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What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on
What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,111 posts.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Explore the new Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition, featuring enhanced coding performance, video to code capabilities, and improvements for front-end web development.
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Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log streams with highly sensitive information.
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The Death of Daydreaming
What we lose when phones take away boredom and interstitial time
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The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
Developing a complex CI pipeline with github actions is full of gotchas.
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1 Trillion Web Pages Archived
On October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive celebrated an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved and available for access via the Wayback Machine. Event Recaps & Recordings | Photos | Impact Stories | Support the Internet Archive | Press Kit Since 1996, the Internet Archive has worked with libraries and…
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Devstral
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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The Swift SDK for Android
Swift has matured significantly over the past decade — extending from cloud services to Windows applications, browser apps, and microcontrollers. Swift powers apps and services of all kinds, and thanks to its great interoperability, you can share code across platforms.
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Mistral OCR 3
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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PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance
PeerTube is a tool for hosting, managing, and sharing videos or live streams.
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Lawmakers want to ban VPNs
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of…
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How we exploited CodeRabbit: From simple PR to RCE and write access on 1M repos
The Latest News from Research at Kudelski Security
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ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action
Introducing ChatGPT agent: it thinks and acts, using tools to complete tasks like research, bookings, and slideshows—all with your guidance.
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New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair
A new material has been used to create a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting preventive and restorative dental treatment.
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Why our website looks like an operating system
I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a…
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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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GPT-4.1 in the API
Introducing GPT-4.1 in the API—a new family of models with across-the-board improvements, including major gains in coding, instruction following, and long-context understanding. We’re also releasing our first nano model. Available to developers worldwide starting today.
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We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
First-ever ultrasound olfactory stimulation in humans. We induced distinct artificial smells like campfire and fresh air using focused ultrasound - a nose BCI breakthrough.
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Cloudflare Email Service: private beta
Today, we’re launching Cloudflare Email Service. Send and receive email directly from your Workers with native bindings—no API keys needed. We're unifying email sending and routing into a single service built for developers. Sign up for the private beta.
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Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers
Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.
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Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)
Who owns the major VPN companies like Express, Nord, and Surfshark? We take you through an interactive map of the murky world of VPNs.
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Claude Advanced Tool Use
Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how.
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We hacked Gemini's Python sandbox and leaked its source code (at least some)
Leaked Google's internal google3 source and confidential security protos out of Gemini's Python sandbox by exfiltrating a 579 MB binary in 10 MB chunks.
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Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler
Dear Ruby community,
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Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat
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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Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the dangers of these laws, and pointed out why they are likely to...
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Try and
Typically, try can be followed by three kinds of phrases: a noun phrase (1a), an infinitival verb phrase with to (1b), or a verb phrase with - ing (1c).
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Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
Describe what you need and get back ready-to-use spreadsheets, documents, presentations, and PDFs instead of just text responses. Update: Now generally available for paid plans with net network and egress controls (October 21, 2025).
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Tailscale has raised $160M
Tailscale has raised $160 million USD ($230 million CAD) in our Series C, led by Accel with participation from CRV, Insight Partners, Heavybit, Uncork Capital — and new investment from Anthony Casalena - CEO of Squarespace.