do about it? Paradoxically, I believe that little needs to change in what we’ve been doing for years.
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The case for physical media ownership
An overview of physical media ownership, streaming shutdowns, content removals, and the limits of digital licenses.
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Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release
Hello, we hope your week has been pleasant.
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OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
We’ve been working on some exciting new features for OpenTTD 16, and they need testing! The first beta release is now available, and we’ve opened the competition to create the title game for the next release.
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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
Author of 24 bestselling novels including The Oppenheimer Alternative and FlashForward
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Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack
A fake-interview scam tried to backdoor my machine with PinpinRAT, hidden in a malicious TypeScript patch. Analysis of the attack, payload, and indicators of compromise.
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Om
This is going to sound cornier than a bucket of Jiffy-Pop, but it is a profound irony that a man with such a big and beautiful figurative heart could have such a lousy literal one.
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The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs
Using artificial analysis benchmarks we try to predict when an open source LLM will be released that matches frontier LLMs.
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We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme
Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing, while failing to address the risks to…
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Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part III: Paying for It
Bret Devereaux (A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry)2026118 points33 commentsHistory & Retro Computing details
This is the third part (I, IIa, IIb, III) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped and paid. In th…
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Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, paired with its most advanced safety stack.
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The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections
Plus: Fiery resistance to a nuclear AI data center and A24's Google debacle. Welcome to the first episode of BLOOD IN THE MACHINE: THE SHOW, with the great AI and crypto watchdog, Molly White.
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Incident CVE-2026-LGTM
A series of unfortunate agents.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display
The California Science Center has begun the complex process of moving components into place for space shuttle Endeavour’s awe-inspiring vertical display.
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Engineering for Bounded Cognition
The mind that builds software is far smaller than the software it builds, and almost everything good in engineering is a way of living with that gap.
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Ultrasound imaging of the brain
The most detailed vascular image of a living human brain we've seen, captured with ultrasound through the skull — and the pipeline behind it.
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Why current LLM costs are not sustainable
AI has a cost problem. The solution that will emerge will be simpler than we expect.
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Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it
Hiking with Wallace, my 6" f/2.8 corrected dobsonian.
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We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
An open letter from the technology industry, and the launch of Akrites - a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in the open source software the world runs on.
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What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
I built hackmyclaw.com , where anyone could email Fiu, my OpenClaw assistant, and try to make it leak the contents of a secrets.env file.
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AI children's books, body horror edition
Last week, I posted a visual demonstration of the sameness of AI-generated content.
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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity
I've been following WisdPi's development of various 5 Gbps and 10 Gbps Ethernet adapters for the past couple years. They use newer Realtek Ethernet chips, which sometimes have performance quirks—most frequently encountered under Linux. In today's video, I tested the new WisdPi 10G Ethernet Expansion Card for Framework…
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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
Americans, be warned: Age verification is identity verification.
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Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators
We built Un-0, an image generator powered by a simulated system of coupled oscillators, an example of an emerging physical computing substrate. On ImageNet 64×64 it reaches FID 6.74, matching the quality of leading conventional image generation methods when they were first published. Weights, training, and ablation…
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Om Malik has died
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends. We invite you to share your remembrances of Om in th…
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Parallel Parentheses Matching
The parallel parentheses matching problem can be parallelized in different manners depending on the use case and is a good example of how stacks map to parallel hardware.